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Documents Reveal Killings of US Supporters of Allende in Chile May Have Been Given Green Light from US Intelligence

HeadlineFeb 14, 2000

And this revelation in the New York Times on Sunday — reading from it: “Twenty-six years ago, as the forces of Gen. Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Socialist government of Salvador Allende, two American supporters of President Allende were killed in Chile under circumstances that stirred suspicions of CIA involvement.” At the time, “American officials categorically denied any role in the young men’s deaths, which were dramatized in the 1982 movie Missing. Compelled by the Freedom of Information Act, the government in 1980 released the results of classified internal investigations, heavily censored in black ink, that appeared to clear the American and Chilean governments of any responsibility. But now, those thick black lines have been stripped away. Spurred by the arrest of General Pinochet in 1998, President Clinton has ordered the declassification of ‘all documents that shed light on human rights abuses, terrorism and other acts of political violence during and prior to the Pinochet era in Chile.’ Some of those documents make clear for the first time that the State Department concluded from almost the beginning that the Pinochet government had killed the men, Charles Horman, 31, and Frank Teruggi, 24.” And the investigators speculate “that the Chileans would not have done so without a green light from American intelligence.”

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