Missing piece of the historical puzzle regarding Kissinger, the US and "Operation Condor"

[G_j]

http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=12288635

Cable ties Kissinger to Chile controversy

Posted: Apr 10, 2010 10:42 AM Updated: Apr 10, 2010 4:02 PM

By PETE YOST
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - As secretary of state, Henry Kissinger canceled a U.S. warning against carrying out international political assassinations that was to have gone to Chile and two neighboring nations just days before a former ambassador was killed by Chilean agents on Washington's Embassy Row in 1976, a newly released State Department cable shows.

Whether Kissinger played a role in blocking the delivery of the warning against assassination to the governments of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay has long been a topic of controversy.

Discovered in recent weeks by the National Security Archive, a non-profit research organization, the Sept. 16, 1976 cable is among tens of thousands of declassified State Department documents recently made available to the public.

In 1976, the South American nations of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay were engaged in a program of repression code-named Operation Condor that targeted those governments' political opponents throughout Latin America, Europe and even the United States.

Based on information from the CIA, the U.S. State Department became concerned that Condor included plans for political assassination around the world. The State Department drafted a plan to deliver a stern message to the three governments not to engage in such murders.

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1. You've got it covered. k*r

Here's the National Security Archives Link (George Washington University)

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB312/

"We now know that it was Kissinger himself who was responsible," stated John Dinges, author of The Condor Years, and a National Security Archive associate fellow. "He cancelled his own order; and Chile went ahead with the assassination in Washington."

[G_j]

2. thank you

educational, to say the least.
1976 wasn't that long ago in the scheme of things.

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5. And Henry the K is still around

Never to late to open a seeming cold case. Lock him up, well try him and then lock him up;)

[G_j]

7. there are still people hounding him for war crimes

from what I understand.

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9. Hound him to Hell;)

He'll die rich and justified, in his own mind. Let's hope that, for him, there is an unforgiving God at the end of that tunnel of light;)

[malaise]

3. Oh My

Thanks for this.

Rec

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4. If they do it overseas, it's logical to believe they do it at home.

Henry Kissinger is a tool of the BFEE.



Beat the BFEE: Poppy’s CIA warned about terror plots and did not stop them

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6. The Price of Power

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1450664



November 13, 2000

Who Should Concede?
The Secret History of Modern U.S. Politics

By Robert Parry

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2000/111300a.html
(it was very hard to convey this story in four snips)

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For the past four decades, the Republicans have built a record of dirty tricks and October Surprises in presidential contests. And typically, it is the Democrats who stay silent after learning of the schemes – to avert constitutional crises and avoid public disillusionment with the political process.
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The Vietnam War was raging and was creating deep divisions within the Democratic Party. In October 1968, President Lyndon Johnson was maneuvering to achieve the framework for a peace settlement with North Vietnam and the Viet Cong through negotiations in Paris.

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Journalist Seymour Hersh described the initiative sketchily in his biography of Henry Kissinger, The Price of Power. Hersh reported that U.S. intelligence “agencies had caught on that Chennault was the go-between between Nixon and his people and President Thieu in Saigon. … The idea was to bring things to a stop in Paris and prevent any show of progress.”

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“In the end, though, Johnson’s advisers decided it was too late and too potentially damaging to U.S. interests to uncover what had been going on,” Summers wrote. “If Nixon should emerge as the victor, what would the Chennault outrage do to his viability as an incoming president? And what effect would it have on American opinion about the war?”
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A late Humphrey surge fell short. Nixon won the election.
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8. K&R and wasn't he Geithner's mentor of sorts?

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10. Discussion w/ Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archives.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/12/new_docs_show_kissinger_rescinded_warning

New Docs Show Kissinger Rescinded Warning on Assassinations Days Before Letelier Bombing in DC

A newly declassified document offers new evidence that former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger canceled a warning against carrying out a secret program of international political assassinations just days before former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier and his American colleague, Ronni Moffitt, were killed in Washington, DC. We speak with Peter Kornbluh of the National Security Archives.

Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst at the National Security Archive and director of its Chile and Cuba Documentation Projects. He is author of The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability.

(transcript should up soon)

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11. bookmarked.