WILL WORLDWIDE COMMUNIST DRIVE OVERTHROW CHILEAN GOVERNMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300380044-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: August 30, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

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HUMAN EVENTS
30 Pugust 1075
Ala.'- w Americans Lend Support...
The worldwide Communist movement,
in a propaganda offensive directed from
Moscow, has launched a major campaign
aimed not only at toppling the military
junta currently ruling Chile but seeking
to reinstate the same kind of Marxist-
Leninist leadership which brought that
South American nation to the brink of
economic and social chaos.
I,w this campaign, the Communists as
ustial have allies in so-called "progres-
sive forces" in the Western world ranging
from knee-jerk liberals in the media land
elsewhere to influential members of both
houses of the United States Congress..`,
Nevertheless, it would be wrong to brand
all these critics as '.'enemies of Chile" or
Marxists, Many are honestly confused by
l
c
ever propaganda,
And the counter-Communist message
of the Chilean government rarely gets
through to the peoples of the world.
T4 .t Communist campaign 'ha's already
scored some phenomenal successes. Top
Chilean Cornmu`riists or their fellow
travellers have been cleared for admis-
sion to this country as "refugees," despite
the fact that federal immigration statutes
specifically bar aliens with Communist
backgrounds from coming here. After all,
as the writers of these statutes hart rea-
soned, we have enough Communists in
this country without - importing more
exotic varicti~s,
Approved
-, .,iLticuaetetn?vietnam and Watergate;
a considerable body of influential liberal
opinion, including media elements,
turned against the Harvard professor
whose meteoric , rise to superceicbrit.y
status had astonished even hint. Chinks
in the Kissinger armor were now con-
stantly being explored. A major issue
raised against Kissinger-by now secre-
tary of state-was Chile. The argument
was that, because of Kissinger's mach-
inations, authoritarian rule had taken
over in Santiago, the capital of Chile.
And this has caused . Secretary Kis-
s inger extreme anguish. The secretary
just can't abide criticism, particularly
from a,utspoken liberals. Concerned over
their reproaches, the guilt-ridden secre-
tary has adopted a stern posture towards
Chile's anti-CoirinIunist leaders who, he
contends, should begin easing their ad-
mittedly tough treatment of revolution-
aries. Thus, under his direction, the State
Department made a unilateral decision
to bar Chile from making cash purchases
of certain much-needed military items,
Now, there can be no argument about
the fact that Chile's ruling junta now
htiaded by Army Gen. Augusta P'inochet
Ugarte did suspend much of the nation's
civil liberties following the military take..
over. And for good reason, according to
official spokesmen. ,The nation was rid-
dled with left-wing guerrillas
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whom had stashed away vast stores of
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oviet-bloc arms smuggled in from Cuba.
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ley'd rather come to this citadel of ? Less than tine years later, there was ;t
fascist imperialism" and enjoy bbur- sharp turn in public opinion. As a result
cu,s treligmts than settle in what pre-
.imubly are their spiritual homelands
'ehind the iron Curtain. After all, it's
ruch easier to mount a propaganda care-
aign against the Chilean government
-om New York than it is from Moscow.
But probably the greatest success
scored by the anti-Chilean lobby has
been the pressuring of the State De-
partment into adopting positions an-
tagonistic: to the interests of the.
counter-Communist leadership of that"
country.
The feeling among the bureaucrats in
oggy.Bottorn is that Chile has not gone
ar enough in restoring full democratic
ights toy its people. ,Moreover, Henry
Kissinger is constantly being reminded of
its role in helping bring down the pro-
ioviet regime of Marxist President Sal-
'ador Allende Gossen's. Exactly ]tow
nuch of a role Kissinger (and, for that
natter, the United States) played in the
:vents of September 1973 is still subject
o dispute. The secretary was reliably
luoted as having said, "I don't see why
'e need to stand by and watch Chile ,go
.'ommunist flue to the irresponsibility
?t its own people."
i Kissinger, who was then national
security adviser to President ' Nixon,
made that statement at a White House
meeting of the super-secret Forty Com-
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