From: BuzzFlash
MARK KARLIN, EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
Our man in Chile, Augusto Pinochet. (Photo: Wikipedia)New
revelations about the Chilean military overthrow of the popularly
elected Salvador Allende regime in 1973 once again confirm that the US
is supportive of democracies that enhance US economic interests, but it
is the enemy of those that don't.
According to a May 23 article on the History News Network website:
Covert
U.S. planning to block the democratic election of Salvador Allende in
Chile began weeks before his September 4, 1970, victory, according to
just declassified minutes of an August 19, 1970, meeting of the
high-level interagency committee known as the Special Review Group,
chaired by National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. "Kissinger asked
that the plan be as precise as possible and include what orders would be
given September 5, to whom, and in what way," as the summary recorded
Kissinger's instructions to CIA Director Richard Helms. "Kissinger said
we should present to the President an action plan to prevent [the
Chilean Congress from ratifying] an Allende victory and noted that the
President may decide to move even if we do not recommend it."
The
document is one of a compendium of some 366 records released by the
State Department as part of its Foreign Relations of the United States
(FRUS) series. The much-delayed collection, titled "Chile: 1969-1973,"
addresses Richard Nixon's and Kissinger's efforts to destabilize the
democratically elected Socialist government of Salvador Allende, and the
U.S.-supported coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power in
1973.
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