Henry Kissinger's 100th birthday: A controversial legacy
The National Security Archive has reissued 38 documents from Henry Kissinger's time as national security adviser and secretary of state to Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Kissinger was the chief architect of the U.S. policy to destabilize the regime of Chile’s democratically elected socialist president, Salvador Allende, and gave full support to Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean general who mounted the coup overthrowing Allende in September 1973. Kissinger also turned a blind eye to Operation Condor, an assassination operation against left-wingers throughout much of Latin America, and gave a green light to Indonesia’s 1975 invasion of East Timor, which resulted in the killing of more than 100,000 civilians.