Augusto Pinochet person
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Augusto Pinochet created
DINA documented
“They had stopped all shipping. They were blockading. They had naval vessels off the shore. So there's a declaration of emergency that's declared. And then what happens? The CIA immediately calls him a dictatorship because he has to implemen…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner -Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 7 @ 34:42
Augusto Pinochet overthrew
Salvador Allende documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 39:10
Augusto Pinochet overthrew
Salvador Allende host_asserted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio in Chile @ 1:32:03
Augusto Pinochet overthrew
Salvador Allende documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part Part @ 1:24:58
Augusto Pinochet overthrew
Chile documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 38:01
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
J. Walter Thompson funded
Augusto Pinochet host_asserted
“was hired by the CIA-installed dictator in Chile, Pinochet, and his mission was to refurbish the image of the regime after it was discovered that he was mass murdering all of the Chileans, right? So same agency, same guy deployed.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - World Wildlife Fund - Africa- Erik Prince (Redo) @ 59:05
CIA installed
Augusto Pinochet documented
“Where? In Chile, where he became a top advisor to Dina and Pinochet. You know, where they had the colony of dignity and the terrorist training camps and the child pedophilia. Yeah, he was one of the top advisors as a Nazi to Pinochet, who w…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 5 @ 35:27
Augusto Pinochet trained
Chilean Special Operation Forces host_asserted
“some of whom had been trained by Pinochet and the School of Americas. He basically hired a whole bunch of the people that were doing the terror regime in Chile as contractors for Blackwater, just like the CIA hired the Cuban exiles as contr…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 11 @ 27:37
Augusto Pinochet member_of
School of the Americas host_asserted
“And just as a reminder, the coup that happened in Chile happened on September 11th, 1973, in which the CIA assassinated Salvador Allende, you know, because he was a quote-unquote communist, and installed General Pinochet into the presidency…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 3 @ 20:26
Fort Benning trained
Augusto Pinochet host_asserted
“training both ICE agents and border agents. And those are the same guys that trained Pinochet and all of the Somoza dictators in Latin America that went out and killed tens of thousands of their own citizens. They're all trained at the same…”
▶ Operation Gladio Vietnam Part 3 @ 38:53
Augusto Pinochet front_for
Freeport-McMoRan host_asserted
“Those corporate entities and those corporate elitists came to Washington, D.C., paid the CIA to set up a paramilitary operation to murder Allende and install their picked guy, which was Pinochet. Now, Pinochet is going to act like he's in c…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Viet Cong vs Viet Minh; Charlie @ 1:20:24
Augusto Pinochet front_for
PepsiCo host_asserted
“Those corporate entities and those corporate elitists came to Washington, D.C., paid the CIA to set up a paramilitary operation to murder Allende and install their picked guy, which was Pinochet. Now, Pinochet is going to act like he's in c…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Vietnam Viet Cong vs Viet Minh; Charlie @ 1:20:24
Opus Dei installed
Augusto Pinochet host_asserted
“In the aftermath of the coup, the Opus Dei crowd would be placed throughout Pinochet's government to operate in the repressive dictatorship to include being in charge. All of the people at the very top of their education system were all Opu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 40:15
Lothar Bossle supported
Augusto Pinochet host_asserted
“Bossel had acquired this post through personal invitation of none other than Franz Joseph Strauss. Bossel was a staunch supporter of Pentechet and an apologist for his dictatorship regime. And he described himself as a key contact person fo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 43:29
Dieter Blumenwitz supported
Augusto Pinochet host_asserted
“Another one of the democracy research think tank backers was an attorney, Dieter Blumenwitz, B-L-U-M-E-N-W-I-T-Z. He featured and was billed as an expert in international law. Blumenwitz was also a staunch backer of Pinochet's, the dictator…”
▶ The Colonels Corner, Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 4 @ 43:57
Augusto Pinochet covered_up
Salvador Allende book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 4:56
Augusto Pinochet overthrew
Chile host_asserted
“How did he know that? Because that's where the large majority of them went. That's where the colony of dignity was in Chile. That guy that created that was a Nazi too. Where the pedophiles all hung out and they turned it into a torture camp…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 1:04:02
Augusto Pinochet arrested_in
United Kingdom host_asserted
“Not like yesterday, but Italy is having one right now that deals with trying to hold accountable some of those South American governments. And they're turning up material that we've never seen before that related to the dictatorships of Pin…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Sweden @ 2:06:50
Stefano Delle Chiaie visited
Augusto Pinochet host_asserted
“The black prince from Italy paid them a visit. He was received by Pinochet himself. Delachey would go to work for Dina, which was the secret police that tortured and assassinated and kidnapped everybody in Chile. By the middle of the day, D…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 29:19
Julio Valerio Borghese visited
Augusto Pinochet host_asserted
“The black prince from Italy paid them a visit. He was received by Pinochet himself. Delachey would go to work for Dina, which was the secret police that tortured and assassinated and kidnapped everybody in Chile. By the middle of the day, D…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 29:19
