CIA, Chile, and Pinoichet
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rmcg...@igc.org wrote:
>
> A Historical Whitewash (To a Large Degree)
>
> Researchers and relatives of victims of human rights abuses in
Chile
> charged CIA is withholding information about its covert operations
> in that country, contrary to a White House directive.
>
> The National Archives is expected to make public hundreds of
documents
> from the State Department, Pentagon and CIA relating to the military
rule of
> Chilean Gen. Augusto Pinochet. But not any information about the
CIA's
> involvement in a 1973 coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende
or
> its support for Pinochet.
>
> Peter Kornbluh, a researcher at the National Security Archive, said
> CIA seems to have adopted a narrow interpretation of the
administration's
> declassification directive. "Not a single word about CIA operations
in
> support of the Pinochet regime" has been released -- "This is a
whitewash
> of history, pure and simple."
>
> Moreover, the CIA succeeded in pulling back hundreds of documents
on
> Chile discovered in the files of the Nixon White House. "These are
the
> documents which detail the history of U.S. covert operations to
foment chaos
> and violence inn Chile. And there's only one reason to withhold them--
to
> continue to cover up this history." Washington Post 10/7/99 A28.
>
> The "To a Large Degree," relates to a study produced by the Select
> Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to
Intelligence
> Activities, United States Senate dated 1975 -- entitled "Covert
Action
> In Chile 1963-1973." This report includes some information on CIA
> operations to overthrow Allende. In 1976 I acquired a copy of the
> report that now may have disappeared from the Committee's holdings.
>
> Details from that report are included on my Web Site.
>
> Ralph McGehee
> http://come.to/CIABASE
I suppose utimately they will discover the CIA actaully destroyed their
Chile 1963-1973 files in 1963 along with the Iranian files they were
suppose to release! I would image quite a few files were destroyed
then - many actually composed many decades later!
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