Cable ties Kissinger to Chile controversy

WASHINGTON (AP) -- As secretary of state, Henry Kissinger canceled a U.S. warning against carrying out international political assassinations that was to have gone to Chile and two neighboring nations just days before a former ambassador was killed by Chilean agents on Washington's Embassy Row in 1976, a newly released State Department cable shows.

Whether Kissinger played a role in blocking the delivery of the warning against assassination to the governments of Chile, Argentina and Uruguay has long been a topic of controversy.

Discovered in recent weeks by the National Security Archive, a non-profit research organization, the Sept. 16, 1976 cable is among tens of thousands of declassified State Department documents recently made available to the public.

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I find this very interesting. The US Secretary of State does not issue a warning to certain South American Governments about assassinations and almost immediately thereafter, a diplomat from a country in a region know to have political differences with the US is killed in Washington. Seems like guilt by neglect at the very least, if not outright US involvement.
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