Augusto Pinochet overthrew
Chile book_quoted
“Klein in particular singled out Chile, describing the Pinochet-led coup and the years that followed as a laboratory in which the shock doctrine was first deployed. She noted three stages that have been repeated over and over again by U.S.-b…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner-Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 6 @ 45:35
Augusto Pinochet assassinated
Salvador Allende host_asserted
“The American Rhodesia Association worked closely with the Information Office of the Rhodesian government. He also visited Chile and praised General Pinochet, you know, the guy that killed Allende. So this tells you everything about who this…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right Part 4 @ 40:02
Augusto Pinochet ordered_assassination_of
Orlando Letelier documented
“Ninth, 1973, three years later, in 1976, Pinochet reached directly into the U.S. to assassinate Chilean exile Orlando Ladier, who was the former ambassador to the U.S., in a car bomb, which also killed Ronnie Moffat, who was walking beside …”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 59:48
CIA installed
Augusto Pinochet book_quoted
“intelligence control officer. That meant that Klein and Shackley were fully aware of everything that Varsala was doing in his investigation of Pinochet down in Chile, the dictator that they had all installed there, and Pinochet's intelligen…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 21 @ 32:54
Augusto Pinochet assassinated
Salvador Allende host_asserted
“had um basically uh were able to get in the infantry crashed past them onto the ground floor by one account their commander shouted upstairs for alente to surrender and according to another peniche himself made the final demand by telephone…”
▶ Operation Gladio in Chile @ 1:28:27
Augusto Pinochet arrested_in
United Kingdom documented
“of the people massacred in South America, especially Chile, those people, because Pinochet ended up getting arrested in England for the murder of Italian and European citizens. And those, both in Spain and in Italy, they held court in absen…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Haiti @ 2:11:55
Augusto Pinochet ordered_assassination_of
Carlos Prats documented
“Charles Carlos Prats and his wife were gunned down in Buenos Aires in 1974, the guy who resigned after being intimidated that allowed Pinochet to run the army and affect the coup, because he was a witness. Nevertheless, Richard Helms was ob…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 1:00:12
Augusto Pinochet overthrew
Salvador Allende book_quoted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 36:47
Augusto Pinochet ordered_assassination_of
Alberto Bachelet book_quoted
“These are not peaceful protesters. They were bloodthirsty. Bachelet should have been able to relate to the woman who was crying in front of her. Long before her 2006 ascent to Chile's presidency, the U.S.-backed militia junta of Augusto Pin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 7:58
Augusto Pinochet ordered_assassination_of
Michelle Bachelet book_quoted
“kidnapped Michelle and her mother, subjecting them to torture as well, and forced them into exile in Australia. Now, this is the same woman who has been subjected to this torture through a U.S. regime change, who is now in charge of the U.N…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Corporate Coup Venezuela Part 12 @ 8:58
Augusto Pinochet overthrew
Salvador Allende documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 32:21
Augusto Pinochet succeeded
Carlos Prats book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 29:21
CIA funded
Augusto Pinochet host_asserted
“he was basically taking notes of the senior military people that were supportive of Allende and acting as if he's their best friend. And after the coup, he went and rounded them all up. And all of the wives who had entertained these people,…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 42:50
Augusto Pinochet assassinated
Salvador Allende host_asserted
“Prax resigned. He was succeeded by Pinochet, who led the military coup September 11, 1973, and became chief of the ruling junta. And Salvador, they basically stormed the presidential palace and murdered him, threw bombs in there.…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 56:00
Augusto Pinochet assassinated
Charles Higman documented
“immediately declared a state of siege and began a tremendous campaign of repression because he was a dictator who had been trained by the U.S. Army and CIA at the School of Americas in exactly how to torture, kidnap, and murder his own citi…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 58:49
Augusto Pinochet assassinated
Frank Teruggi documented
“immediately declared a state of siege and began a tremendous campaign of repression because he was a dictator who had been trained by the U.S. Army and CIA at the School of Americas in exactly how to torture, kidnap, and murder his own citi…”
▶ The Colonels corner president‘s secret wars, chapter 15 cont @ 58:49
Constantine Costa Gratsos worked_with
Augusto Pinochet book_quoted
“that Constantine Costagrazos, basically running this multi-billion dollar shipping magnet, and also an oil magnet, he planned an invasion into Haiti to take out Duvalier, the baby doc, not Papa Doc, but baby doc. And he's claiming that he n…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Grenada 1979-1984 @ 1:50:50
CIA supplied_arms_to
Augusto Pinochet book_quoted
“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…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 36 (38) @ 11:36
CIA trained
Augusto Pinochet host_asserted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio in Chile @ 1:20:48
Peter Kornbluh exposed
Augusto Pinochet guest_asserted
“He did – so at least according to – so this is Peter Kornbluh's book and sort of a review of the FOIA documents involved with Pinochet. But he did come out against the Pinochet regime. I think it's probably – it's probably because of the – …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup-Venezuela Part 2 @ 1:18:36
