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catman
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 Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 2:36 pm Post subject: Kissinger Rescinded Warning Against Condor Assassinations |
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Five days before the assassination in downtown Washington of former Chilean Defence Minister Orlando Letelier, then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger rescinded instructions to U.S. ambassadors in Latin America's Southern Cone to warn the region's military regimes against carrying out "a series of international murders", according to documents released by the National Security Archive (NSA) here.
Kissinger "has instructed that no further action be taken on this matter", reads a declassified Sep. 16, 1976 cable sent by Kissinger's office from Zambia, where he was travelling at the time, to his assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, Harry Shlaudeman.
The "matter" in question concerned instructions sent under Kissinger's name to U.S. ambassadors to Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay Aug. 23, 1976, to make a formal demarche to the leaders of their host governments regarding Washington's "deep concern" about reports it had received of "plans for the assassination of subversives, politicians and prominent figures both within the national borders of certain Southern Cone countries and abroad".
The Aug. 23 cable ordered the ambassadors to warn to the highest possible officials that such plans - part of a secret, Chilean-led intelligence collaboration among the Southern Cone's military regimes known as Operation Condor - would "create a most serious moral and political problem".
When Washington's ambassador in Montevideo, Ernest Siracusa, balked at the directive, Shlaudeman explained to Kissinger in a memo one week later that the instructions were designed "to head off ...a series of international murders that could do serious damage to the international status and reputation of the countries involved".
Kissinger's Sep. 16 cable, which, along with the others, are posted at the NSA's website, fills in some key gaps in the chain of events leading up to the car bomb assassination of Letelier and a colleague, Ronni Karpen Moffitt, while they were driving to work at the Institute for Policy Studies less than two kilometres from the White House Sep. 21, 1976.
Until the 9/11 al Qaeda attack on the Pentagon, the assassination, which was carried out by agents of the regime of Chilean President Augusto Pinochet, was the most serious act of international terrorism committed in the U.S. capital.
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I guess the dirty hippies were right. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Was Kissinger aware that one of the assassinations was likely to take place in D.C.? If so, he was pretty much giving the thumbs-up to terrorist operations on American soil. And car-bombings at that. |
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catman
Joined: 18 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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| One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Was Kissinger aware that one of the assassinations was likely to take place in D.C.? If so, he was pretty much giving the thumbs-up to terrorist operations on American soil. And car-bombings at that. |
During the cold war Kissinger and others knowingly and willingly sponsored terrorism and mass killings, especially in Latin America. I remember when I meet Ed Meese, Reagan's attorney general, and asked him about Iran-Contra he told me that the Contra's were "freedom fighters". |
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bacasper
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| Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Leon wrote: |
| On the other hand wrote: |
| Was Kissinger aware that one of the assassinations was likely to take place in D.C.? If so, he was pretty much giving the thumbs-up to terrorist operations on American soil. And car-bombings at that. |
During the cold war Kissinger and others knowingly and willingly sponsored terrorism and mass killings, especially in Latin America. I remember when I meet Ed Meese, Reagan's attorney general, and asked him about Iran-Contra he told me that the Contra's were "freedom fighters". |
I'll never forget when I saw the protest placard: "Meese is a pig!"
It was such an insult to the pig.  |
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