[Mitai-announce] TONIGHT 7p: Kornbluh "The Pinochet File"

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The MIT Western Hemisphere Project invites you to a lecture:
  
  
    The Pinochet File: What the Newly Declassified Record Tells Us
    about Chile, Terrorism, Law, & US Foreign Policy
  
    * Peter Kornbluh, Senior Analyst
      National Security Archive, Washington DC

    Wednesday, October 22
    7 pm in MIT Room 66-110

    Admission is free, but please arrive early.


DETAILS:

On September 11, 1973, the democratically elected government
of Salvador Allende in Chile was overthrown by a military coup
and a brutal dictatorship was installed.  What did Richard Nixon
and Henry Kissinger know about these events and when did they
know it?  What did the CIA mean by the following? "You have asked
us to provoke chaos in Chile. ... We provide you with a formula
for chaos which is unlikely to be bloodless.  To dissimulate the
U.S. involvement will be clearly impossible ..."  In short, what
did the US government do in Chile?

PETER KORNBLUH, who has compiled several sets of declassified
documents on key U.S. foreign policy crises, led the campaign to
declassify more than 25,000 closely held records on U.S.-Chilean
relations.  This effort, he says, is part of an ongoing inter-
national campaign "to hold Pinochet and his military responsible
for the murder, torture and terrorism committed during his regime."
And what of US officials?  Richard Nixon is no more; but as for
Henry Kissinger, lawsuits are pending and threatened against him
for complicity in the terror (or for knowing about it and doing
nothing to stop it).  What is the outlook for these lawsuits?

(Kornbluh will discuss his new book _The_Pinochet_File_.  Kenneth
Maxwell reviewed the book for the current issue of _Foreign_
_Affairs_.  The paragraphs above are adapted from that review.)

The event is co-sponsored by the MIT Large Event Fund.

Admission is free, but please arrive early.


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