Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is no reason to suppose he had given up his Cold War policies and would not have defended it elsewhere. But the assassination and the CIA power it reveals certainly refute the claims that American democracy has effective political meaning. Not only could what happened in Greece and Chile happen here; to some extent it already...
...billion a year) and the enormous volume of activities it has been called upon to perform in its 27-year history, the provable instances of malfeasance are comparatively few. Moreover, the CIA to some extent was a victim of historical circumstance. When the Chile story broke last year, the military and foreign policy establishments had met their Viet Nam. The presidency had met its Watergate. Congress was reasserting itself. The CIA was the obvious next candidate for scrutiny...
...welter of publicity that followed the Chile revelations, much of the evidence confirmed that the CIA had indeed from time to time violated its charter and the constitutional rights of Americans, not to mention common sense. A number of these violations can be blamed on the zealotry, villainy or stupidity of some CIA operatives, especially among the "spooks," or covert-action specialists. Many other abuses were, at root, presidential abuses. For example, the agency's illegal surveillance of the anti-Viet Nam War movement reflected Lyndon Johnson's obsessive suspicion that Communist infiltrators were behind much...
...reaction of animals prior to an actual earthquake: a friend in Santiago, Chile, told me that his dog began acting crazy and whining for no reason -except that minutes later came the earthquake...
...horizon of Portugal's present looms Chile's past. The spectre of counterrevolution is forming: Spinola, bearer of rightist hopes, has temporarily left his Brazilian facist friends for Paris, only a train ride away; the exile "Portugese Liberation Army" masses on the Spanish border, funded by Portugese capital and very possibly, by the CIA. Encouraged by the Church's warnings of impending (and factually non-existent) land collectivization, small-holding peasants burn Communist headquarters and attack the revolution's supporters...