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...Peter Kornbluh, director of the National Security Archive’s Chile Documentation Project, spoke last night at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies about the memos, meeting transcripts and CIA communications surrounding Pinochet’s rise to power that the National Security Archive recently obtained under the Freedom of Information...
...presentation, Kornbluh compared the American policies implemented in Chile to the current U.S. foreign policy in Iraq...
...Chile can be seen as a case study of the themes in Iraq,” Kornbluh said...
...Kornbluh said it is now possible to read transcripts of cabinet meetings “where regime change was plotted” during the Chilean crisis that show the U.S. was aiming to remove democratically-elected president Salvador Allende Gossens. At the time, the U.S. actively denied any involvement in Pinochet’s rise to power...
...Times nor the Los Angeles Times mentioned Blum in its stories about the hearings, and only the Washington Post covered his testimony in detail. Though the Los Angeles Times reported some of what Blum had to say in an earlier story, the noncoverage of the Senate hearing, says Peter Kornbluh, of the National Security Archives, based in Washington, "raised the specter of a government-media collaboration to bury the contra-cocaine story...