Here in the United States, we are regularly warned by the media and the pundits not to subscribe to wacky “conspiracy theories.” (For more on this theme, see my book, Family of Secrets.) Even a suggestion that figures tied to our intelligence services might have participated in something seriously untoward on our own shores – is pooh-poohed. This, notwithstanding well-documented thuggery by our fellow citizens elsewhere.
Now, in the New York Times, comes a chilling story from Chile:
A judge in Santiago ruled Monday that a former Chilean president, Eduardo Frei Montalva, had been poisoned and charged three people connected with the Pinochet dictatorship with murder in the 28-year-old case. Alejandro Madrid, a judge with the Court of Appeals, said there was evidence that Mr. Frei, who was president of Chile from 1964 to 1970, was poisoned with low doses of mustard gas and thallium in the months before his death on Jan. 22, 1982. The poisoning at the Santa María Clinic in Chile’s capital compromised Mr. Frei’s immune system, the indictment said, and made him too weak to survive surgery for a stomach ailment, which the original autopsy had ruled as the cause of death. The indictment charged six people in connection with the killing. A doctor connected to Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s army, a former intelligence agent under the general and Mr. Frei’s driver were charged with murder. Two doctors who were alleged to have falsified the autopsy report were charged with covering up the killing, and a third was charged as an accomplice.”
In case people have forgotten, Pinochet was our guy—we helped remove the democratically elected person who he replaced, and our military and spy services had close relationships with Pinochet’s. Taught them quite a few tricks, in fact. Worth keeping in mind when we say that such dastardly things could never happen here at home. As for the doctors who falsified an autopsy report, it’s worth revisiting the JFK assassination if you haven’t paid the subject attention lately.
What ever happened to the law suit which was broght by injered parties in the pinochet mess against henry kissenger and other officials in our government; I think it was a cival suit.I had herd and I can’t remember where that some action was to take place on 9-11. that exact day. I haven’t heard anything since.
New York Times, November 29, 2001, “A NATION CHALLENGED: OVERSEAS PUZZLE; U.S. Confirms Anthrax in Chilean Letter”
Among the letters sent in the 2001 Anthrax Attacks was a letter sent to CHILE and mailed from FLORIDA but postmarked ZURICH, SWITZERLAND.
This letter containing anthrax was mailed to Dr. Antonio Banfi, a pediatrician in Santiago, Chile. Although the return address was Orlando, Florida, the postmark was Zurich, Switzerland. The letter was sent via DHL, which used a Swiss bulk mail shipper in New York and a Swiss postmark. Unlike the anthrax letters with U.S. addressees, the letter to Chile was mailed in a business envelope and had a type-written return address, a business in Florida. Dr. Banfi received the letter, but found it suspicious and gave it to the Chilean authorities. No one is known to have been infected with anthrax from it. The letter baffled American and Chilean officials because, they say, “as they dig deeper, nothing quite adds up.”