1973 Chilean coup d'état event
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Frank Church exposed
1973 Chilean coup d'état host_asserted
“uh senator church was um how he basically exposed everything from watergate to um guatemala yep uh to number of issues surrounding the bay of pigs the assassination attempts on castro to um i i i think he he helped expose um the chilean cou…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 1:10:09
Cecilia Falcon carried_out_attack
1973 Chilean coup d'état book_quoted
“CIA Cuban exiles for guerrilla activity against Cuba. Yes, that type of Cuban exile. Our own Gladio. He also said that he had worked in Chile against the government during the coup in 1973 of Salvador Allende. Those are his words reported i…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 43:44
Aginter Press carried_out_attack
1973 Chilean coup d'état book_quoted
“Agenter Press Italian correspondent Stefano Dallasche, both Agenter Press and the Townsleys had collaborated in the 1973 Chilean coup group that was paid for by the CIA, while Dallasche and his friend, the Italian fascist Prince Valero Borg…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Great Heroin Coup Part 1 @ 1:04:27
Henry Kissinger covered_up
1973 Chilean coup d'état book_quoted
“including within the Washington Special Action Group, which was a bold-faced lie. He also told him that the CIA had absolutely nothing to do with the coup and that he knew nothing about the Chilean activities of the CIA-backed labor unit, w…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 34:47
CIA funded
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“minus the tens of millions of dollars that you threw out to create it, and all the people you put in theater to orchestrate it, and the fact that you assassinated the head of the army and planned to get the other one to resign. Yeah, other …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 36:24
Gerald Ford covered_up
1973 Chilean coup d'état documented
“was bought and paid for by the CIA. Ford carefully denied involvement in the coup. He characterized covert action as necessary to help prevent foreign policy and to protect national security. Again, a bold-faced lie. He justified them on th…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 19:28
Richard Nixon overthrew
1973 Chilean coup d'état host_asserted
“the copper mining interest in Chile, and PepsiCo, who also had a huge investment in Chile, and ITT, which owned the telephone companies down there. And he authorized the overthrow of the Allende government. And we were all lied to and told …”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 58:20
Richard M. Bissell Jr. carried_out_attack
1973 Chilean coup d'état book_quoted
“and overthrow the government. The State Department, the Department of Commerce, all of them went to war with Chile. They just never told the American people. Shackley's Western Division orchestrated with the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Ag…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 36:16
1973 Chilean coup d'état brought_to_power
Augusto Pinochet book_quoted
“or an economic crisis that was imposed from outside. Though in many instances, the crises of both kind were deliberately created. In particular, Klein singled out the 1973 coup in Chile, which brought Pinochet to power as one of the earlies…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 10 @ 31:40
PepsiCo funded
1973 Chilean coup d'état host_asserted
“the copper mining interest in Chile, and PepsiCo, who also had a huge investment in Chile, and ITT, which owned the telephone companies down there. And he authorized the overthrow of the Allende government. And we were all lied to and told …”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 58:20
Anaconda Mining funded
1973 Chilean coup d'état host_asserted
“the copper mining interest in Chile, and PepsiCo, who also had a huge investment in Chile, and ITT, which owned the telephone companies down there. And he authorized the overthrow of the Allende government. And we were all lied to and told …”
▶ Coyote of Wallstreet - 'THE FALSE FLAG DEFINITION' w Colonel Towner on the DC Shooting 2025-05-25 @ 58:20
George H.W. Bush covered_up
1973 Chilean coup d'état host_asserted
“As CIA director, Bush resisted Justice Department demands to turn over material pertaining to Chile and ITT. The evidence necessary for a determination on whether to prosecute Richard Helms. So, that endeared Bush, right? Long-term CIA oper…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 39 (41) @ 26:19
Aginter Press carried_out_attack
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“Naturally, Agencia assets would turn up in Chile in the coup in 1973 as well. After Agencia Press was shut down in 1974 by Portuguese authorities following a coup that toppled the fascist dictator, many of the assets moved to South America …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Strange Tales of the ParaPolitical Part 5 @ 41:46
Richard Nixon ordered_assassination_of
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“Since I flushed out the whole Nixon being paid off to run the Chilean coup when we covered that in Chile and death. Now I've got a much firmer grip on all of the stuff associated with Operation Gladio and Nixon as president, because I alrea…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Twentieth Century Fund @ 1:14:14
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the copper mining interest in Chile, and PepsiCo, who also had a huge investment in Chile, and ITT, which owned the telephone companies down there. And he authorized the overthrow of the Allende government. And we were all lied to and told …
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through fascist dictators via the CIA, a lot of the countries in this network in South America. In 1971, Chile has their coup, and the School of America's graduate, General Penashe, is installed as the dictator. He kills tens of thousands o…
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And this is what I say to everybody when they ask my opinion on that particular topic. If you go back to things that we've already researched, like the Chilean election where they murdered the head of the army to create chaos in the lead up…
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You can go over there and find media that is owned by the same people in the United States. The same was true in Chile. Allende never shut down the media. As a matter of fact, the biggest media in Chile during the CIA coup that was orchestr…
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was overthrown in 1973, and that's when we get the first Republic of Afghanistan. Now, in 1973, which is kind of where I wanted to start this, because this is very interesting, the king…
