Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Second, the export-import credits were cut off after Chile defaulted on the loans that it had already had, and the bilateral aid was affected by the Hickenlooper amendment...
...talk about the situation in Chile for about five minutes. I asked him about coup reports. He said they were endemic, and I said, "Just make sure none of our embassy personnel has anything to do directly or indirectly with any of the plotters, if there are plotters, in response to any approaches." He said he had given those instructions. There was no talk about the coup except the rumor that had been around for weeks and months...
...curious aspects, however, of the way economic aid is given that by defaulting on its debt payments a country can, in effect get its economic aid indefinitely. Rescheduling $250 million worth of Chile's debts over the last two years had the same practical effect as giving it $250 million in economic aid, in addition to the fact that it got $85 million in disbursements from existing multilateral loans that had been approved prior to the shut down of credit. And I think it got about $25 million of humanitarian aid from the United States during the period...
...covert CIA activities and is chaired by the President's Advisor on National Security Affairs) authorized the expenditure of approximately $11 million to help prevent the election of Allende and, in Mr. Colby's words, "destabilize" the Allende government so as to precipitate its downfall. The agency activities in Chile were viewed as a prototype, or laboratory experiment, to test the techniques of heavy financial investment in efforts to discredit and bring down a government...
Funding was provided to individuals, political parties, and media outlets in Chile, through channels in other countries in both Latin America and Europe. Mr. Colby's description of these operations was direct, though not to the point of identifying actual contacts and conduits...