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...question on "destabilizing" foreign governments followed Ford's confirmation that the Nixon Administration had authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to wage an $8 million campaign in 1970-73 to aid opponents of Chilean President Salvador Allende's Marxist government (see box page 21). 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...
...following is the text of Henry A. Kissinger's discussion of Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens's imminent election to the Chilean presidency at a background press briefing held at the White House on September...
...following is the partial text of a letter written July 18 by Rep. Michael J. Harrington '62 (D-Mass.). The letter was sent to Congressional leaders in an effort to provoke further investigations into the role played by the CIA in destabilizing the government of Salvador Allende. The revelations in the letter, first made public by New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh, prompted the current flurry of protest over U.S. interference in Chilean affairs. The "40 Committee" referred to by Harrington was headed by Kissinger...
...Chile," said Santiago's Ambassador to Washington Walter Heitmann last week, "is going to be a masterpiece of democracy." The occasion for that grandiose claim was the first anniversary of the death of Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens and the replacement of his elected government by a military regime. In light of the junta's record of suspended civil rights, torture of political prisoners and abolition of Congress, the ambassador's assertion seemed an overstatement. The thousands of Chileans who gathered in Santiago to commemorate the coup of Sept. 11 seemed to be celebrating the absolute order...
...with peaceful subversion of Chile's government, wanted to hasten a military coup. The removal from office of Kissinger would be the first shift toward a wholesale shift in foreign policy away from support of repressive governments and toward the nurturing of close ties with popular leaders such as Salvador Allende in Chile...