The Controversial Legacy of Henry Kissinger.
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The National Security Archive has compiled a dossier of declassified records documenting Henry Kissinger's policy deliberations, conversations, and directives during his tenure as national security advisor and secretary of state. The documents reveal Kissinger's role in the overthrow of democracy in Chile, support for dirty and genocidal wars abroad, secret bombing campaigns in Southeast Asia, and involvement in the Nixon administration's criminal abuses. The dossier includes Kissinger's wiretapping of journalists and U.S. officials, his embrace of the Pinochet regime, and his indifference to human rights violations.
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