Coop Scoop: More Kissinger-Pinochet Files
Henry greenlighted Pinochet's terror campign. In person.
July 12, 2022
By Marc Cooper
Call me old fashioned but I just am not alarmed by what some off-the-rail journos are now moaning about when it comes to “internet censorship.” Like it is the most important issue in the world. AYFKM? They overstate it and they overstate it’s importance and good luck to them. They’re stumbling around somewhere in Musk World and Musk is continuing to Circle The Drain.
I’m old fashioned because instead of fearing that the CDC or for that matter, the FBI, might have been looking at my tweets (I don’t really do Twitter), while in the midst of both a global health emergency killing thousands a day and the emergence of a domestic fascist movement, I am crazy enough to think that the abuse of armed state power by a superpower against a small democratic nation is of, um, some much greater importance. (See P.S. below)
About 10 days ago Truthdig.com published Part 1 of my interview with Peter Kornbluh, the most trusted researcher/historian on the CIA/Kissinger in Chile that we have. Humbly, it’s great, Because of Peter. I’m just the facilitator.
Link to Part 1.
I am happy to inform you that the really really dramatic and really really sordid deets of Kissinger embracing and supporting Pinochet, precisely as the dictator was preparing to murder Orlando Letelier in Washington DC, can now be read in Part Two just published.
Link to Part II.
Part Two also contains the details on how Ronald Reagan who loved Pinochet was hemmed in by his advisors in the mid to late 80’s who successfully argued that Pinochet was too much of a liability. So the role the Reagan admin played in helping to oust him, after all we helped install him, came about. Who’d have thought? Peter and I also touch upon what role, if any, the US government played in the murder of my American friend Charlie Horman in the first days of the dictatorship.
These two pieces together are very long. Almost booklet length at approx 20k words total. There is a LOT of very important and rather shocking details including images of once-secret memos and cables that are spine-tingling and maybe stomach turning.
These two pieces together are the fruit of more than 35 years of Peter working to declassify, publish and explain the secret workings of this chapter of American history.
Allow me one arrogant observation: If you THINK you know the role of Henry and the CIA in Chile and have not read this, simply put, you do not know! It’s much more complicated than bumper sticker throwaway lines about this dark chapter.
I suggest you open both links, that you PRINT out the the whole interview and put aside an hour or so for a chilling history lesson. In most ways worse than you think and in a couple of aspects somewhat surprising when the Reaganites turned.
P.S. I am hardly a big fan of the federal three letter agencies in Washington. I think this interview will clarify my view of such agencies. Many of us don’t lke them and don’t trust them for good reason i.e. they do bad things instead of doing their real job. So as much of a critic as I might be of say, the CDC and FBI (and don’t pass out when I say this) I much prefer when they are doing what they are supposed to be doing.
When thousands a people a day were dying from COVID, I think it was the DUTY of the CDC to counter dangerous misinformation. I think the old Twitter was right in taking a hard stand against. dangerous quack sites. I have been personally hassled by the FBI back in the 60’s in some ugly ways. but I want the FBI to do its job as long as it is here. As the domestic extremist movement emerged, it damn well better be the FBI’s job to keep an eye on and track possible militants who might act on their delusions or incite others to do so. If the FBI did NOT review social media posts, if they did not pay attention to the public urgings of these neo fascists, it would be failing its job. So, yes, it appears the FBI and the CDC and probably both the Biden and Trump camps asked Twitter to take down certain tweets they considered dangerous. They did not have the power to block those tweets and Twitter often brushed aside the three letter agency recommendations.
Grow up, people. I want the government, I want the CDC, I want the FBI to be on the alert for dangerous urgings to public action. Did they make mistakes? Probably. Did they use too broad a brush in their judgment of what was merely harmless dissent instead of dangerous urgings? I would imagine so. And BFD. Nobody died or was injured cause the these agencies might have been over sensitive.
But to conflate that with some dark notion that government agencies are surveilling your every post and getting ready to jail you as a dissident and that this undermines democracy, or free speech for that matter, is juvenile if not paranoid. Unlike Elmo Musk I am a rabid supporter of free speech. And as such, I, like other rational people in my camp draw the line when that speech directly incites violence and death. Best estimates are that Trump’s public statements during the pandemic ON Twitter along with some of the shit that other lunatic quacks posted, are responsible for about 175,000 of the 1.1 million domestic COVID death count. Too bad Trump was not banned before January 6. Even worse is Elmo welcoming back this indicted and would-be dictator and coup plotter onto the platform.
My two cents. Read the Chile interview to put all this in proper perspective.
Please read the interview and comment freely.