Augusto Pinochet assassinated
Salvador Allende book_quoted
“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…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Prelude to Terror Chap 5 @ 37:14
Henry Kissinger covered_up
Augusto Pinochet host_asserted
“Chile's intelligence service did get involved in terrorism, and it wound up culminating with the Orlando Letelier assassination in Washington, D.C., where their intelligence agents basically came and took out a diplomat from the Allende era…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Cocaine Death Squad & the War on Terror Part 2 @ 1:05:34
School of the Americas trained
Augusto Pinochet host_asserted
“and the ones across South America all graduated from the school. And so Congress secretively, quote unquote, closed the school there, but they didn't actually close the school. They just moved it to Fort Benning. And so they began bringing …”
▶ Operation Gladio and Iran, New Caledonia and other hot spots @ 1:40:29
Mentions (120)
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trained operatives in guerrilla tactics propaganda and assassinations with graduates like lee sing ming supplying weapons for italy's piazza fontana bombing and others advising pinochet's dinna in chile…
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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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Chile, and this is after, of course, Chile was devastated by Operation Gladio in the form of Pinochet. But the guy that owns Marine Harvest that's owned by John Fredrickson of Norway, like one of the richest guys in the whole world. And tha…
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several of them up to an abandoned military base in South Texas and taught them how to create explosives, not disarm explosives someone else created, but actually how to make explosives and blowing up cars. And when someone recognized, as M…
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several people in government that had questionable ties, Latimus abandoned his public offices and fled to Chile. And at the time, that's when Pinochet was in charge of Chile. So he went from one CIA operation to another. That's the short.…
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And what's interesting is he says that he worked for DIA, but he's involved with all of the CIA operations. DIA did not run Operation Gladio. I'm not saying they didn't know about it. They didn't run it. They certainly didn't run the covert…
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Two of those guys were used for the Watergate break-in. One of those guys was used, Allende from Chile, after he was murdered. One of his ambassadors, the ambassador to the U.S. from Chile, got trapped in the United States and obviously cou…
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quotations, USAID, quotations CIA, and quotations coup. And you're going to find, like the very first one that shows up, is CIA-backed Pinochet coup in Chile, sponsored by PepsiCo. Oh, what? Yeah. And you're going to find, oh, US staged a c…
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They got their property stolen. They lived in squalor. That's what was happening in Iran under the Shah. The Shah had a secret police force that was the same as Pinochet's Chile, as Peron in Argentina. The Sabah, there was one political par…
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in Guyana and there was terrorist training camps there, I go back and I look at this and I'm like, oh my God, it was staring me right in the face. And I want to point this other thing out, which is another pattern. So in the past, when you …
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that Constantine Costagrazos, basically running this multi-billion dollar shipping magnet, and also an oil magnet, he planned an invasion into Haiti to take out Duvalier, the baby doc, not Papa Doc, but baby doc. And he's claiming that he n…
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of the people massacred in South America, especially Chile, those people, because Pinochet ended up getting arrested in England for the murder of Italian and European citizens. And those, both in Spain and in Italy, they held court in absen…
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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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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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had um basically uh were able to get in the infantry crashed past them onto the ground floor by one account their commander shouted upstairs for alente to surrender and according to another peniche himself made the final demand by telephone…
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And when that failed and he got elected, they tried to buy the senators to not confirm his election because they have like a parliamentary system. And when that failed, they couldn't find enough to buy off. It was at that point that they sa…
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Um, they end up installing Suharto and of course Suharto goes on as did Pinochet and all of the rest of them and kills, you know, tens of thousands, um, if not millions, um, I mean, a ton of people die as a result of this. Um, and again, th…
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They were in Dallas when JFK was killed, whether or not they were the trigger pullers. They were there in order to divert attention from the OAS agents that were there from France that had been trained by Otto Skorzeny. You also have them b…
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Every single dictator that we installed, like Pinochet, killing tens, if not hundreds of thousands of their own citizens under the use of these death squads, all funded and created by the CIA and the World Anti-Communist League. Jimmy Carte…
