The Case Against Kissinger Deepens-By Scott Horton

[kpete]

The Case Against Kissinger Deepens, Continued

By Scott Horton

As I noted earlier, Christopher Hitchens’s two-part 2001 article, “The Case Against Kissinger,” built a strong though circumstantial case connecting Henry Kissinger to a series of assassinations in Chile around the time of the overthrow and killing of President Salvador Allende. The evidence has continued to grow since Hitchens’s arguments appeared. On Friday, the release of a taped conversation between Kissinger and President Richard M. Nixon added more. Jeff Stein reports in the Washington Post’s Spytalk blog:

President Richard M. Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry A. Kissinger, joked that an “incompetent” CIA had struggled to successfully carry out an assassination in Chile, newly available Oval Office tapes reveal. At the time, in 1971, Nixon and Kissinger were working to undermine the socialist administration of Chilean President Salvador Allende, who would die during a U.S.-backed military coup two years later. One of the key figures to stand in the way of Chilean generals plotting to overthrow Allende was the Chilean army commander-in-chief, Rene Schneider, who was killed during a botched kidnapping attempt by military right-wingers in 1970.

The new tapes won’t end the argument, but they add persuasive evidence that the CIA was at least trying to eliminate Schneider, and perhaps with the connivance of Nixon and Kissinger. The key exchange between the president and his national security adviser occurred on June 11, 1971. They were discussing another assassination in Chile, this time of one of Allende’s political adversaries, former Christian Democratic party interior minister Edmundo Pérez Zujovic, who was murdered on June 8, 1971, by an extreme leftist group.

Here’s a transcript of the tape:

Kissinger: They’re blaming the CIA.
Nixon: Why the hell would we assassinate him?
Kissinger: Well, (a) we couldn’t. We’re—
Nixon: Yeah.
Kissinger: CIA’s too incompetent to do it. You remember—
Nixon: Sure, but that’s the best thing. (Unclear).
Kissinger: —when they did try to assassinate somebody, it took three attempts—
Nixon: Yeah.
Kissinger: —and he lived for three weeks afterwards.

The comments plainly revolve around the death of Chilean General René Schneider, who was the commander-in-chief of Chile’s armed forces around the time of the 1970 presidential election that brought Allende to power. Within the Chilean military, Schneider resolutely opposed any coup d’état and insisted that the democratic process be respected. The CIA and Kissinger apparently concluded that he had to be eliminated so that the Allende government could be removed.

Among the CIA “family jewels” documents released in 2007 was a memorandum recording a briefing (PDF) that CIA Director Colby gave to President Gerald Ford on January 3, 1975. In it Colby advises Ford that “we have run operations to assassinate foreign leaders,” and he cites Gen. Schneider. This tape adds to the evidence that the assassination of Chile’s senior military commander resulted from a decision involving Kissinger and Nixon. Kissinger is reported to continue to have great difficulties traveling because he faces arrest warrants issued abroad. This tape shows why those warrants are hardly frivolous.

more:
http://harpers.org/archive/2010/07/hbc-90007346

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Recommended.

From Henry to Cheney, their brand of American Capitalistic Hegemony is perpetuated to this day.:thumbsdown:

[Octafish]

2. Heartless BASTARDS!! ''...and he lived for three weeks afterwards.''

DUers have been on to Kissinger and Nixon's treasonous backsides from Day One. Here's a bit on how Poppy came in to help the never-elected president Jerry Ford in Murder Inc:

Beat the BFEE: Poppy’s CIA warned about terror plots and did not stop them



"Remember to call them 'conspiracy theorists."

[dipsydoodle]

3. As far as I'm aware

there is an outstanding arrest warrant for Kissenger in Paris for not showing at the trial brought at the instigation of René Schneider's surviving relatives a few years or so back.

