U.S. relations with South America
Sir,—The United States Ambas-sador-at-large, Mr Vernon Walters, told your reporter that the United States does not side with Rightwing dictatorships (“The Press,” February 20). In support of this claim he said that the United States no longer sends arms to the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Your readers should know that Mr Walters himself actually helped to
install the Pinochet dictatorship. He was in charge of C.I.A. operations in Central America when Chile’s democratic government was violently overthrown in 1973. When the C.l.A.’s role in the Chilean coup became public knowledge in 1976, the Carter Administration gave Mr Walters his marching orders. Now Mr Reagan has taken him on as a roving ambassador, and in 1982 he was in Argentina trying to get the military dictatorship to send troops to Central America to side with the Right-wing governments in El Salvador and Guatemala. — Yours, etc. R. TAYLOR. February 23, 1984.
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