"I used to visit all the very gay places those come what made places where one relaxes on the axes on the wheel of life to get the feel of life" "I had deep respect for Henry Kissinger his knowledge his background and his philosophic out well I thought he was intelligent charming and just a good companion" "I'll i can be respected I think he has been a major force in our lives dr." "Kissinger is perhaps one of the major scholars in America and the world a day in this area he was a fascinating mixture of power and strategy it wasn't just that power made you a celebrity it sometimes that just" "creating yourself as a celebrity gave you more power requirements mall everyone has a new york dream thank you so much for visiting our planet dr." "Kissinger it was fun I don't want to know if your glasses turn up" "I think isn't it was clearly an extraordinarily brilliant man but he did have this i think this fatal floor of preferring to act without public scrutiny one harper's magazine this month there's an article called the case" "against henry kissinger in the making of a war criminal explain Christopher" "I think he's a war criminal" "I think he's a liar" "I think he's responsible for kidnapping or murder my own view is that if we held" "Henry Kissinger to the standards we have begun to hold other leaders other policymakers and the standards to which we help policymakers in germany and in" "Japan after World War two yes Kissinger ought to be the subject of an international tribunal ought to be the subject of a legal process in the United States and elsewhere what are we to make of these accusations" "Henry Kissinger is the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in the most famous" "American diplomat in history yet armed with recent evidence his critics claim that some of his past actions amounted to crimes against humanity in a new climate of international justice re-examination of kissing his career may be an honor the important thing before people die or go senile like finisher here is to" "punish them to provide retribution for the victims a sense that they haven't all their relatives haven't died in vain and to provide a tarrant to make dictators tyrants crew people will be there a generals or national security" "advisors now I think that if they take the wrong course and abuse their power they may be held to and may be punished at some time in the future" "mmm yeah" "yeah well if I ask myself why i began my investigation into tender kiss again it would go back as far as when I'm i realized that he was a frightened now because I became aware that he was personally frightened by the" "consequences of the rest of General Pinochet with the news of that here he instantly thought could I be next good evening the former dictator of chili general augusto pinochet has been arrested by police in London the 82 year old generals being held at the request of the authorities in Spain who accused" "him of the murder of spanish citizens when he was in power in 1998 the front page of the New York Times announced that in cooperation with the case against General Pinochet the US government would release classified documents revealing American involvement in killings and torture in Chile" "Kissinger may have received the news with some concern as suggested by a phone call with his publisher" "Michael quarter that's mr. quarter for dr." "Kissinger Henry hi how are you no I wasn't calling out of the patient's i was calling only to say that you're getting all the publicity you would want to the new york times but not the kind" "that you want" "I also think it's very very dubious for the administration to simply say yes they'll release these papers he this is astonished judge appealing to an English Court about a chilean head of state so it's it yeah but it's also Spain has no Ratan national jurisdiction over events in" "Chile anyway so that it makes absolutely no sense the day the British police an arm of state power go out to the house of agosto picture and declare him under house arrest is a victory for an idea about the protection of the right of all peoples Michael tiger is a renowned" "litigator with a special interest in human rights and universal standards of justice so that's that's our bases now the next question is what we're gonna sue" "Tyga thinks that Henry Kissinger may have reason to be concerned about the new precedent set by the events surrounding the Pinochet arrest in" "London you know here's this magistrate that everybody thought he's a good friend of maggie thatcher and he's just going to toss the case out right well he writes one law for one world that's what he wrote his judgment for me" "I tell you something the most dramatic moment of the hearing about furniture was the testimony of the" "Scotland Yard officer on such a tight" "I was handed a warrant and i went to a house 1130" "I was showing and i went in and i turned right and then went into a room I saw men that I recognized as the prisoner president is not a grateful the prisoner and I walked up to him and he stood and I said Augusta pitch at you" "got a ir rest you sir for the climes of conspiracy and torture and I tell you I thought busted by" "well I never like to miss a chance to confront Henry Kissinger and I don't get that