Of the relationship between president and cia director and how it is influenced by the president s needs and interests. One cia director george w. H. Bush later became president himself. Good evening, everyone. My name is ruth robins and its a pleasure to welcome you here tonight for our program. A couple quick things first, one is, if you could please put away your cellphones, turn them off, silence them, any electronic devices, wed appreciate it. If you wonder why theres such bright lights in here, youre all going to be on tv, cspan is taking, kidding, youre not going to be on tv, the speaker is going to be on cspan. When we get to the q a they usually want to bring a mic down so they can record it. If you have a question try to wait until they bring the mic to you, the speaker will repeat the question so you can hear, but this is so they can hear it, however they work it. Our speaker tonight is David Robarge who received phd in American History from columbia university. After teachi
We listen what is the proposal. For a couple on you know we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter to 0. This documents is an official cia memorandum dated september 970. 00 and is innocuously 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 edwards the owner of the independent newspaper. Mr edwards expressed the following view on the chilean political situation. Until 2017 nearly all of this paragraph was built out redacted meaning that for more than 40 years oh Steven Edwards the owner of the most influential newspaper in chile and they put your kid 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 hoopla thing not true. Years later these now declassified cia white house documents prove thats exactly what he did and
Missions to space. Walk into the room we begin with breaking news coming out of somalia where at least 30 people have been killed in a car bomb attack in the capital mogadishu dozens more are feared dead in the blast in a security checkpoint jarring rush hour now local media are reporting that 4 turkish engineers were working nearby the checkpoint and amongst the dead lets get the very latest from her with tassel our correspondent joining me from live robey in neighboring kenya shes on the phone obviously sketchy details at the moment tyro about the numbers of dead and injured but what are you hearing about the explosion. Well youre right theres not much information coming out in terms of. The official death toll now is around 30 but there is more people could i be children find out in a couple of hours maybe some of those children include somali. And happen to point in market at this time of the day in the morning people regarding about their business driving around the shops close to
Addressed by you took a listen what is the proposal. For a couple on you know we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter to 0. This documents is an official cia memorandum dated september 917 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 edwards of the independent newspaper and. Mr edwards expressed the following on the chilean political situation. Until 2017 nearly all of this paragraph was brought out redacted meaning that for more than 40 years oh Stephen Edwards the owner of the most influential newspaper in chile and made 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 way and theres a direction but you know there was never talk of hoopla thing not true. Years later these now declassified cia white house documents prove thats exact
This documents is an official cia memorandum dated september 917. 00 and its 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 edwards the owner of the independent newspaper. Mr edwards expressed the following view on the chilean political situation. Until 2017 nearly all of this paragraph was brought out redacted meaning that for more than 40 years oh Steve Edwards the owner of the most influential newspaper in chile and made 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 you know theres a direction but you know there was never talk of hoopla thing not true. Years later these now deep cuts a fight cia and white house documents prove thats exactly what he did and that the cia financed this newspaper funding both negative coverage of the a and the government and the positive