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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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and for the Army intelligence, but also that he was reporting to his Army intelligence, hold on, reporting to his Army intelligence control everything that he was told by Wilson. That material, in turn, was being disseminated to Shackley an…
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Blood splattered walls all across the world. Before Dina and General Pinochet had finished what they had started, a murder for assassin rampage called Operation Condor, that we're all very familiar with here, blood would spill even on the s…
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The Condor assassinations began in October 1974 with General Carlos Prats, the former deputy chief of staff of the Chilean army, and his wife, Cora, who were killed in a car bombing in Buenos Aires, where the couple had lived in exile. In M…
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That allowed the CIA and the German BND to read every cable that was sent during Pinochet's government in Chile and in Paraguay. So the CIA not only knew about these fake passports because they were in the middle of making sure that it was …
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But you can imagine if Pinochet, who didn't know that we were spying on his encrypted machines, he is going to tell his ambassador in the United States that he's sending a hit team, whether it's encoded language or whatever, because this is…
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the the 1990s supposed you know shutting down of this entire um network because they continued to be used for things like that interesting um and there's so there's there's really no and you can't you just there's no one all one source um t…
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a U.S. citizen on the streets of downtown D.C. because she happened to be walking next to the former ambassador from Chile to the U.S. who got stuck here, by the way, because we killed President Allende in Chile. So he couldn't go back to C…
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The American Rhodesia Association worked closely with the Information Office of the Rhodesian government. He also visited Chile and praised General Pinochet, you know, the guy that killed Allende. So this tells you everything about who this…
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The Social Democrats carried through rapid and major improvements for the working class in the 1970s. Palm gained a certain international recognition in a way few other Swedish leaders could boast. From his criticism of some of the more con…
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Oh my gosh, he criticized Pinochet too. Yeah, that'll definitely get you killed. The heritage, because, you know, Pinochet was a mass murdering dictator. Who would want you not to talk about him? The heritage of POM was also an important pa…
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Not like yesterday, but Italy is having one right now that deals with trying to hold accountable some of those South American governments. And they're turning up material that we've never seen before that related to the dictatorships of Pin…
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You have to stay at the 30,000 foot look in order to see the patterns. They are all the same. They created the Bolshevikism, the Nazism to make us communism, to make us think they're all different. There's no different. It's the exact same …
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mandated under a 2004 mutual legal instrument, which the DOJ completely ignored. Another very interesting aspect to the entire situation has to do with Chile. Those of us who are Operation Gladio students know that Pinochet was installed as…
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He had already canceled elections in the South because he knew he would lose them because nobody liked him. But that's who we picked to be installed, kind of like Pinochet in Chile and all of these people that we picked to put in. There are…
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From what we were told were the quote-unquote bad guys in Chile, they get together, these guerrilla forces, because they're trying to get rid of Pinochet, who's a dictator that the CIA installed, and they murder this guy. I mean, they kidna…
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as guinea pigs to teach their national police force under the dictator Pinochet how to do the torture. Yeah, you know, it's really wild. And I kind of look back at, I don't know if you guys have seen the movie The Shooter with Mark Wahlberg…
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training both ICE agents and border agents. And those are the same guys that trained Pinochet and all of the Somoza dictators in Latin America that went out and killed tens of thousands of their own citizens. They're all trained at the same…
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They would kill everybody in the government before they give up their lifestyle. So the fascist allows the private ownership of a corporate elitist group of people. And that's why I say when you go into these countries, like in the aftermat…
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was Pinochet as the dictator. He got installed. He wasn't elected. He was installed. And who picked him? The international syndicate picked him. And the international syndicate was made up of PepsiCo, ITT, and the Freeport mining company th…
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Those corporate entities and those corporate elitists came to Washington, D.C., paid the CIA to set up a paramilitary operation to murder Allende and install their picked guy, which was Pinochet. Now, Pinochet is going to act like he's in c…
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was hired by the CIA-installed dictator in Chile, Pinochet, and his mission was to refurbish the image of the regime after it was discovered that he was mass murdering all of the Chileans, right? So same agency, same guy deployed.…
