KENNEDY VISIT: RECOMMENDATION THAT CHILEAN AMBASSADOR BE CALLED IN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90B01390R000700900055-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 55
• Publication Date: January 17, 1986
• Content Type: CABLE

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SUBJ: KENNEDY VISIT: RECOMMENDATION THAT CHILEAN
- AMBASSADOR BE CALLED IN
REF: (A) SANTIAGO 302
- (B) 85 SANTIAGO 9029
2. RECOMMEND THAT YOU CALL IN THE CHILEAN AMBASSADOR
TO EXPRESS OUR SURPRISE AND DISPLEASURE AT THE INABILITY
OF THE CHILEAN POLICE TO MAINTAIN ORDER DURING SENATOR
KENNEDY'S ARRIVAL, DESPITE THE PRESENCE OF A LARGE
NUMBER OF POLICE, WARNINGS FROM THE EMBASSY THAT
DEMONSTRATIONS WERE BEING PREPARED, AND ASSURANCES FROM
THE FOREIGN MINISTER THAT VIOLENT DEMONSTRATIONS WOULD
NOT BE PERMITTED. TO BE MOST EFFECTIVE, OUR PROTEST
SHOULD BE REGISTERED ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, BOTH
BECAUSE THE INCIDENT WILL STILL BE FRESH AND BECAUSE
AMBASSADOR ERRASURIZ MAY BE COMING BACK TO SANTIAGO AGAIN
SOON.
3. YOU SHOULD BE AWARE THAT KENNEDY WAS OUTRAGED, NOT
ONLY BY THE DEMONSTRATION AGAINST HIM, BUT BY THE FACT
THAT IT VERY LIKELY RECEIVED ENCOURAGEMENT AND MATERIAL
SUPPORT FROM THE GOC. HE HAD BEEN SHOWN IN BUENOS AIRES
SIRO REPORTS THAT SUCH ENCOURAGEMENT WAS BEING GIVEN.
FROM EYEWITNESS REPORTS WE HAVE HAD, THE SAME THOUGHT
CLEARLY CROSSED THE MIND OF THE OFFICER COMMANDING THE
POLICE DETACHMENT AT THE AIRPORT AND ACCOUNTS FOR HIS
HESITATION IN CLEARING OUT THE MOB. KENNEDY TOLD ME HE
WAS CONSIDERING CALLING THE SECRETARY ON HIS RETURN TO
WASHINGTON AND ASKING HIM TO MAKE CLEAR TO THE CHILEANS
HOW SERIOUSLY WE TAKE THIS KIND OF THING.
4. I HAD TOLD FOREIGN MINISTER DEL VALLE THAT WE HAD
RELIABLE INFORMATION THAT AN ORGANIZATION CLOSELY LINKED
TO THE GOC WAS PLANNING DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST THE SENATOR,
AND THAT WE WERE CONCLRNED THAT THESE COULD GET OUT OF
HAND, AND RECEIVED EXPLICIT ASSURANCES IN TWO SEPARATE
CONVERSATIONS ON JANUARY 13, THAT ALL NECESSARY SECURITY
MEASURES WOULD BE TAKEN TO R ENCE DURING THE
SENATOR'S VISIT SAME ASSURANCE
WAS GIVEN ME TH ), AND ERRASURIZ
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MADE SIMILAR PROMISES TO KENNEDY IN WASHINGTON. DEL
VALLE TOLD ME INSTRUCTIONS TO PREVENT VIOLENCE HAD
EMANATED FROM THE PRESIDENT, AND HE REPEATED THAT PUBLICLY
YESTERDAY.
5. CONVERSATION WITH ERRASURIZ SHOULD ALSO RECOGNI
THAT THE POLICE DID FINALLY MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR THE
SENATOR AND ME TO LEAVE THE AIRPORT BY MAKING TWO
HELICOPTERS AVAILABLE AND THAT THEY RESPONDED VERY
COOPERATIVELY TO OUR REQUEST THAT THEY BE MADE AVAILABLE
AGAIN FOR THE SENATOR'S DEPARTURE. (AIR FORCE TOLD US
THEY HAD ONLY ONE HELICOPTER IN SANTIAGO AND IT WAS=WN
FOR LACK OF U.S. PARTS.) POLICE SEEMED TO GET
THEIR ACT TOGETHER AS THE DAY PROGRESSED, POSSIBLY AS A
RESULT OF MY CALL TO GENERAL STANGE, AND THERE WAS NO
JANUARY 16, TO EXPRESS THE SENATOR'S AND MY THANKS THAT
AFTER THE DEPLORABLE BEGINNING, THINGS DID GET PULLED
INTO SHAPE
6. I KNOW THIS IS VERY SHORT NOTICE AND THAT IT MAY BE
IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO TAKE THIS ON GIVEN YOUR OTHER
CONCERNS. HOWEVER, IN LIGHT OF YOUR TWO CONVERSATIONS
WITH DEL VALLE, THE LIKELIHOOD OF'GOVERNMENT CONNIVANCE
IN THE DEMONSTRATIONS, AND THE SENATOR'S CONCERNS, I THINK
IT MAKES SENSE FOR YOU TO DO IT. BARNES
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