Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger (born 1923) is a German-born American politician and diplomat who served as Secretary of State and National Security Advisor to United States President Richard Nixon.
Biography
Henry Kissinger became National Security Advisor to President Richard Nixon beginning in 1969, but he was secretly affiliated with Abstergo Industries. Under their auspices, he masterminded a plan to overthrow the government of Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973. Following the success of this coup, the Templars replaced it with a regime led by Augusto Pinochet.[1]
Three years later, a parallel coup was orchestrated in Argentina, whereupon Kissinger met with the foreign minister of the new military government, César Augusto Guzzetti. Assuring Guzzetti that his side wanted the junta's "economic program to succeed", he promised them illicit loans.[1][2][3] He subsequently helped to reinforce their rule through the Dirty War which saw the forced disappearances of 30,000 Argentinians.[1]
Gallery
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Henry Kissinger (right) with Gerald Ford in 1974
Appearances
- Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (appears in Rifts only)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Rifts: "Cluster 5"
- ↑ Henry Kissinger, meeting with César Augusto Guzzetti. "56. Memorandum of Conversation", 7 October 1976. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume E–11, Part 2, Documents on South America, 1973–1976. United States Department of State – Office of the Historian. Edited by Sara Berndt, Halbert Jones, James Siekmeier, and Adam M. Howard. Washington: United States Government Publishing Office, 2015. Accessed 19 March 2021. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve11p2/d56.
- ↑ Klein, Naomi. "Crisis Works: The Packaging of Shock Therapy". In The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, 198. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2007.