Sydney, 17 September 2021

Open letter to the Australian Federal Government on Australia’s involvement in the overthrow of democratically elected President Salvador Allende

The publication by the National Security Archive at George Washington University (10/09/2021) of recently declassified Australian Government records, confirms the active involvement of Australian Secret Intelligence Service agents (ASIS) in Santiago, Chile, between 1971 through to apparently early 1974. These ASIS agents were assigned to assist the Government of the United States of America and its Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the destabilisation of the democratically elected Popular Unity Government of Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens. We, the undersigned, wish to express our outrage and outright repugnance of Australia’s involvement in that violent coup d’état.