Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forma matter and he turned up, to everyone's consternation. The issue is what do you say to the man who has just been revealed as the murderer of Allende? I did have a chance to ask him the following question: Did you know of the imminence of that coup before it took place? I really was asking this more or less rhetorically, And he did answer, he said yes. And I said, the second question: Did you inform the constituted authorities of Chile of the imminence of this coup, the overthrow of constitutional government? And he said, that...
Ellsberg's talk included an assertion that Colby said this September at a Washington conference on the CIA that there was "a political decision," with which he agreed, not to alert Chile's Popular Unity government to the imminence of the September 1973 military coup...
State Department officials who have acknowledged having advance reports of the coup have generally maintained that the reports were simply too common to be taken seriously...
...Ellsberg said there was an "unmistakable inference" that the CIA "preferred" this coup to happen than not to happen--and indeed Colby made that very clear during the day, that he preferred the current regime to the past regime...
...said, 'Did you know the plans for this coup just before it happened,"' Ellsberg told the Niemans. "Colby did not appear to be mincing any words about how much they knew. A political decision was made not to tell Allende what we knew--now, there would be no political decision if what we knew was what we read...