[Octafish]

4. Money Graph from Hitchens...

The concept of "deniability" was not as well understood in Washington in 1970 as it has since become. But it is clear that Henry Kissinger wanted two things simultaneously: He wanted the removal of General Schneider, by any means and employing any proxy. (No instruction from Washington to leave Schneider unharmed was ever given; deadly weapons were sent by diplomatic pouch, and men of violence were carefully selected to receive them.) And he wanted to be out of the picture in case such an attempt might fail, or be uncovered. These are the normal motives of anyone who solicits or suborns murder. Kissinger, however, needed the crime very slightly more than he needed, or was able to design, the deniability. Without waiting for his many hidden papers to be released or subpoenaed, we can say with safety that he is prima facie guilty of direct collusion in the murder of a constitutional officer in a democratic and peaceful country.

SOURCE:

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Kissinger/CaseAgainst1_Hitchens.html

And where is Corporate McPravda on this? Protecting the guilty is obstruction of justice, is it not?

[Scurrilous]

5. K & R

:thumbsup:

[G_j]

6. K&R

[LongTomH]

7. Kissinger is 87 now!

So the chances of seeing him in the dock at the Hague grow exceedingly slim!

[annabanana]

9. He is an insult to Light and Life every day he draws breath..

And the blackest deepest hole of Hell is gaping below him, where he will finally be received as one of their own.

[avaistheone1]

21. Although I would love to see him face justice and be held accountable.

[flyarm]

8. Obama had Henry Kissinger represent his administration in Talks with Russia

Shortly after taking office and even before ..as President Elect..Obama asked Henry Kissinger..knick name.."The Butcher of Cambodia"..to represent his administration in Talks with Russia..lets look as some serious connections here of Geithner , Kissinger and Obama...shall we..( edit to add: much of this i have posted many times in the past.)

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Cold warrior Henry Kissinger woos Russia for Barack Obama

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4530042/Cold-warrior-Henry-Kissinger-woos-Russia-for-Barack-Obama.html

Mr Obama apparently chose Mr Kissinger for his consummate diplomatic skills and his popularity in Moscow, an affection earned by his open acknowledgment of Russia's international resurgence.
Despite his pariah status with many Left-wingers in Mr Obama's Democratic Party, the president forged relations with Mr Kissinger during his campaign.

The compliment was returned when the 85-year-old veteran of the Nixon and Ford administrations said last month that the young president was in a position to create a "new world order" by shifting US foreign policy away from the hostile stance of the Bush administration.

He publicly supported Mr Obama's notion of unconditional talks with Iran, though not at the presidential level.

Further demonstrating his willingness to work with his opponents on foreign policy issues, Mr Obama turned to two veteran Republicans steeped in Cold War experience to press home his plans.

Shortly after Mr Kissinger's trip, Richard Lugar, a Republican senator from Indiana who has worked on nuclear disarmament issues for 30 years, also visited Moscow. George Schultz, another former secretary of state, has also played a vital role.

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TIMOTHY GEITHNER

Biography

Early life and education
Geithner was born in Brooklyn, New York.<2> He spent most of his childhood living outside the United States, including present-day Zimbabwe, Zambia, India and Thailand, where he completed high school at International School Bangkok.<3> He then attended Dartmouth College, graduating with a B.A. in government and Asian studies in 1983.<4> He earned an M.A. in international economics and East Asian studies from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in 1985.<4><5> He has studied Chinese<4> and Japanese.<6>

Geithner's paternal grandfather, Paul Herman Geithner (1902–1972), emigrated with his parents from the German town of Zeulenroda to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1908.<7> His father, Peter F. Geithner, is the director of the Asia program at the Ford Foundation in New York.

During the early 1980s, Peter Geithner oversaw the Ford Foundation's microfinance programs in Indonesia being developed by S. Ann Dunham-Soetoro, President Barack Obama's mother, and they met in person at least once.<8>

Timothy Geithner's mother, Deborah Moore Geithner, is a pianist and piano teacher in Larchmont, New York where his parents currently reside. Geithner's maternal grandfather, Charles F. Moore, was an adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and served as a vice president of Ford Motor Company.

Early career

After completing his studies,

Geithner worked for Kissinger and Associates in Washington, D.C., for three years and then joined the International Affairs division of the U.S. Treasury Department in 1988.

