Kissinger then went to Nixon and said, “Allende is now president. The
State Department thinks we can coexist with him, but I want you to make
sure you tell everybody in the U.S. government that we cannot, that we
cannot let him succeed, because he has legitimacy. He is democratically
elected. And suppose other governments decide to follow in his footstep,
like a government like Italy? What are we going to do then? What are we
going to say when other countries start to democratically elect other Salvador Allendes?"
Kissinger had aides who were saying to him, “It’s unbecoming for the
United States to intervene in a country where our national security
interests are not threatened.” And he pushed them away. “Nope, we
can’t—we can’t let this imitative phenomena—we have to stop Allende from
being successful.” He had aides that came to him the day after the coup
and said, “I’m getting reports that there’s 10,000 bodies in the
streets. People are being slaughtered.” And he said, “Go tell Congress
that this new military regime is better for our interests than the old
government in Chile.” And we have this fabulous document of him talking
to Pinochet, a meeting in 1976, in which his aides have told him, “You
should tell Pinochet to stop violating human rights.” And instead he
says to Pinochet, “You did a great service to the West in overthrowing
Allende. We want to support you, not hurt you.”
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