KISSINGER TO ARGENTINES ON DIRTY WAR: "THE QUICKER YOU SUCCEED, THE BETTER"
Newly declassified documents show Secretary of State gave green light to junta, Contradict official line that Argentines "heard only what [they] wanted to hear."
While military dictatorship committed massive human rights abuses in 1976, Kissinger advised, "If you can finish before Congress gets back, the better."
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 104Edited by Carlos Osorio, Assisted by Kathleen Costar Posted December 4, 2003:
http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB104/index.htm
Please also see:
Transcript: U.S. OK'd 'Dirty War'
New evidence suggests that Henry Kissinger gave the Argentine military 'a green light' in its 1970s-80s campaign against leftists.
by Daniel A. Grech,
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1204-01.htm
Threat forces Khadr lawyer to quit: Galati believes U.S. or domestic intelligence agency behind death threat, MARLENE HABIB, CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_=043e9ca40a3b4cec&pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1070539264042&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154
Newly declassified documents show Secretary of State gave green light to junta, Contradict official line that Argentines "heard only what [they] wanted to hear."
While military dictatorship committed massive human rights abuses in 1976, Kissinger advised, "If you can finish before Congress gets back, the better."
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 104Edited by Carlos Osorio, Assisted by Kathleen Costar Posted December 4, 2003:
http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB104/index.htm
Please also see:
Transcript: U.S. OK'd 'Dirty War'
New evidence suggests that Henry Kissinger gave the Argentine military 'a green light' in its 1970s-80s campaign against leftists.
by Daniel A. Grech,
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1204-01.htm
Threat forces Khadr lawyer to quit: Galati believes U.S. or domestic intelligence agency behind death threat, MARLENE HABIB, CANADIAN PRESS
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_=043e9ca40a3b4cec&pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1070539264042&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154