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Argentine Newspaper, Pagina 12, Highlights Evidence Presented by Archive Southern Cone Project Director Carlos Osorio
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'Operation Condor was an infamous secret alliance between South American dictatorships in the mid and late 1970s - a Southern Cone rendition and repression program - formed to track down and eliminate enemies of their military regimes.'
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Short extract from the People's Century series.
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A clip from People's Century on US films after WWII.
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'In October 1967 the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara was captured and killed in Bolivia. Witness speaks to Felix Rodriguez, the CIA operative who helped track him down.'
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The CIA's outlandish plots to bump off the Cuban dictator would put 007 to shame ... poison pills, toxic cigars and exploding molluscs. Once he even offered to shoot himself, reports Duncan Campbell.
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For nearly half a century, the CIA and Cuban exiles have been trying to devise ways to assassinate Fidel Castro: Duncan Campbell's Guardian article from 2006.
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Everything you think you know about those 13 days is wrong.
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The rendition of events that the Kennedy administration fed to a credulous press; the history that the participants in Washington promulgated in their memoirs, and the story that has insinuated itself into the national memory were misleading or erroneous.
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The Cuban Revolution & Fidel Castro's Communist Regime in Cuba | Cold War Footage | Full Documentary
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An anti-Castro film which focuses on the revolution of 1959 and Castro's actions after he won power.
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CIA release of new President’s Daily Briefs shows continuing attempt to cover up agency knowledge of 1973 Chile coup
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'Forty-three years after the U.S.-supported military coup in Chile, the Central Intelligence Agency continues to withhold information on what it knew about planning for the putsch, and what intelligence it shared with President Richard Nixon, according to redacted documents posted today by the National Security Archive.'
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Obituary: Captain-general Augusto Pinochet, who has died aged 91, was the most notorious of Latin America's 20th-century military rulers.
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Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, Chilean military dictator, born November 25 1915; died December 10 2006.
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10 historians assess the controversial statesman’s legacy.
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Ten interpretations of Henry Kissinger: an antidote to Niall Ferguson.
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Chile and the United States: Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup, September 11, 1973
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'Through Freedom of Information Act requests, and other avenues of declassification, the National Security Archive has been able to compile a collection of declassified records that shed light on events in Chile between 1970 and 1976.'
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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
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A brief biography of.Ho Chi Minh.
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Why did a president who understood the risks nevertheless rush into an unwinnable war?
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LBJ and Vietnam: Mark K. Updegrove, director of the LBJ Presidential Library, is the author of “Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency.”
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Jon Lee Anderson on Henry Kissinger’s legacy, and the newly released documents concerning his role in Argentina’s Dirty War of 1976.
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'The latest revelations compound a portrait of Kissinger as the ruthless cheerleader, if not the active co-conspirator, of Latin American military regimes engaged in war crimes.'
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James Bond had a bigger role in winning the Cold War than you might think, argues historian Dominic Sandbrook. Via Stephen Chamberlain
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'Because [the Cold War] was above all an ideological conflict, a contest between two systems, it touched almost every aspect of life: the books you read on holiday, the films you saw at the cinema, the music you played in your student bedsit. Indeed, one of the arguments of our series is that in the Cold War, the decisive weapon wasn’t the atom bomb. It was our popular culture.'
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An outline of Nixon's foreign policy from the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia.
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July 20, 2016 11:04 AM
An outline of Nixon's foreign policy from the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia.
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'President Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton... Fidel Castro, who died at 10.29pm on Friday at the age of 90, saw all of them come and go while ruling the United States' pariah neighbour Cuba for 49 years, with a mix of charisma and iron will.'
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'In the days since his death, and in parallel with obituaries detailing his record of violence and repression at home, Castro has been widely celebrated for his role in southern Africa in particular, a region where he supported Angolan revolutionaries pitted against the U.S.-backed apartheid regime of South Africa. And yet Cuba’s role on the continent also illuminates some of the contradictions of advancing an anti-imperial agenda, premised on social and racial justice, in part through the execution of proxy wars abroad.'
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After the Bay of Pigs disaster President Kennedy created a committee charged with overthrowing Castro's government. At a meeting of this committee at the White House on 4th November 1961, it was decided to call this covert action program for sabotage and subversion against Cuba, Operation Mongoose.
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Find out more about the history of Bay of Pigs Invasion, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more. Get all the facts on HISTORY.com
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'On April 17, the Cuban exile brigade began its invasion at an isolated spot on the island’s southern shore known as the Bay of Pigs. Almost immediately, the invasion was a disaster.'
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'On April 17, the Cuban exile brigade began its invasion at an isolated spot on the island’s southern shore known as the Bay of Pigs. Almost immediately, the invasion was a disaster.'
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Chilean author Isabel Allende remembers the military coup on 11 September 1973, and how it changed her own life and her country forever.
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Chilean author Isabel Allende remembers the military coup on 11 September 1973, and how it changed her own life and her country forever.
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Declassified US files shine new light on Argentina’s darkest days
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'Staggering details of the belligerence, brutality and barbarism of Argentina’s last military dictatorship (1976 - 1983) have been revealed by the latest tranche of declassified documents from the United States government, which were handed over to the national Human Rights Secretariat earlier this week.'
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Thanks to his gross abuses of presidential power symbolized by the Watergate scandal and to his own decision to record the details of his presidency on tape, Nixon seems destined to remain an object of fascination, amazement, scorn, and disgust for as long as historians pay attention to the American presidency. When the subject matter is their foreign policy, Nixon’s sidekick, Henry A. Kissinger, will be right there beside him.
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'Is Nixon’s historical reputation doomed forever? These books suggest that it is.' A review of recent literature on the Presidency of Richard Nixon.
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The destruction of Chilean democracy in 1973: Salvador Allende's government overthrown by Augusto Pinochet's military coup backed by the CIA and the 'Chicago boys'.
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New evidence proves that Richard Nixon sabotaged peace talk plans in 1968, a move that may be worse than Watergate.
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'Nixon insisted that he had not sabotaged Johnson’s 1968 peace initiative to bring the war in Vietnam to an early conclusion ... Now we know Nixon lied. A newfound cache of notes left by H. R. Haldeman, his closest aide, shows that Nixon directed his campaign’s efforts to scuttle the peace talks, which he feared could give his opponent, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, an edge in the 1968 election.'
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“A nation that knows how to popularize cornflakes and luxury automobiles ought to be able to tell the world the simple truth about what it is doing and why it is doing it.” – Lyndon B. Johnson, Then-Vice President of the United States in 1961