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Aged 100. Is it true that he won't be missed in Argentina?
I heard he caused a lot of deaths there
A friend of Videla, the de facto president and dictator, he even attended the World Cup in 1978 (as a private citizen) and had a closed meeting with Videla behind the then US ambassador's back.
And let's not forget the carpet bombing of Cambodia and Laos, bringing rise to the Khmer Rouge.
I won't miss him.
Sadly he will be judged by history and not by an international court of justice
And history depends on who writes it.....
He was loathed by most of my anti Vietnam War generation. I didn’t know about his relationship with Videla and am very disturbed by the information in this article from The Guardian.
The day Videla and Kissinger entered the Peruvian team's changing room in the 1978 World Cup, which of course Videla used as a means of humanising the dictatorship while at the very same time, murdering and torturing at ESMA not five minutes down the road.
And Kissinger knew nothing of this?
Open in Chrome, right click then hit translate.
I recall a Scottish friend who always said , 'That Bavarian bastard is worse than Hitler.'
I didnt realise at the time that HK was born in Germany.
He was more well known than some of the Presidents. I didn't realise he attracted so much bad publicity until I saw it on the BBC news last night.
Kissinger took a similar line as he had toward Chile when the Argentine Armed Forces, led by Jorge Videla, toppled the elected government of Isabel Perón in 1976 with a process called the National Reorganization Process by the military, with which they consolidated power, launching brutal reprisals and "disappearances" against political opponents. An October 1987 investigative report in The Nation broke the story of how, in a June 1976 meeting in the Hotel Carrera in Santiago, Kissinger gave the military junta in neighboring Argentina the "green light" for their own clandestine repression against leftwing guerrillas and other dissidents, thousands of whom were kept in more than 400 secret concentration camps before they were executed. During a meeting with Argentine foreign minister César Augusto Guzzetti, Kissinger assured him that the United States was an ally but urged him to "get back to normal procedures" quickly before the U.S. Congress reconvened and had a chance to consider sanctions.[155][156][157][158]
As the article published in The Nation noted, as the state-sponsored terror mounted, conservative Republican U.S. Ambassador to Buenos Aires Robert C. Hill "'was shaken, he became very disturbed, by the case of the son of a thirty-year embassy employee, a student who was arrested, never to be seen again,' recalled Juan de Onis, former reporter for The New York Times. 'Hill took a personal interest.' He went to the Interior Minister, a general with whom he had worked on drug cases, saying, 'Hey, what about this? We're interested in this case.' He questioned (Foreign Minister Cesar) Guzzetti and, finally, President Jorge R. Videla himself. 'All he got was stonewalling; he got nowhere.' de Onis said. 'His last year was marked by increasing disillusionment and dismay, and he backed his staff on human rights right to the hilt."[159]
In a letter to The Nation editor Victor Navasky, protesting publication of the article, Kissinger claimed that: "At any rate, the notion of Hill as a passionate human rights advocate is news to all his former associates." Yet Kissinger aide Harry W. Shlaudeman later disagreed with Kissinger, telling the oral historian William E. Knight of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project: "It really came to a head when I was Assistant Secretary, or it began to come to a head, in the case of Argentina where the dirty war was in full flower. Bob Hill, who was Ambassador then in Buenos Aires, a very conservative Republican politician—by no means liberal or anything of the kind, began to report quite effectively about what was going on, this slaughter of innocent civilians, supposedly innocent civilians—this vicious war that they were conducting, underground war. He, at one time in fact, sent me a back-channel telegram saying that the Foreign Minister, who had just come for a visit to Washington and had returned to Buenos Aires, had gloated to him that Kissinger had said nothing to him about human rights. I don't know—I wasn't present at the interview."[160]
Navasky later wrote in his book about being confronted by Kissinger, "'Tell me, Mr. Navasky,' [Kissinger] said in his famous guttural tones, 'how is it that a short article in a obscure journal such as yours about a conversation that was supposed to have taken place years ago about something that did or didn't happen in Argentina resulted in sixty people holding placards denouncing me a few months ago at the airport when I got off the plane in Copenhagen?'"[161]
According to declassified state department files, Kissinger also hindered the Carter administration's efforts to halt the mass killings by the 1976–1983 military dictatorship by visiting the country and praising the regime.[162]
Another article about Kissinger's close relationship with the dictator, Videla.
Lamentable.
Aged 100. Is it true that he won't be missed in Argentina?
Even as late as 2021 details were declassified on his involvement in Argentina
...and this from Aljazeera
Oh boy, this goes one step further...
