Miners out of the dark, and into the limelight
Rescued Chilean miners safeguarding details of odyssey
Sorry, readers; I didn't have any light to read those articles.
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Also down the media memory hole:
"William Broe, 97; oversaw CIA efforts to oust Allende" by Washington Post | October 31, 2010
WASHINGTON — William V. Broe, 97, a CIA officer who rose to become chief of operations in the Western Hemisphere and oversaw the agency’s covert missions to destabilize the government of Salvador Allende, Chile’s Marxist president, died of congestive heart failure Sept. 28 at a nursing home in Hingham, Mass. He was a resident of North Scituate.
Mr. Broe was an FBI special agent before joining the fledgling CIA in 1948. He held many assignments in the Far East as he worked his way up the organizational ranks. He was station chief in Toyko before becoming chief of the Western Hemisphere division in 1965.
He held that job for seven years, during which time the division conducted clandestine operations in South America. Many of its efforts were a response to government concerns about the possible spread of communism and Soviet influence.
In March 1973, Mr. Broe made headlines after his “unprecedented’’ appearance before Senate investigators looking into CIA activities in South America. Specifically, the investigators were interested in the agency’s alleged collaboration with International Telephone and Telegraph to interfere in Chilean political affairs.
ITT had worked actively against Allende’s election in 1970, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund political opposition.
Your tax dollars at work, America.
Once Allende was in power, the conglomerate feared its business interests in Chile would be nationalized....
Mr. Broe, ITT chief executive Harold Geneen, and senior vice president Edward Gerrity discussed employing a coordinated plan between the telecommunications conglomerate and the spy agency to create fiscal instability in Chile....
One could almost say a "conspiracy."
Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst at the National Security Archive at George Washington University and author of a 2003 book on Chile called “The Pinochet File,’’ said in an interview that the CIA’s connection and collaboration with ITT was one of the spy agency’s biggest blunders because it set in motion the use of corporate money to aid covert US foreign policy....
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It really is a CIA paper.
FLASHBACK:
It's the 9/11 before there was THE 9/11 (AmeriKa is becoming more like Israel; Their holocaust is THE ONLY holocaust, and Americans think their 9/11 is the only 9/11)!!!
Oh, right, this was ANOTHER AMERIKAN-SPONSORED OPERATION, brought to you by that war criminal Kissinger!!!!
Photos only from the Glob:
Demonstrators run away from police water cannons during a protest marking the 1973 military coup in Santiago September 13, 2009. September 11, 2009 marked the 36th anniversary of the coup d'etat in Chile that ushered in a 17-year dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet. (REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado)
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Riot police officers detained a demonstrator during a march Sunday over the 36th anniversary of the 1973 military coup against Chile’s late President Salvador Allende. Hundreds of hooded protesters set bonfires and blocked streets on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile. State television reported one death. (Santiago Llanquin/Associated Press)
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Related:
"Cable ties Kissinger to Chile controversy" by Pete Yost, Associated Press Writer | April 10, 2010
WASHINGTON --As secretary of state, Henry Kissinger canceled a U.S. warning against carrying out international political assassinations that was to have gone to Chile and two neighboring nations just days before a former ambassador was killed by Chilean agents on Washington's Embassy Row in 1976, a newly released State Department cable shows.
Whether Kissinger played a role in blocking the delivery of the warning against assassination to the governments of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay has long been a topic of controversy.
Discovered in recent weeks by the National Security Archive, a non-profit research organization, the Sept. 16, 1976 cable is among tens of thousands of declassified State Department documents recently made available to the public.
In 1976, the South American nations of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay were engaged in a program of repression code-named Operation Condor that targeted those governments' political opponents throughout Latin America, Europe and even the United States.
A CIA PROGRAM, readers!!
Based on information from the CIA, the U.S. State Department became concerned that Condor included plans for political assassination around the world....
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What do you mean the WEB VERSION CHOPPED IT, dear readers?
That's CENSORSHIP!!
