Word: pinochets
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...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 to make the documentation available as part of a program to allow a public assessment of the "extent to which U.S. actions...
...Among other things, the latest documents show that General Pinochet may have had a hand in the 1976 car bomb attack that killed Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and an American aide, Ronni Moffit, in Washington. U.S. intelligence was aware that the general, long considered one of Washington's key allies in the region, had contacted Paraguay's President Alfredo Stroessner in the summer of that year to request Paraguayan passports to enable Michael Townley and Armando Fernandez to travel under cover to the U.S. The men, both Chilean intelligence operatives, were later convicted of carrying out the attack...
...Support for Pinochet...
...lost Bullwinkle float from the Macy's parade b) A record-large hole in the ozone c) A cloud in the shape of Pinochet d) Genetically gifted chickens...
...Pinochet still enjoys considerable loyalty in the Chilean high command, two of whose members have warned publicly that the military won't cooperate with an investigation of their former boss. But this no longer intimidates his opponents, for the simple reason that a military coup is no longer a sustainable option. The essential precondition for the last one, after all, was active support from Washington, which saw the elected leftist regime of Salvador Allende as a threat to its regional interests. But the U.S. is no longer in the business of sponsoring coups. And that means the Chilean military...