A former air force commander has acknowledged that Chile helped Britain during the 1982 Falklands war because it feared an attack from Argentina after the conflict.
General Fernando Matthei told the Santiago newspaper La Tercera that then-dictator General Augusto Pinochet approved Chile's "strategic cooperation" with Britain's successful efforts to recover the southern islands that Argentina had occupied in April 1982.
A good relationship with Argentina "is very important to me," Matthei said in the interview published on Saturday, "but at that time in the face of such a clear threat, I had to do every possible effort to strengthen Chile's defense."
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/06/27/2003260953Pinochet
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