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was basically they basically had a revolution and um the king went into exile and the guy that come out on top was um uh diod khan d-a-o-u-d and his last name is k-h-a-n so khan…
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basically led his forces into Kabul. And he had basically his senior general was named Abdul Karim Mostagni. And they basically overthrew the monarchy while the monarchy was…
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recuperating from some medical issues in Italy. So Khan was assisted by a whole bunch of people that was inside the king's military. And there's a lot of controversy as to whether or not this was actually…
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A CIA enabled coup because of the education that had been provided to the people that were in charge of or orchestrated the coup. So I have not formed an opinion on that one yet.…
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So basically, that ended about two centuries of empire-type leadership in Afghanistan. So about five years later, after the original coup in 73, there was another coup in which Khan was overthrown. Only this time,…
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The guys sitting in Afghanistan of the same religion are freedom fighters for Ronald Reagan as he's coming into office. But the guys next door are our enemy because they're holding our Americans captive in the embassy. So just so that you c…
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And when it was exposed in 2020, every single operation, every false flag, every where we were blaming another country, the Chilean coup, Nicaragua, the Contras, all of the Latin American countries had crypto AG. So the entire time that we'…
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worked at ITT before he joined the CIA and became the CIA director in 1961 to 65. And then he goes back and he becomes the chairman of ITT. And he's the guy who's referenced by Jack Anderson, you know, is trying to plot the Chilean coup, yo…
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And he called his conviction a badge of honor. When Nixon was sworn in for his second term as president in 73, his campaign against Alente was reaching a crescendo. Chilean military commanders prepared to step in and strike the final blow. …
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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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Only way to remove Pratt's would appear to be abduction or assassination, unquote, CIA agents in Santiago reported in a cable to Langley. Allante is a desperate attempt to head off the inevitable. Had begun saying military commanders in his…
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General Prats was so shaken, he asked his fellow generals for a vote of confidence. When they refused, he had no alternative but to resign. He recommended that President Alente name his deputy to replace him, and Alente followed his advice.…
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whom the CIA, according to reports, already knew to be a friend. Penashe previously, this is a quote, Penashe, previously the strict constitutionalist, reluctantly admitted to harboring second thoughts that Alente must be forced to step dow…
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And while in Panama, talked with the more junior U.S. officers he knew from the days of School of Americas, which is where he was trained, and was told U.S. will support the coup against Alente in whatever means necessary when the time come…
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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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and you'll never guess what date the coup attempt was initiated on. September 11th, Devine wrote a cable. All three branches of the armed forces and the carabinieri are involved in this action. A declaration will be read on the radio on Sep…
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And so at a birthday party for General Pinochet's younger daughter on September 9th, Chilean officers made their final decision to strike Alente. And Pinochet took one of his guests, another general that was in charge of the Air Force, to a…
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Allente spent these frantic days working on a proposal to call for a national peace. And basically, he gets told on September 11th that what's going on. And it was said that the coup proceeded methodically, just as Pinochet had predicted. S…
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Well, it's not a matter of proving. It's already been proven. The documents are all out there. They've had Senate testimony on all of this. This is a proven fact. This happened. We overthrew the government. What I'm trying to do, number one…
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and his first name is spelled E-R-I-C-H. With Von Marbad's endorsement, Shackley, fresh from Vietnam, was assigned to pick up the pieces of the coup plotting in the Directorate of Plans. Shackley worked in Operation Mongoose, made him the p…
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that he had recruited for Operation Mongoose. Shackley's team was being ready for a new effort to overthrow the Chilean government. On September 12, 1973, half a year after Helms left, although, let's see, Allende's economy was collapsing. …
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and overthrow the government. The State Department, the Department of Commerce, all of them went to war with Chile. They just never told the American people. Shackley's Western Division orchestrated with the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Ag…
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And of course, we know him as Pinochet, who ends up in charge of Chile after they overthrow the government. Allende was so badly fooled that on the morning of the coup, he told supporters that Pinochet, his Masonic brother, would save the p…
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the author says, shot himself, but he did not. He was murdered. What came next in a military dictatorship that engaged in every form of torture, the CIA helped train Pinochet's secret police, the dreaded DINA, D-I-N-A, and suggested that DI…
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been investigating Helms' line to the Senate about the CIA's involvement in the coup in Chile. It was threatening the future of both Shackley and Helms and would have also exposed the Safari Club. Adam did not rely simply on money to carry …
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of the international syndicate. It is how they get shit done without it being attributed to them. So the best example is what happened in Chile. So you have the international syndicate made up of ITT, which was an international conglomerate…
