Oh Steve Edwards the owner of the most influential newspaper in chile and it 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 guy and theres a direction but you know there was never talk of. Not true. Years later these now deep cuts of fight cia white house documents prove thats exactly what he did and that the cia financed his newspaper funding both negative coverage of the a in the government and the positive coverage of the dictatorship that followed i must set up this article i was born in chile and im going to tell you about why maybe 50 years on we still need to talk about the mic or deal. 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 amassed a fortune bunking minin
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 gove
Karen welcome. Thank you all for being here. Before we get started, i just want to tell you that i am so happy to be having this event because we never get to talk about history and historians. We always talk about politics and the law and Foreign Policy. And it is all very interesting. But those of you who know me know that i like the history. And i think it wouldve been a very good thing if more historians were weighing in more frequently and people who write about politics in a historical vein and people who think about whats come before. We dont have enough of it and this is our meager attempt to try to do that. Before we get started, let me just say that this is being recorded by cspan. You know the routine, which means that when you get the mic, speak into the mic, wait for the mic before you speak. And be aware of the fact that its being recorded. So before we get started with our discussion, let me introduce the men to my left. Jim banner who edited the book president ial misco
This is our meager attempt to try to do that. Before we get started, let me just say that this is being recorded by cspan. You know the routine, which means that when you get the mic, speak into the mic, wait for the mic before you speak. And be aware of the fact that its being recorded. So before we get started with our discussion, let me introduce the men to my left. Jim banner who edited the book president ial misconduct, which is our kickoff for our discussion tonight, is a visiting scholar in history at George Washington university, having spent most of his career teaching at princeton. Hes the founding director of the history news service. His most recent book is being a historian and introduction to the professional world of history. Again, i think it is about the profession and the worldview. He has edited and written numerous books, including the one we are featuring tonight. He is one of the creators of the National History center. Jackson leers is the board of governors prof
Okay. Welcome to the Commonwealth Club. Im the former executive director for the investigative reporting and the current board member and moderator for tonights program. This program is part of the clubs series by the Bernard Foundation and it is my pleasure to introduce todays distinguished speaker senior fellow at the institute at Brown University brothers overthrow hes also an awardwinning correspondent for the boston globe. His new book tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the cias seat medical experiments of the 1950s and 60s. On the original interviewer int, survivors testimonies and documentary research, the book brings to light the massive hunt for the secret of mind control that spans several countries including the work of nazi scientists and led experimentations on Government Employees willing and unwilling, foreign politicians and the children, prisoners, sex workers and anyone else they deem threatening or expendable. Youre about to hear a tale of the most po