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Related: About this forumNewly revealed documents show Nixon, Kissinger plotted Allende overthrow from day one November 17, 2
November 17, 2020 11:21 AM CST BY MARK GRUENBERG
Newly revealed documents show that President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were plotting the overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende essentially from the moment he took office. Their plans were realized in the bloody military coup of 1973 led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet. | AP
WASHINGTONAlmost from the very minute elected Socialist/Marxist President Salvador Allende took office in Chile in November 1970, Republican U.S. President Richard Nixon and his top officials were scared of his example and his impactand determined to oust him.
Thats the conclusion that can be drawn from a new group of memos on the U.S. campaign to oust the Chilean president, released this week, on the 50th anniversary of Allendes inauguration, by the non-profit investigatory National Security Archive at George Washington University in D.C.
The memos and notes show top U.S. officials were scared not just that Allende would successfully implement what they believed were anti-American and anti-corporate policies in Chile, but that other nations in Latin America and Europe would see he had been elected to do soand follow suit.
So they concocted plans to get rid of the Chilean leaderplans which ultimately resulted in the U.S.-crafted coup against Allende three years later.
The newly released, declassified documents from 1970 show Nixons National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, plotted in detail with the Central Intelligence Agency on how to destabilize and ultimately overthrow Allende. The CIA even tried to prevent Allendes nomination before the Chilean election.
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Newly revealed documents show Nixon, Kissinger plotted Allende overthrow from day one November 17, 2 (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Nov 2020
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For those of us that are poor at riddles, are you talking about Whittaker Chambers? ...
marble falls
Nov 2020
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gordianot
(15,236 posts)1. Well it appears the Communists got even.
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marble falls
(57,055 posts)3. For those of us that are poor at riddles, are you talking about Whittaker Chambers? ...
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