many because when he knows I'm coming or he knows i'm going to be in the area of so now he has canceled that's four times now this year" "what I yearn for is the chance for some quality time with him he refused to answer any questions where the hospice articles were being written but i do want to confront him and make him realize that sir me we're not going to stop asking" "in early two thousand and one author christopher hitchens published the trial of henry kissinger first released is to articles and Harper's Magazine the book accuses the former secretary of state of war crimes and crimes against humanity and asks for a formal legal inquiry the statement Henry Kissinger is a war" "criminal the statement i've been making for many years is now not a piece of rhetoric not a matter for her it's a job description across the u.s. kitchens improbable crusade attracted interest with a pen for a lance he was tilting at the windmill of kissing his" "reputation christopher hitchens as you no doubt know is out with a new book called the trial of Henry a Kissinger it is very rough on you and as a book devoted to criticism out and i'm going to deal with with good to the kitchen" "he's a man who attacked the mother Terry's that Jackie Kennedy a set the" "Holocaust never existed and I'm not gonna do him the favor of getting into a debate with him" "I can't have it set of the hymen anti-semite or not just emphasize that" "I'm story is too much it crosses my line and dr." "Kissinger by now we'll have heard I think from my lawyers that he is to cease and desist from saying what he knows to be 4i haven't read his book" "Frank the was so disgusted by his magazine piece look at this guy's background he's at sure pipe sucker he sucks the sewer pipe I was not concerned that Kissinger would sue harper's magazine because then he Kissinger would have to go to some form" "of legal disclosure I mean if you accuse the magazine or you accuse Hitchens of libel then that allows our lawyers to ask questions and subpoenaed documents and try to establish the truth of the matter and that is not something i think" "that Kissinger would welcome Kissinger's  Myers . to his impact is a global strategist during the Cold War era he saw international diplomacy as a grand game of finding the right balance between opposing superpowers" "I think that kissing his greatest accomplishment was a triangle and diplomacy in which he was able to balance China off against the Soviet" "Union and have America retain a role in the world after Vietnam when it would have been natural for us to retreat kisses his critics charge that his worldview blinded him to the human cost of the Cold War recently released documents reveal episodes in Indochina" "indonesia and chile where Kissinger may have needlessly sacrifice human lives to pursue strategic goals that this man could operate at such a horrible level and not get exposed for a year after year after year after year how many people came out against them is an embarrassment to my profession I gotta" "tell you the dark side of Henry Kissinger is very very dark born and first germany in 1923 Henry Kissinger was 10 years old when the nazis came to power the son of Jewish academics he was increasingly alienated from the society in which he lived" "I think Henry Kissinger grew up with that odd mix of ego and insecurity that comes from being the smartest kid in the class from really knowing that you more awesomely intelligent than anybody else but also being the guy who got beaten up" "because he was Jewish in 1938 the Kissinger family fled to the United States and settled in New York" "City" "Henry Kissinger was 15 in 1944 just six years after emigrating to America" "Kissinger return to Germany this time wearing an American uniform Kissinger was in the counterintelligence Corps and was stationed to some place and the" "American occupation zone and once or twice we met I mean we came out of a totalitarian society German refugees or" "Jewish refugees that was obviously something that weighed on as we got out early and we didn't suffer the ultimate consequences of being the enemy in a totalitarian society when the war ended" "Kissinger returned to his hometown a hundred miles south of book involved the synagogue with his family worshipped had been burned to the ground" "13 of his relatives had died in the camps consciousness that societies can take a very evil turn this separates me from many Americans who have never seen it can't imagine it I think you can come out of the Holocaust experience with" "many different outlooks but they're two extremes one of which is you say never again and you have a very moralistic foreign policy at the other extreme is a great realpolitik of realism in foreign policy" "Kissinger of course had a mix of both but he was mainly on the spectrum of the power politics player he believed that in the end what really mattered was power after the war Kissinger was admitted to Harvard as an undergraduate" "and a graduate student Kissinger and renowned as a student of foreign policy in his writings he expressed an interest in metonymic and otto von bismarck men of power cunning and skillful diplomacy" "his grounding was European not just because he came from Europe because he was a he was a young man