Kerry, Kissinger and the Other Sept. 11
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Posted on Sep 11, 2013 - By Amy Goodman
As President Barack Obama’s attack on Syria
appears to have been delayed for the moment, it
is remarkable that Secretary of State John Kerry
was meeting, on Sept. 11, with one of his
predecessors, Henry Kissinger, reportedly to
discuss strategy on forthcoming negotiations on
Syria with Russian officials. The Kerry-Kissinger
meeting, and the public outcry against the
proposed attack on Syria to which both men are
publicly committed, should be viewed through the
lens of another Sept. 11 ... 1973.
On that day, 40 years ago, the democratically
elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende, was
violently overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup. Gen.
Augusto Pinochet took control and began a 17-year
dictatorial reign of terror, during which more
than 3,000 Chileans were murdered and
disappeared—about the same number killed on that
later, fateful 9/11, 2001. Allende, a socialist,
was immensely popular with his people. But his
policies were anathema to the elites of Chile and
the U.S., so President Richard Nixon and his
secretary of state and national-security adviser,
Henry Kissinger, supported efforts to overthrow him.
Kissinger’s role in plotting and supporting the
1973 coup in Chile becomes clearer as the years
pass and the documents emerge, documents that
Kissinger has personally fought hard to keep
secret. Peter Kornbluh of the nonprofit National
Security Archive has been uncovering the evidence
for years, and has recently updated his book,
“The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on
Atrocity and Accountability.” Kornbluh told me
that Kissinger was “the singular most important
figure in engineering a policy to overthrow
Allende and then, even more, to embrace Pinochet
and the human-rights violations that followed.”
He said that Kissinger “pushed Nixon forward to
as aggressive but covert a policy as possible to
make Allende fail, to destabilize Allende’s
ability to govern, to create what Kissinger called a coup climate.”
The Pinochet regime was violent, repressive and a
close ally of the United States. Pinochet formed
alliances with other military regimes in South
America, and they created “Operation Condor,” a
campaign of coordinated terror and assassinations
throughout Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay,
Bolivia and Brazil. Operation Condor even reached
onto the streets of Washington, D.C., when, on
Sep. 21, 1976, a former Chilean ambassador to the
U.S. during the Allende government, Orlando
Letelier, along with his assistant, a U.S.
citizen named Ronni Moffitt, were killed by a car
bomb planted by Pinochet’s secret police on
Embassy Row, just blocks from the White House.
Eventually, under increasing global condemnation
and growing internal, nonviolent resistance, the
Pinochet regime was forced to hold a plebiscite,
a national vote, on whether Pinochet would
continue as Chile’s dictator. With a resounding
“No!” the public rejected him, ushering in the
modern, democratic era in Chile.
At least two U.S. citizens were murdered during
the 1973 coup. Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi
were in Chile to observe the democratic
experience there, working as writers and
journalists. Their abduction and murder by
Pinochet’s forces, with the likely collaboration
by the U.S. government, is depicted movingly in
the 1982 Oscar-winning film “Missing,” directed
by Costa Gavras, starring Jack Lemmon and Sissy
Spacek. On the week of the coup’s 40th
anniversary, Charles Horman’s widow, Joyce
Horman, held a commemoration. The event, hosted
in New York City by the Charles Horman Truth
Foundation, attracted hundreds, many who were
personally involved with the Allende government
or who were forced into exile from Chile during those terrible years.
Among those in attendance was Juan Garces, a
Spanish citizen who was President Allende’s
closest adviser. Garces was with Allende in the
presidential palace on Sept. 11, 1973. Just
before the palace was bombed by the air force,
Allende led Garces to the door of the palace and
told him to go out and tell the world what had happened that day.
Allende died during the coup. Garces narrowly
escaped Chile with his life. He led the global
legal pursuit of Pinochet, finally securing his
arrest in Britain in 1998, where Pinochet was
held for 504 days. While Pinochet was eventually
allowed to return to Chile, he was later indicted
there and, facing trial and prison, died under
house arrest in 2006, at the age of 91.
Today, Garces sees alarming similarities between
the repression in Chile and U.S. policies today:
“You have extraordinary renditions. You have
extrajudicial killings. You have secret centers
of detentions. I am very concerned that those
methods ... were applied in Chile with the
knowledge and the backing of the Nixon-Kissinger
administration in this period. The same methods
are being applied now in many countries with the
backing of the United States. That is very dangerous for everyone.”
Rather than meeting with Kissinger for advice,
John Kerry would better serve the cause of peace
by consulting with those like Garces who have
spent their lives pursuing peace. The only reason
Henry Kissinger should be pursued is to be held
accountable, like Pinochet, in a court of law.
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