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Well, there was two different major mines there. One of them ended up through some acquisition belonging to Freeport Mining. But Anaconda was intimately involved in Chile, which, as we know, they were paying like their miners pennies on the…
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Chile's intelligence service did get involved in terrorism, and it wound up culminating with the Orlando Letelier assassination in Washington, D.C., where their intelligence agents basically came and took out a diplomat from the Allende era…
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These are not peaceful protesters. They were bloodthirsty. Bachelet should have been able to relate to the woman who was crying in front of her. Long before her 2006 ascent to Chile's presidency, the U.S.-backed militia junta of Augusto Pin…
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Among his three authors, none of whom set foot in Venezuela, was a lawyer named Francisco Cox Vial. Before he ventured into investigating, quote-unquote, human rights abuses in Venezuela, Cox worked as a defense attorney for Jovina Novia, a…
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He represented a high government official on the Pinochet's government. Francisco Cox Fiel is not a lawyer who qualifies as an expert in human rights. A Chilean sociologist wrote, arguing Cox's defense of people like Novia revealed him as a…
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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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He did – so at least according to – so this is Peter Kornbluh's book and sort of a review of the FOIA documents involved with Pinochet. But he did come out against the Pinochet regime. I think it's probably – it's probably because of the – …
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Sarkis gradually learned that the Bush administration was turning the Iran-Iraq war into a CIA operation. Carlos Cardion was, hold on just a second, and Carlos Cardion is from Chile. Remember the one that they overthrew and killed Allende a…
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It's not the countries that's doing it. It's us doing it to the country. I know what you mean. We go over there, overthrow the person they elected, like in Allende's case, call them a communist. And then basically the enslavement of their p…
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was replaced in Santiago by Ray Warren. Ambassador Corey was also replaced with Nathaniel Davis because these guys, they're about ready to install Pinochet, and these guys are the sadistic horror managers. Economic assistance was halted. US…
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Prax resigned. He was succeeded by Pinochet, who led the military coup September 11, 1973, and became chief of the ruling junta. And Salvador, they basically stormed the presidential palace and murdered him, threw bombs in there.…
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that Chile had Crypto AG. The U.S. military or the U.S. CIA knew every single thing that was being communicated in and out of Chile. They owned the telephone and telegraph companies and they knew every single thing going on inside of Chile.…
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Terugi, T-E-R-U-G-G-I, died at the hands of the Chilean military, along with the Chilean citizens, unofficially reported anywhere from 20,000 to 25,000, but there was a lot more. The U.S. government made little effort to seek explanations, …
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Ninth, 1973, three years later, in 1976, Pinochet reached directly into the U.S. to assassinate Chilean exile Orlando Ladier, who was the former ambassador to the U.S., in a car bomb, which also killed Ronnie Moffat, who was walking beside …
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You know, had basically take down a lot of the telephone service because that was being ran by ITT, blah, blah, blah. So their only hope when the arms, because now they killed that senior army guy and the only guy left is Pinochet and he's …
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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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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 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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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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blockade along the coast of Chile. There was immediate talk of loan credits and amounts and the necessity of getting that Chilean economy that we just destroyed back up and running. After what Nixon considered a decent interval, the U.S. re…
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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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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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All of them went to the officer's club. They all socialized over the weekend. And everybody in the senior ranks of the military was devastated that that guy had lived among them and turned out to be such a treasonous traitor. General Carlos…
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Prats knew a setup when he saw one. The general took his wife, frowned loyal officers at a nearby Air Force base, and flew to a point near the Argentine border and escaped to freedom. In Buenos Aires, Prats began to work on a memoir to tell…
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Dena supplemented the intelligence units of the three armed services and created a counter-espionage unit. All of them played a central role in Pinochet's repression. Contreras quickly established a foreign operation entity called the Briga…
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For a time, Prats enjoyed the protection of the Argentinian authorities, but in the summer of 1974, it was withdrawn. One night that September, explosives destroyed Prats' car as it entered the garage. Mrs. Prats burned to death. The genera…
