Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Virtually all civilian aid and credits were cut off, including the very important suspension of all guarantees on loans made by private banks to Chile...
...Simultaneously the military aid to Chile was doubled...
...Forty Committee of the National Security Council--with Henry Kissinger as its chairman--authorized five million dollars for anti-Allende activities in Chile shortly after his election. This was followed in mid-1973 with a further 2.5 million dollars for the same purposes. Former CIA director Richard Helms has recently acknowledged that in all about 11 million dollars went into such efforts...
...have it on good authority that twice--once during a strike of copper mine technicians shortly after Allende's election and again during the truckers' strike just before the military coup that murdered him and brought down his government--Chile was so flooded with American dollars that the value of the dollar on the black market fell by about half...
...tragic fate of Chile is a message to the world that recent U.S. administrations will tolerate no interference with the exploitation of the Third World--or indeed of any of the weaker nations--by American business...