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Vatican Says Pinochet Killings “Propaganda"
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ROME: The Vatican once dismissed reports of massacres by Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as ‘Communist propaganda’, according to declassified US diplomatic documents from the 1970s on Monday. One cable dated October 18, 1973 sent to Washington by the US embassy to the Holy See relayed a conversation with the Vatican’s then deputy Secretary of State, Giovanni Benelli.
Benelli expressed “his and the pope’s grave concern over successful international leftist campaign to misconstrue completely realities of Chilean situation,” read the cable to then US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, which was published by whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.
The pope at the time was Paul VI. “Benelli labelled exaggerated coverage of events as possibly greatest success of Communist propaganda,” it said, adding that the Italian monsignor said this showed “how Communists can influence free world media in future”. “As is unfortunately natural following coup d’etat, Benelli observed, there has admittedly been bloodshed during mopping up procedures in Chile,” it said. afp
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013%5C04%5C09%5Cstory_9-4-2013_pg7_19
Benelli expressed “his and the pope’s grave concern over successful international leftist campaign to misconstrue completely realities of Chilean situation,” read the cable to then US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, which was published by whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.
The pope at the time was Paul VI. “Benelli labelled exaggerated coverage of events as possibly greatest success of Communist propaganda,” it said, adding that the Italian monsignor said this showed “how Communists can influence free world media in future”. “As is unfortunately natural following coup d’etat, Benelli observed, there has admittedly been bloodshed during mopping up procedures in Chile,” it said. afp
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013%5C04%5C09%5Cstory_9-4-2013_pg7_19
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