SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE: Who Overthrew Allende?
Haslam, Jonathan
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE Who Overthrew Allende? An exchange between Jonathan Haslam, a u t h o r o f The Nixon Administration and the Death of AUende's Chile: A Case of Assisted Suicide, and James...
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...Whelan believes Salvador Allende and Communist Party chief Luis Corvalfin would have done...
...And, although he would choose to scorn it, my works include a history of this country acclaimed by one leading newspaper as "an obligatory source on the social and political history of Chile," and by another as surpassed to that point (1995) only by the works of Chile's own two leading historians...
...mucking around in Chile--before, during, and after-the Allende years...
...But Phillips went on to say more: "But then I remembered the front page of The Washington Post edition that reported the coup in Santo Domingo: The two-column wire service dispatch had been eclipsed by a banner headline announcing Johnson had just dispatched 5,000 more United States soldiers to Vietnam...
...I have been attacked fiercely from the left for being too critical of the regime...
...If so, he knows little about Communism in Latin America...
...That would leave little of substance to address, but then there was so little of substance to begin with in a book that amounts to a feeble attempt to resurrect the hoary old myths about the American bogeyman masterminding the fall of Allende, A neat trick it might have been had Professor Haslam managed to assemble evidence, and above all, new evidence...
...As I demonstrate, citing the relevant archives from the Chilean foreign ministry and the Bundesarchiv in Berlin, the blank check Allende came to collect in Moscow was denied him despite Corvalfin's extensive lobbying...
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...I put the Dominican Republic in a more realistic framework in my article...
...On p. 167, he speaks of "many in the CIA already troubled by Lyndon Johnson's brazen invasion of the Dominican Republic...
...Instead of KGB, Cuba ran matters...
...The White House suspected the agency's Latin Americanists were too soft on Communism in Latin America because the Latin Americanists favored taking the long view--namely that the Allende regime would implode through incompetence and the absence of outside aid from Moscow or Beijing...
...Source: Professor Haslam, p. 153...
...Fidel Castro felt none of Moscow's constraints and he was more directly interested in the fate of the Southern Cone of Latin America...
...JONATHAN HASLAM Cambridge University, UnitedKingdom James R. Whelan replies: Tut, rut, Professor Haslam...
...It is true that, by 197...
...He then cites a single source within the CIA--footnote 39, attributed to David Phillips, ultimately head of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division, "shocked and disturbed" over the Dominican invasion...
...How else could one sustain plausible deniability...
...One example, then (among several I could cite...
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...and that there was therefore no need to pull it down through a golpe negro (a bloody coup), a golpe blanco would suffice...
...Decay and decrepitude beset the ethereal castles scattered across the pages of this book...
...For that matter, was any foreign power decisive...
...It just bears only incidental relation to reality...
...To what I can only suppose is his sorrow, read it thoroughly I did...
...Korry lying...
...Whelan thus demonstrates a startling naivet6 for someone of his proud profession...
...At this stage the Russians followed the Sonnenfeld doctrine of respecting spheres of influence...
...After 30 years in the business, I'm proud of the sources of information I've developed...
...At this time Andropov kept his hands off the hemisphere in terms of active operations that could compromise d6tente...
...Black coup" and "white coup" are not only terms I have never encountered in my 38-year Latin American career, but which no one else I polled had, either...
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...Alas, evidence is as wanting in this book as fanciful opinions are in embarrassing abundance...
...The DGI and Castro himself meddled, massively, and even cleverly--but to little effect, Though enraptured of Castro...
...And Nixon, as we know from the famous White House tapes, was not exactly famous for selfcontrol (expletives deleted...
...I can't say that I know this to be true, but I strongly doubt that Lord Thomas knew much more than the average educated Englishman about events in Chile--which is to say next to nothing...
...But somehow he cannot actually find one to quote or cite...
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...SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE "rode herd-hard" on what was spent, and where and when...
...Ambassadors were not to be told what was going on...
...Surely U.S...
...Whelan's response shows me why this is still needed...
...though you would scarcely guess it from this book, the Cold War was then at its peak, and Chile had become the principal Latin American battleground for it in the Allende period...
...6) Professor Haslam worries about my lack of knowledge about Central America...
...Allegations, it must be observed, are not the same thing as evidence...
...And finally, I shall not address anew issues which I covered in my article...
...And the Whelan world certainly stands at one extreme end of this spectrum...