He went on to serve as an attaché at the US Embassy in Tokyo. He was deputy assistant secretary for international monetary and financial policy (1995–1996), senior deputy assistant secretary for international affairs (1996-1997), assistant secretary for international affairs (1997–1998).<5>

He was Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs (1998–2001) under Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers.<5> Summers was his mentor,<10><11> but other sources call him a Rubin protégé.<11><12><13>



In 2002 he left the Treasury to join the Council on Foreign Relations as a Senior Fellow in the International Economics department.<14> He was director of the Policy Development and Review Department (2001-2003) at the International Monetary Fund.<5>


In October 2003, he was named president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.<15> His salary in 2007 was $398,200.<16> Once at the New York Fed, he became Vice Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee component. In 2006, he also became a member of the Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty.<17>


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Timmy's dad :


Peter F. Geithner, is the director of the Asia program at the Ford Foundation in New York. During the early 1980s,

Peter Geithner oversaw the Ford Foundation's microfinance programs in Indonesia being developed by

S. Ann Dunham-Soetoro,

President Barack Obama's mother, and they met in person at least once



Geithner's maternal grandfather, Charles F. Moore, was an adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and served as a vice president of Ford Motor Company.

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now this should alarm every true democrat on these boards!!!!!!!


and From an April post of mine here at DU: and please, don't believe me ...click the link..it was in the CFR publication!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Remarks by National Security Adviser Jones at 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy

Published February 8, 2009




Speaker: James L. Jones


U.S. National Security Adviser Jones ( edit to add: new advisor hired by Obama!!!!) gave these remarks at the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof on

February 8, 2009.





"Thank you for that wonderful tribute to Henry Kissinger yesterday. Congratulations. As the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through General Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here. We have a chain of command in the National Security Council that exists today.




Source: http://www.cfr.org/publication/18515/remar ... ...

[Octafish]

11. Bush Jr appointed Kissinger to head the 9-11 Commission

Something smelled about that, too.

The Latest Kissinger Outrage

Why is a proven liar and wanted man in charge of the 9/11 investigation?

By Christopher Hitchens
Slate.com
Posted Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2002, at 6:36 PM ET

The Bush administration has been saying in public for several months that it does not desire an independent inquiry into the gross "failures of intelligence" that left U.S. society defenseless 14 months ago. By announcing that Henry Kissinger will be chairing the inquiry that it did not want, the president has now made the same point in a different way. But the cynicism of the decision and the gross insult to democracy and to the families of the victims that it represents has to be analyzed to be believed.

1) We already know quite a lot, thanks all the same, about who was behind the attacks. Most notable in incubating al-Qaida were the rotten client-state regimes of the Saudi Arabian oligarchy and the Pakistani military and police elite. Henry Kissinger is now, and always has been, an errand boy and apologist for such regimes.

2) When in office, Henry Kissinger organized massive deceptions of Congress and public opinion. The most notorious case concerned the "secret bombing" of Cambodia and Laos and the unleashing of unconstitutional methods by Nixon and Kissinger to repress dissent from this illegal and atrocious policy. But Sen. Frank Church's commission of inquiry into the abuses of U.S. intelligence, which focused on illegal assassinations and the subversion of democratic governments overseas, was given incomplete and misleading information by Kissinger, especially on the matter of Chile. Rep. Otis Pike's parallel inquiry in the House (which brought to light Kissinger's personal role in the not-insignificant matter of the betrayal of the Iraqi Kurds, among other offenses) was thwarted by Kissinger at every turn, and its eventual findings were classified. In other words, the new "commission" will be chaired by a man with a long, proven record of concealing evidence and of lying to Congress, the press, and the public.

