Reply #20: Yesterday's "Fresh Air" program is about the Chile coup

[scarletwoman]

Interview with Peter Kornbluh is the Tuesday, Sept. 9 program:

Peter Kornbluh is director of the National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project. He led the campaign to declassify official documents of the secret history of the United States government support for the Pinochet dictatorship. That information has now been collected in the new book, The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability. The book chronicles 20 years of policy in Chile from 1970 to 1990. This September 11th marks the 30th anniversary of the bloody coup that overthrew President Salvador Allende and led to the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

This is a MUST LISTEN! -- go to: http://freshair.npr.org/week_fa.jhtml -- right now it's under "current program" since today's interview with Paul Krugman (another must listen!) hasn't started yet.

Also on the program is Former CIA agent, Jack Devine -- so far, acting as something of an apologist for the CIA actions back then.

Jack Devine was stationed in Chile during the coup as part of the agency's Chile task force. He is now a crisis management consultant in New York with the firm The Arkin Group.

(hmmm... time to google Arkin Group, methinks...)

sw