unearthed document ties kissinger to 1976 car bombing in dc

kissinger effectively gave go-ahead for '76 terror attack
from national security archive: Only five days before a car-bomb planted by agents of the Pinochet regime rocked downtown Washington D.C. on September 21, 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger rescinded instructions sent to, but never implemented by, U.S. ambassadors in the Southern Cone to warn military leaders there against orchestrating "a series of international murders," declassified documents obtained and posted by the National Security Archive revealed today.

The Secretary "has instructed that no further action be taken on this matter," stated a September 16, 1976, cable sent from Lusaka (where Kissinger was traveling) to his assistant secretary of state for Inter-American affairs, Harry Shlaudeman. The instructions effectively ended efforts by senior State Department officials to deliver a diplomatic demarche, approved by Kissinger only three weeks earlier, to express "our deep concern" over "plans for the assassination of subversives, politicians, and prominent figures both within the national borders of certain Southern Cone countries and abroad." Aimed at the heads of state of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay, the demarche was never delivered.

"The September 16th cable is the missing piece of the historical puzzle on Kissinger's role in the action, and inaction, of the U.S. government after learning of Condor assassination plots," according to Peter Kornbluh, the Archive's senior analyst on Chile and author of the book, The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability. "We know now what happened: The State Department initiated a timely effort to thwart a 'Murder Inc' in the Southern Cone, and Kissinger, without explanation, aborted it," Kornbluh said. "The Kissinger cancellation on warning the Condor nations prevented the delivery of a diplomatic protest that conceivably could have deterred an act of terrorism in Washington D.C."

Kissinger's September 16 instructions responded to an August 30, 1976 secret memoranda from Shlaudeman, titled "Operation Condor," that advised him: "what we are trying to head off is a series of international murders that could do serious damage to the international status and reputation of the countries involved." After receiving Kissinger's orders, on September 20, Shlaudeman directed his deputy, William Luers, to "instruct the [U.S.] ambassadors to take no further action noting that there have been no reports in some weeks indicating an intention to activate the Condor scheme."

The next day, a massive car-bomb claimed the life of former Chilean foreign minister Orlando Letelier and his 26-year old American colleague, Ronni Karpen Moffitt, as they drove down Massachusetts Avenue in Washington D.C. The bombing remains the most infamous attack of "Condor" - a collaboration between the secret police services in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil and several other Latin American military dictatorships, to track down and kill opponents of their regimes. Until 9/11, the Letelier-Moffitt assassination was known as the most significant act of international terrorism ever committed in the capital city of the United States.

eavesdropping on henry the k

from danger room: A batch of Henry Kissinger's phone conversations about Chile in 1970 and 1973 has just today been declassified and released. They offer new tantalizing information about one of the Cold War's most enduring mysteries: How deeply involved were Nixon and Kissinger in the Chilean coup that brought Pinochet to power?

In one phone conversation, in September of 1970, just after the election of the communist Salvador Allende, Kissinger says to CIA director Richard Helms, "We will not let Chile go down the drain." Helms, responds, "I am with you." Two days later, in another conversation with Kissinger, Secretary of State William Rogers warned: "after all we have said about elections, if the first time a Communist wins the U.S. tries to prevent the constitutional process from coming into play we will look very bad.”

Three years later came Pinochet's coup. Soon afterwards, Nixon and Kissinger discussed the help they had given and lamented the criticisms coming from the liberal press. "In the Eisenhower period, we would be heroes," said Kissinger.

Recently, while researching my book, I interviewed an intelligence official who had met with Pinochet not long after the coup. According to that man's recollection, Pinochet pulled him aside and asked, "Would you like to see the chair where my predecessor shot himself?" He then took him into a room and said, "Here it is. This is where he shot himself -- 31 times."

globalists kissinger & haass confronted on terror & global depop
from infowars: Members of We Are Change Colorado caught up with globalist kingpin Henry Kissinger and CFR president Richard N. Haass during the RNC proceedings in Minnesota, who were both dismissive towards hard questions about policies related to terrorism and depopulation measures. Dr. Kissinger grinned at mention of the New World Order before dismissing any knowledge of National Security Memo #200, which calls for the use of “food as a weapon” and otherwise advocates depopulation schemes that include extreme measures to be used against the ‘lesser developed countries’ in the third world, whose population growth supposedly threatens the National Security interests of the United States.

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youtube accounts of scientology critics suspended
from wikinews: Two well-known critics of Scientology have had their user accounts on the video sharing website YouTube suspended. The YouTube accounts of both Tory Christman and Mark Bunker were suspended this week. In a statement to Wikinews , YouTube explained why accounts are suspended, but did not specifically state why these particular accounts were suspended. Neither Christman nor Bunker received a notice or explanation from YouTube as to why their accounts were suspended.

disney launching unit to make eco-propaganda films
from ap: The Walt Disney Co. says it will launch a new film production unit called Disneynature to produce documentary films about the environment. CEO Robert Iger said Monday the unit marks a return to the Disney tradition of making nature films. The first of seven planned films will be "Earth," set for release on April 22, 2009, which is Earth Day.

controversial hitler ad ordered off mexican tv

from reuters: Mexico's top electoral body ordered broadcasters to stop running a controversial TV ad on Monday that compares a firebrand leftist leading a siege of Congress to dictators Hitler and Pinochet. The TV ad, funded by a Mexican businessman angry at a blockade of Congress by opposition lawmakers trying to derail an oil reform plan, says the antics of protest leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador are endangering democracy. "The complaints committee decided unanimously to order the withdrawal of the spot from today," a spokesman for the Federal Electoral Institute told Reuters.

jimmy justice: getting even with the law

from wikinews: A civilian known as 'Jimmy Justice' who resides in New York City (NYC), New York, the largest city in the United States, has been videotaping NYC police officers and city workers, breaking the law while on the job. Since 2007, he claims to have caught "hundreds of officers and other city employees violating the law," and says he has them all on camera. He has posted his best confrontations with them to the video sharing website YouTube.

fascist america in 10 easy steps

From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And... George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all

from guardian: If you look at history, you can see that there is essentially a blueprint for turning an open society into a dictatorship. That blueprint has been used again and again in more and less bloody, more and less terrifying ways. But it is always effective. It is very difficult and arduous to create and sustain a democracy - but history shows that closing one down is much simpler. You simply have to be willing to take the 10 steps.

