Event for the future of the rest joining us with details coverage an analysis of the trump impeachment on aljazeera. This documents is an official cia memorandum dated september 970 and is a note curiously titled discussion of the chilean political situation but its contents what it exposes is pretty incriminating. On the 14th of september mr holmes met with. Of the independent newspaper. Mr edwards expressed the following on the chilean political situation. Until 2017 all of this power. Was brought out redacted meaning that for more than 40 years edwards the owner of the most influential newspaper in chile and. Kept to a story that yes he did meet with the director of the cia Richard Helms here in washington d. C. And ok he did talk about some other day in this election but no there was never talk of. No true. Years later these declassified cia white house documents prove thats exactly what he did and that the cia financed the newspaper and made negative coverage of the a and the governor. In the positive coverage of the dictatorship that follows i myself i was born in chile and im going to tell you about why maybe 50 years on we still need to talk about. It. Chileans will tell you cant really understand the history of this country without understanding the history of women and the farming. If you need a modern equivalent think of the murdoch media empire only its much older dates but in the 19th century when the Edwards Family a must a food bank in mining agriculture. The family used economic power to shape key moments in chinese political history to give you an idea back in the 19th century the end was played a major role both into the civil war and the pacific war with bolivia and peru to protect their business interests there was one the only family and children a handful of families in the country can still do well set them apart with the newspapers. For me. The thing about Edwards Family line is that they understood the way in which the link between politics and economics operates like a sort of. That hint is the media yes and we say going to follow me over. There. Is much more than a newspaper its a Political Institution that brings together an ideological and Economic Group one that campaigns and influences Public Opinion in ways from a point of view that the film interests given. The audio oir what american radio has always been the most important paper in the country very conservative in its editorial perspective and closely linked to the countrys political and business elites and its had significant political impact throughout chiles recent history including wars Economic Affairs and coups. And the solomon orders and its not just al mercurio there are 3 means papers and santiago and regional change that followed a similar trend to that of many newspapers and that in america powerful influential business minded families who set up a powerful media outlet in order to achieve the next level in a flat up that had all the really frozen. By the night in 6 days the next level of interest they had was family were looking for was no longer to be found in chile so they look more to the United States to his government and to the Central Intelligence agency the. Political winds are shifting socialist movements were gathering momentum across the continent and in chile a president ial candidate some other agendas a left wing ideals pledges Agrarian Reform nationalization redistribution capturing the popular imagination who thought they stood to lose the Edwards Family certainly but also the u. S. Government as the documents show we now know that as early as 960. 00 fool the cia was injecting money into quote anti communist propaganda. And its other peoples d. C. s and i said. Support for a year in there to rein it in. The United States and the cia started bankrolling a campaign that was essentially against any leftist movements in chile in the 1960 s. This us aid. Helped and their cool deal with their campaign to undermine support for the left wing groups led by the rand in terms of their growing presence on the political stage both at the polls and in social terminals and even. Through his News Coverage and Opinion Pieces and. Some other day in this candidacy. But in september of 1971 the election. He became the worlds 1st democratically elected marxist president. Has left supporters took to the streets to celebrate a loss to edwards jumped on a plane flew to washington and sat down with 2 americans who would shape the future of chile u. S. National security adviser to the president and regis and director of the cia Richard Helms. What was proposed about meeting has been consistently denied for years because these documents declassified decades later reveal Chinese Media mogul was asking the cia for support in a military coup. And that support came in the form of money the money that was passed to over to sustain. Uses of truth propaganda to foment violence in. The creation of a cool climate the money came from the cia. As the director of the National Security archives chidi documentation project in washington d. C. Peter kornbluh has made it his mission to get to the truth on chile using the freedom of information act its been a trip by to process that in 27. 00 teams paid off. So you have a document. In which kissinger actually calls over to. The cia and says the president has just approved the proposal for supporting mccurry oh at the amount of 700000. 