Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American people are to have any effective voice in their own foreign policy if the essential information about the behavior of the American Government can be kept from them by the invocation of national security or, alternatively, executive privilege. Whatever the merits of our involvement in Chile, it is clear that the American people were entirely excluded from any voice in making the decision, and as I read the Helms affair, it was the intent of Richard Nixon to prevent the Congress or the people from ever finding out the true nature of what was done...
...hope that when Helms reckons the cost of his adventurous career, he also adds in the lives lost to murder and torture in Chile since Allende was removed from office...
Helms' difficulties date back to 1973, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was weighing his nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Iran. Twice the committee quizzed him in closed sessions about covert U.S. efforts to prevent Salvador Allende Gossens from becoming President of Chile in 1970. Twice Helms in effect lied...
Frank Church, chairman of a Senate committee that had probed CIA activities in Chile: "I thought there was to be an end to the double standard of justice for the big shots. Apparently, Helms was just too hot to handle." Republican Senator Howard Baker, a member of the Church committee, was more sympathetic. The case, said Baker, was "handled about as well as it could have been under the circumstances...
...sent 007 on his journeys down the world's back alleys. But even in the courtroom last week where Helms was given his $2,000 fine and suspended sentence for misleading Senators about the CIA's efforts to keep Salvador Allende Gossens from becoming President of Chile, there was the smell of adventure about...