3) In his second career as an obfuscator and a falsifier, Kissinger appropriated the records of his time at the State Department and took them on a truck to the Rockefeller family estate in New York. He has since been successfully sued for the return of much of this public property, but meanwhile he produced, for profit, three volumes of memoirs that purported to give a full account of his tenure. In several crucial instances, such as his rendering of U.S. diplomacy with China over Vietnam, with apartheid South Africa over Angola, and with Indonesia over the invasion of East Timor (to cite only some of the most conspicuous), declassified documents have since shown him to be a bald-faced liar. Does he deserve a third try at presenting a truthful record after being caught twice as a fabricator? And on such a grave matter as this?

4) Kissinger's "consulting" firm, Kissinger Associates, is a privately held concern that does not publish a client list and that compels its clients to sign confidentiality agreements. Nonetheless, it has been established that Kissinger's business dealings with, say, the Chinese Communist leadership have closely matched his public pronouncements on such things as the massacre of Chinese students. Given the strong ties between himself, his partners Lawrence Eagleburger and Brent Scowcroft, and the oil oligarchies of the Gulf, it must be time for at least a full disclosure of his interests in the region. This thought does not seem to have occurred to the president or to the other friends of Prince Bandar and Prince Bandar's wife, who helped in the evacuation of the Bin Laden family from American soil, without an interrogation, in the week after Sept. 11.

CONTINUED...

http://www.slate.com/id/2074678

Soon after this article, IIRC, Hitchens changed his tune regarding 9-11 and became a big supporter of the War on Terra.

Something still stinks.

[flyarm]

12. Yes I know and those of us with the airlines involved, as well as the victims families fought him

being put in as head of the commission..

His conflicts with Saudi clients is what was used to have him removed ..he would not disclose his client list or who exactly he worked for and with..but because he was put on the commission he caused delays of the commission and any investigation..many of us thought it was a ploy or tactic to allow time to destroy the real evidence.

As a lifelong democrat I have a horrible hate for Kissinger and I do not understand anyone accepting the Fact that Obama would tap Kissinger or his protege's to work for or with or have that murdering sum bag anywhere near their administration..or the democratic party.

The stink here is overwhelming!

And brings an anger to the core of me!

Any Democrat that would employ or retain that fucker's service is no democrat to me..and I mean that sincerely!

Thanks for the article Octafish..I remember that distinctively..but it is good to remind others or educate those that do not know!



:hi:

fly

[Octafish]

14. What a small world.

And very, very bad.



Here's a bit on what I hope, eh, in the spirit of Brian W. Aldiss does not come to pass:

More on “Operation Condor,” What Horrors May Await America, Kissinger, and the Disappeared

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 10/10/2006 - 4:21pm. Analysis
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

In our editorial that caromed around the Internet, “Torture, Murder, Bush, Kissinger and The Mothers of the Disappeared in Argentina: America on the Brink of Horror,” we warned that the legacy of U.S. governments – particularly under the Rumsfeld/Cheney/Kissinger/Bush leadership through various GOP administrations – supporting torture and murder to suppress dissent in other countries may be coming to America.

This is no idle conspiracy theory. As we pointed out in our editorial, the U.S. Congress has now given Bush enough legal maneuvering room to declare U.S. citizens supporters of terrorists. Since Bush has openly accused any American who disagrees with his disastrous “war on terror” a “tool of the terrorists,” he is legally now able to “disappear” us. This is not idle theory. We no longer have the protection of habeas corpus, if Bush invokes his powers to fight “terror.”

One of the key proponents, over the years, of torturing and murdering dissenters in nations that experience strong challenges to their oligarchies or ruling class elite is Henry Kissinger.

Bob Woodward recently told an interviewer that Dick Cheney called him up and swore at him for revealing that Kissinger is now advising Cheney and Bush.

We thought that for the record, we would amplify a bit the comment we made in our editorial that Kissinger avoids traveling to a number of nations because he would face judicial questioning about his role in “Operation Condor.”

Here is one summary from Wikipedia that illustrates BuzzFlash’s point:

On May 31, 2001, French judge Roger Le Loire requested a summons served on Henry Kissinger while he was staying at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris. Loire claimed to want to question Kissinger for alleged U.S. involvement in Operation Condor as well as the death of French nationals under the Chilean junta. As a result, Kissinger left Paris that evening, and Loire's inquiries were directed to the U.S. State Department.