00 the president wished to see the paper kept going and the amount stipulated could be exceeded if that would be useful he served that purpose i cant think of another time when i have seen micromanagement by the president of United States of covert propaganda operations in another country and here is the living proof of nixons personal involvement in making sure that the cia kept elma korea go. Classified documents all kinds here in washington d. C. Show that president nixon himself directly authorized funding for medical deal to the tune of 2000000 dollars a theorist amounts of money in the 1970 s. Enough to keep a paper that was in Financial Difficulties alive and more importantly shape Public Opinion the cia essentially passed money physically to members of the edwards group. Bags full of money and the cia bag man if you will in the cia station santiago was named jack divine. And he was. A young man with a big afro if you looked at him you would have thought he was a Foreign Exchange student during the age of hippies but in fact he was an undercover cia officer in one of his 1st postings. As an agent and he was responsible for carrying this money for meeting with periodically with the helmet for real people with the divine thanks for talking to us here in the think its a pleasure you touched down in chile in the 1970 s. During the age in the government you put in charge of an important brief in medical your project a key part of the cia operation in chile at the time can you tell us about your specific role in this post was an extraordinary assignment was my 1st assignment a lot of our my job was actually to help keep the funding. Because the again the government of the time who is 3 would say putting the screws on almost quarter my 1st major test that i could recall was trying to find funding so that public order could tend to continue to obtain the paper did that actually print the newspapers so this is on the record as cables written by me asking for a fairly large several several 100000. 00 to support the the maintenance of running the paper well mccourty it was for the whole market you want to preserve it. With High Integrity as a journalistic back with us so you were on the ground in chile you were reading a medical and you were seeing what was happening what do you make of criticisms then that during the 3 years of president and administration and what do you. Used propaganda to deliberately mislead readers let me put it in the context of the time i think blocking. The i. N. D. Government with a communist. Participation in the government in the context of the cold war was an important thing to do the we know from other reporting that the russians really looked at chile as an experimental case where you could use the voting box to bring communist to power in the hemisphere there was a sentiment among those of us watching that the i. N. D. Government was in the process of falling of its own weight his policies were so wrong footed that was they were the architect of the economic problems that they were confronted. That elva choreo would be critical of. Is is not surprising i you know understating the power of the media. Not just to report on stories but to produce them creating stories and this is where the bottom line is and nobody of course once they hear this on the left a n. D. Created most of the stories i mean economic policies are very hard to justify today and. At the end of the day when i stand back were brought down the brother record it was soft there art it was a barely fall government economically. Thats the story of journalist and it is theres a little town at the time. Thank you very much for joining us here in the past he was working for him a good deal and says that without cia money the paper would never have been able to tell its not because president you know there was explicitly censoring the press but because his government was tightening the screws on him and financially they were in a nearby wilcannia for trying to end the government wanted to close down and market it but they couldnt just send the police you know shut the paper down so what they did was found all its accounts they blocked its newsprint supplies they took away all Public Sector advertising as a result the paper was then in serious financial trouble so the people who did want and what could or to survive did what they could to find funding for it among them the u. S. Government this was a fight between 2 armies income but one of the methods the poor in my opinion unlawful by draining the life out of it while the other wanted to provide it with a life like you to get your limited period in israel according to bit is the art of the cia offered that lifeline however for victor that read of edwards an official biographer that cash. Allowed and unleashed a Propaganda Campaign that would lead to a un does down full and the thousands of deaths that followed we went there when i had finished the thank you lithium but it can for instance amongst various interventions there was the financing of a general strike particularly Truck Drivers and the transport industry which paralyzed the whole country and mccall you played a key part as a spokesman for this movement showing how the country was supposedly falling apart at the seams and medco you had been generating fear on communism ever since the bolshevik revolution itself. From a very early stage Edwards Mcclure was the grandfather of Augustine Edwards identified this revolution something very dangerous and makoto has always been furiously anti communist always. Carried out an anti communist campaign deliberately spreading panic were talking about the cold war the early seventies i mean it was the communists are coming to kill your kids that kind of thing the establishing of a totalitarian state where all freedoms would be taken away and many people bought it. We have cia documents from the spring of 1973 in which the cia station chief identifies emma choreo as one of the key entities in chile that is pushing for instability and confrontation in order to instigate military action in chile no discussion of democracy nothing peaceful violence that was the purpose. September of 1973 i in there was overthrown in a military coup led by general. Mass open air prisons. Houses disappearances in the 1000. Bodies dumped at sea the result a culture of fear and repression repression the spread to the media and new total crackdown on the press with an exception i made and the other 2 papers that opened a film im not on demand. Yes thats where most chileans got their news from during the 17 years that tape the ship that followed. Where Barbara Hayes a Young Journalist at the time got her start. Without a paper political yes i was really interested in political journalism but by then it was clear that there was absolutely