Did our spies conspire with the CIA in Allende overthrow

[Albert_Thurgood]

@Bacchusfox

Whe I was living in San Francisco in early 2019, we had a meeting with ambassador Joe Hockey, and he told us that he was boss of more than 700 staff in Washington. Some-one asked if that included our “spies”, he said that the ASIS and ASIO no longer work at ab=ny Embassy "as far as he knows"

Probably true.

But Joe Hockey wouldn’t know if a tram was up his bum till it rang the bell.

[Albert_Thurgood]

@Scorpio

@Alan_Noonan_10

history of trying to remove any Latin American governments who could be argued to be left-wing.

I think any government slightly to the left of fascist would do.

Yes. I wonder if those Aussie spies helping the CIA overthrow the Chilean government backed up and helped them in overthrowing the Whitlam government.

[Bacchusfox]

Nah, realist

[Captain_Jack]

The French made a great doco on the overthrow of Allende, it is called La Spiralle (sp?). It was made in the late 1970’s and we showed it at the first school l taught in, as part of A senior social studies course. Maybe Donald Sutherland narrates, l can’t recall exactly.

[Scorpio]

More than likely.