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Chile - Disappeared Documents

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Ralph McGehee

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Nov 1, 1999, 3:00:00 AM11/1/99
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Aozotorp

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> Among more than 25,000 pages released to date, there is not
>a single page of the thousands of CIA, NSC or NSA records on U.S. policy
>and operations to bring down Allende and help Pinochet. CIA, which has
>the most to hide, has refused to conduct a full file search of its
>Directorate of Operations.
>
> Consider one example: The CIA released one heavily blacked-out cable on
>10/70 kidnapping and murder of Chilean Gen. Rene Schneider, who opposed a
>military move against Allende. But the agency did not even submit for
>review the dozens of secret "memcons" (memorandums of conversations),
>meeting minutes and briefing papers showing that the White House and
>CIA orchestrated this operation in an aborted attempt to instigate a
>coup in Chile.
>
> To the surprise of the intelligence community, the National Archives
>Records Administration found such documents among Nixon's papers. These
>records were submitted to the Chile Declassification Project, but CIA
>and NSA officials objected to their release. They should have been made
>public on Oct. 8. They weren't.
>

Well they were probably destoryed in '63 with the '53 Iran documents! Even
though the entire episode occured after '63. Amazing feats at the CIA!

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