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Parece que el gobierno de USA ha estado mas enterado
de la situacion de Chile desde hace mas tiempo del que
todos nosotros lo creiamos...el articulo que anexo, no
da muchas luces al asunto en question, pero demuestra
una vez mas el nivel de intenvencionismo que la
politica estadounidense ha tenido en el
continente.Tomado de: CNN.index
CIA's early knowledge of Pinochet terror disclosed in
secret documents
June 30, 1999
Web posted at: 7:29 PM EDT (2329 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA knew almost immediately
after Augusto Pinochet seized power in Chile that his
military regime engaged in "indiscriminate killings'
and other abuses to wipe out opposition, according to
documents declassified and made public Wednesday.
"The regime shows no sign of relenting in its
determination to deal swiftly and decisively with
dissidents," CIA field officers reported to
headquarters on Oct. 12, 1973, one month after the
coup that ousted Salvador Allende, a Marxist who had
been elected president. "The bloodshed goes on."
The only question, the agency reported to Washington,
was how many Chileans were killed, a figure Pinochet's
lieutenants kept as a carefully guarded secret.
Nevertheless, the Nixon administration continued to do
business with Pinochet's regime because of its staunch
anti-communist policies.
In Chile, Allende's widow, Hortensia Bussi, called the
declassification "a very important contribution to
establishing full truth."
"The participation of the United States in the coup
was decisive and its cooperation with the miltary
junta was very close," she said.
CIA reports from field operatives and regional
analysts are among the thousands of once-secret
documents culled from U.S. government files and made
public at the National Archives. The documents, dating
from immediately after the 1973 rightist coup that
propelled Pinochet to power, range from open criticism
of Pinochet to apologies for his policies.
They may bear more than historic interest.
The silver-haired general, 83, is in London facing
extradition to Spain where charges are pending of
human rights abuses by his regime against Spanish
citizens.
Minutes after archivists at noon Wednesday rolled out
a cart containing more than a dozen document boxes,
human rights activists were combing through the files
looking for information on missing and deported
persons and on the fate of foreigners killed in Chile
during the coup.
The civilian death toll stemming from government
repression during and after the coup probably reached
2,000 and may have ranged as high as 10,000, according
to the CIA, far higher than the 244 figure
acknowledged by Pinochet's military junta. A secret
CIA report dated Sept. 24, 1973, said official death
tolls were inaccurate because they reflected only
those people processed at hospitals. Others killed in
prisons or security sweeps were tallied by field
commanders. Only junta members were privy to the real
totals, according to the CIA.
"There will never be an accurate tally of the total
deaths," the agency reported. "The line between people
killed during attacks on security forces and those
captured and executed immediately has become
increasingly blurred."
Most of the State Department and CIA documents
expressed concern about human rights abuses in Chile
because of the political fodder the abuses provided to
the communist governments in Moscow and Havana.
But one CIA report circulated among Nixon
administration officials said the accusations against
the Pinochet regime were exaggerated and were
"traceable to a worldwide communist-orchestrated
campaign to discredit the junta."
Another document, a top-secret CIA report for senior
officials written in February 1975, said mistreatment
of political prisoners and other human rights abuses
in Chile were the work of the Directorate of National
Intelligence, a shadowy group answerable only to
Pinochet.
In secret profiles of Pinochet written solely for the
eyes of senior U.S. officials, the general emerges as
sensitive to criticism about abuses but unwilling to
soften his anti-leftist policies or to tolerate
peaceful opposition.
CIA documents note that other Chilean military
officers viewed Pinochet as a latecomer to the plot to
oust Allende. A later assessment depicts the general
as an energetic partygoer, geographer and horseback
rider who, in office, was unwilling to listen to
advice he did not like.
President Nixon's national security adviser, Henry
Kissinger, insisted in his book "The White House
Years" that the United States played no role in the
"conception, planning and execution" of the military
coup.
Previously declassified documents, however, show CIA
operatives working energetically with the coup
plotters before Allende's overthrow. The United States
initially viewed Pinochet as an ally, but relations
grew strained as reports of forced "disappearances"
and other atrocities during Pinochet's 17-year reign
gained world attention.
Human rights activists hope the records will shed
light the deaths of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi,
two Americans executed in Santiago after the coup, and
about a 1976 car bombing in Washington within a few
miles of the White House that killed Orlando Letelier,
a former Chilean ambassador opposed to Pinochet, and
Letelier's assistant, Ronni Moffitt, an American
citizen.
A U.S. investigation at the time concluded that the
conspiracy to kill Letelier involved eight people,
including the chief of Pinochet's secret police, but
not Pinochet himself.
--- Fernando Guzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Colext/Macondo
> Cantina virtual de los COLombianos en el EXTerior
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>
> Jorge Sanchez me ha enviado la siguiente correcci�n:
>
> # >Chile era una m�nima parte del actual en
> Colombia. Chile no ten�a ni
> # >guerrilla ni paramilitares. Solo ten�a un
> gobierno de izquierda,
> # >democr�ticamente elegido, con una agenda
> nacionalista que puso a
> # >temblar al gran capital.
> # snip...snip...
> # >Fernando Guzm�n
> # >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> # >
> #
> # Fernando solamente una aclaracion historica.
> Chile si tenia guerrilla.
> # El MIR era (es?) un movimiento guerrillero que
> estaba del lado dl
> # gobierno de la Unidad Popular. Cuando leia notas
> de septiembre 11, una
> # me llamo la atencio, que el gral Prats, que habia
> sido reemplazado unos
> # dias antes por el General Pinochet, se habia
> unido al MIR y que avanzaba
> # hacia Santiago... desde luego eran rumores...
> # El MIR fue perseguido sanguinariamente por la
> maquinaria militar de la
> # dictadura. La prosperidad chilena fue ficticia y
> la maquina productiva
> # parece que se esta deteniendo... Una vez mas, se
> ha organizado un
> # movimiento de Unidad Popular -con diferente
> nombre- que esta en condiciones
> # de reclamar constitucionalmente la presidencia de
> Chile.
> # Un saludo y gracias por la voz de cordura que has
> puesto y mantenido.. no es
> # facil...
> #
> # Jorge
>
> Gracias Jorge por la correcci�n. Yo estaba bajo la
> impresi�n de que
> el MIR se hab�a formado despu�s del golpe. La
> memoria nos juega malas
> pasadas :-( Ahora me quedan varias dudas, y no
> tengo ninguna
> referencia a la mano. Cu�ndo se form� el MIR? Hizo
> entrega de armas
> durante el gobierno de Allende?
>
> En fin, si alguien con mejor conocimiento nos puede
> refrescar la
> memoria al respecto, ser�a bueno. Tanto el asunto
> de dictadura
> militar que muchos piden para Colombia, como la
> gesti�n de Allende,
> que anda detenido en Inglaterra, son temas del
> momento. Carlos
> Vidales, est�s por ah�?
>
> --
> Fernando Guzm�n
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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