René Schneider person
· died in Chile
also: Chilean General Rene Schneider, General Rene Schneider, General Rene Snyder, General Schneider, General Snyder, Gen Rene Schneider, Rene Schneider, Rene Snyder, Schneider, Snyder
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Claims (16)
CIA linked_to
René Schneider documented
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“Beginning with the kidnaping of Chilean Army Commander-in-Chief Rene Schneider…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.153
United States government targeted_for_regime_change
René Schneider documented
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“The record reveals that United States officials offered encouragement to the Chilean dissidents who plotted the kidnapping of General Rene Schneider…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.270
United States government ordered_assassination_of
René Schneider documented
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“We find that neither the President nor any other official in the United States Government authorized the assassination of General Rene Schneider…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.275
René Schneider headed
Chile documented
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“General Rene Schneider Chief of Staff of the Chilean Armed Forces…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.356
René Schneider died_in
Chile documented
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“In the early hours of October 22 General Schneider was shot while some Chileans were trying to abduct him…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.356
United States supplied_arms_to
René Schneider documented
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“U.S officialssuppliedfinancialaid machineguns and other equipment to various military figures who opposedAllende…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.127
CIA funded
René Schneider documented
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“Although the CIAcontinued to support coupplotters up to Schneider'sshooting the record indicates that the CIA had withdrawn active support of the group which carried out the actual kidnap attempt on October22 whichresulted in Schneider'sdea…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.127
Henry Kissinger ordered_assassination_of
René Schneider alleged
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“Please state whether while President you received information concerning plans for a military coup in Chile involving the kidnapping of General Rene Schneider…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.168
CIA supplied_arms_to
René Schneider documented
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“CIA officials passed three submachine guns to two Chilean officers on October 22 Later that day General Schneider was mortally wounded in an abortive kidnap attempt…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 7: Covert Action · p.18
Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of
René Schneider documented
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“As a result of his strong constitutional stand the removal of General Schneider became a necessary ingredient in the coup plans of all the Chilean conspirators…”
source: government document — Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders (Church Committee Interim Report) · p.239
René Schneider died_in
Chile documented
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“On October25 1970 General Schneiderdied of gunshot woundsinflictedthree days earlier while resisting a kidnap attempt…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.127
Roberto Viaux assassinated
René Schneider documented
“A Jeep struck his chauffeur-driven car. Five men surrounded it. One smashed the rear window with a sledgehammer. Accounts differ on whether or not it was Snyder, but a pistol was drawn to defend himself, but his assailants opened fire using…”
▶ Operation Gladio in Chile @ 58:24
CIA attempted_assassination_of
René Schneider documented
“The CIA contacts encouraged certain Chilean officers to assassinate the commander of the Chilean Armed Forces, General Rene Snyder. This action created a backlash in Santiago, and Salvador Allende was confirmed as president two days later. …”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 49:06
CIA ordered_assassination_of
René Schneider documented
“was not briefed to the ambassador, according to this author. The CIA contacts encouraged certain Chilean officers to assassinate the commander of the Chilean armed forces, General Rene Snyder. This action created a backlash in Santiago and …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chap 15 cont @ 44:56
David Atlee Phillips ordered_assassination_of
René Schneider documented
“Produced documents that showed that Phillips, at the direction of Richard Helms Nixon, would actually be in charge of the assassination of the Chilean president in 1970. Sorry, it's a general, Rene Schneider. So that's David Phillips. He's …”
▶ The Shadow State Pt 16 JFK Assassination - w Colonel Towner-Watkins @ 22:56
René Schneider headed
Chilean Army book_quoted
“Chilean commander, General Rene Snyder, a strict constitutionalist, had firm control and would permit no interference by the military in the politics. The parameter of action was quite narrow, as Heckscher saw them, while options were limit…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 35 @ 31:31
Mentions (10)
▶ 52:20
As for the idea of promoting a military coup, only a few officers were sympathetic, and they had no realistic hope of success because General Rene Snyder, the Army commander, was fiercely opposed to military influence in politics. A few san…
▶ 52:45
Ambassador Corey cabled his superiors in Washington. General Snyder would have to be neutralized by displacement if necessary. That's an actual quote. In late September, the Americans began to focus on Snyder as a key obstacle to their plan…
▶ 53:13
We know that this is a quote. We know this is a rhetorical question, but want to inspire thoughts on both ends on this matter, unquote. Yeah, they're just wanting to ask the president if he'll do a finding that they can do an assassination.…
▶ 55:32
It's that son of a vigilante. We're going to smash him. It's hard to believe that a president of the United States would even talk that way. But alas, here we are. Kissinger met with Tom Caramassini, the CIA director of covert operations, t…
▶ 57:56
The plot reached its climax two days later at two o'clock in the morning on a dead, quiet street. Colonel Paul Weimart, W-I-M-E-R-T, the U.S. military attaché in Santiago, delivered the weapons to Chilean conspirators aligned with Vioxx. Si…
▶ 58:24
A Jeep struck his chauffeur-driven car. Five men surrounded it. One smashed the rear window with a sledgehammer. Accounts differ on whether or not it was Snyder, but a pistol was drawn to defend himself, but his assailants opened fire using…
▶ 59:24
Quote, the station had done an excellent job of guiding Chileans to a point where a military solution is at least an option for them, was the response that came once they knocked Snyder off. The CIA planners in Washington cabled their Santi…
▶ 49:06
The CIA contacts encouraged certain Chilean officers to assassinate the commander of the Chilean Armed Forces, General Rene Snyder. This action created a backlash in Santiago, and Salvador Allende was confirmed as president two days later. …
▶ 25:20
Chilean commander, General Rene Snyder, a strict constitutionalist, had firm control and would permit no interference by the military in the politics. The parameter of action was quite narrow, as Heckscher saw them, while options were limit…
▶ 25:50
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…