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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...
...this case we had to find out, for example, what supplies were going into Chile, so that it did not look as if we were suddenly pouring in supplies. We had to shop around to various departments to find whether in the routine delivery of existing programs, something might be planned for those two or three days that would create problems. That sort of thing. We would give the instruction and then the task force on Chile would work out the concrete details. We have got them right now working on a study of what the various dimensions of humanitarian...
McGEE: [U.S.] Ambassador [to Chile] Davis was home the weekend before. There are those who jumped to the conclusion that there must be a cause and effect relationship...
When I mentioned his name I was told there was turmoil in Chile. I then asked the department to instruct Ambassador Davis to come back in whatever 48-hour period he thought was least likely to cause difficulty, and he himself chose that weekend...
...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...