Chile: The smoking gun, with ballistic tests and fingerprints

[WinterBybee]

The evidence of US culpability in the destruction of democracy in Chile could not be more clear and undeniable. The disclosure of memos from the CIA, National Security Agency and other official sources points incontrovertibly --despite the lengthy catalogue of blatant denials by Henry Kissinger and many others--toward the US's central role in the coup. The documents speaking coldly of an "accretion of arsenic" has established without a doubt that the US decisionmakers had determined that a coup must take place, set the coup in motion, recruited leading actors, and bribed the media.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Thought so when it happened

too many US capitalistic interests in Chile. BTW, welcome to DU :hi:

[Warpy]

5. Oh, hell, we KNEW it.

We on the loony left had friends there reporting Santiago was crawling with CIA agents assisted by wack jobs provided by ITT.

I hope Kissinger lives just long enough to share the fate of his favorite fascist dictator, Pinochet. I want his declining years ruined by investigations, loss of any prestige he tried to steal, loss of the Nobel Prize the committee was snowed into bestowing, and the knowledge that everything is out in the open and everyone knows exactly what he was and is.

Mostly, I hope he lives to see the whole story exposed.

[acmejack]

9. Conveniently had Navy and Marine assets in the area too.

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UNITAS is a yearly, multinational naval deployment exercise. Every year since 1960, several United States Navy vessels have circumnavigated the South American continent, participating in maneuvers with local navies.
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Interestingly they are off of Chile between September 9-29, they say...

http://www.ciponline.org/facts/unit.htm

[sam sarrha]

2. it was obvious at the time Killinger was the architect of the torture and slaughter

[BlueEyedSon]

3. no link?

:shrug:

[Lucky Luciano]

4. Remember all the "Conspiracy Theorists"

that would talk about this back in the day? When the "Conspiracy Theorists" were vindicated, there was no apology...but they are the same people today that call * and this war for what it is...and still get called conspriacy theorists. Some day, we will not be called conspiracy theorists - but people who knew the truth all along.

[pretzel4gore]

6. such a disconnect

1973 was 33 years ago, and the overthrow of the legal gov of Chile, along with murders of its president and many thousands of anti fascists, has been allowed to become a hohum yawn, more of the same.... In the movie 'Missing' the Jack Lemmon character displays the change from a trusting rightwing businessman who pooh poohs his son/daughter's generation's concerns as overblown until it is revealed him in real time that, well, these bastards running the show are pure evil criminals (the scene where the american diplomatic aide tells Mr Horman 'your son was executed at the national stadium on sept 13th...'' sorta says it all!) who use the national interest to do things no nation's interest can possibly be served by! And there's not a damn thing even a powerful US citizen like Horman can do about it!
I hope this excess of bush has finally forced the millions of ed hormans who still trust the secret agencies who run the country to face the facts(?)

[MrPrax]

7. You mean like the Haitian coup? n/t

[Ezlivin]

8. Yeah, but that's history and we all know that we *must* look ahead

:eyes:

The philosopher George Santayana said "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

We are condemned.