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Claims (24)
CIA operated_in
Santiago documented
document
“On September 21 CIA Headquarters cabled its Station in Santiago Purpose of exercise is to prevent Allendeassumption of power Paramilitary legerdemainhas been discarded Military solution is objective…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.247
Felix Rodriguez operated_in
Santiago documented
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“Although most of the Station officers in Santiago did not know of Track II the Chief and Deputy Chief of Station were knowledgeable…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.253
Camilo Valenzuela headed
Santiago documented
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“Another individual around which plotting centered was General Camilo Valenzuela Commander of the Santiago Garrison…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.253
Edward Korry lived_in
Santiago documented
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“Ambassador Korry who had returned to Washington from Santiago for a short period of consultation…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.264
El Golf located_in
Santiago documented
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“On a rainy night, the El Golf neighborhood of Santiago, Chile, could be an elegant corner of any world capital.…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.79
Santiago located_in
Chile documented
document
“On a rainy night, the El Golf neighborhood of Santiago, Chile, could be an elegant corner of any world capital.…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.79
Alvaro Saieh lived_in
Santiago documented
document
“We met in his mansion, which sits atop a long and twisting road in the foothills of the Andes overlooking Santiago.…”
source: book — Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making · p.85
Pascual Cervera y Topete operated_in
Santiago documented
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“On May 19 after eluding the blockading American forces Cervera unobserved on the open sea entered Santiago harbor…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.73
El Mercurio located_in
Santiago documented
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“By far the largest and probably the most significant in this area of propaganda was the money provided to El Mercurio the major Santiago daily during the Allende regime…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.13
CIA operated_in
Santiago documented
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“the CIA station in Santiago and headquarters in Washington discussed how it should be used…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.20
U.S. Embassy in Santiago located_in
Santiago documented
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“FMAMEMBASSY SANTIAGO…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.132
CIA located_in
Santiago documented
document
“The scope of "normal activities of the CIA Station in Santiago included placement of Station-dictated material in the Chilean media…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.152
CIA operated_in
Santiago documented
document
“In July 1969 the CIA Station in Santiago requested and received Headquarters approval…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.187
Tacnazo located_in
Santiago documented
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“the Tacnazo named after the Tacna regiment in Santiago…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.187
Mujahideen carried_out_attack
Santiago documented
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“Rebel forces seize control of the downtown area of Santiago and attack the Defense Ministry and the Presidential Palace before troops loyal to the government surround them and force them to surrender…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.212
James Allen operated_in
Santiago documented
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“The Adria arrived off the coast of Santiago on the afternoon of June 1 and began dragging for the cable within the three-mile limit…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.73
Prince Chichibu ordered_assassination_of
Santiago host_asserted
“but it saved ammunition. When they were dead, other prisoners using the bilge pumps cleared the water out, and our government didn't give the survivors a penny. I'm going to keep saying that. The Imperial war loot had a priority, so Prince …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 5 @ 1:00:57
Gil Gadi recovered
Santiago host_asserted
“So they load them all up with gold bars, lock them, and then they use a thick slab of concrete to pour over the entire assembly, basically hiding it as if it's not there, like a new floor. In the late 1970s, these Mosler safes were recovere…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 5 @ 1:02:39
Robert Curtis operated_in
Santiago host_asserted
“onshore treasure sites. So understand what's going on here. He's only using this guy to scope out where these locations are, and then he has no intentions of actually exploring them while they're still alive. Curtis flew back to Nevada to w…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warrior Chapter 12 @ 34:10
Santa Romana did_business_with
Santiago book_quoted
“At various different places, all Golden Lily sites. It was their failure to open Teresa 1 in 74 that led to Robert Curtis's successful opening of Teresa 2 the next year. They shifted operations to another location, an old walled city in Man…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors (Last) Chapter 15 @ 33:46
Leopoldo Giga operated_in
Santiago book_quoted