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He would hunt them down like dogs. Augusta Pinochet proved acutely sensitive to charges of being an American puppet. And he accepted aid without bending to Washington's views. That's a lie. He was a Washington puppet. He was doing exactly w…
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of 1974, the New York Times counterpart, associates were told that their subsidies were going to end. At about the same time, the 40 Committee considered a proposal to fund the Christian Democrat Party. They're not going to have an election…
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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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to Chile on foreign threats. That's rich. They are the foreign threat to the Chilean people. A new station chief came. Stuart Burton went on picnics with Colonel Contreras and within a year had recruited him as a CIA source. In other words,…
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daily lives, the difference between having a Marxist government and Pinochet. No, I'm not going to do that right now. We'll do that when we get into Fabian's because we're going to talk about the difference between socialism and Marxism. So…
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Atkins had served in Santo Domingo and Pinochet's Chile. Well, that's interesting. So he's part of the DINA training and setting up the black sites and USAID's torture program. He then shows up as station chief in none other than Guyana. Is…
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You know, that U.S. Embassy to Rome, that's the same building that the CIA's Rome Station is in. That's the same building that James Angleton was running the Rome Station from, that Vernon Walters was running the Rome Station from, that Tom…
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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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in the form of torture and assassination, supplied a shock to what had been a free market. In essence, the techniques used by Pinochet and other dictators across Latin America so thoroughly traumatized the population that they were incapabl…
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Financial contributions has been crucial to efforts like Citizens United rulings. Eventually, Betsy DeVos would become the U.S. Secretary of Education under Trump. Beyond Prince and his family, there are other links between Blackwater and o…
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significant use out of the French OAS, their Operation Gladio people as well. What's more, the military officers from Chile who had been personally trained by OAS as well. So it's kind of like keeping it all in the family. As far as strateg…
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And just as a reminder, the coup that happened in Chile happened on September 11th, 1973, in which the CIA assassinated Salvador Allende, you know, because he was a quote-unquote communist, and installed General Pinochet into the presidency…
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He held that job as a military dictator until 1990. And he was in control of the Chilean armed forces until 1998. So he was in charge for a very long time. All of this happened both before in a very limited way, but it's going to ramp up on…
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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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The Pinochet regime seemed to have been attempting to make the entire nation as compliant and malleable as possible using the colony technique as a way forward. But was there something else in play that went beyond the U.S. intelligence com…
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the Pinochet coup. As a matter of fact, many people that's done the research believe it was part of the coup, like where it was basically a stay-behind unit in Chile where they stashed weapons. And then they would go on to create weapons ma…
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73 deaths, which we've covered before. Besides terrorism, many of the Condor partners were knee-deep in drug trafficking, because of course they were, because that's all part of Operation Gladio. The DINA, which was the special, cruel natio…
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In the aftermath of the coup, the Opus Dei crowd would be placed throughout Pinochet's government to operate in the repressive dictatorship to include being in charge. All of the people at the very top of their education system were all Opu…
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Bossel had acquired this post through personal invitation of none other than Franz Joseph Strauss. Bossel was a staunch supporter of Pentechet and an apologist for his dictatorship regime. And he described himself as a key contact person fo…
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Another one of the democracy research think tank backers was an attorney, Dieter Blumenwitz, B-L-U-M-E-N-W-I-T-Z. He featured and was billed as an expert in international law. Blumenwitz was also a staunch backer of Pinochet's, the dictator…
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as well as UK's National Front and Spain's fascist elements. Naturally, Belgium was represented by Front de la Journée. However, by the mid-1970s, Delachey was increasingly drawn to Latin America. Naturally, Penichet's Chile would call out …
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The black prince from Italy paid them a visit. He was received by Pinochet himself. Delachey would go to work for Dina, which was the secret police that tortured and assassinated and kidnapped everybody in Chile. By the middle of the day, D…
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but also from people like Dallashay, who was fairly high up in the network. And of course, they received funding from Strauss, who basically ran one aspect of it. While many of these contacts emerged after the Pinochet coup, it is important…
