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Thus, while the Church Committee has not shown that the CIA was involved in the coup preparations, this does not prove that the agency was not coordinating the movements of funds and weapons between the U.S. and the Chilean opposition. Until all existing documents are examined and all involved government officials including Secretary Kissinger are forced to testify, the truth will not be established. The Church Committee should be forced to subpoena these documents and witnesses, and to take the issue to the courts, if necessary to secure them. Its current report is essentially a coverup, and the committee should...
...amnesty in all countries, not just in such objects of Third World indignation as South Africa and Chile. But in order for the U.S. not to be accused of selective morality, its delegation first had to be able to vote with the U.N. majority in condemning Chilean human-rights violations. Chile is a sensitive subject for Kissinger; as National Security Adviser he participated in Nixon Administration decisions to undermine former President Salvador Allende. Approval for the U.S. delegation now to vote against Chile was delayed and delayed in Washington. On the last day, Kissinger was finally reached by phone while...
Though the South American countries can thus agree on certain common grievances against the U.S., they have deeper hostilities, between classes and interests, within their own countries. The two can sometimes merge, as in the Chilean leftist underground, where the hated Pinochet junta is seen as a creature of the Pentagon...
...braided visor, the dark glasses and cruel lips seen on all the anti-junta posters from Sweden to Berkeley. "You can see I am not so horrible," said Pinochet, "that I don't eat babies." In an anteroom outside his office, a memorable scene: 22 generals of the Chilean army were waiting to be called in, one by one, to hear whether they would be promoted, retired, or held in place another year. Perhaps Pinochet would slip into uniform for those sessions...
Many critics of the Chilean junta have found it easy to forget what a disaster the Allende regime was. Elected as a minority candidate, Allende allowed his radical backers to mount a campaign to destroy the possibility of any effective opposition, in the press or elsewhere. The economy was in chaos. Increasingly violent demonstrations and paralyzing strikes had created a state of near anarchy...