Word: chileanizing
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...question on "destabilizing" foreign governments followed Ford's confirmation that the Nixon Administration had authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to wage an $8 million campaign in 1970-73 to aid opponents of Chilean President Salvador Allende's Marxist government (see box page 21). Until last week, members of both the Nixon and Ford Administrations had flatly denied that the U.S. had been involved in undermining Allende's regime. They continue to insist that the CIA was not responsible for the 1973 coup that left Allende dead and a repressive right-wing junta in his place...
Moreover, there was an unsettlingly disingenuous quality to Ford's words. Was the intent of the Chilean operation really to preserve freedom of the press and opposition political parties, as he insisted, or simply to undermine Allende? In this context, it is worth noting that after the coup, the U.S. did not object when the new military regime banned all political parties and shut down all opposition publications...
...committee [Foreign Relations] has received." The committee launched a review of the testimony and a probe into the Chilean affair...
Firing Line. Buckley and Edward M. Korry, former U.S. ambassador to Chile, discuss the CIA's role in Chilean politics...
...will continue to work with the Indochina Peace Campaign and the Chilean Action Group to demand the freeing of all political prisoners in both areas and will help sponsor a rally for Puerto Rican Independence on Monday October 6 with Angela Davis and Alfredo Lopez as speakers, Steven J. Carlip '75 said...