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Edited on Tue Jan-23-07 01:37 PM by Divernan
I was just watching a film about 9/11 - a montage of short pieces from directors around the world. One was by a Chilean in exile in London, who described the 9/11 massacre in the 70's in the CIA sponsored coup of Salvadore Allende. When the military junta set up their torture camps, where the officers in charge were trained at the College of the Americas in the U.S., the tortures included disemboweling, dropping from helicopters, dogs trained to rape women, people being tortured in front of their spouses and children, electrical shocks to the genitalia, etc. The U.S. Ambassador complained to Washington of the torture camps and Kissenger's response to the Ambassador was:
"TELL HIM TO CUT OUT THE POLITICAL SCIENCE LECTURES!"
Here's a link to other descriptions of Kissinger's VILE, INHUMAN actions.
www.etan.org/news/kissinger/chile.htm
Kissinger covered up Chile torture
by Lucy Kosimar
(The Sunday Observer, February 28, 1999)
A newly declassified cable obtained by The Observer reveals the lengths to which Henry Kissinger went to cover up atrocities in Chile and give comfort to the regime of General Pinochet. The cable, describing their only meeting in 1976, shows how Kissinger bolstered Pinochet while hundreds of political prisoners were still being jailed and tortured.
The then American Secretary of State assured Pinochet that President Gerald Ford's administration would not punish him for violations of human rights. He told him he was a victim of Communist propaganda and should not pay too much attention to American critics. The cable is among files being declassifed for the Spanish prosecutor seeking Pinochet's extradition from London to face trial in Spain. The Law Lords' revised judgment is expected within three weeks.
Pinochet led the coup which overthrew the democratically elected President Salvador Allende in 1973. Kissinger's complicity has always been suspected, but the cable reveals details which will cause him deep embarrassment. The cable shows, too, that in 1974 he rejected the advice of his own officials that he should publicly denounce the plan by Chile and other repressive regimes to set up a covert office in Miami for the notorious terrorist Operation Condor. Had he done so, prospective victims would have been warned. Although the office was not in fact opened, the conspiracy continued to target and murder the regime's enemies. After hits in Buenos Aires and in Rome, the operation came to Washington with a vengeance. A car bomb killed Orlando Letelier, former Chilean Foreign Minister and ambassador to the US, and his Institute for Policy Studies colleague, Ronni Moffitt. Pinochet could feel confident that such activites would cause few problems. After all, he had had a warm private meeting with Kissinger a few months before.
Kissinger, dogged by charges he had promoted the military coup against an elected Chilean government, sought to maintain a cool public distance from Pinochet. But at his confidential meeting, he promised warm support. Kissinger had a problem because the OAS report to the Santiago meeting said that mass arrests, torture, and disappearances continued in Chile. The speech he would give that afternoon could not ignore human rights but must not offend or weaken Pinochet.
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