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an example and pretend that ITT didn't own the phone company. And let's just say that was another owner that was a patriot that didn't like the fact that Allende had been murdered and Pinochet had been installed. What Pinochet would do is a…
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Klein in particular singled out Chile, describing the Pinochet-led coup and the years that followed as a laboratory in which the shock doctrine was first deployed. She noted three stages that have been repeated over and over again by U.S.-b…
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as well as torture. One of the most shocking aspects of Pinochet's coup and subsequent military dictatorship was just how bloodless it was. Like they didn't do like Taiwan and they were like spearing people in the streets with bayonets. In …
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So after 17 years of a military dictatorship, if you take Penashe and contrast it with Argentina in their military dictatorship, they were markedly different, almost like they're experimenting on which one's going to give them the best bang…
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Over 10 years. After nearly two decades of power, Penashe had killed fewer of his own citizens than the Argentine military had in a single year. In 1976 alone, it was estimated that Argentine military had killed over 10,000 in just that one…
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A lot of this had to do with perception. The Argentine generals went to great lengths to depict themselves as moderates. Their coup was framed as a legitimate overthrow of a corrupt government. They received support from practically all maj…
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or dark glasses during the coup, and yet the brutality far exceeded anything seen under Pinochet. Despite this, Argentina's military rule did not so thoroughly traumatize the public to the extent that Pinochet did in Chile. Indeed, the grea…
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In the immediate aftermath of the coup, the political opponents were rounded up and interned in Chile's National Stadium, where they were publicly subjected to MK-Ultra-like techniques. Panache then dispatched one of his most trusted genera…
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In the weeks following the coup, it became common for dead bodies to start showing up, not just in highways, but also in canals just floating down the water. The colony itself acquired a kind of a mystical status as a final resting place fo…
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violent, Pinochet's was downright surgical. Pinochet recognized that limited violence used highly public fashion was devastating to a nation and thus murdering tens of thousands of people was not necessarily necessary. The same could be sai…
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with the regime. Again, the propaganda of the dead was a great value. Klein would continuously link these techniques back to the CIA, and she basically said that the author doesn't think that she was aware that Pinochet's methods were basic…
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He is one of those ambassadors that shows up whenever they're going to do a CIA coup. Chile, in the years prior to Pinochet's coup, was clearly being subjected to the strategy of tension, which of course is true. So was Italy. Chile, in the…
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And neighboring military dictatorships in Brazil and Bolivia actually helped Pinochet overthrow the government. Because, of course, the CIA is already there and is over through their government already. And it is a launching venue for other…
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They had stopped all shipping. They were blockading. They had naval vessels off the shore. So there's a declaration of emergency that's declared. And then what happens? The CIA immediately calls him a dictatorship because he has to implemen…
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At the heart of these disappearances was the colony dignity. Countless opponents of Pinochet's regime were tortured there, with more than a few losing their life. The horrors awaiting opponents of Pinochet at the colony would become legend …
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and the Nazis in general because they would have been part of the people that got these particular Nazis out of Nuremberg. During the 1950s, this alliance was first forged via the World Commerce Corporation, and by the time of the Pinochet …
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continued unabated, and with the reactionary drift both in the U.S. and the world as a whole, there were lessons to be learned by Pinochet's Chile and the colony. The trauma that was brought to society as a part of the strategy of tension h…
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How did he know that? Because that's where the large majority of them went. That's where the colony of dignity was in Chile. That guy that created that was a Nazi too. Where the pedophiles all hung out and they turned it into a torture camp…
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Where? In Chile, where he became a top advisor to Dina and Pinochet. You know, where they had the colony of dignity and the terrorist training camps and the child pedophilia. Yeah, he was one of the top advisors as a Nazi to Pinochet, who w…
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As has been confirmed in part of the CIA court record, the assassination of Lettier by MNC members and the Chilean intelligence agent, Michael Townley, was one of the series of crimes in which Cuban exile terrorists and Chilean officials, m…
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while Junta leader Peniche himself, according to U.S. documents, was personally responsible for the assassination. One of these shootings, that of former Chilean Christian Democrat leader Bernardo Leighton and his wife, who was left paralyz…