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...9) A picayune point, but one that requires comment, inasmuch as Professor Haslam seems to want to make much of the apparent wonderment over "such inexorable detail {covering] the entire extent of U.S...
...Bob has developed sources and reported on vital topics for more than 40 years...
...Does Mr...
...To enter the Whelan world, where the normal properties of bodies in motion no longer obtain, we have to assume so...
...This raises an interesting question: is the Whelan world one of realism or just a deluded idealism...
...4) In his letter, Haslam speaks of "love matches" between Cuban intelligence operatives and Allende's daughters...
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...That changes not one whit the reality t h a t - a s Andrews and Mitrokhin richly document-the KGB (lid much in Chile, not "did little," as he asserts...
...Haslam presents himself as cocksure about what they did-or did not do...
...This is surprising for someone who wrote about this period of Chilean history and served as a correspondent in Santiago so long ago...
...Conspiracy theories thrive on fantasies such as these...
...Whelan really not know the plans Nixon and Kissinger hatched to stop Allende getting into office in the first place (1970...
...The documentation is extensive...
...the Soviets had grown intensely waw of Mlende's hlu nders and chances for survival-but, there I go again: That...
...intervention via CIA under the Democrats in elections of the early 1960s...
...Whelan really not know this...
...Allende heeded none of his key advice...
...Whelan's entire attitude to the Chilean affair demonstrates a touching innocence about U.S...
...showing little or no rnaintenance with the mortar of hard facts...
...I have no doubt that Professor Haslam is quite diligent about his work, but he is, after all, a "parachutist," dropping in on the country in the fashion of most foreign scholars and authors...
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...He was anything but silent...
...Haslam complains that I failed to offer examples...
...That informal poll included three retired Chilean generals and two retired admirals, a former foreign minister, and two former U.S...
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...Whelan not bother to read those pages, along with many others...
...The agency itself, below the level of the deputy director, was cut out in favor of working via the Pentagon...
...Moreover, the previous ambassador to Santiago, Edward Korry, is strikingly straightforward about U.S...
...The KGB left most to the DGI in Chile as they did later in Nicaragua and E1 Salvador...
...How else is one to interpret my extensive characterization of Allende's failings, his compromising Cuban connections, his blind indulgence of the ultra-left MIR, his adamant refusal to come to terms with Christian Democracy until it was too late, his open flirtation with the Soviet Union and China, his irresponsible management of the economy...
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...Your response to my review--it really wasn't a review, since I was attempting to rescue the cause of reason-reeks of rancid ad hominem attacks...
...And they were right (as were analysts at CIA...
...Pity you evidently did not read my article more closely...
...In his letter, the hapless professor also invents a gaudyoxymoron: The CIA (non-)supported strikes "almost wrecked" an economy "already ruined...
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...were he a more assiduous researcher, he 12 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR !~NF 2OO~ would find that I wrote three books on Central America, and a fourth on Soviet incursions into I,atin America...
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...An exchange between Jonathan Haslam, a u t h o r o f The Nixon Administration and the Death of AUende's Chile: A Case of Assisted Suicide, and James Whelan, who reviewed it in t h e March 2006 issue o f The American Spectator...
...But, as it also happens, evidence of a yew active KGB presence abounds, above 'all in yet another book that Haslam didn't consult: The World Was (bring Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World ("NewlyRevealed Secrets From The Mitrokhin Archive") by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin...
...True as far as it goes, but it simply doesn't go far enough...
...coup in the Chile of 1973 of any kind, black, white, or otherwise...
...I am primarily a Russian specialist but I found few footsteps visible despite considerable effort...
...That level of understanding is possible only because of the behind-the-scenes conversations he has with officials at the highest levels of government and commerce...
...an informal foreign policy adviser to SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE Margaret Thatcher...
...and, in Pinochet's Chile, likely as not burnt...
...Or are certain books forbidden in the Whelan world because, as in the case of Dickens' Mr...
...Once it failed, Nixon, now beside himself with anger, resolved to revert to a 9olpe negro...
...The agency of course financed and ran the economic strikes against Allende...
...involvement" expressed to him by the yew estimable l,ord Hugh Thomas...
...I mention Cuba's DGI a good deal, as I do the activities of Fidet...
...Whelan's favored source, the unfortunate ambassador Nathaniel Davis who was cut out of the loop on coup preparations in June and September 1973 but took a misplaced hit from Costa Gavras in the filmMissing, is resoundingly silent on the strikes in 1972 and 1973, including CIA support for them, not even attempting to refute these facts...
