Comment
Dangerous Propaganda The Daily Press Digest of May 5, 1988, published by the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador, reproduced my NACLA piece "Heading Home" along with Holly Burkhalter's article...
...The article by Mr...
...They had toured throughout Chile, meeting with political and social leaders of the civilian Right, center and center-Left, putting forward a simple proposition: that the U.S...
...Mission to protect U.S...
...journalists rather than put them at risk...
...With things likely to get worse before they get better in [El] Salvador, it seems important to force the U.S...
...Norton...is a presentation of facts regarding the October 1987 repatriation of refugees...
...I understand that David Dlouhy, the Embassy's Deputy Chief of Mission, was responsible for including these articles in the Press Digest which before merely covered the largest mainstream U.S...
...I heard time after time the same story: During the first part of the year, and reaching a climax in August, there had been an extraordinary number of visits by U.S...
...Dlouhy: In my capacity as Secretary of Institutional Relations for the Salvadoran Press Corps Association, I submit to you a formal protest of a U.S...
...Quentin Given Chile Solidarity Campaign London...
...The protest took place, but in an atmosphere of division and demoralization...
...policy-the marginalization and control of the Left-remain the same...
...But we would be failing in our anti-imperialist task if we forgot that the aims of U.S...
...Our association believes the Embassy should limit itself to reproducing any article it sees fit and refrain from labelling them in a way that, given the history and circumstances of this country, might be construed as identification of a "subversive" author...
...No one at the Embassy has accepted blame for editing the section in the Digest...
...1987] in the same NACLA issue under the heading' 'Leftist Propaganda in the U.S...
...The United States may now have a different policy towards Chile than it did in 1973, and we should not underestimate such a shift...
...I refer to the article titled "Heading Home" by Chris Norton, published in the Fall 1987 issue of NACLA's Report on the Americas, and included in the digest under the heading "Leftist Propaganda in the U.S...
...representatives-not only of the State Department, but of trade union, business and social organizations too...
...Douglas Mine San Salvador [The State Department recently issued an apology to Chris Norton but attempted to absolve Dlouhy of any responsibility...
...But the ground had been carefully prepared for months beforehand by these visits...
...Embassy action that we, the members of SPCA, consider irresponsible and unjust...
...Certainly the discovery of the arsenals, said to be the property of the FPMR [Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front], played a major role in achieving this split...
...Ed.] More on Chile I visited Chile in November 1986, during the State of Siege following the assassination attempt [on Pinochet], when many on the Left were pondering why the momentum of revolt had been lost...
...I met with representatives of the MDP [Popular Democratic Movement, a coalition of political parties on the Left and far Left] and of the MDP member parties...
...The Embassy's Daily Piess Digest of May 5, 1988 used a subjective, prejudicial and potentially dangerous label to characterize an article by a bona fide professional American journalist and member of our organization...
...Chris Norton San Salvador Dear Mr...
...papers...
...break off all links with the Marxist Left, and show that they could control and rule without the cooperation of that Left...
...government would assist the "democratic opposition" to remove Pinochet and take over the reins of government, but only on certain conditions--that they should pull out of joint mobilizations and joint platforms...
...At very short notice, the Christian Democrats pulled out of the day of protest called by the broad opposition platforms for September 4th...
...Embassy in San Salvador, reproduced my NACLA piece "Heading Home" along with Holly Burkhalter's article ["Trade Law: Sanctions Among Friends," Sept./Dec...
...As you well know, inference more subtle than provided in theEmbassy digest has cost people their lives...
...I have no problem with Dlouhy reprinting my articles but labelling them "leftist propaganda" in a public embassy bulletin that is sent to the Salvadoran government, army and security forces needlessly and irresponsibly puts me at risk...
...Dlouhy seems-to be a hardline ideologue who...formerly worked at the [State Department's] Office of Public Diplomacy...
Vol. 22 • July 1988 • No. 4
