William Broe, 97; oversaw CIA efforts to oust Allende

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Washington Post

William Broe, 97; oversaw CIA efforts to oust Allende
Washington Post / October 31, 2010

WASHINGTON — William V. Broe, 97, a CIA officer who rose to become chief of operations in the Western Hemisphere and oversaw the agency’s covert missions to destabilize the government of Salvador Allende, Chile’s Marxist president, died of congestive heart failure Sept. 28 at a nursing home in Hingham, Mass. He was a resident of North Scituate.

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In March 1973, Mr. Broe made headlines after his “unprecedented’’ appearance before Senate investigators looking into CIA activities in South America. Specifically, the investigators were interested in the agency’s alleged collaboration with International Telephone and Telegraph to interfere in Chilean political affairs.

ITT had worked actively against Allende’s election in 1970, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund political opposition. Once Allende was in power, the conglomerate feared its business interests in Chile would be nationalized.

Mr. Broe’s testimony marked the first time an active clandestine agent of the CIA spoke on the record for a Senate probe.


Read more: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2010/10/31/william_broe_97_oversaw_cia_efforts_to_oust_allende/

[EFerrari]

1. Times like this I regret no longer believing in hell. n/t

[KG]

10. +googleplex

[TheeHazelnut]

2. surprised he had a heart to fail

creep

[Judi Lynn]

3. This information from the article is not well known, was deeply buried.

Need to post this snippet from the article to make certain it gets seen:

~snip~
Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst at the National Security Archive at George Washington University and author of a 2003 book on Chile called “The Pinochet File,’’ said in an interview that Mr. Broe was deeply “involved in operations to thwart’’ Allende’s presidency.

Kornbluh said the CIA’s connection and collaboration with ITT was one of the spy agency’s biggest blunders because it set in motion the use of corporate money to aid covert US foreign policy.

http://www.gwu.edu.nyud.net:8090/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB110/cover.jpg

The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
A Los Angeles Times
BEST NONFICTION BOOK of 2003

WASHINGTON D.C. - President Richard Nixon acknowledged that he had given instructions to "do anything short of a Dominican-type action" to keep the democratically elected president of Chile from assuming office, according to a White House audio tape posted by the National Security Archive today. A phone conversation captured by his secret Oval Office taping system reveals Nixon telling his press secretary, Ron Zeigler, that he had given such instructions to then U.S. Ambassador Edward Korry, "but he just failed, the son of a bitch…. He should have kept Allende from getting in."

A transcript of the president's comments on March 23, 1972, made after the leak of corporate papers revealing collaboration between ITT and the CIA to rollback the election of socialist leader Salvador Allende, was recently published in the National Security Archive book, The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability by Peter Kornbluh; the tape marks the first time Nixon can be heard discussing his orders to undermine Chilean democracy. The conversation took place as Zeigler briefed the President on a State Department press conference to contain the growing ITT/CIA scandal which included one ITT document stating that Korry had been "given the green light to move in the name of President Nixon…to do all possible short of a Dominican Republic-type action to keep Allende from taking power." Other declassified records show that Nixon secretly ordered maximum CIA covert operations to "prevent Allende from coming to power or unseat him" in the fall of 1970 but that Ambassador Korry was deliberately not informed of covert efforts to instigate a military coup.

More:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB110/index.htm

[old mark]

4. Halloween! Big party in hell today as one of their own returns...nt

[Kolesar]

5. I see the repukes are here to unrecommend this thread

"The USA is free and fights for freedom around the world" <= Republican, "three brain cells engaged" maxim.

Thanks for injecting some humor into this thread. And thanks to Judi Lynn for keeping us apprised.

America did pass a point in the 1970s with the passage of the Freedom of Information Act and the election of President Carter when we tried to get past these horrors. Jimmy Carter campaigned on "human rights" and he pressured our "allies" to respect human rights.

I credit President Carter with helping me to learn about our involvement in Latin America. And the Clash:

Oh! Mama, Mama look there!
Your children are playing in that street again
Don't you know shat happened down there?
A youth of fourteen got shot down there
The Kokane guns of Jamdown Town
The killing clowns, the blood money men
Are shooting those Washington bullets again

As every cell in Chile will tell
The cries of the tortured men
Remember Allende, and the days before,
Before the army came
Please remember Victor Jara,
In the Santiago Stadium,
Es Verdas - those Washington Bullets again

"Washington Bullets", Sandinista, 1981

[dipsydoodle]

11. Thanks for posting those words

:hi:

[rug]

6. Save a place for Kissinger.

"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves." — Henry Kissinger

[dipsydoodle]

7. Hope he rests in hell

Tosser.

