"SANTIAGO, Chile -- The lower house of the Chilean Congress on Wednesday announced plans to investigate alleged CIA involvement in Chile in recent
decades.
In a resolution, the chamber approved the formation of a committee that will try to determine whether the CIA's actions violated Chile's
sovereignty.
Text of the measure mentioned a 1970s report by a U.S. Senate commission led by Frank Church, which disclosed CIA's actions including alleged efforts
to block the election of Salvador Allende, a Marxist elected president in 1970 and toppled three years later in a bloody military coup led by Gen.
Augusto Pinochet.
"It does not seem reasonable that while the government and the Senate of the United States have conducted several investigations that have disclosed
the action of agencies such as the CIA in our territory for years, Chile's National Congress has never dedicated enough time to learn and evaluate
these facts in our life and history," the resolution said.
After the 1973 coup, family and followers of Allende said he committed suicide in his presidential palace as it burned, in flames after a bombardment.
Pinochet rule Chile from 1973 to 1990. A report by the civilian government that succeeded him said 3,197 people died or disappeared during his 17-year
regime."
Source:
Newsday: CIA
Activities in Chile to Be Investigated
I knew this was comming. But why now?
Kissinger was involved in this, I think. Am I wrong?