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We're a bit late in commemorating the death of Class A War Criminal Kissinger, but, we hope you see it was worth the wait.
In this episode, Isaac and Peter lay out the case for Kissinger's direct guilt in the 1970 mob-hit-style murder of Chilean General Rene Schneider.; a man who simply got in the way of Kissinger's plan to overthrow elected Socialist President Salvador Allende.
It is a story of payoff cash stuffed in boots, machine gun handoffs, crash cars, and scumbag ex-detective hit men (an APHoV favorite), with the lying-to-grave Harvard-trained gangster running the whole show. We'll talk about why Kissinger's many defenses to the Schneider murder don't pass muster, and why the power elite love Kissinger more, not less, as his crimes became a matter of documentary record.
Music: Thanks always to Komakino for our opening and closing. The interlude music is "Far Below" by Ephraim Lovelace. The opening audio is a segment from Nixon's oval office tapes of Kissinger, Nixon and Bob Haldeman from June 11, 1971 talking about a recent assassination of a Christian Democrat, but then making reference to (and effectively admitting guilt in) General Schneider's own assassination. The background is "Cuba and Track 2" from the Nixon OST by John Williams.
References and Sources: Anyone interested in this topic should take a look at the National Security Archive (NOT a government website), especially: "The CIA and Chile, Anatomy of an Assassination" found here:
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile/2020-10-22/cia-chile-anatomy-assassination
...as well as Peter Kornbluh's The Pinochet File. Other details, though not all of them accurate, can be found in the Sy Hersh classic The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House.
