Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...account of CIA involvement in Chile was written by Associate Editor Edwin Warner and reported mainly by Washington's Latin American specialist Jerry Hannifin, with supplementary material from London Correspondent William McWhirter and Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Rudolph Rauch, who covered the overthrow of Allende. While reporting from Chile last year at the time of the truck drivers' strike before the coup, Rauch had asked a group of truckers who were enjoying a hearty barbecue on the tailgate of one of the vehicles blocking the road leading into Santiago just where they had got the money for such...
Congressmen were outraged by the news that they had once again been misled by the Executive Branch. More important, disclosure of the Chile operation helped focus and intensify the debate in Congress and the nation over the CIA: Has the agency gone too far in recent years? Should it be barred from interfering in other countries' domestic affairs? Where it has erred, was the CIA out of control or was the White House at fault for misdirecting and misusing the agency? Should it be more tightly supervised, and if so, by whom? In addition, the controversy spotlighted the fundamental dilemma...
Firing Line. Buckley and Edward M. Korry, former U.S. ambassador to Chile, discuss the CIA's role in Chilean politics...
...total of $3 million was sent in 1964 to the Christian Democratic Party in Chile that was opposing Allende in the national elections. Also in 1964, unidentified American corporations suggested that the CIA serve as a conduit for corporate funds that would finance anti-Allende activities, but that idea was rejected as unworkable. Approximately $500,000 was authorized in 1969 to fund individuals who could be nurtured to keep the anti-Allende forces active and intact...
...assist the trucker's strike was turned down, the 40 Committee did authorize in August, 1973 an expenditure of $1 million for further political destabilization activities. This final authorization came without any apparent deterrent being posed by the recent completed hearings into ITT involvement in Chile and the Senate Watergate Committee's disclosure of CIA activities related to Watergate...