Pinochet

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  9/12/2022
  

  49 Years Later, Nixon's Knowledge of Pinochet Coup Remains Secret

  It is beyond time for the Biden Administration to declassify presidential records related to American operations in Chile around the overthrow of democratically elected President Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973.  

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  11/18/2019
  

  Chile’s political crisis is another brutal legacy of long-dead dictator Pinochet

  by Paul W. Posner

  After weeks of intense, sometimes violent nationwide protests, Chilean President Sebastian Piñera has relented to demands to rewrite the Chilean Constitution. The protesters say they want a new constitution to address Chile’s severe social and economic inequities.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  10/5/18
  

  30 years ago Pinochet proposed using violence to change the outcome of a plebiscite on his dictatorship

  Officials refused to implement his plan. He lost and the dictatorship ended. 

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• 12-10-17
  

  The Other FBI Investigation the White House Couldn’t Muffle

  by Alan McPherson

  The year was 1976. The suspects were tied to the Pinochet dictatorship.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-14-17
  

  Documenting U.S. Role in Democracy’s Fall and Dictator’s Rise in Chile

  An exhibition at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago displays once-secret documents that describe covert operations and intelligence gathering on the Pinochet dictatorship.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  9-23-16
  

  CIA: “Pinochet personally ordered” Letelier bombing

  A CIA special intelligence assessment in 1987 concluded that Chilean General Augusto Pinochet ordered an “act of state terrorism” on the streets of Washington, D.C., that took the lives of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  7-31-15
  

  Chile's Pinochet Covered up Human Rights Atrocity

  The crime was covered up for decades.  A document shows what really happened. 

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• The Untold Story of How the Reagan Administration Got Rid of Pinochet, Chile’s Ruthless Dictator

  by Morris Morley and Chris McGillion

  It’s a victory story, but a little more complicated than people think.

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• Washington Tortures Everywhere ... Except Latin America

  by Greg Grandin

  Map of CIA rendition sites. Countries in red cooperate with the CIA to detain and allegedly torture terror suspects. Drawn from data first published in the Washington Post. Map credit: HNN staff/Wiki Commons.Originally posted on TomDispatch.com