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Subject: [NJHUNTER] Reed vs. the truth
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 17:28:53 EDT

Allende may have been a drunken bum, but he was the choice of the people of
Chile. We had no right to interfere. The US does not deny its involvement in
the coup. According to the Church committee investigation it was the CIA and
ITT who engineered the take over. They admitted their involvement to an
investigating congressional committee. That is not liberal or left wing
propaganda, just part of the Congressional record, stored at the National
Archives, available to any genealogist worth his salt. I was told by an Army
Intelligence friend of mine, that Coca-Cola was also involved in the bloody
coup, but have never before seen this in writing or even heard of it. Amnesty
International issued a report that "tens of thousands of Chileans have been
tortured, killed and exiled [sic]" A congressional delegation investigating
the report found political prisoners under Pinochet had been tortured by the
"application of electrical shock, simultaneous blows to the ears, cigarette
burns, and simulated executions by firing squads." The electrical shock
torture technique is a CIA training trademark. It is normally hooked to the
"soft spots." Pinochet commented on Chile's election, "Democracy is the
breeding ground of communism." The United States was well aware of the
massive human rights violations Pinochet was committing against his people,
but we still backed him. So Allende was bad because it was a "drunken bum."
Perhaps we should have assassinated President Grant too, if that is your
criteria.

Mike

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