How Henry Kissinger Paved the Way for Orlando Letelier's Assassination

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "I think that the previous government [Allende's administration] was headed toward Communism.
48% : Letelier provided valuable insights for the Church Committee's investigation, but he did not testify in public during its hearings on Chile.
47% : Now, the 100th birthday of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, which has been marked in the press by both powerful investigations as well as puff pieces and hagiography, offers an opportunity to reexamine the Letelier assassination and the broader U.S. role in overthrowing Chile's democratically elected government in order to impose a brutal dictatorship.
46% : It is not known whether Pinochet was aware that Letelier had been a secret witness for the Church Committee, or whether the dictator only knew about Letelier's more public lobbying efforts to get Congress to take action against the Pinochet regime.
38% : Scheduled for late October, that legislative action was supposed to be a pro-forma certification of Allende, the first-place candidate, but Nixon, fueled by anti-communist paranoia that led him to oppose leftist governments all around the world, wanted to use that time to stop Allende from coming to power.
32% : On June 8, 1976, Kissinger -- by then the secretary of state for President Gerald Ford -- met with Pinochet at the presidential palace in Santiago, just as Pinochet's vicious human rights record was becoming a major international issue.

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