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Article: National Security Archive Hails Release of Secret U.S. Records on Pinochet Dictatorship in Chile
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- U.S. Newswire
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- November 14, 2000
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The National Security
Archive today hailed the release of more than 16,000 secret U.S.
records on the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, and Washington's role
in the violent overthrow of the Allende government and the advent of
the military regime to power. The release, totaling more than 50,000
pages of State Department, CIA, White House, Defense and Justice
Department records, represents the fourth and final "tranche" of the
Clinton Administration's special Chile Declassification Project.
The declassification includes 700 controversial CIA documents
that the Directorate of Operations had refused to release -- records
of U.S. covert operations between ...