“Right, to take the whole story out and take the blame completely (Salvador Allende when he’s not the one killing people. with the help of Pinochet United States of America In the first years” Peter Kornbluh is the author Pinochet declassified: US secret files on Chilea definitive investigation into the responsibility of the administration Richard Nixon Overthrow of the Popular Unity Government (UP). “Washington played a basic article In the introduction to his book, “In the traumatic past,” he states:Other 9/11“. That’s why, for thirty years, that day in September, before two planes crashed into the Twin Towers in Manhattan, Hawker Hunter Jet hitting bombs La Moneda Palace as a “prelude” dictatorship.
Kornbluh is the authority on the matter, and that is why President Gabriel Boric’s government invited him to the ceremony a few days ago where the Plan for the Search for Truth and Justice was launched. In Santiago he did nothing but repeat a fundamental aspect of his book: an attempt to undermine the UP experience began as the September 4, 1970 elections approached.
another historian Alfredo Sepulvedastates: People’s Union. Salvador Allende’s thousand days and Chile’s road to socialism He said the North American president had released the conspiracy mechanism two months ago despite the reports he had requested from the US as well as the State and Defense ministries. includingThe resolution, put together in National Security Study Memorandum 97, concluded that at the ballot boxes was the final victory of the left.did not pose a threat to their interests The United States should not be at home or the global military balance should not be disturbed.” But Nixon and his chief adviser, Henry kissing“They reacted as if Chile were a serious threat.” The head of the White House was comprehensive from then on. It was necessary to make the Chilean economy “scream”. Sepúlveda says that Allende “has gone from being a threat to an enemy.”
First coup attempt
The coup attempt in September and October 1970 Assassination of army commander General René SchneiderSepúlveda emphasizes that the spokesperson for military neutrality in the elections is: “Inflated by Washington and the CIAThe Chileans who attended were determined operators, not robots, though.” An attempt was made to prevent Allende from taking office. The Cold War it was ruthless even when there were other political alternatives. Career diplomats were against the destabilization of Chile. “But Nixon ignored them.”
It lands in Washington on September 14. Augustine Edwards EastmanOne of Chile’s richest men and owner of the newspaper MercuryHe “played a pivotal role” in the opposition campaign against Allende and in getting funding for the “harm campaign” from the United States. Four days later, Edwards attended a meeting with the CIA leadership where they “discussed this issue.” Military solution to the problem: The possibility of a coup d’état. The new president was not in office and his fate had already been determined. A correspondence from Kissinger to Nixon details a series of covert CIA operations: links to the military, money to party politicians. , a propaganda operation of their own.
Already on March 21, 1972, Washington post explained some of these actions. Information came from confidential documents International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT)The company that owns 70% of the Chilean telephone industry.
The stubbornness of Nixon and Kissinger was not independent of the outcome. The coup came, and as the years passed, relations between Pinochet and Washington were turbulent. Time played its part. Declassification of secret documents ordered under governments Bill Clinton And Barack Obama revealed new evidence. Telegrams from the embassy in Santiago show the extent to which the United States is following the pulse of the conspiracy that ended Allende’s days in real time. “There is still hope that postponing the decision will prevent conflict,” he told Washington from Santiago on 9/11. The anger had already been released, and the Oval Office had apparently received other non-diplomatic information as well.
dark spots
“We still don’t know what President Richard Nixon saw at his desk the morning of the coup d’état. How did he learn about the military coup? A month ago, the senior Chilean ambassador in Washington said: Juan Gabriel Valdes. Still needs to be lit parts are drawn in black in declassified texts. “We want to be able to see it and read it to find out exactly what it is.”
In 1974, as the dictatorship gained strength, Kissinger complained to Nixon about the US press’s criticism of the Chilean events. According to him, they should “celebrate” and not lament the “fall of a pro-communist government”. The president replies, “Yes, we did not, we will not reveal our role in this“. Their consultants add: “We help them do that by creating the conditions that make it possible.”
And Kornbluh insists that these “conditions” were defined by General Schneider’s still fresh blood in October 1970. He had a hidden concern, which Kissinger later expressed repeatedly to the president: “consolidation of the left government” and “the spread of the model of success around the world.” Over the years, the minutes of that meeting of the National Security Council were made public. Kornbluh later discovers the notes that accompany him. CIA chief Richard Helms. Write down what Nixon said: “If we can topple Allende we better do it“.