POSSIBLE TOPIC OF CONVERSATION WITH (SANITIZED)

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: COVERT ACTION CHILE
• Keywords: CHILE
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005498446
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 24, 2015
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2011
• Case Number: F-2000-01886
• Publication Date: January 4, 1975

ANDUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Deputy Director for Operations
SUBJECT Possible Topic of Conversation with
APPROVED FOR RELEASED
DATE: 05-09-2011
--torture; placement of military courts on a peacetime basis with right of
appeal, habeas corpus, etc.; prompt notification of third parties -about .-
-arrests for subversive activities. including farni l i pc _ i ntarac ;art rti nl n_
turn a deaf ear. decided that
an effort should be made o en the ears of
the Junta e.
convince one of
the me ers of the Junta, that the Chilean Government should take certain
measures to improve its image, among them: proscription of all forms of
f JA",' i973
1. military aid
restrictions on Chile by the U.S. Congress designed to encourage the
Chilean Junta to liberalize its approach to human rights was not having
the desired effect. The Junta's conviction that harsh measures were
necessary for self-protection plus the-din of continued protestations
from the U.S. and elsewhere human r' L to
^ (b)(1)
(b)(3)
President
-IFinochet agreed with most of the arguments on human rights issue and said - -
that he would make a statement in a major speech scheduled for 31 December.
JPinochet's 31 December speech. did not mention any significant human rights
1). ;concessions , however.
' mati c missions; etc
tion in present tough security practices.
3_ Having the above facts in mind may want _to exercise some
pursuasive influence on n ,favor of liberalizing practices
involving human rights that would not have a serious effect on Junta control
of subversive elements. It should that recently
reported that the MIR, extreme-left elements
of the S c a ist Party, and smaller left extremist groups have been crushed
Colonel Contreras
was the only senior official who had voiced strong objections to any relaxa-
 Government will now focus on the Communist Party of Cnile.
through the Government's counter-terrorist campaign- The
uch less-serious than it was.
the security situation in Chile is
Acting Chief
Latin America Division