Henry Kissinger

"The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."

―Henry Kissinger on the status of Chile, 1970.

Henry Alfred Kissinger (born 1923) is a German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and 1973 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Biography

Kissinger served as the United States' Secretary of State to President Richard Nixon beginning in 1969. Kissinger was secretly associated with Abstergo Industries and masterminded a plan to overthrow the pro-communist Chilean government in 1973. This plan would allow Company agents to move freely country to country, and the implementation of a global international order. Salvador Allende, the Chilean president, was killed during the coup d'état and replaced by an Abstergo-supported military Junta led by Augusto Pinochet. In order for the Junta to remain in power, Kissinger bribed the capitalists to help with the incentive of transferring all their corporate debt to the Argentine people, ensuring they were sufficiently crushed and unable to rebel.

Gallery

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  Henry Kissinger (right) with Gerald Ford in 1974

Appearances

• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (appears in Rifts only)