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The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
When first published last year on the thirtieth anniversary of the Chilean coup, Peter Kornbluh's Pinochet File was hailed on the editorial page of the New York Times--no doubt to the aggravation of Henry Kissinger and all those who would deny the U.S. role in undermining Chilean democracy and supporting the advent of General Pinochet's brutal dictatorship. "Thanks to...more
Paperback, 587 pages
Published
September 30th 2004
by New Press, The
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Very long book, but very useful. Documents how the United States of America created the conditions in Chile necessary to precipite a coup d'etat and then supported the obvious fascist pig Pinochet, despite his exportation of terrorism even to this nation's capital. The villians in this story are besides Pinochet and murdering and maiming minions Nixon and, of course, Henry Kissinger. You'd think that a Jew who had escaped the Holocaust would have not supported a Nazi like Pinochet with so muc...more
In this astonishingly well-written and comprehensive book, one may find, in part, THE answer. Why did the "CIA obstruct" the declassification of various intelligence documents prior to release by the NARA. I don't know probably because the USG forty committee was attempting to "foster a military coup" and otherwise aiming to prevent, by any means necessary, the election and potential positive achievements of the first democratically elected Marxist/socialist president in the ...more
As I read this book, I kept thinking that it was both frightening and fascinating. Kornbluh does a fantastic job of sifting through thousands of documents to present a complex story that spans decades and dozens of characters from a variety of political persuasions in the US and Chile. Not an easy read, but I would absolutely recommend it to anyone interested in US-Chilean relations or US-Latin American relations in general. Above all, to me it demonstrated the power and importance, as well as t...more
Who was this general turned dictator and why did he torture and kill so many of his country's people?
A long-time ally of the U.S., from the time of Nixon, the Pinochet regimes relationship to the U.S.—which included a 1976 car-bombing in Washington D.C.—is explored via U.S. government documentation released under the freedom of information act.
I think my favorite part was the nicknames given to the more infamous of his torture camps (some run by ex-Nazis). As I recall "...more
A long-time ally of the U.S., from the time of Nixon, the Pinochet regimes relationship to the U.S.—which included a 1976 car-bombing in Washington D.C.—is explored via U.S. government documentation released under the freedom of information act.
I think my favorite part was the nicknames given to the more infamous of his torture camps (some run by ex-Nazis). As I recall "...more
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Recomended to me by Emily. As I've followed the trials of Pinochet since his first arrest in Spain it is on my to read list. Most likely will be before, during or after a trip to S. America.
If you want to know what the CIA was up to in Chile in 1973, this book breaks it all down...
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