Wednesday, November 15, 2000, updated at 13:39(GMT+8)
Chilean Foreign Ministry Comments on US Declassified Documents
Chilean government commented Tuesday with care the content of the declassified documents by the United States' agencies regarding events occurring in Chile between 1968-1992.
The documents were released Monday by the US State Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency(CIA) and the Pentagon on the orders of President Bill Clinton to detail US involvement in Chile between 1968 and 1991.
The 16,000 documents, including 450 reluctantly handed over by the CIA, revealed new details on former US President Richard Nixon's efforts to unseat Chile's Socialist President Salvador Allende and the CIA's ties to Pinochet's secret police after the 1973 coup.
In a communique, Chilean foreign ministry considered the declassification of documents "a proper decision by the executives of the United States".
The communique added that in a preliminary reading of all this information, it's understood that US agencies had participated in Chile's domestic politics after 1968 and there are also certain signs of violation acts of human rights.
"There's profuse information about US's participation in Chile's political and the military movements in the political transition during the 1980's, including attempts to prevent Chile's development", the communique said.
The communique also pointed out that Chilean government would act on its duties to make an thorough analysis of the declassified information, particularly the information correspond to justice tribunals.
Chilean Interior Minister Miguel Insulza, who is on a trip abroad with Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, affirmed Tuesday that the documents declassified by US agencies only confirmed America's behavior in a "very confused" period of Chile's history.
At the same time, Insulza denied that these reports would lead to any kind of "enormous confusion or historical revisions with regard to the already known".