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...Would he be chastened to learn that 1 am something of a Russian specialist as well, having done my graduate work at Harvard in the field of Sino-Soviet studies...
...So it was that all of the key players in the Cold War were active in Chile...
...If we go to the sourcePhillips' book, The Night Watch, we find on the cited page, 222: "Then, in 1965, I was shocked and disturbed when Lyndon Johnson sent more than 20,000 troops to the Dominican Republic...
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...Being assaulted from opposite sides is somehow disconcerting, but then, on reflection, perhaps reassuring...
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...As a one-time correspondent he sneeringly suggests I am wrong not to reveal authoritative sources that spoke off the record...
...In fact Allende staunchly resisted Corvalfin's siren calls for seizing power together with the "progressive" military, as he did Fidet Castro's similar suggestions...
...Ad hominem attacks tend to collapse of their own rotten weight, and so I shall not wallow in that muck and mire...
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...involvement in the Schneider assassination is so well documented by sworn testimony and CIA archival documents as to be in every schoolbook by now...
...Nor, as Ambassador Daxds undoubtedly would be among the first to attest, was he ever my "favorite source,") His forcefld and vigorous role was filly corroborated by Hemly Kissinger...
...This sounds familiar, does it not...
...The Nixon administration did, however, play a role...
...It is so revealing...
...Fair enough, perhaps--but then, my article was, after all, just t h a t - a n d not a new book complete with the trappings of one, such as footnotes and detailed documentation of each and every assertion...
...Yet ygu'll never see it on newsstands, and it has seldom even been made available to the public...
...1) Haslam says Merino (the navy commander), Leigh (the ai r force chief), and Pinnchet (head of the army) all "had people killed because of their belieN...
...too, was in n w article...
...The President's rationale could be appreciated-having involved the country in such an appalling investment of men and money in Southeast Asia, Johnson was not going to take even the slightest chance of another Cuba in the Caribbean...
...Does Mr...
...despite the massive pogrom directed at the militaw regime, not a scrap of evidence has been present~ ed linking any one of those three to the murder of anyone, and much, much less the killing of anyone "because of their beliefs...
...I have rediscovered an old-fashioned Manichean vision of the world, Whelan's world, which I had unaccountably assumed lost, like that in Jules Verne's epic, a world of purity, a world of injured innocence, that one had thought rendered extinct through the sulfuric explosion of greed and globalization...
...Well it ain't just by watching him on TV, that's for sure...
...I even have a chapter headed "The Economic Consequences of Professor Vuskovic...
...Now it may be that, though both that book and his bear puhlication dates of 2005, this quite serious tome was not yet available as the professor was writing...
...and where they were not active, the East Germans had their patch...
...Indeed, I itemize the facts concerning DGI officials and their love matches with Allende's daughters, not least the relationship between "Tati" Allende and Fernfindez Ofia, later head of DGI...
...But it failed, even though it almost wrecked what remained of an economy already ruined by the unlawful seizure of assets...
...some, no doubt, may be psychopaths...
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...Tilting at windmills, some might say (mindful, as they do, of the melancholy fate of Don Quixote when he spurred Rosinante forward to "sweep so evil a breed offthe face of the earth...
...Whelan has difficulty doing: controlling choleric emotions...
...Whelan accuses me of believing Communists are just deluded altruists...
...When you think about it, don't you deserve the same information that scores of Senators, members of Congress, bank presidents, influential editors, and even Bush's top advisors see...
...But, then, there was no U.S...
...10) Ah, those footnotes--I spoke of"a number of them which misstate the source, or are just plain wrong...
...But it is no doubt worth preserving out there, somewhere, a lost world, a near petrified sanctuary, that echoes sounds we had long forgotten...
...Remarkable as it may seem, Lady Thatcher's former adviser Lord (Hugh) Thomas, who supported the coup and read the book, asked me whether I really thought it now necessary to itemize in such inexorable detail the entire extent of U.S...
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...The KGB did little, I discovered...
...This is, of course, in no wise intended as a criticism of Lord Thomas, only to point out that in the circumstances (see foregoing), I find it a bit odd that Haslam should drag him in as a validator of his ersatz scholarship...
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...It is only by virtue of this quaint perspective that the work of a Cambridge Professor receives such attention, even if the only stated reason for meriting such time and space is the claim that his book is "pernicious...
