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| | TAP: Web Feature: Hit Records. by Jonathan Goldberg. September 15, 2003. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | But the agency also had deep reservations about one plotter, retired Gen. Roberto Viaux, whose leadership of a coup would produce an "autocratic, nationalistic, military government which may not be particularly pro-U.S.," according to an Oct. 9, 1970, CIA memo that has since been declassified. |
 | | The CIA's Santiago station continued to talk to Viaux, and even to entertain his requests for an airdrop of weapons he could use in a coup attempt, until an Oct. 15 meeting between Kissinger and a top CIA official. |
 | | Viaux's henchmen assassinated Schneider on Oct. 22, 1970, and the CIA has had Schneider's blood on its hands ever since. |
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