no chance of being able to do that under dictatorship not in elmore coolio not anywhere else you have to realize that in those years the clampdown on the media was brutal the information wed be able to gather even those of us who studied journalism would be very little and there was a lot of selfcensorship around aside from straight up censorship the editors and publishers of the media were only too aware that there were certain topics that could not be reported and they would be constantly summoned by the Governments National directorate for communications which controlled anything to do with media or lara bought them. In july of 1975 so when they want to make who is more liberal papers published a headline that still lives on exterminated like rats the rats were the 190 members of the me and the revolutionary Left Movement and opposition training for a counter coup. According to. Libyan internal fight which ended in a bloodbath the real story the Chilean Secret Police heard disappeared then. I asked police there say about the story of the 119 and why. Covered it the way they did so. If youre a journalist and youre given a story you take that story to your paper and it gets published there was no prior knowledge of anything i mean we had a judicial inquiry that took place 30 years later that exposed. The story came to journalists from argentina and it. Published in an argentinian paper then over time it emerged that everything had been fabricated but nobody could have known that at the time we. Did was to quote the official source of thats what they publish and what they really want to go. One of the 119 disappeared by chiles secret police whose mere member martin get there. His sister maria told me shes been campaigning for justice ever since one of her and i was baffled was well this isnt a tourist front page of lhasa gone exterminated like rats it was painful really very painful its probably difficult to imagine what it means to know that your brother has been arrested 3 or thirtys to spend a year denying it and then to be faced with this information was extremely shocking. Even though it was officially denied his death a become a possibility after a few months and with that report we knew it was true and it said yes they killed them best still killing them that killing us and they will carry on. Saying kill guess until they pull all the adios in a better the more i say so in a. Letter i opened the 1 4 video. A lot of anger indignation and at the time a lot of impotence because it was just impossible to counter those arguments these were official truths that were established and distributed in the media there were practically no media you could call on to disprove any of this even though we the families of the disappeared tried with every single one of the media organizations in chile theres not a single media outlet at the time who can say they didnt know they didnt have a chance to find out about it. Because all this information all the information to disprove this government information was delivered to all media for think ill go. Into the night many kids ok all the way not to let a documentary on and then wrote in a dictatorship and yet all those things i was the real paper was. True national t. V. But im aware of what the boy cost it see the end but its being told it in motion of those me a little as you will not get it took another 6 years for the film to be broadcast late at night on a on t. V. An independent channel that day and they could use t. V. Listings left that slot blank more than food t years after the military coup the films director found the daring to question and make sure you know whos still to be done over this one you know live alternately the censorship operation against the film came from officials at chiles National Broadcaster from within the directors board it came from within because in makati or generates fear among those who want power because america is also a means to being an empowered kid in a bull in the neck and i think i think of that but i think of it because i mean if you go to the point that i would have if they went there not only for myself. And we then the world to think it was the 1st step in a series of attempts to expose the role of Augustine Edwards and their medical you during the dictatorship many people knew but its one thing to talk about and another to show it to the union to see. If you need to start with an intersection just to listen to this little bit i mean anything. A 2nd day to instill. Fear and well again but over time again if the problem is that in my call you and i will steal an edwards or the victors of history and the victors dont apologize apologize for what we called for a coup detat and thats what we have. Apologized for wanting a mere liberal state that we now have winners dont say sorry. This is the basic article so to demand this from the victors of history strange why should you demand this and why should they apologize if they want on all fronts a matter. Of principle and a lot of big oh yes he moans have been made legal ones in 20132 groups representing families of the disappeared. It was to court for his role in covering up Human Rights Violations it was the 1st time charges had been brought against the civilian for his or her role in the coup nothing came of it today im a good deal still dominates the media market and when i was dean edwards died in 2017 but he and his paper remains officially unblemished. Where weve been legally challenging these cases for more than 40 years what happened during the dictatorship was an ability to cover up any dissent anything that could have been construed as a criticism of the establishment of the power elites throughout history there are instances of this kind of lies and distortions of reality last when else. This is a memorial to the thousands of people who disappeared during the pinochet regime a symbol of the chilean state that sounds to confront a brutal past but not Everyone Wants to do that we tried not for weeks but for months to get an official response from element on. 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