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On September 11, 1973, Chilean Air Force Hawker Hunter jets attacked the National Palace in the nation’s capital, Santiago. The planes fired missiles into the palace with the aim of assassinating the nation’s democratically elected president, Salvador Allende, who, along with several of his supporters, was defending himself against the attacks on his life.
The attack on Allende has profound implications for the U.S. national-security establishment’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, some 10 years prior to the events in Chile.
In 1973, Chile had the same type of government that the United States had — a democratic political system and a national-security state form of governmental structure, one characterized by a massive, permanent military-intelligence establishment. In Chile the intelligence-gathering part of the national-security establishment fell under direct military control. In the United States, while the military had its own intelligence-gathering section, control over intelligence gathering fell to the CIA and the NSA and, to a certain ...
It’s nice to see Democrats and the mainstream press emphasizing the virtues of democracy in the context of their condemnations of President Trump for refusing to concede the presidential election to Joe Biden.
But let’s not forget five anti-democratic actions taken in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970 by the CIA, which is the pride and glory of both Democrats and the mainstream press (well, yes, of Republicans as well.)
1. Iran, 1953. The CIA instigated a coup in Iran that ousted the democratically elected prime minister of the country and replaced him with the Shah, a brutal, pro-CIA dictator. To assist him in maintaining his iron grip on tyranny on the Iranian people, the CIA built up the Shah’s domestic military-intelligence police force known as the SAVAK, which was a combination Pentagon, FBI, CIA, and NSA. The CIA’s anti-democratic action is the root cause of bad relations between the U.S. and Iran today.
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Oddly, those people who use the appellation “conspiracy theorist” for people who have concluded, based on the evidence, that the U.S. national-security establishment carried out a very sophisticated and deadly regime-change operation against President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, never apply their appellation to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Truman.
What’s up with that?
Consider Ike. In his Farewell Address in 1961, he issued a shocking warning to the American people. He said that the “military-industrial complex” posed a grave threat to their liberties and democratic processes.
Now, just think about that for a moment. That’s a shocking statement. What Ike was saying is that there was grave danger that the Pentagon and the CIA would violently oust a democratically elected American president from office and take over the reins of the government.
In other words, like what happened in Chile in ...
