Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to ensure maximum efficiency in the discovery and imprisonment of all political opposition, the Chilean junta created a new intelligence service last April. This new intelligence service combines the former Army, Navy, Air Force and civilian intelligence services into one organization. The sub-director of this new organization is Walter Rauff. Rauff is an ex-Nazi S.S. officer who is wanted for war crimes in West Germany. He is alleged to have murdered some 300,000 Jews. Rauff is the first known Nazi war criminal to ever be given a public job anywhere in the world...
...arms, trains and economically supports the Chilean junta. The link between U.S. aid and the plight of the Chilean people is direct. Continued U.S. support of the Chilean regime can only signify U.S. acceptance of the human wasteland it has created...
...Chilean military junta celebrates its first anniversary, stronger than ever...
...Until last week, members of both the Nixon and Ford Administrations had flatly denied that the U.S. had been involved in undermining Allende's regime. They continue to insist that the CIA was not responsible for the 1973 coup that left Allende dead and a repressive right-wing junta in his place...
Clearly the CIA considers the junta to be the lesser of two evils. Still, it rates the Chilean enterprise a failure since it ended in military dictatorship. Several years of dangerous, costly and now nationally divisive intervention in another country's internal politics might better have been avoided. Though Soviet propaganda blames the CIA for the Chilean coup and the death of Allende, Soviet intelligence analysts do not give the CIA any credit. The Russians think the fault lay with Allende himself for not being enough of a strongman. He temporized with constitutional processes when he should have disregarded...