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...been ordered by one of Washington's closest allies. And that's just one of the more startling revelations in the latest collection of documents released by the CIA. The agency on Monday declassified the third in a series of documents that detail the U.S.'s role in the overthrow of Chile's democratically elected president in 1973 and Washington's subsequent support for the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. The papers demonstrate that the American government acted in full knowledge of the dictatorship's systematic and bloody abuse of human rights. The CIA was ordered by President Clinton...
...intelligence agencies' gathering information about U.S. citizen Frank Teruggi (including his Chilean address), who was later detained at his home by Pinochet's security forces, taken to Santiago's National Stadium and summarily executed. But such individual instances point to a broader pattern of support for efforts to overthrow an elected leftist government - President Nixon tells a National Security Council meeting in 1972 that "we must do everything we can to bring down Allende." And previously released documents point to U.S. government efforts to support the Pinochet junta despite mounting congressional criticism of its human rights record...
...union boilermaker, Steele was passing out newsletters for the Revolutionary Communist Party. He said the only way to affect real change is to "overthrow the system...
DIED. GUS HALL, 90, four-time presidential candidate who led the American Communist Party for 41 years; in New York City. Found guilty in 1949 of conspiracy to advocate the violent overthrow of the government, he fled to Mexico but was extradited and spent 5 1/2 years in prison. His subsequent refusal to register with the government as a communist led to the 1965 Supreme Court decision that abolished that...
...Western regimes all over the Middle East. U.S. support for these regimes and for Israel, as well as the presence of "infidel" American forces in Saudi Arabia, are the reasons he offers for his jihad against the U.S. Bin Laden wants to drive the U.S. out of Arab lands, overthrow the governments of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and destroy Israel...