Anyone see this thing about Kissinger being touchy about Chile book?

[AP]

A Plot Thickens

Three Decades After Chile's Right-Wing Coup, Historians Have Yet to Dot All the i's. But One Thinks He May Have Crossed a K.

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Maxwell's writings {a book review of The Pinochet Files in Foreign Relations Journal} indeed upset Kissinger, say Kissinger's associates. Maxwell had revisited a bitter debate, still red-hot after three decades, about Chile and Kissinger and the depth of U.S. involvement in the fall of one regime and the rise of another.

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Falcoff placed his piece {a rebuttal of Maxwell's book review, in which he defends Kissinger} in Commentary, where it ran in November 2003 under the headline "Kissinger and Chile: The Myth That Will Not Die."

In it, he quotes from the Kissinger transcripts -- or rather, he misquotes them.

It is a Sept. 16, 1973, chat between Kissinger and Nixon, discussing the anti-Allende coup that occurred five days earlier. The actual telephone transcript reads:

Nixon: "Well, we didn't -- as you know -- our hand doesn't show on this one though."

Kissinger: "We didn't do it. I mean we helped them. ________ created the conditions as great as possible."

But Falcoff ended Kissinger's quote at "We didn't do it."

Falcoff, who had seen the full quote, said he was not trying to alter history, not trying to create a myth of his own.

"I made a mistake," he said when asked repeatedly. "I should have put that part of the quote in the article. I should have done that."

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The Journal refuses to allow Maxwell to publish a rebuttal to Falcoff's piece, so Maxwell leaves for a job at Harvard.

The whole story is very interesting.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56719-2005Feb26.html

[Radical Activist]

1. One of the most shameful act in US foreign policy

It's also one of the most telling. I wish every high school and college student were forced to learn about US involvement in Chile. We wouldn't have had so many naive people willing to fall for Bush's lies about freedom.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. I could be wrong, but aren't we starting up all that mess again?

Thought I read about it not too long ago.

[RBHam]

2. Kissinger and Pinochet - respected war criminals

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I56701-2005Feb26L

"Thank you Mr. Kissinger, for saving us from our peasants."

[The Magistrate]

3. It Amazes Me, Sir, To This Day

That anyone attempts to deny the complicity of Kissinger and Nixon in the over-throw of President Allende. It was obvious to any competent observer at the time, and has only become clearer with the passage of time.