Magic Bullet

[Charles Albert]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/10/opinion/chile-allende-september-11.html



https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/11/russia-post-putin-democracy-window-nuremberg-lustration/

love,

cfa


On Tue, Sep 12, 2023, 5:52 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> From Heather Cox Richardson, historian, this morning:
>
> Today is the 50th anniversary of the military coup in Chile that overthrew
> the democratically elected government of leftist President Salvador
> Allende, a coup aided by the U.S. government’s Central Intelligence Agency
> under President Richard Nixon and his national security advisor Henry
> Kissinger. The State Department issued a statement calling the anniversary
> “an opportunity to reflect on this break in Chile’s democratic order and
> the suffering that it caused.”
>
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 4:25 AM Hübschräuber via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
>
> > I quoted Salandria because I agree with him that the minutiae of the
> case,
> > however fascinating, should not obscure the larger picture that has
> evolved
> > over decades of research. I also agree with him about what that larger
> > picture looks like. However, I don't think the matter is "beyond rational
> > debate".
> >
> > This said, the news regarding the "magic bullet" is indeed fascinating.
> > The most interesting detail I have come across in recent years concerns
> > Antonio Veciana, founder and leader of Alpha 66, one of the anti-Castro
> > exile groups handled by the CIA: "Fonzi obtained testimony from Antonio
> > Veciana that Veciana had once seen his CIA contact, who Fonzi established
> > was David Atlee Phillips, conferring with Lee Harvey Oswald." (Wiki,
> > "Gaeton Fonzi"). In front of the House Select Committee on Assassinations
> > Veciana, however, twice denied under oath that the man he saw was
> Phillips.
> > Only shortly before his death in 2017 he finally confirmed Fonzi's
> > conclusion: The man Veciana saw speaking with Oswald a few days before
> the
> > assassination was indeed his CIA handler David Atlee Phillips. Notably,
> > Phillips was an expert for US regime change: He was involved in the
> > US-sponsored coup d'etat against Arbenz in Guatemala in 1953 as well as
> the
> > US-sponsored coup d'etat against Allende in Chile in 1973 -
> >   that other September 11.
> >
> > Veciana's autobiography should make for fascinating reading:
> >
> > https://www.amazon.com/Trained-Kill-Inside-against-Kennedy/dp/1510713565
> >
> > As an example of rational debate about conspiracy theories concerning
> > UFOs, the Kennedys and MLK, COVID and 9/11, I recommend Bret Weinstein's
> > podcast here:
> >
> >
> >
> https://rumble.com/v3e1039-on-skepticism-michael-shermer-and-jeremy-rys-on-darkhorse.html
> >
> > An interesting question is how many anomalies (because there are always
> > anomalies, it's just life) one is willing to accept with regard to any
> > given event before one begins to doubt the official narrative. The
> > discussion also shows that it is perfectly possible to politely agree to
> > disagree even on highly controversial topics.
> > --
> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >
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>