A PREEMPTIVE ERUPTION BY MOUNT HENRY KISSINGER?

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: December 2, 1982
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ARTICL A.PFZAF THE WALL STREET JO
ON FACT, 2 December 1982 _,P 47 A Preemptive Eruption by Mount env : ss tiger.
smoke and cliche hundreds of feet into the
air. Mount Kissinger entered a peculiarly
active phase. Though no actual loss of life
seems to have occurred, "Kissinger
Alr*ts" were broadcast on an hourly basis,
W. it the populace to beware of falling
plail-..des and other detritus from this
serni-e nct volcano.
The first eruption took place in the Lon-
don Economist. dated November 13?.19, and
took the form of a "conversation" between
Viewpoint
by Alexaridcr Cockburn
Rusks and Burdys of the world. The Kis- Mr. Hersh's article has not caused
singer imperial ego evidently regards this much of a stir. The Washington Post said it
latter course as unthinkable.` contained no smoking gun." These are -
7 had thought that Mr. Kissinger's cho= times, of course, when a gun has to ex-
sen mode, that of international superstar, plode in your hand for anyone to pay aften-
cafe society's preferred oracle, would not bon. 'Wounds are being healed. Vietnam
for long endure; that the decline would be memorials unveiled and ex-presidents it-
rapid, from special adviser to NBC. to habilitated at such a rate that they'll prob.
guest on the Johrmy Carson show. to final ably be reappointing Spiro Agnew soon as
apotheosis on the Hollywood Squares. Not secretary of commerce.
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of S UAMm N>
Mr. Hersh
an o.
Needing, by the look lot his appurte- the actions
trances and domestic requirements. at of . Messrs. Nixon and Kissinger ikcti }-
least R M0011 a year in income, Mr. Kis- ately before. and titter the popular election
singer has lived by his suits with amazing of or Allende In September and Oct
.success. There Is now a whole range of tober 197 1970 seems to me to establish as so}-
seml-extinct volcanoes, Including Lord -idly as -available historical evidence will
g
robably ever permit that orders for the
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Mr. Kissinger, coyly described as "a pri- Carrington and R.O. Anderson. grouped under the generic title "Kissinger Assoc!- overthrow-and. Mr. Hersh implies the as-
vane citizen" and the editor of the E=o- ;
mist, a long-term Kissinger disciple, An- ! - ates.. and 'chargir:g =,0W entry fee to president's office and were urged by his
drew IfnioOver five interminable each client. There are business co :sultan- national security adviser. Mr. Hersh also
the two X'srambled rambled through the politics of etes to Goldman Sachs and Chase and ad? deduces that CIA were dis
the Levant. leisurely seeking out and suc- visor !unctions at ABC and Newsweek. patched to Chile and that theirs mission cid-
cessfully locating the obvious: the "fresh Necessary in the success of this type urinated in the murder of Gen. Rene
beginning" now to be descried beneath the of operation is the belief of client or public Schneider, commander In chief of the Cu-
rubble of Lebanon; the hopes, but ye: the that the relevant retired statesman has lean army. W. tiersb's investigation dear
perils offered by the Reagan plan; the pos- anything to offer, beyond gallon jugs of onstrates that Mr. Kissinger subsequently
sibiltry -for moderate advance, yet the "wisdom" and "experience." The trick lied repeatedly about his and his masters
ever-present Vienace of extTaaisn. here is to ensure at )east the appearance of attempts to bring down the legally elected
Hardly had the basso rumblings died "briefings" or "cansultanaes" by those Chilean president. The article shows it.. de-
down before Mount Kissinger burst into At- a dually In power, and of course the possi- tail Messrs. Nixon and Kissinger conspir-
Linty once more. The eruption came this billty that the retired statesman mig. t one tog with U.S. executives to subvert Chlle.
time in Newsweek, in the edition that went day get back into power himself. Mr. Kis
on sale on November = That magazine's singer, hinting that he might have had a You could argue that a man who tried
new young editor In chief, William Broyles, hand in the tarmu:axion of the Reagan plan and may indeed ultimately have succeeded
setmingty as for the Middle East., perennially bathing in engineering the overthrow of Allende Is
himself in rumors Knight, spread eager an acolyte as Mr. of an well qualified to assess the best manner of
Krogh:, Mr. Kissinger across four o. emtsary or more dealinc, with the former head of the KGB.
inside pages and gave hire the cover as substantial role. and at a pinch proffering
well: "How to Deal with Moscow-An Ex- sagacious public advice, is a master at giv- But that is not quite box- Newsweek pre-
well: Report by Hen ing'the volcano at leas a semblance of tented Kissinger's expertise. For the opir-
ry? Kissinger." . ion-forming elite, as represented by the ed?.
Once again, for those foolhardy enough life. hors of the Economist and Nr%sweek, the
to embark on the text, there was the ex- Yet there was more to the November smoking volcano seems permanently to
has:stiag trek through slowly cooling M. eruptions than such normal considerations.
Oddly enough, Anthony Lewis provided the overshadow the smoking gem, which shows
tern k: "To bring about a genuine you can survive anything, provided you
change-expressed in substantial recipro. tipoff. Normally this liberal columnist is so are statesmanlike about tt-
cal arras reduction and restraint in inter quick to leap on his moral high horse that
national conduct-requires American lead- he clears the saddle by j couple of feet,
ership founded in firm purpose, clear con- but on November 22 he hailed Mr.
is- cep: and steadfast st?ategv.. , Qur_po).- singer's utterances on the Middle East,
icy mrust-be based on strength to discour- while adding cautiously that "on such is
age adventurism yet at the same time of-
ter a vision of a better world for all
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AL fine I took all this volcanic activity from a forthcoming Atlantic Monthly ar d-
1o-be part of a normal :pattern: Mr. is? de by- Seymour Hersh.":
-singer's perennial need to keep his name in -. ; ? The commotion of Mot= Kissinger'
the public in as a senior statesman,' and :were at once. In my view. satisfactorily ex-
thus maintain his exchange value. In a de- . -p)ained:'-a preemptive strike. If a volcano
cently ordered world Mr. `Xisstnger would is busting ponderously into life, you -have
have at some point endowed himself with less time to inspect the pool of sewage
legal credentials and thus could now-like spreading across the backyard. The issue
Cyrus Vance or William Rogers-have re- ? of the Atlantic with Mr. Hersh's article in
tired to the powerful obscurity of an ob- It went on the tie-nstands a day or two af-
scurely powerful law firm. The alternative, .ter 'Neu-sweek grandly promulgated air.
for which no known credentials.are re-
quired, would be an academic position of
Halfway 'through November. spewing' the- sort now enjoyed by the Brzezirskis. Kissinger's views of the Russians.
beyond the limits of decency. We can ex-
pect to learn more about his role in Chile
Mr. Cockburn is a cobrmnist . jar The -
Vi:lme Voice.
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