Australia helped CIA in toppling Chile’s Allende, records show
Press TV – September 11, 2021
Australian government documents have revealed that the country assisted the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in launching a coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende.
On September 11, 1973, an American-orchestrated military coup against Allende’s government resulted in a long-time dictatorship led by the coup leader Augusto Pinochet.
On the eve of the 48 anniversary of the coup, declassified documents published by the National Security Archive reveal that spies from the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) assisted in the destabilization of Allende’s leftist government.
At the request of the CIA, ASIS established a secret base in Santiago in the fall of 1970.
Liberal Party Foreign Minister William (Billy) McMahon had reportedly approved the cooperation of ASIS agents with the CIA.
The base operated for approximately 18 months and involved Australian agents and equipment alongside several Chilean s[pies recruited by the CIA in Santiago.
The group gathered intelligence that was relayed to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
According to one of the declassified documents, Austalia’s then-Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, elected in December 1972, was “uncomfortable” with the participation of Australia, because if the acts of international espionage were made public it would be “extremely difficult” to justify their presence there.
Whitlam ordered ASIS director at the time, William Robertson, to dissolve the den of spies that Australia set up in Chile to assist the Americans to topple Allende’s democratically-elected government.
Despite Whitlam’s order, an Australian intelligence agent reportedly stayed in Santiago until after the US-led coup.
Another report also noted that the prime minister “was well aware of the importance of this (operation) to the Americans” and “was very concerned that the CIA should not interpret this decision (of the closure of the base) as a hostile gesture towards the US in general or towards the CIA in particular. “
Numerous crimes against humanity, persecution of opponents, political repression, and state terrorism were committed by the Chilean armed forces, members of Carabineros de Chile, and agents of the secret police of the Pinochet regime from 1973 to 1990.
1 Comment »
Leave a Reply
Featured Video
Fighting Vaccine Mandates – #SolutionsWatch
For more videos go to the Aletho News – Video Category
or go to
Aletho News Archives – Video-Images
From the Archives
My front-row view of the Covid drug corruption scandal
This is an open letter from Dr Steven J Hatfill – June 10, 2021
Dear America,
This is the story of possibly the greatest corruption scandal in our country’s history.
This is the story of how petty bureaucrats and drug companies unjustly discredited an inexpensive FDA-approved drug that would have prevented Covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths for political spite and financial gain. These perpetrators, who now hold more significant positions in government, need to be held accountable for over 500,000 American deaths and the disruption of our economy.
This is the story of how a few key government officials failed to implement our well-formulated National Pandemic Plan and their weaponisation of a dangerously complicit mainstream media.
I tell this story because we, the People, deserve answers – those responsible need to be held accountable for their actions. The Covid-19 pandemic was a proverbial ‘warning shot across our bow’. Therefore we must forever prioritise pandemic preparedness as critical to our national security.
We deserve better. We deserve the truth. We deserve answers. We deserve JUSTICE.
I hope my words and timeline will help clarify what has happened, who is involved, and what action must be taken to protect our health and freedom.
I am Dr Steven Hatfill. I am a specialist physician, recognised virologist, biological weapons expert and I worked as an outside adviser to the Executive Office of the President of the United States from February 2020 through the inaugural transition period of 2021. My statements are not speculation because I had a front-row seat from the very beginning of the pandemic. My subsequent published papers and articles have been painstakingly referenced and fact-checked.
