Five of the worst atrocities overseen by Henry Kissinger - Liberation News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Within weeks, as many as 20,000 leftists, intellectuals, workers, and supporters of Pinochet were rounded up and tortured in the National Stadium in Santiago.
57% : As National Security Advisor and U.S. Secretary of State under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Kissinger was a primary architect of U.S. Cold War foreign policy to contain Soviet influence and ascendent left-wing movements across the globe.
57% : Suharto met with then-President Gerald Ford and Kissinger, his National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, for approval of his plans to annex East Timor into Indonesia.
50% : In a secret cable sent in October of 1970, a month after Allende won his election, CIA deputy director of plans Thomas Karamessines bluntly relayed Kissinger's message to CIA station chief in Santiago, Henry Hecksher: "It is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup."Up until Allende's eventual overthrow, Kissinger and the U.S. government did everything in their power to undermine the Chilean leader, including financially supporting opposition groups, meeting with military generals to pressure them into providing a "solution" to Allende, and funding anti-government worker strikes to destabilize the economy.

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