Kissinger “has instructed that no further action be taken on this matter”, reads a declassified Sep. 16, 1976 cable sent by Kissinger’s office from Zambia, where he was travelling at the time, to his assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, Harry Shlaudeman.
Even Kissinger’s fiercest critics couldn’t accuse him of being a fool. This was no well-meaning attempt to avoid interfering with another nation; he’d have known that likely targets dwelled in countries like his own. That, it seems, is the mark of a true “statesman“: accepting a spree of international murders, and hushing up your own involvement for over a third of a century.
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