Thursday, February 28, 2008

CIA ghosts and the Orlando Letelier assassination

I posted last December about The CIA and the assassinations of Orlando Letelier and Carlos Prats. Robert Perry tells the story of the Letelier assassination in When the Terrorists Were 'Our Guys' CorsortiumNews.com 02/22/08.

These assassinations were in significant part a consequence of one of the CIA's biggest success stories, the 1973 military coup in Chile. What the US as a country got for that success is pretty questionable. The left-leaning government of Socialist Party leader Salvador Allende was not a threat to the United States. It was quite an inconvenience to some American multinational corporations, though.

It's not entirely history, though. The United States is still winking at rightwing Cuban terrorists in the US, a habit that goes way back and which played a role in the US relations to Chilean agents of the Pinchet dictatorship.

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