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Since I flushed out the whole Nixon being paid off to run the Chilean coup when we covered that in Chile and death. Now I've got a much firmer grip on all of the stuff associated with Operation Gladio and Nixon as president, because I alrea…
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Left shattered on the floor of his office on September 11, 1973, after the U.S.-backed military forces stormed the presidential palace in Santiago and overthrew his government. Allende died from gunshot wounds that, of course, Pinochet goes…
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God, that's where they're setting up all of the counterinsurgency shit that they're going to use all over to include the continuation of the attacks on Cuba. All launched out of Guatemala. So he's there for that. And then, really weirdly, i…
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uh senator church was um how he basically exposed everything from watergate to um guatemala yep uh to number of issues surrounding the bay of pigs the assassination attempts on castro to um i i i think he he helped expose um the chilean cou…
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Funds for the Chilean military, on the other hand, were continued and increased because they're using the military under Pinochet to foment the upcoming overthrow of the government. As Chile's economic problems worsened, the CIA sting was i…
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whisperings of restiveness in the Chilean military and it tried to lay out the criteria to use in discussing the mechanics of a coup. Chilean stations penetration of the military had grown so deep that the division deputy Jim Flannery on De…
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the 40 committee's approval to proceed ahead with the coup. The station, Flannery cabled, should report history, not make it. Ambassador Davis had to exercise vigilance over CIA initiatives. Despite the country team concept, the constant Wh…
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His worst moment with Ray Warren came over the subsidizing when CIA started routing cash through a Chilean politician and Warren refused to tell the ambassador who it was. In a highly charged discussion, Davis told Warren that he would not …
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The next day, the CIA officer told the ambassador who it was. President Allende inevitably was making mistakes because, of course, he doesn't know there's an actual coup being plotted against him. He proceeded with plans to nationalize seve…
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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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had a good line on the general, meaning they had already established a relationship. By September of 72, Pinochet had expressed the view that Allende had lost his ability to lead. The general served as army chief of staff, and after Pratt's…
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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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Devine called home and was told in cryptic terms that a source about to leave the country to avoid a coup said it would happen on September 11th. So his wife is finding out when the planned coup is. By evening, Devine had confirmed the tip …
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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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Officers staffed the lookout and an open phone line. General Pinochet led the coup and became the chief of the junta that wrestled control from the Chilean government. By mid-afternoon, it was over. La Monande was bombed and attacked during…
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The president said, quote, our hand doesn't show on this one, though, unquote. The national security advisor, careful as ever, said, quote, we didn't do it. I mean, we helped them, created the conditions as great as possible, unquote. The n…
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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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that the administration had decided not to rush into action until they did. The occasion for Kissinger's statement had been his confirmation hearing for his promotion to the new Secretary of State. The National Security Advisor testified at…
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Kissinger told the senators that he had said to Ambassador Davis some days before in discussing reports of coup plotting, quote, just make sure none of our embassy personnel has anything to do directly or indirectly with any of the plotters…
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minus the tens of millions of dollars that you threw out to create it, and all the people you put in theater to orchestrate it, and the fact that you assassinated the head of the army and planned to get the other one to resign. Yeah, other …
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American attaches were in the field with Chilean units. Several naval vessels were off the coast for a naval exercise during the coup. They were actually blockading. There was also at least one report of a Navy SEAL team landing in Chile. T…
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would have been impossible unless they knew it was happening. As Kissinger spoke to the senators, anti-American protesters were demonstrating in Argentina to protest what everybody in South America knew to be the U.S.'s involvement in the c…
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The Pinochet-Hunta immediately declared a state of siege and began widespread repression. It justified these actions by alleging that the military had acted to forestall a leftist coup. What? Mass arrests were immediate. They swept up anybo…
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Pinochet, under the old order, begged him for the return of their husbands. One of the women, Isabelle Morel de Ladiere, wife of the former defense minister Orlando Ladiere, would see her husband again. Orlando came back almost exactly a ye…
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would be brokenhearted. Her husband, former Interior and Defense Minister Jose Toha, perished in captivity. In the summer of 1975, almost two years after the coup, nearly half of the original prisoners on Dawson Island were still in captivi…
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As CIA director, Bush resisted Justice Department demands to turn over material pertaining to Chile and ITT. The evidence necessary for a determination on whether to prosecute Richard Helms. So, that endeared Bush, right? Long-term CIA oper…