...Actually...
...For example, that far from "running and financing" the "economic" (his curious term) strikes against Allende, the CIA funneled only a pittance to those protests so broad-based that they ultimately involved one million Chileans-a third of the entire work force...
...Or, another: that Ambassador Davis was "resoundingly silent [sic] on the strikes in 1972 and 1973," when--as I pointed out, after a close reading of his book--Davis continued on page 12 8 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 2006 A SPECIAL INVITATION FOR AMERICAN SPECTATOR SUBSCRIBERS FROM THE DESK OF R. EMMETT TYRRELL Better than a White House Pass Want to know a secret...
...The greatest pressure for action, indeed, came from "milgroup" in Chile who were closest to the malcontents within the Chilean armed forces, the navy in particular...
...I shall, then, limit myself to a %w of his many baseless assertions...
...Period...
...8) "If Mr...
...Serious reading of the text will reveal that what Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger did was to go behind the back of the agency proper, including the head of Santiago station, in order to remove Schneider (in 1970) and dispose of Allende (in the abortive coup of 29 June and the successful operation on 11 September 1973...
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...But there were more than a few of them at work under Pinochet's benign gaze...
...JAMES R. WHELAN Santiago, Chile P.S...
...but the piW is that our Cant abrigian apparently did not bother to read either of Kissinger's excruciatingly relevant books-at least they are neither included in his bibliography, nor included in his footnotes...
...continued next page...
...Another wild allegation: because I do not cite the KGB sufficiently, I am in some way soft on them...
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...Far from it...
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...7) Despite not includingeither Nixon or Kissinger books ill his bibliography...
...Merino, Leigh, and Pinochet believed in their cause...
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...Or has he no professional ethics...
...The complete quote casts a rather different light on the matter than does the chunk Haslam wrenched out of context...
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...Summing up: Professor Haslam has written an impoverished book, and by the tone and vapidity of his letter, I surmise that he knows it is...
...Whelan in this intemperate outburst...
...The answer is a resounding no, and I assert that after more than 30 years of conscientious study, research, investigation, interviews (literally hundreds, across the ideological spectrum), and obsenzation over (but not limited to) the seven years I have lived in the country...
...But, then, what would mere Chileans know about Chilean affairs...
...Kissinger had cut Korry out of the Schneider JUNE 2006 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 7 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE operation in 1970...
...3) It is not true that Allende emerged empty-handed fl'orn his mission to Moscow, They did not give him the $80 million he sought, hut they did give him $45 million, on top of 200 million in earlier ruble credits...
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...5) Nor is it true that the Cuban DGI "ran matters" in Allende's Chile...
...foreign policy through the post-war period in Latin America and an even more touching innocence about the Right in Chile...
...Lord Thomas was among the founding members of the Conservative Philosophy Group-in 1975-two years after the Chilean coup (and the year in which Mrs...
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...Indeed, the country's leading university esteemed sufficiently my scholarship as to invite me to join their faculty...
...2) Haslam reminds us that he is a Russian specialist, whereas 1 am guilty of"elementary, stupidiW" in the matter of the KGB...
...It bears observing that, as Andrews and Mitrokhin document, that did not mean the KGB closed up shop in Chile-they simply went about their business more discreetly...
...Whelan had read the book calmly and careflflly..," Any number of commentators through the years have referred to my qualities as a meticulous (acusioso) investigator, I bringthat same zeal to books I review, as well as those l write, (When l stopped numbering my notes on this one, they stood at 140, not counting a number of others drawing on related books...
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...Allende and his men committed political suicide...
...Whean's review, and The American ectator for printing it ("The nited States and Salvador Allnde: A Special Report on a Perennial Big Lie," March 2006), though perhaps not in the way he expected...
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...Whelan had read the book calmly and carefully in order to see whether there was something new to learn instead of erupting like a spluttering, formerly extinct volcano, he might have seen that I come down pretty heavily on those in and out of government responsible for the mess that was Chile by September 1973...
...Allende had outmaneuvered Nixon yet again and manipulated willing (some na'fve, some ambitious) souls within the armed forces to neutralize the right...
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...Actually, there was only one such love match...
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...Reading this book, closely, carefully, one thinks also of Boswell's famous remark about "building castles in the air," and Bulwer-Lytton's injunction, they are cheap to build, but expensive to maintain...
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