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The Pinochet files
"...President Nixon authorised $10m to be spent 'to make the economy scream'.
He also authorised pro-coup initiatives designed to destroy the traditional reluctance of Chilean military men to take over civilian government.
'Pinochet will not be a stumbling block to coup plans', reads one memo written six months before the coup, in which the American government looks to build a veritable Dream Team of coup plotters. 'The navy and air force are ready ... the military is getting ready to move.'
As part of a particularly crude effort to remove army officers who supported democratic rule, the CIA organised to kidnap Rene Schneider, a Chilean army general.
That plot was botched; Schneider died, and today his family is suing the US government and Henry Kissinger in particular for playing a role in his murder...
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Even when the full extent of the torture and executions in Chile were well known, the US government sought to integrate the Pinochet regime into international business circles.
Probably no figure more personalised the cruelty of the Pinochet regime than the head of its secret DINA police force, Manuel Contreras.
Previously classified documents now confirm that, not only was Contreras on the CIA payroll, but that when he came to Washington during the height of human rights abuses, the US state department had specific tasks for him.
'Contreras was also asked to check in with Anaconda [Copper] and General Motors to encourage them to resume operations in Chile.'
�Guardian UK September 10 2003