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The chief of station in Honduras capital would observe the CIA operators, but the Nicaraguan ops group was in charge. Still, the chief spent a great deal of time with the Contras in the Honduran capital. It was an all hands on deck moment. …
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or an economic crisis that was imposed from outside. Though in many instances, the crises of both kind were deliberately created. In particular, Klein singled out the 1973 coup in Chile, which brought Pinochet to power as one of the earlies…
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as part of MKUltra, was very similar to other programs, and they were used as a basis for regime change in the U.S. intelligence community over the years, and that these methods first merged fully under the coup that happened in Chile. Pino…
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because of the gross nature of the violence that was wrecked on the civilian population, which left them shell-shocked and with little resistance. Because remember, if you guys remember the whole Chilean coup, they had decapitated the army,…
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Naturally, Agencia assets would turn up in Chile in the coup in 1973 as well. After Agencia Press was shut down in 1974 by Portuguese authorities following a coup that toppled the fascist dictator, many of the assets moved to South America …
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Yes, we found the National Lawyers Guild in multiple operations as well. I think I've posted your Albert Einstein post from 10 hours ago to the nest. Yeah. The other thing that I put up that's based on my more rudimentary understanding of t…
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There's an entire team that seems to be very well connected that are working real time on social media, providing us with information. And to your point, going back to the Pinochet CIA coup of Allende, if you recall, when we studied that on…
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men whom one of his children described as a bandito. Sierra, who frequently packed his own gun, even when taking his young granddaughter to the zoo, continued to travel widely well into the 1970s, including to Chile, where he briefly reloca…
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by IT&T Corporation to basically get the DOJ to let go of their monopoly charges against them, number one. And number two, to get involved with the Chilean coup. They're trying to lobby the CIA to overthrow Allende. Through Nixon. You know,…
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with this coup attempt from 70 to 73. Yes. Perfectly said. Let's see. Jeff, go ahead. Hey, Colonel. Good afternoon. I did not want to change the subject because that's one of my favorites, speaking about the old intelligence operation with …
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CIA Cuban exiles for guerrilla activity against Cuba. Yes, that type of Cuban exile. Our own Gladio. He also said that he had worked in Chile against the government during the coup in 1973 of Salvador Allende. Those are his words reported i…
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Agenter Press Italian correspondent Stefano Dallasche, both Agenter Press and the Townsleys had collaborated in the 1973 Chilean coup group that was paid for by the CIA, while Dallasche and his friend, the Italian fascist Prince Valero Borg…
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as the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, headed at the time by none other than David Phillips. Incidentally, he headed the CIA's Latin America Covert Action Department at the time of the September 11, 1973 Chilean coup. He was in…
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Our country is going to get destroyed by Trump and only the military is going to be able to save it. There's been several Democrat congressional members that are now up to step three of this orchestrated coup. And that implies to me, based …
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Like in the case of Chile, where they assassinated the one general that wouldn't go along and got a couple of other generals out of the way in order for Pinochet to move up and be that general that's going to lead the revolt against Salvado…
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A continuing concern with communist subversion, she writes about in the 1970s, which led to her defending the regime of General Penashe in Chile was combined with denunciation of international terrorism and a vibrant defense of Israel. So a…
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That then gives her the justification to support Penichet as the savior from communists, even though he goes on to slaughter tens of thousands of his own people. In terms of Le Ben's reputation and influence, the first thing to bear in mind…
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grouped under Operation Condor, naming Ted Shackley, implicated in terror operations in Southeast Asia and Latin America, including the Vietnam's Phoenix program and the 73 coup against Chile's Salvador Allende, the agency's powerful associ…
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We are talking about the Chilean coup, and we're going to start there. Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, chief of naval operations in the first Nixon administration, retired believing that the manner in which Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger conducted…
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affirming Helms' original declaration. That begged the question of the agency's role in the destabilization. Another hand grenade had been put in the basket. Through the summer of 73, Washington boiled over, even as the Chilean trucker stri…
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A dozen more CIA briefings on Chile took place between March 73 and December of the next year. Bill Colby, now DCI in his own right, sat in the hot seat on October 11, 1973 to deny the House committee that the CIA had any role in the strike…
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was bought and paid for by the CIA. Ford carefully denied involvement in the coup. He characterized covert action as necessary to help prevent foreign policy and to protect national security. Again, a bold-faced lie. He justified them on th…
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and a $2,000 fine. Another Chile hand grenade had exploded. In 1974, the atmosphere became superheated. Late in October, radio broadcaster Daniel Score of CBS reported that State had opposed the Chilean intervention, citing Ray Klein, which…