The Other 9/11, 51 Years Ago Today.

[Canary42]

The other 9/11 (harrowing, but well worth reading) :-

The other tragic 9/11 was the day in 1973 when the Chilean military, commanded by General Augusto Pinochet, with the encouragement, knowledge, and assistance of the U.S. government, overthrew the legitimately elected government of Salvador Allende. During that US-supported coup and its immediate aftermath, General Pinochet’s security forces killed 1,260 Chileans through the end of 1973. Tens of thousands more were sent or fled into exile throughout the world, many of them after being tortured in General Pinochet's prisons. Almost 1,160 others were "disappeared" after being detained by agents of the Pinochet regime; they are presumed dead, because their remains have never been found.

[Stableford]

Interesting.  Why do you believe that this was with the encouragement, knowledge and assistance of the US government?

[Untitled]

because the CIA have published documents about their involvement. they did not hide it... they were quite pleased with the result. 

[Stableford]

Thanks, a link to these documents would be very helpful.

[Untitled]

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/nsaebb8i.htm

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This from Nixon

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/ch05-01.htm

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Kissinger and his cronies discussing the details years before

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/ch06-01.htm

Report on CIA taskforce promoting a coup

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/ch01-01.htm

all orchestrated by the loathesome Henry Kissinger

[Untitled]

Thatcher was a huge fan of Pinochet too. 
 

https://www.declassifieduk.org/torture-for-your-amusement-how-thatchers-government-misled-mps-and-public-about-its-dealings-with-the-pinochet-regime/
 

not her best moment that's for sure

[Stableford]

Thank you for posting these links.

[Peter Pedant]

 Why do you believe that this was with the encouragement, knowledge and assistance of the US government?

Because the film Missing ( desparecido) said so. The one with Jack Lemon and Sissy Spacek  - and the Man with the Suitcase (*) is the American agent who betrays the young american man. Well worth seeing

Pinochet ( pee-no-chette - spanith not french) did all sort of nasty things - la caravana de muerte went around er morte-ing dissidents ( under a hundred ( peanuts compared to Gaza now or Kursk 1942, or even the Somme 1915( 50 000 first day). Jack L finds his son walled up ( dead)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravan_of_Death

The College of Naval Engineering became a centre for torture - actually wiki saus it is the Villa Grimaldi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_abuses_in_Chile_under_Augusto_Pinochet

[Peter Pedant]

Sheila Cassidy was an English Victim. Hospitals and clinics had to be registered with the govt - to prevent terroristen getting treated. Running a " clandestine clinic" or hospital was really bad news.

Her house was suspected as one and was raided. The goons burst into the house and the maid ran up the corridor screaming. She was shot. The police reports cd be cleansed of all mention of the security services ( a requirement I think)

SO the report had a raid, a dead maid gunned maid and Dr Cassidy. She was charged with murder.

off to Villa Grimaldi

DOI - I worked with Dr C - in England ! mi dio!

[Peter Pedant]

Pinochet  ( remember the "chette" please) was heemself a subject of a law case. He was treated at Mrs Thatchers request in London and arrested for war crimes?

But was his detention lawful ?

The House of Lords ( then the supreme court of the land) declared something and one of the milords forgot to declare an interest ( in Amnesty International) oops !

mega-oops ! how do you reverse or re-hear a House of Lords case or appeal it for bias?

You just do it

Pinochet No 2

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199899/ldjudgmt/jd990115/pino01.htm

So No, reader I havent forgotten Chile 1973 - oh come on, it wasnt that long ago