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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-11-10 11:11 PM
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Kissinger Rescinded Warning Against Condor Assassinations (new evidence)
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Kissinger Rescinded Warning Against Condor Assassinations
Jim Lobe*

WASHINGTON, 10 Apr (IPS) - Five days before the assassination in downtown Washington of former Chilean Defence Minister Orlando Letelier, then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger rescinded instructions to U.S. ambassadors in Latin America's Southern Cone to warn the region's military regimes against carrying out "a series of international murders", according to documents released by the National Security Archive (NSA) here.

Kissinger "has instructed that no further action be taken on this matter", reads a declassified Sep. 16, 1976 cable sent by Kissinger's office from Zambia, where he was travelling at the time, to his assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, Harry Shlaudeman.

The "matter" in question concerned instructions sent under Kissinger's name to U.S. ambassadors to Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay Aug. 23, 1976, to make a formal demarche to the leaders of their host governments regarding Washington's "deep concern" about reports it had received of "plans for the assassination of subversives, politicians and prominent figures both within the national borders of certain Southern Cone countries and abroad".

The Aug. 23 cable ordered the ambassadors to warn to the highest possible officials that such plans - part of a secret, Chilean-led intelligence collaboration among the Southern Cone's military regimes known as Operation Condor - would "create a most serious moral and political problem".

Read more: http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=2986
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-11-10 11:38 PM
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1. Yesterday's thread on this:
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laughingliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 02:43 AM
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4. Day before yesterday's thread on this:
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DeltaLitProf Donating Member (459 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 12:23 AM
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2. Is there no end to the depths of this man's evil?
And how in the world would his constant defense--that the struggle against Communism required moral compromises--cover this!?!
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earcandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 02:28 AM
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3. Psychotic sick people have had too much power in the past, and in the present they do too. We need
to fix this asap. 
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 05:24 AM
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5. Townley entered US 09/09/76. Murders took place on 09/21. Who let Townley in? DCI Bush
Townley and two other DINA agents were on the State Dept Visa Viper list (no-entry). Someone arranged to allow them in. The CIA knew about the plot two months before it was carried out.

Allegations of U.S. early knowledge of the Letelier assassination hinge on the communiqués of U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, George Landau, with the State Department, and other U.S. government agencies. When Townley and his Chilean associate tried to obtain B-2 visas to the United States in Paraguay, Landau was told by Paraguayan intelligence that these Paraguayan subjects were to meet with General Walters in the United States, concerning CIA business. Landau was suspicious of this declaration, and cabled for more information. The B-2 visas were revoked by the State Department on August 9, 1976. <15> However, under the same names, two DINA agents used fraudulent Chilean passports to travel to the U.S. on diplomatic A-2 visas, in order to shadow Letelier. <15> <16> Townley himself flew to the U.S. on a fraudulent Chilean passport and under another assumed name. Landau had made copies of the visa applications though, which later documented the relationship of Townley and DINA with the Paraguayan visa applications.

American commentator William F. Buckley, Jr. wrote on October 25, 1976: "U.S. investigators think it unlikely that Chile would risk with an action of this kind the respect it has won with great difficulty during the past year in many Western countries, which before were hostile to its policies." According to Donald Freed, Buckley had been providing disinformation for the Pinochet government since October 1974. He also unearthed information that suggest William Buckley's brother, James Buckley, met with Townley and Guillermo Novo in New York City just a week before Letelier was assassinated.

According to John Dinges, co-author of Assassination on Embassy Row, documents released in 1999 and 2000 establish that "the CIA had inside intelligence about the assassination alliance at least two months before Letelier was killed but failed to act to stop the plans." It also knew about an Uruguayan attempt to kill U.S. Congressman Edward Koch, which then-CIA director George H.W. Bush warned him about only after Orlando Letelier's murder(3) .

Kenneth Maxwell points out that U.S. policymakers were aware not only of Operation Condor in general, but in particular "that a Chilean assassination team had been planning to enter the United States." A month before the Letelier assassination, Kissinger ordered "that the Latin American rulers involved be informed that the 'assassination of subversives, politicians and prominent figures both within the national borders of certain Southern Cone countries and abroad ... would create a most serious moral and political problem." Maxwell wrote in his review of Peter Kornbluh's book, "This demarche was apparently not delivered: the U.S. embassy in Santiago demurred on the ground that to deliver such a strong rebuke would upset the dictator", and that, on September 20, 1976, the day before Letelier and Moffitt were killed, the State Department instructed the ambassadors to take no further action with regard to the Condor scheme. (Maxwell, 2004, 18).
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Letelier_case

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