PINOCHET: A Declassified Documentary Obit

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http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/1212-05.htm

PINOCHET: A Declassified Documentary Obit
Archive Posts Records on former Dictator's Repression, Acts of Terrorism, U.S. Support
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 212

WASHINGTON - December 12 - As Chile prepared to bury General Augusto Pinochet, the National Security Archive today posted a selection of declassified U.S. documents that illuminate the former dictator's record of repression. The documents include CIA records on Pinochet's role in the Washington D.C. car bombing that killed former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier and his American colleague Ronni Moffitt, Defense Intelligence Agency biographic reports on Pinochet, and transcripts of meetings in which Secretary of State Henry Kissinger resisted bringing pressure on the Chilean military for its human rights atrocities.

"Pinochet's death has denied his victims a final judicial reckoning," said Peter Kornbluh, who directs the Archive's Chile Documentation Project. "But the declassified documents do contribute to the ultimate verdict of history on his atrocities."

Most of the documents posted today are drawn from a collection of 24,000 declassified records that were released by the Clinton administration after Pinochet's October, 1998, arrest in London. Many of them are reproduced in Kornbluh's book, The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability.


http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB212/index.htm

[shain from kane]

1. Here's all the documentation that I need. I know it's a movie, but it is

certainly based on a true incident.

http://www.amazon.com/Missing-Costa-Gavras/dp/B00049QJ9I/sr=8-1/qid=1165955001/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-9756374-2534843?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

[Richard D]

2. Yes

Intensely powerful film. A true must-see.

[sam sarrha]

3. will they release Killingers influence in the filthy mess..

[Octafish]

4. An Open Letter to Henry Kissinger from One of Pinochet's Political Prisoners

Pinochet was Kissinger's friend, another turd.

An Open Letter to Henry Kissinger from One of Pinochet's Political Prisoners

The Last Man of the Junta

By FERNANDO A. TORRES
CounterPunch December 12, 2006

All of the original members of the military junta that overthrew Allende and his government with the knowledge and the direct support of the US government, are now gone.

Nixon is gone and Kissinger is left alone on this earth.

Now we will never know the number of secrets or the details that they took to their graves with them. Nor will we ever know the whereabouts of the missing ones--- every single one of them. I also wonder if justice will prevail and will catch up with Kissinger, the last man of the Junta? F.T.

"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

An open letter to Henry Kissinger

I was not an "irresponsible" Chilean sir, but I did pay the heavy price of your words.

Mr. Henry Kissinger
Kissinger Associates.
New York

EXCERPT...

You plotted a "two track" policy toward this small country aimed, on the one hand, to isolate Allende internationally and, on the other (more dirty) hand, to provoked a military coup through assassinations, political subversion and economic sabotage.

Your goal, Mr. Kissinger, in uniting military leaders in neighboring countries to pressure Chile, later became "Operation Condor", which was the coordination of the secret political police forces to carry out exchange of information and prisoners, kidnappings, torture, and political assassination such as the one against Orlando Letelier and his aide Ronni Moffit carried out in Washington DC by Chilean and Cuban terrorists lead by CIA agents Michael Townley and Novo Sampol .

You, Mr. Kissinger, and Nixon lied to Congress, given misleading information and assuring the US played no role in Chile's democracy deceased. You may know that at the time there was no danger of the elusive "weapons of mass destruction" but the "danger" of the spread of communism in the southern cone. You believed Chile's "irresponsible" people were prescribing a wrong example; Chile was a dangerous "dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica," as you put it. A dagger that needs to be removed at any cost. Allende must be stopped even at the expense of democracy itself.

EXCERPT...

Sincerely

Fernando A. Torres

Fernando A. Torres was a political prisoner in Chile when he was sent to exile in 1977. He is now a freelance journalist.

SOURCE: http://www.counterpunch.org/torres12122006.html

They have so much to answer for, people will need a MEMEX to track it all.