“who worked with the Japanese engineers to design four treasure vaults in Manila's Fort Santiago, including the booby traps. Pol arranged for the Filipino electrician from Cavite to help wire the booby traps. When Camaro moved his operations…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 11 @ 30:42
Prince Chichibu used
Santiago host_asserted
“Sorrento ham, olives, grains, silver, gold, and gunpowder. The churches and different religious orders had dug catacombs for storage and burial crypts. This underground maze offered Prince Chichibu a ready-made hiding place for war loot. So…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 5 @ 45:13
Henry Hexer operated_in
Santiago book_quoted
“Devine converted the overnight cables from Santiago into reports for his superiors. Determined not to be completely idiotic, Phillips broke one rule early, bringing in Henry Hexter. The station chief went on record as early as September 23r…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 35 @ 31:02
Japan located_in
Santiago host_asserted
“Subsequently, Golden Lily had dug a deep vault beneath one of the abutments, placing a 340 metric tons of 50 kilo gold bars inside safes and then put them in there. The cache was hidden with a slab resembling the original concrete. Unfortun…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed with COLONEL TOWNER in Gold Warriors Chapter 14 @ 1:14:58
Mentions (54)
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Because he had made all kinds of side deals with the imperialist Americans and was basically in bed with all of them. So he went to the American embassy in Santiago, which is the Chilean capital. And there was an ambassador, Edward Corey, t…
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close to most of the leading American executives that did business in Chile. So he had access to all of the inner circles. And the timing is 1970. So this is the Nixon administration. President Nixon had repeatedly declared his determinatio…
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The Braden Copper Company, which would later be absorbed into Kennecott, K-E-N-N-E-C-O-T-T Copper Corporation, began mining in El Tenente, a mountain of ore set in the Andes, about 100 miles southeast of Santiago.…
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So we can buy the military. We can't buy the intellectuals. In 1970, Alente ran for president, not as a candidate of his own socialist party, which was too weak to win on its own, but as the head of a coalition called Popular Unity. The cha…
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not all, to take over and displace the Alente government, unquote. The CIA plotters in Langley directed the Santiago station, quote, the creation of a renewed atmosphere of political unrest and controlled crisis must be achieved in order to…
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So on April 10th, the CIA directed at Santiago Station to begin accelerating the efforts against the military target. Three weeks later, the chief of the agency's Western Hemisphere Division, Theodore Shackley, who is in every one of these …
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These efforts came to premature fruition on June 29th, when a handful of officers staged a confused coup that involved tanks stopping for traffic lights as they made their way through Santiago. For the first time in 42 years, the Chilean so…
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Fratz, the army commander, suppressed it easily. Still, it had nerves on end. As military conspirators prepared to strike against Alente, they faced the same problem that they confronted three years before. The army commander, General Pratz…
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The local newspaper that was owned by the American began a campaign depicting him as a treasonable pro-communist person. One day, several hundred wives of Chilean officers encouraged by the CIA operatives convened in front of his home, supp…
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His colleagues in Chile had not. President Alente said General Prats considered him to be supremely apolitical and not ambitious. Both would pay dearly for their miscalculation. While CIA operatives in Santiago were helping to orchestrate t…
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with over $3 million expended in fiscal year 72 alone. The final act in Allente's drama began to unfold. The departure of General Prats was a DIA memo saying, quote, removed the main mitigating factor against a coup, unquote. CIA agents rep…
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Castro's inventory included six B-26 bombers, four T-33 jet trainers, modified to be fighters, and two to four British Sea Fury fighters. Principal bases were at Havana and Santiago. A surprised air attack scheduled two days before the inva…
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The station's maritime branch had been described as huge, but the Special Forces Division remained the largest element. On March 12, 1962, Team Cobra infiltrated Pinar del Rio province, creating network active for some time. In June, AM Tor…
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In any case, various versions of the diary appeared during the summer of 1968, including one released by Castro. How Havana might have acquired a copy of it became a mystery unraveled by Antonio Argudas, the interior minister. Argudas sudde…
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Fry to move in directions that the U.S. favored. Washington's deliberation took time in part because of a set of decisions that happened when Kennedy was assassinated. As the secret war wizards deliberated, the price tag went up. When Fry's…
