Allende, Pinochet, and Letelier

[Brad De Long]

>Re Brad's:  "Face it: the only 'really existing socialist' head of
>government whom you
>or I would have elected to a post any higher than that of neighborhood
>dogcatcher was Salvador Allende."
>
>Which raises another point:   Any worth electing, the CIA will soon be
>ejecting.
>
>Carl Remick

Well, only in Guatemala... and Iran (round I, 1954)... and Nicaragua
(although that was much more complex)... and Chile.

The U.S. government claim has always been that the CIA was not involved in
the murder of Allende and company and the creation of the Pinochet
dictatorship. I do not believe them: the extremely... calm reaction of
Kissinger and company to the Pinochet government's assassination of Orlando
Letelier in Dupont Circle convined me that Pinochet has *something* very
damning about U.S. sponsorship of his coup squirreled away in his filing
cabinet.

Brad DeLong