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Relationship without thinking what the consequences were. We never knew long term what we wanted from noriega when we started the relationship in 1960. He was in the military academy. Castro had taken over in cuba. What we wanted were small pieces of information about the instructors and fellow students that had the tendencies. Noriega want add career he wanted prestige with being americas man. He wanted the counterintelligence training demolition training, all of the various training we gave hi...

The late Saul Landau spent years investigating the assassination in Washington, DC, of his friend, Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean foreign minister. What he found pointed right back to DC.

The brutality with which an elected government was deposed inspired military takeovers across Latin America – but also galvanised the human rights movement and spotlighted the dark activities of the CIA

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<p>It is beyond time for the Biden Administration to declassify presidential records related to American operations in Chile around the overthrow of democratically elected President Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973.  </p>

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John Dinges is a former managing editor of NPR News and professor of journalism at Columbia University. His most recent book, ​​Los Años del Cóndor, has just been released by Editorial DEBATE. An English version will be published by The New Press.

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had not invented plasma but almost invented it because thanks to him it was possible to save millions of lives. .. this is a story not very well known here in the united states but it is important. >> host: the punchline of your story, that because the story is in "mirrors," theres no such thing as black blood. all blood is red, which is total common sense and of course led to him being dismissed. one of the things that is remarkable about the way you tell these stories is that they ha...