As difficult as this is to contemplate, it is clear, if you are willing to look, that each of these 10 steps has already been initiated today in the United States by the Bush administration...

1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy

2. Create a gulag

3. Develop a thug caste

4. Set up an internal surveillance system

5. Harass citizens' groups

6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release

7. Target key individuals

8. Control the press

9. Dissent equals treason

10. Suspend the rule of law

We need to look at history and face the "what ifs". For if we keep going down this road, the "end of America" could come for each of us in a different way, at a different moment; each of us might have a different moment when we feel forced to look back and think: that is how it was before - and this is the way it is now.

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands ... is the definition of tyranny," wrote James Madison. We still have the choice to stop going down this road; we can stand our ground and fight for our nation, and take up the banner the founders asked us to carry.

documents reveal US funding for Chile coup

just in case you've forgotten... dead dictator pinochet, was installed by the CIA as part of operation condor on one of our many other september 11th events...

from cnn (november 13, 2000): U.S. officials released documents on Monday acknowledging the CIA had provided covert aid 30 years ago to undermine Chile's government, but analysts say some of the most important documents have not yet been made public.

"The documents that would be revealing ... are still missing and still need to be declassified," Peter Kornbluh, Chile Documentation Project director at the National Security Archive, told CNN. The National Security Archive is a nonprofit organization that has campaigned for release of the documents.

One document, Kornbluh said, indicates that in 1991 the CIA destroyed a file on Manuel Contreras, the former head of Chile's secret police now serving a sentence for the 1976 car bombing in Washington that killed Orlando Letelier, a prominent Chilean opposition leader. Letelier's American assistant Ronni Moffitt also died in the blast.

CIA officials have said the file would not have information useful to U.S. Justice Department investigators, who are trying to determine whether Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who toppled Chile's president and then ruled the country for 17 years, also should be indicted for Letelier's murder.

"One of the key questions raised by this document is why that file was destroyed ... and what was in it that was destroyed," Kornbluh said.

"We cannot have a full record until all the documents are released," Kornbluh said. CIA officials, meanwhile, said only a few documents were not released.

Covert aid
U.S. officials released 16,000 government documents on Monday, including a CIA memorandum indicating $1 million in covert aid had been given to Chilean opposition parties in an effort to undermine then-Chilean President Salvador Allende's socialist government.

The United States previously released 7,000 records regarding its involvement leading up to the September 11, 1973, coup led by Pinochet that toppled Allende.

Many of the documents, however, have been blacked out to protect sensitive information. U.S. President Bill Clinton had ordered in February 1999 that the documents be made public.

"Today, we are closer than we've ever been to the absolute truth of this incident," Tom Blanton, National Security Archive executive director, told CNN.

White House officials said the documents were released to allow the public to determine for itself whether U.S. actions had undermined democracy and human rights in Chile.

"Actions approved by the U.S. government during this period aggravated political polarization and affected Chile's long tradition of democratic elections and respect for the constitutional order and the rule of law," the White House said in a statement.

Among the information contained in the documents released Monday:

• The CIA provided secret funding to Chilean opposition parties in the early 1970s to try to undermine Allende's government.

• The funding had been approved by U.S. officials just three weeks before Allende was toppled by Pinochet.

• The Christian Democratic Party -- now Chile's largest party -- and the Radical Party of the Left had received the money from the CIA. U.S. officials blacked out the names of other recipients.

• The CIA had given Christian Democratic candidates funding as early as 1964.

Senate committee findings
Kornbluh told CNN that the CIA -- which provided $350,000 to help fund the coup -- had not played a direct role in the coup.

CIA officials had previously said the agency had not instigated the coup, but had been aware of military plotting to overthrow Allende.

However, a Senate committee chaired by Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, had confirmed that the CIA had participated in covert operations in Chile, and that the agency had attempted to foment a military coup in 1970 after Allende had been elected president.

"It is important to view these events in their proper historical context," CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said.

"CIA activities were conducted within the framework of what was U.S. policy at the time, and covert actions were undertaken at the direction of the White House and interagency policy coordination committees," Mansfield said.

CIA election operation
Researchers hoped the documents would provide details of a possible U.S. government role in toppling Allende's democratically elected government, and in support of Pinochet.

"It may be of interest that in 1964, CIA conducted a (deleted) election operation in Chile (deleted) which contributed to the election of Eduardo Frei to the presidency," said a memo, written before March 1969 elections.

Allende was Frei's main opponent in that election. Frei died in 1982; His son, also named Eduardo Frei, is Chile's immediate past president.

Last year, Clinton ordered U.S. government departments and agencies to find documents to highlight human rights abuses, terrorism and political violence in Chile before and after the coup.

The order was given after Pinochet was arrested in London pending an extradition request by a Spanish judge, who sought to put the former Chilean leader on trial for rights violations.

Pinochet was released due to poor health nearly 500 days later. He was returned to Chile, where he faces trial for abuses that prosecutors allege he committed during his years in power.

Prosecutors have said 3,000 people either were killed or disappeared under Pinochet's administration.

"With these documents, the history of U.S. intervention in Chile and our support for the Pinochet regime can begin to be rewritten," Kornbluh said.