[trungpa ricochet]

8. Only the good die young

Rest in pieces, you old sphincter. Henry the K follows you down. :grr:

[pattmarty]

9. It must be true that "the good die young". Old evil motherfucker.........

........rot in hell (if there is one). Jeez, Cheney and Rumsfeld ought to live to at least 125.

[txlibdem]

12. Dispicable. That is the only word for how the USA has treated Central and South America

That corporate dollars were behind it is not in the least surprising. We've brought so much death and destruction to our own hemisphere, all in service to our own corporate masters.

[soryang]

13. The US funded and directed coup, the other 911

September 11, 1973.

[Octafish]

14. He was only following orders.

"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves." — Henry Kissinger

Fast forward to the present and what's changed?

[Odin2005]

15. Godd riddance to that evil MFer.

[UpInArms]

16. SOB lived so long because he knew he would go to hell when he died

lived a lifetime in fear - not enough hell to go around sometimes

William Broe, I hope your soul rots in hell forever, you piece of shit

[FarLeftRage]

19. +1,000,000 Trillion!!!!

Hell's population just went up by one...

[Taverner]

17. One of the many deaths on this asshole's hands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADctor_Jara

On the morning of September 12, Jara was taken, along with thousands of others, as a prisoner to the Chile Stadium (renamed the Estadio Víctor Jara in September 2003). In the hours and days that followed, many of those detained in the stadium were tortured and killed there by the military forces. Jara was repeatedly beaten and tortured; the bones in his hands were broken as were his ribs.<4> Fellow political prisoners have testified that his captors mockingly suggested that he play guitar for them as he lay on the ground with broken hands. Defiantly, he sang part of "Venceremos" (We Will Win), a song supporting the Popular Unity coalition.<4> After further beatings, he was machine-gunned on September 15, his body dumped on a road on the outskirts of Santiago and then taken to a city morgue.

Jara's wife Joan was allowed to come and retrieve his body from the site and was able to confirm the physical damage he had endured. After holding a funeral for her husband, Joan Jara fled the country in secret.

Joan Turner Jara currently lives in Chile and runs the Víctor Jara Foundation. The Chile Stadium, also known as the Víctor Jara Stadium, is often confused with the Estadio Nacional (National Stadium).

Before his death, Jara wrote a poem about the conditions of the prisoners in the stadium, the poem was written on a paper that was hidden inside a shoe of a friend. The poem was never named, but is commonly known as Estadio Chile.

In June 2008, Chilean judge Juan Eduardo Fuentes re-opened the investigation into Jara's death. Judge Fuentes said he would examine 40 new pieces of evidence provided by the singer's family.<5> On May 28, 2009, José Adolfo Paredes Márquez, a 54-year-old former Army conscript arrested the previous week in San Sebastian, Chile, was formally charged with Jara's murder. Following Paredes' arrest, on June 1, 2009, the police investigation identified the name of the officer who first shot Víctor Jara in the head. The officer played Russian roulette with Jara, by placing a single round in his revolver, spinning the cylinder, placing the muzzle against Jara's head and pulling the trigger. The officer repeated this a couple of times, until a shot fired and Víctor fell to the ground. The officer then ordered two conscripts (one of them Paredes) to finish the job, by firing into Jara's body.<6><7><8> A judge ordered Jara's body to be exhumed in an effort to determine more information regarding his death.<9>

On December 3, 2009, a massive funeral took place in the "Galpón de Víctor Jara" across from "Plaza Brazil". Jara's remains were honoured by thousands. His remains were re-buried in the same place he was buried in 1973.<10>

[Billy Burnett]

18. While many are expressing justified outrage, US ops are still going on in the LatAms.

Come over to DU's LAtin America forum where one can learn about continuing US ops to undermine a whole bunch of Latin American and Caribbean nations.

It has never stopped. In fact, the funding has increased exponentially over the last few years.

DU's Latin America forum --> http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=405


:hi:

[MinM]

20. “We will not let Chile go down the drain” Kissinger told CIA director Richard Helms

http://www.antifascistencyclopedia.com/allposts/kissinger-efforts-to-prevent-allende-taking-office-in-1970