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General Rene Schneider wasn't on board with a coup, so he was killed. His sucessor, Carlos Pratts, wasn't onboard either, and knowing he was going to be killed

General Rene Schneider wasn't on board with a coup, so he was killed. His sucessor, Carlos Pratts, wasn't onboard either, and knowing he was going to be killed, fled the country. He was killed anyways (after the coup). His successor, Pinochet, agreed with the coup and executed it. The president died during the coup, and the vice president (who fled the country), the successor for the president, was killed too. There was a covert operation to purge any general against the idea of a coup, and the US was part of it. Decapitation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Townley https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Townley

mdhb 3y ago
There was actually a really interesting 2 hour interview with one of the CIA officers who was a part of that amongst many other controversial programs that just got posted in the last 24 hrs here https://www.youtube.com/live/WCgKF3RtTS0?feature=shared https://www.youtube.com/live/WCgKF3RtTS0?feature=shared. He talks about this and what a fuck up that was and how those things came to be which if you have some spare time is worth checking out. Some of the stuff he has to say about Iraq (around 1hr mark) where he was the chief of operations was fairly jaw dropping and the bush administration really has a lot to answer for.
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