Frå Guardian:
These documents gave details of extensive bribery of Chilean politicians,
efforts to "disorganise" the Chilean Socialist party and a
$35,000 payment to Chilean military officials said to be involved in the
murder of General Rene Schneider, who opposed US plans
to overthrow the government of Salvador Allende in Chile at its birth in
1970.
Det er for lenge sidan avslørt at USA køyrer den same linja mot Jugoslavia,
med absolutt alle middel: økonomisk krig, militær krig, terror og
undergravingsarbeid. og det er vel stort sett berre dei religiøse
forestillingane om Milosevics ondskap, som gjer at delar av venstresida ser
på den noverande kampanja som like ille. Ikkje mindre enn fire
"Transition-government"-prosjekt, med andre ord wannabe-kuppmakerar er
innbakt i den "demokratiske" opposisjonen.
Eg syns illusjonane på venstresida berre er mystiske. Men som ein eller
annan vismann har sagt: Never underestimate the power of denial!
Siste nytt er at frelsaren Kostunica har blitt forutsett i århundregamle
profetiar: Ein person med same navn som landsbyen han kom frå skulle redde
Serbia.
Kostunica set sin lit til "divine justice" og gud (i himmelen eller
washington).
amen!
Asgeir Bjørkedal
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Pinochet_on_trial/Story/0,2763,372106,00.
html#top
Ex-spy chief says CIA helped him set up Pinochet's secret police
Papers might at last expose those behind Chile's political murders
Special report: Pinochet on trial
Jonathan Franklin in Santiago
Saturday September 23, 2000
The CIA and the former head of the Chilean secret police are scrambling to
blame each other for a series of murders at home and
abroad, including a notorious 1976 car bombing in Washington.
In the rush to implicate one another, both sides are divulging an
unprecedented number of previously secret internal documents, to
the elation of historians and survivors of the Chilean military regime that
ruled from 1973 to 1990.
The latest round of revelations began early this week when the CIA
submitted a report to the US Congress that included secret
papers from the early 1970s.
These documents gave details of extensive bribery of Chilean politicians,
efforts to "disorganise" the Chilean Socialist party and a
$35,000 payment to Chilean military officials said to be involved in the
murder of General Rene Schneider, who opposed US plans
to overthrow the government of Salvador Allende in Chile at its birth in
1970.
For Chileans, the most explosive item was evidence that the head of the
secret police under the military regime, Manuel Contreras
- a senior adviser to the regime's leader, Augusto Pinochet - was a double
agent and briefly on the CIA's payroll.
Mr Contreras immediately denied the CIA accusations. They were in
retaliation, he maintained, for his action in passing a stack of
secret documents to US investigators in April.
"The FBI is working to establish the truth [about CIA collaboration with
Pinochet's secret police]... The CIA is quite worried that the
judicial investigation will reach them," Mr Contreras said in an interview
from his jail cell at Punta Peuco, a prison for military
officials convicted of human rights violations during the military regime.
Counter-attacking, Mr Contreras gave details of an alleged proposal by the
then deputy director general of the CIA, Vernon
Walters, to secure the help of five US senators in improving Chile's
tarnished image under the dictatorship, in exchange for $2m a
year.
Mr Contreras also alleged that General Pinochet ordered him to ask the CIA
to help organise the repressive secret police known
as the Dina. "He told me that we needed their help because in reality we
had never had a national intelligence operation," Mr
Contreras said in a radio interview with CNN's Spanish language service.
The CIA was actually too keen, he maintained. Referring to eight CIA agents
who allegedly arrived in August 1974, Mr Contreras
said: "They wanted to remain in Chile, in charge of the principal Dina
posts, something that I didn't accept under instructions from
the president."
The revelations - termed "worrisome and surprising" by the Chilean foreign
minister, Soledad Alvear - are expected to stimulate
congressional investigations in both countries and may also fuel court cases.
Historians and civil rights groups pounced on the allegations for use in
piecing together the role of each spy agency in the deaths
of prominent democracy activists.
The revelations have broken a CIA "wall of silence" on how the US supported
the repressive Pinochet apparatus, said Peter
Kornbluh, a Washington writer and historian who has long pressed for
disclosure.
Those whose murders are linked to the dictatorship include the Chilean
diplomat Orlando Letelier. Just blocks from the White
House, the former defence minister, 44, was killed by a car bomb 24 years
ago. His US assistant Ronni Moffitt, 24, died with him.
Widely considered to be the most brazen act of international terrorism
committed in the US capital, the Letelier bombing remains
a study in cold war politics.
While top Pinochet aides and anti-Castro Cuban terrorists have been
convicted for the bombing, evidence directly linking Pinochet
has yet to emerge.
But the flood of new information could force the United States to
invigorate a long- dormant justice department extradition request
for Gen Pinochet, if investigators believe they have grounds implicating him.
"There has been a positive attitude [from Washington] to provide
information to clear up the truth," said Fabiola Letelier, the slain
diplomat's sister. "Don't forget that Janet Reno [the current US attorney
general] supported the declassification" of documents that
began with the 1998 judicial process against Gen Pinochet in Spain, she
added.
In the two years since the arrest of Gen Pinochet in a London clinic after
Spain sought - unsuccessfully - to extradite him to face
charges of abuses committed under his regime, US officials have seen their
cold war actions exposed to new examination.
This has covered not only the extensive clandestine support given to the
Chilean dictatorship in the 1970s, but also, more
recently, Washington's actions with the professed aim of protecting human
rights in Latin America.
Gen Pinochet, 84, is unlikely ever to be extradited to the US, but a formal
request would be the ultimate indignity for him at his
former allies' hands, and another CIA embarrassment.
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