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The White House viewed this with caution. Ralph Dugan, a Kennedy holdover and political advisor whose special interest was Latin America and who would soon go to Santiago as ambassador, told Mac Bundy that he would not balk at three quarter…
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At this point, Fitzgerald, who had replaced King as the Latin American guy in charge, visited Santiago for a personal reconnaissance mission. He spent his time with the CIA station chief, Rudolph Gomez, reviewing CIA assets and operational …
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in Santiago, and to local subordinate radio stations. Agency assets at several Chilean radio stations capable of direct action began inserting items in daily news broadcasts, reports picked up and recycled by dozens of other local radio sta…
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The ongoing CIA project included both the Christian Democrat funding and a separate attempt to induce other deputies towards softer goals. It continued. The agency also dealt with a cabinet-level official, and the CIA, in its persistent eff…
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Fresh leadership now came to the American embassy in Santiago. In June 1967, Edward Corey, K-O-R-R-Y, took over as ambassador. His marching orders direct from Johnson, Corey later said, were to prevent Salvador Allende from being elected pr…
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Shortly after Corey's arrival, the agency's Jim Nolan gave way to Henry Hexter, moving over from Tokyo as station chief. Hexter, something of a CIA legend, had done it all. Soviet operations in Berlin, covert action in Guatemala, nation bui…
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In the wrong direction, disdained Corey's view that Fry, the Christian Democrat Party, was the best deal the U.S. could achieve. The station chief also had another more elemental problem. By the close of 1967, not a single officer remained …
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It's going to be a waste of your time because the people in Latin America had already suffered through many installed dictatorships and they were done with it. And they all knew that they were there because of the CIA's meddling. To listen …
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In other words, if you were actually honest about an assessment and it didn't fit where they wanted to go, you were ignored. The opportunity for choice arose in the spring of 69, about six weeks after Chile's March elections. The 303 commit…
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Czechoslovakia, picturing tanks in the streets of Santiago. These themes came right out of a psyops text. Allende would end religious freedom in Chile, they said. His victory would undermine the family, they accused him. Hexter made such us…
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Early Saturday morning, Richard Helms and TOPS officials gathered in the CIA Ops Center to follow the results. They were all in a bad mood. Kissinger summoned the 40 committee for Tuesday. In the interim, he demanded State get him Corey's a…
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Not only a major distraction, the crisis suggested a need for U.S. action elsewhere. When Kissinger heard at the 40 committee confirmed the judgment of the embassy in Santiago, Latin American oligarch Bill Brone started by agreeing with Cor…
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Henry Kissinger and John Mitchell doubted that once Allende was in the presidency, there would be anyone capable of organizing any real counterforce against him. Ignoring the State Department's warning, Kissinger used Chile to further his d…
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who also talked with ITT executives the day before, the economic pressures would feature in the 40-committee track, and they would endure long after Allende took power. The final Chilean runoff, set for October 24, 1970, loomed in Santiago.…
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Okay, sure. I'm in the CIA and I pretend to be anybody I want anywhere in the world. I have multiple passports, but all of a sudden I've got a conscience about adopting a false story. Please. His staff mixed experienced people with some you…
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So Rene Snyder happens to be the obstacle of which they will target. Santiago's military attache, Colonel Paul Weimert, used as a go-between with Chilean officers of several factions, had to know too, and Hexter would control him. Otherwise…
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Another, Bruce McMaster, masqueraded as a representative of the Ford Foundation, one of the CIA's favorites, which was a violation of CIA regulations that had been put in place when they were exposed using the National Student Association. …
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Agents whose communication with Phillips ran through the undercover officer at a safe house in Santiago. Ambassador Corey left to believe that track one amounted to everything the U.S. did in Chile would eventually be furious. As the task f…
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There were four sessions of the 40 committee in the month between mid-September and mid-October, all wrestled with the scant potential for any coup or parliamentary maneuver to not allow Allende to take office. On October 14th, the CIA told…
