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Increasingly antagonistic to the Secretary and apparently determined to run U.S. foreign policy. Congress cut off military aid to Turkey and to anti-Communist forces in Angola. Kissinger and CIA Director William Colby, who was later dismissed by Ford, were hounded by Democratic-led congressional committees trying to expose covert U.S. intelligence operations. Day after day, Frank Church's Senate committee forced Colby to divulge information about past operations, in a spectacle that was intensely damaging to the U.S. position in the world. But Kissinger scored a notable success in September when his much derided shuttle diplomacy, after months...
...zone of U.S. interest. The congressional move, however, certainly further weakened the U.S. postures in the world and raised serious questions about whether the present Congress is willing to allow the Administration any kind of latitude in its foreign operations. Part of the opposition professed to quarrel with the covert nature of U.S. help to Angola. But in the world as it exists, some capacity for secret operations (under due congressional oversight) is essential. Besides, even had Angolan aid been made public from the start...
...beginning a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels: Representative Otis Pike's House Committee on Intelligence dropped a request that he be held in contempt of Congress. The Administration had angered the committee by refusing to give it internal State Department documents on U.S. covert activity abroad. But Pike finally agreed to a compromise under which the White House told the committee what was in the documents without actually handing them over. The White House's capitulation rescued Kissinger from a potentially nasty confrontation on Capitol Hill. If the Secretary's congressional skirmish had gone...
...Church Committee demonstrated that three American presidents supported covert action against Allende; that American corporations poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into opposition to Allende, including support to the truckers' strike which played a key role in toppling the regime; and that the CIA itself distributed over $20 million to prevent Allende's election and to overthrow him once he came to power. Nevertheless, the committee claims that the CIA was not directly involved in the 1973 coup...
...Times and the rest of the American press to vindicate their ideological coverage of the events leading up to the 1973 coup. The Allende government was overthrown by American trained soldiers supplied with American money and weapons, suported by American-funded opposition press and strikers. That is only the covert side of American responsibility in Chile--the U.S. also destroyed the Chilean economy by organizing boycotts of its products, shutting off its international credit, and denying its industries essential spare parts. From start to finish the U.S. was the driving force behind the destruction of Chilean democracy, and its attempts...