In July 2001, the Chilean high court granted investigating judge Juan Guzman the right to question Kissinger about the 1973 killing of American journalist Charles Horman, whose execution at the hands of the Chilean military following the coup was dramatized in the 1982 Costa-Gavras film, Missing. The judge’s questions were relayed to Kissinger via diplomatic routes but went unanswered.
In August 2001, Argentine Judge Rodolfo Canicoba sent a letter rogatory to the US State Department, in accordance with the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), requesting a deposition by Kissinger to aid the judge's investigation of Operation Condor. <11>

On September 10, 2001, a civil suit was filed in a Washington, D.C., federal court by the family of Gen. René Schneider, former Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army, asserting that Kissinger gave the order for the elimination of Schneider because he refused to endorse plans for a military coup. Schneider was killed by coup-plotters loyal to General Roberto Viaux in a botched kidnapping attempt, but U.S. involvement with the plot is disputed, as declassified transcripts show that Nixon and Kissinger had ordered the coup “turned off” a week prior to the killing, fearing that Viaux had no chance. As a part of the suit, Schneider’s two sons are attempting to sue Kissinger and then-CIA director Richard Helms for $3 million. On September 11, 2001, the 28th anniversary of the Pinochet coup, Chilean human rights lawyers filed a criminal case against Kissinger along with Augusto Pinochet, former Bolivian general and president Hugo Banzer, former Argentine general and dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, and former Paraguayan president Alfredo Stroessner for alleged involvement in Operation Condor. The case was brought on behalf of some fifteen victims of Operation Condor, ten of whom were Chilean.

In late 2001, the Brazilian government canceled an invitation for Kissinger to speak in São Paulo because it could no longer guarantee his immunity from judicial action.

Now, remember, that Operation Condor was one of many governmental sponsor actions of torture and murder that Kissinger and various Republican administrations covertly supported -–even training many of the torturers and death squad leaders at the School of the Americas (since renamed).

As we indicated, this includes Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Greece, Central America, East Timor, Iraq, Afghanistan – and the list goes on and on.

CONTINUED...

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/121

Thanks for the heads-up on how the Ford Foundation, Geithner and the president's family previously crossed paths, Old School ties, wot?

Works as Editor at Business Internation Corp. · 1983 - 1984

Directly after graduating, Barack Obama worked for one year at Business International Corporation. He held a position as editor in its international financial information division. Business International Corporation (BI) was a publishing and advisory firm dedicated to assisting American companies in operating abroad.

SOURCE: http://www.ourstory.com/thread.html?t=223121

Thank you, Flyarm. Really appreciate what you do. There's a word that describes your character: Integrity.

[flyarm]

15. Thanks Octafish..I was Based in NY with one of the airlines ..

I was Flight Attend of the year for the NY base of my airline in 2001..those were my co-workers that were murdered..and I worked hard to get to the truth then, as now..and until my last breath..

And I fought along with many of my airline along with the Victims families to get Kissinger kicked off the 9/11 commission..I spoke publicly to educate people ..to help get pressure to have Kissinger kicked off the commission.

I was neighbors with 3 of the Jersey wives..we all fought to have Kissinger removed..

And to now know that Obama teamed up with Kissinger..sticks so nasty in my throat...it makes me puke...and worse.

But most people ignore facts and truth..I have come to understand that today..but I will never accept that.

Was there no one But Kissinger and Schultz and all the republican pigs Obama could have Tapped and asked to represent his administration with Russia??

Was Geithner ..a Kissinger Protege, the only person Obama could have put at Treasury???????

Who is Obama?

Do any of us really know?

Does he represent who and what you have ever thought yourself to be as a democrat?
I know my answers..each person must answer those questions for themselves..and live with themselves and the consequences of those answers.

I know me..and I know I will never sell my country out,.and I live to one day get the truth about the murders of my co-workers. And the truths I do know ..do not let me sleep well at night.

And the truth will be the judge of us all...or the lack there of.