Some will tell you this is just another conspiracy theory, so I ask you to read on and judge for yourselves. … continue
Blog Roll
Recent Comments
brianharryaustralia on Putin the Poisoner? More Doubt… brianharryaustralia on Could a Simple Saline Solution… Sol on “THESE PATIENTS DESERVE TO BE… Bob on Reuters and BBC Caught Taking… brianharryaustralia on Americans Have No Clue What th… roberthstiver on New Proof Emerges of the Biden… Sol on “THESE PATIENTS DESERVE TO BE… papasha408 on US demands Russia boost natura… roberthstiver on Who represents Afghanistan: Ge… charles allan on Lomborg criticizes medical jou… planetsheeple on How Did the Perpetrators Do… planetsheeple on IMF report suggests credit sco…
Aletho News- The Emperor Has No Clothes: COVID Math Simply Doesn’t Add Up September 23, 2021
- Putin the Poisoner? More Doubts Over Attempts to Delegitimize Russia’s Leader September 23, 2021
- New York’s New Gov Threatens To Replace Unvaccinated Hospital Workers With ‘Foreigners’ September 23, 2021
- Could a Simple Saline Solution Stop COVID — and Maybe All Viruses? September 23, 2021
- Pending International Treaty Empowering The WHO September 23, 2021
- NPR Embarrasses Itself With Misinformation and Blatant Lies About Dr. Mercola September 23, 2021
- 30 facts you NEED to know: Your Covid Cribsheet September 23, 2021
- My front-row view of the Covid drug corruption scandal September 23, 2021
- Fighting Vaccine Mandates – #SolutionsWatch September 23, 2021
- New Proof Emerges of the Biden Family Emails: a Definitive Account of the CIA/Media/BigTech Fraud September 23, 2021
- Barricaded from Covid reality by government and media September 23, 2021
- CANCER ALERT: Conventional cancer treatment shortens lifespan, according to study September 23, 2021
- Americans Have No Clue What the True COVID Numbers Are September 22, 2021
- Owner Of Diagnostic Lab Reports 20 Times Increase Of Cancer In Vaccinated Patients September 22, 2021
- Facts Debunk NPR Claim that Global Warming Is Causing Dying Trees, Power Outages September 22, 2021
- Energy poverty is not an option for India’s 360 million poor September 22, 2021
- US demands Russia boost natural gas deliveries to Europe through Ukraine September 22, 2021
- Who represents Afghanistan: Genuine activists vs ‘native informants’ September 22, 2021
- OffGuardian
- WATCH: COVID19/11 – Frances Shure September 23, 2021
- 9/11 and the Politics of Fear and Self-Preservation September 23, 2021
- 30 facts you NEED to know: Your Covid Cribsheet September 22, 2021
- Richie Allen
- iPhones Will Diagnose Users Mental Health Issues In Future September 23, 2021
- One Tenth Of Doctor Prescriptions Are Unnecessary & Dangerous September 22, 2021
- Premier League Soccer Stars Refuse To Promote Covid Jabs September 22, 2021
- Ofcom Adds Gammon, Karen & Snowflake To List of Offensive Terms September 22, 2021
- Consent Factory
- The Covidian Cult (Part III) September 2, 2021
- If Americans Knew
- New GOP bill would keep illegal settlement products labeled ‘Made in Israel’ September 23, 2021
- House Dems remove $1B in extra funding for Israel’s Iron Dome from budget bill September 22, 2021
- Israel denies treatment to Palestinians with brain tumors September 21, 2021
- Not A Lot Of People Know That
- ALEX BRUMMER: Why are we facing an energy crisis when we’re sitting on a gold mine? September 23, 2021
- Electricity Prices Rocketing, Just As Successive Governments Planned September 23, 2021
- Moray East Offshore Windfarm Costings September 22, 2021
- Don’t Upset China, Say Greens September 22, 2021
- No Tricks Zone
- Sebastian Rushworth M.D.
- A reflection on covid mania September 23, 2021
“Whitlam ordered ASIS director at the time, William Robertson, to dissolve the den of spies that Australia set up in Chile to assist the Americans to topple Allende’s democratically-elected government.
Despite Whitlam’s order, an Australian intelligence agent reportedly stayed in Santiago until after the US-led coup”.
Whitlam was removed from office in a British/American Coup D’etat in 1975(with Rupert Murdoch providing an endless barrage of negative Propaganda against Whitlam. If he had been the leader of a South American country, he would have been “Killed in a nasty accident”, but, he was allowed to live the rest of his life free in Australia and only died in 2014.
So, Australia is as “FREE and DEMOCRATIC” as Britain and the USA, as long as the Politicians/PM’S, “do what they are told”
Ain’t Freedom and Democracy great??
LikeLike