By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 December 2025
Soviet Strategy and the Downfall of Salvador Allende
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Nazis, Augusto Pinochet, and Soviet Propaganda
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2025
The New York Times and Gaza: Omissions, Mistakes, and Inadequate Corrections
Cuba Is Still A Major Spy Threat
The CIA: In Theory and In Practice
The 1954 Coup in Guatemala: A More Interesting Story Than American “Economic Imperialism”
“The American Coup in Chile”: A Myth That Will Never Die
The Role of the “Fraternal Parties” in the Soviet Union’s Global Mission
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 August 2021
After the post looking at the relationship of Reuben Falber and the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to the Soviet Union—namely the total subservience of the former to the latter—a follow-up was intended on the broader issue of the how the KGB and its predecessors interacted with the “fraternal” Parties around the world. Eighteen months later, this is that post. Let’s blame COVID.
The accusation that the Communist Parties around the world were fronts for the KGB was often derided as “McCarthyism” while the Cold War was going on. Arguments about that term in general to one side,[1] it certainly did not apply in this case. The accusations as stated were entirely factual. Continue reading
When Kissinger Met Pinochet
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 January 2021
Chile’s ruler Augusto Pinochet meeting U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Santiago, 8 June 1976
The first time U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met Chile’s ruler, General Augusto Pinochet, was at a meeting of the Organisation of American States (OAS) in Santiago on 8 June 1976. Kissinger had deliberately kept a public distance from Pinochet because of the myth—which will never die—that he and President Richard Nixon orchestrated the coup d’état that brought Pinochet to power in September 1973. But with the OAS meeting in Pinochet’s capital city, Kissinger finally had to meet Pinochet. Kissinger’s sent two very distinct messages to Pinochet, one public, one private. Continue reading
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