Chile: the balanced view : a recopilation of articles about the Allende years and after

political ideals, but by the affinity with Raúl Castrb's methods to silence his political adversaries. On return to Chile, Eduardo Paredes applied the lessons received from the Soviet and Cuban instructors. He participated in organizing urban guerrilla groups that ravished the city of Santiago between 1968 and 1970, murdering poi icemen, carrying out armed hold– ups of banks and supermarkets, and preparing the way for the announced "inevitable outburst" of revolation. Terrorists that wére wounded in police encounters, moreover, were hidden and given medical attention by Eduardo Paredes at his home. AII this, underthe respectable shelterof his comfortable bourgeois home located in Santiago's most exclusive residential area. Once Dr. Allende was elected President, he immediately appointed Eduardo Paredes as Director General de Investigaciones. This, no doubt, so that he could investigate those hold-ups, deaths, ando robberies which he had himself contributed to bringing about through tíis illegal association with armed and clandestine LASO groups in Chile. To complete the task, Castro then sent Luis Fernández Oña to Santiago, to cooperate in the reorganization of the Chilean police, under the Soviet KGB and Cuban DSE palterns. The two Paris friends had come together. The promotion in 1970 of the President of LASO, Salvador Allende, to Chief Executive of the Nation, broLlght about the significant change in Casiroite revolutionary strategy in the hemisphere, which the Representatives may be able to appreciate. At the special meeting held yesterday, th'e Representatives had the opportunity to hear the Representative of Uruguay in his partial recount of the subversive activities carried out in his country, that were previously prepared in Chile, with direct participation of the Castro Government, which was already using our country as an operational base for originating, promoting, financing, and arming urban guerrillas in other nations of the hemisphere. The multiple crimes commilted in Chile by the LASO agents between 1968 and 1970 become pale examples in comparison to what happened beginning in that last year. In other countries, fortunately, the process did not culminate with the almost total submission of the government to the influence and rnethods of LASO. Yet, the statement of the Ambas– sador of Uruguay likewise explicitly explained that such is the permanent and standing objective of the Government of Cuba. The famous Paris 1968 "Red March" served as a farewell tb the first graduates from the combined Soviet and Cuban secret police school. Its participants immediately sought the way in which to apply in their own countries the lessons learned in France, though forever under direct control from Cuba. . The apprenticeship of the Castroite students in Paris made them believe that what their colleagues had already done in Paris or Rome during and after the "Red March" could be repeated- in Mexico during the 1968 Olympics. And the Mexican harvest was diabolical. More than 300 students fell at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas as a result of clashes provoked by the followers of Castroite doctrines with the Mexico police, at that time under the Control of Secretary ofthe Interior, Mr. Luis Echeverría. In harmony with the Paris, Rome, and Mexico events, demonstratio'ns and mutinies were organized in other capitals of the hemisphere. In Chile, which by then was already the South America headquarters of the LASO branch, the government was cautiously firm in preventing a repetition of the cruel Mexico sacrifice. By largely using the French expe– rience, virulence was toned down. The Government of Chile even requested the technical assistance of a French security mission in training the Chilean police in street-rioting control methods. . Likewise, Mexican politicians and sociologists interested in preventing urban subver– sion received expert éooperation from, among others, the "Le Clerc Division", a French study group on these tactics. After the Tlatelolco clash, a Mexican film producer was sent to Chile to shoot a documentary film on the origins, development, and consequences of the violent armed movements in universities, or carried out by students. One of the phychological objectives was to clearly show that "Red March" style 91