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October 27, 2008

Report: McCain Had Private Meeting with Pinochet in 1985
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The website Huffington Post has revealed John Mc Cain traveled to Chile
in 1985 to have a private meeting with Chilean dictator General Augusto
Pinochet. According to a declassified US embassy cable, Mc Cain
described the meeting with Pinochet as "friendly and at times warm.” At
the time of the meeting, the US Justice Department was seeking the
extradition of two close Pinochet associates for an act of terrorism in
Washington, D.C., the 1976 assassination of former Foreign Minister
Orlando Letelier and his colleague Ronni Moffitt. During his trip to
Chile, Mc Cain made no public or private statements critical of the
dictatorship, nor did he meet with members of the democratic opposition
in Chile.



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