We may not like the truth..but it will prevail..one day.

And in the meantime..people will be killed or murdered or the powers that committed these crimes and many many others will continue to kill and murder..anyone that gets too close to the truth...and we will have politicians willing to sell all of us out.

In 2001 it was my co-workers..innocent victims of a government out of control and owned by the highest bidders..who will be the next victims?
My neighbors lost their son..he was killed by an aircraft (?) from my airline..they have a plaque by their front door with his name and it says.."Jeff's Place"..and an empty chair is under the plaque..

Who will be the next Jeff?

Who will be the next victims of a government run by nefarious criminals?
And why are they walking free?

I will continue to ask..Why did Obama pick Kissinger before and after he was inaugurated to represent his administration? was there no one else that had credibility and integrity? Why did Obama send a murderer to represent his administration..I will continue to ask that question.
Will you?

[Octafish]

16. Yes.

That's what we must do -- for Jeff and everyone else we love.

[Dr.Phool]

22. But, you see how persistent the myth is.

That Obama grew up as the impoverished son of a single mother.

Bullshit. His father was an anthropologist and his mother was an economist, working for the Ford Foundation, under the auspices of the IMF and World Bank.

Good branding and PR can accomplish a lot.

[WinkyDink]

25. I posted this in another thread:

Gore was not allowed to win.
Kerry was not allowed to win.
Obama was allowed to win.

Why?

[Rex]

20. Criminals know how to cover up fellow criminals crimes.

Sad that it has come to this...

[Enthusiast]

23. "Something still stinks."

It certainly does.

[formercia]

26. Which leads to the suspicious death of CIA Director Colby

who cooperated with Congress on the Church Investigation and drowned in a Kayaking 'accident'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_Central_Intelligence#William_Colby_1973_.E2.80.93_76


William Colby 1973 – 76


William Colby's death, officially in a boating accident, happened on the same date when a New York prosecutor got permission to set up a grand jury to investigate the role of the CIA in the death of Frank Olson who worked at Fort Detrick, Maryland and was involved in chemical warfare research. Frank Olson was one of the experimental subjects in the CIA MKULTRA experiments with LSD and other drugs. He did not give informed consent for the CIA to experiment on him, as would be ethically required under the medical research principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The CIA claimed that he committed suicide by jumping out of a hotel window but the family did not believe this explanation. An autopsy of the remains of Frank Olson had found blunt force trauma to the head, which might have come from the fall, or been inflicted before the fall. The Olson matter remains unresolved and continues to arise in reviews of questionable activities.

--snip--

William J. Casey 1981 – 87

Hours before Casey was scheduled to testify before Congress about his knowledge of Iran-Contra, he was reported to have been rendered incapable of speech, and was later hospitalized. In his 1987 book,<16> Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, who had interviewed Casey on numerous occasions, said that he had gained entry to Casey's hospital room for a final, four-minute long encounter — a claim that was met with disbelief in many quarters, and adamant denial by Casey's wife, Sofia. According to Woodward, when he asked Casey if he knew about the diversion of funds to the Nicaraguan Contras, "His head jerked up hard. He stared, and finally nodded yes."<17>.

[Beam Me Up]

28. Anyone who supports the "war on terror" in its present incarnation

can not be trusted. True, we do need a genuine "war on terror" -- that is, a war to expose and bring to justice terrorists operations emanating from within the global covert intelligence networks -- but that isn't the war we have.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

17. K&R...Thank God for people like you willing to

keep speaking truth to power. It's almost painful trying to understand what we are up against.

[defendandprotect]

18. Thank you . . . agree --

[katandmoon]

10. K&R. He's a Republican; he's safe from prosecution.

[malaise]

13. We have a case as well

http://www.afflictedyard.com/fun_in_76.htm
<snip>

Nasty man :puke:

[defendandprotect]

19. Thank you --

[SemperEadem]

24. I read Hitchens' book and I have to say

that after having read that book, I cannot see how that man walks free on the earth.

[Blue_Tires]

27. ttt