White House Efforts to Blunt 1975 Church Committee Investigation into CIA Abuses Foreshadowed Exec

[Judi Lynn]

5. It took Chile's General Reny Schneider three days of suffering before he succombed

to the assassination attack made upon him for his loyalty to the elected leftist President of Chile, Salvador Allende.

It's probably music to the ears of the fascists who support killing all leftists and those others who believe in real democracy. What human being could ever not understand the desperate efforts by Schneider's family to seek justice for their beloved, and loyal husband and father?

Significant, and grotesque quote from Nixon's Secretary of State Kissinger, regarding Chile's election which place Salvador Allende in the Presidential Palace in Santiago:

Nothing But Human Rights
by Mickey Z.
August 16, 2001

(NB: This article was written just before September 11, 2001.)

As journalist William Blum notes, there’s one thing the United States hates more than a Marxist in power, and that’s a democratically elected Marxist in power. A prime example was Salvador Allende of Chile. September 4 marks 31 years since his election. September 11 marks 28 years since his death in a U.S.-sponsored coup.

“I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people.”
—Henry Kissinger, June 27, 1970

Salvador Allende, a physician by trade, first gained worldwide attention when he came within three percent of winning Chile’s 1958 presidential election. Six years later, the United States decided to no longer leave such elections to chance. It was time to introduce the Chilean people to democracy, American-style.

The U.S. government, mostly through the covert efforts of the Central Intelligence Agency, spent more money per capita to support Allende’s opponent, Eduardo Frei, than Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater combined to spend that same year in the American presidential election.

With an estimated $20 million of U.S. taxpayer money to work with, the CIA embarked on a program of anti-communist propaganda and disinformation designed to scare Chilean citizens — specifically mothers — into believing that an Allende victory would result in direct Russian control of their country and their lives. “No religious activity would be possible,” they were told. Their children, hammer and sickle stamped on their foreheads, would be shipped to the USSR to be used as slaves, the radio and newspapers direly warned.

More:
http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/events/kissinger-chile.shtml

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The assassinated loyal Chilean General Rene Schneider.



Kissinger with Chile's bloodthirsty, torture-loving Fascist General Augusto Pinochet.

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