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for track two out of the White House. Haig says nothing at all about Chile in his memoirs. Caramene Senez's key encounter took place on October 15th, with fewer than 10 days left until the runoff in Santiago. The deputy director of operatio…
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This version does not comport with a declassified record. The orders were intended to produce an opportunity, not respond to one. On the ground in Santiago, Bruce McMasters and Tony Sforza were in touch with plotters headed by General Rober…
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Vioxx, I don't know how you say his last name, it's V-I-A-U-X, used both channels to demand money and weapons. For a time, Weimert carried riding boots stuffed with cash in the trunk of his car. On October 17th, several machine guns were se…
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murdered Snyder. They assassinated the senior general in Chilean army. The assassination created a backlash in Santiago, increasing Salvador Allende's vote in the October 24th election, and Congress elected him president of Chile after they…
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a propaganda group, and several more case officers. They also set up a paramilitary group and a unit working specifically against people they had categorized as foreign agents in the country. Ambassador Corey also left Santiago. Corey had t…
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burst into the public in 1972 with leaked ITT documents. Opposition from both Ray Warren and Nathaniel Davis forced Shackley to cancel a planned trip to Santiago. The Cuban DGI had a good station in Chile under Juan Maraditero Ibanez.…
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who had been the Havana coordinator for Che Guevara in Bolivia and could have discovered Shackley's presence. Knowledge that CIA's man of Mongoose, Laos, Vietnam was in Santiago would have definitely cued Allende's security services that it…
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Shackley became the first secret warrior able to sit down with state colleagues to discuss a coup that might actually work. By October 1972, the agency was confident enough to predict that the U.S. help would be unnecessary when the coup oc…
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But the CIA had Santiago wired for sound. Again, crypto AG, guys. A coup was so likely that Shackley, again, ordered Ray Warren to reduce contact with the Chilean military to avoid the CIA being outed. Warren protested this. The station had…
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who would lead the military coup against Salvador Allende, but he couldn't have done it without the CIA. Santiago station officer Jack Devine was at lunch at Da Carla, a popular Italian restaurant in Santiago on September 9th, when a collea…
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His cable written into a report went to Nixon and Kissinger on September 10th. Devine became the first to have correct information and the attaches in Santiago had reported the impending coup on September 7th. A report in DIA files show thi…
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Devine and Don Winters disagree on how high U.S. contacts went in the military. They went as high as the guy who's now in charge of it because the CIA had almost constant contact with Pinochet. On the 11th, Warren's station was fully staffe…
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was the hotel room of a young officer who had been sent temporarily to Santiago, who had been debating the chief for weeks on the date of the coup. When the coup began, Warren was told, Merry Christmas. The station chief, I mean, it's Septe…
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William Colby, newly minted CIA director, led off by describing the situation in Santiago. But Kissinger concentrated on culpability and consequences. He ordered the return of the U.S. Navy vessels in the area without touching at Chilean po…
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David Poppers, the new ambassador to Chile, responded to a personal appeal from Eduardo Fry by requesting a final payment. It was approved in June. Some CIA officers, aghast at Pinochet's path, wished to turn against him the covert weapons …
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The deputy director of the Central Intelligence, General Vernon Walters, came to Santiago in March of 74. With him were the brass of the Western Hemisphere Division. The Americans talked of help to Chilean. Excuse me. Sorry about that. Had …
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assassinated General Prats by blowing up his car and burning his wife alive. In the summer of 75, Contreras visited the U.S. twice. On both trips, he saw Vernon Walters. That October, Contreras hosted a conference in Santiago for the heads …
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Declassified documents show that the U.S. officially aware of the operations. As Condor proceeded, the CIA learned a great deal more from the sources in participating countries, and it never intervened to stop any of it because they were pa…
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Another significant influence was Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, a founder of the Spanish Belangulist movement. They were basically another element of fascism. The PL achieved significant notoriety from their involvement with the March of Em…
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When Rolf died in 1984 at the age of 77 after successfully rebuffing years of extradition attempts, because, you know, we'll just kill the new president that would be the most likely to extradite him in the overthrow of the Chilean governme…