when he left but historically his intellectual interests the diplomatic age of europe he was fascinated with the art of diplomacy and of course in those days a" "lot of diplomacy was secret and some of it even duplicitous kisses flair for international diplomacy brought him to the attention of Nelson Rockefeller" "Republican politician from one of America's wealthiest families dr." "Kissinger haven't finished the Rockefeller eport we have just learned to let the Russians of sentiment a hundred eighty six miles into the sky and return him you can't really comment on there it seems to made to support the" "recommendations of the Rockefeller report it indicates that the residents have rocket engines of very great for us and probably upgraded trust can be have at the moment in 1957" "Henry Kissinger published a book called nuclear weapons and foreign policy in which he argued for a bomb shelter in every house and a doctrine of limited nuclear war in the new york times he received an admiring review from Edward" "Teller the father of the hydrogen ball believe up there acapella group is that we have to go into production on Barbara's at the same time that we build up our middle forward as Rockefeller campaign for the Republican presidential" "nomination of 1968 Kissinger's aspirations move beyond academia to the seat of political power in Washington but at the convention Rockefeller would lose the nomination to Richard Nixon his political ambition stalled Kissinger was offered a position in the Nixon campaign" "he declined but he would soon find an unlikely route to power through the" "Vietnam War yeah no account indochina wars is complete without the name of Henry Casilla it's one of those occasions where the will to power of an individual really counts as historical fact by 1968 Kissinger had visited Vietnam three" "times and had become an advisor to the Johnson administration his impression was that the war was unwinnable but a withdrawal of US forces would damage" "American credibility accordingly I shall not see to devote his full attention to finding peace in vietnam" "President Johnson decided not to run for re-election in 1968 at your pro" "Johnson's withdrawal left vice president hubert humphrey to face richard nixon nixon promise that if elected he would bring an honorable and just end to the war" "I would not use atomic weapons in Vietnam" "I would not invade North Vietnam and it's a deadly i would not invade any of the other countries in the area of vietnam in Paris representatives of the johnson administration were negotiating with the North Vietnamese in an effort" "to end the war we had been in Paris since may of 68 and we got nowhere because retrospect there was only one issue with the United States going to get out and be defeated and nobody was prepared to say yes" "we've lost the war is over Kissinger was an adviser to the negotiators who are authorized to provide him with privileged information" "Kissinger was in Paris in September of 1968" "I thought he was intelligent charming and just a good companion but what davidson and other members of the Johnson team did not know was that on" "September tenth Kissinger had contacted the Nixon campaign by telephone we certainly did not know it was in your shared his analysis of what was happening with them and he was probably right for the most brilliant mind available to them and the" "most sophisticated analyst Nixon as it will recognize talent when he sees it he doesn't like Jews he doesn't like intellectuals but he loves  fifty six  it was because he knows what to do without being told Richard Nixon himself says" "that he admired kissing of his ability to supply secret information" "Nixon was afraid that a peace accord in Paris might cost him the election cousin of notices something richard nixon is prepared to undercut mr." "Johnson and mr." "Humphrey the" "President the Vice President and the negotiations in Paris kissing you had a very conspiratorial in sometimes manipulative character he really like to please various sides you like to ingratiate himself in the Paris peace talks he was willing to talk about the Johnson Humphrey camp as well as the Nixon camp" "Kissinger told the Nixon campaign the Johnson team was close to an agreement with North Vietnam until the deal was final the Johnson team wanted to keep the negotiations secret from South Vietnam but Nixon had opened a secret channel of communication with south vietnamese president to the go-between" "was an ashen no information information information and knowing that i traveled to Asia quite frequently messages to solve Vietnam always gone through me in late-september Kissinger return to harvard as the election approached he kept in contact with both negotiators in Paris and with members of the Nixon" "campaign he was getting information from both sides he probably giving information to both sighs - and I don't blame him i mean after all he was not sure if this is gonna win whoever when he's going to go to their size by the way Kissinger expected to" "work for whoever the next president was you offered me a job the next administration in September of 1968 really is independent of the president's name right on October thirty-first Henry Kissinger called the" "Nixon campaign to say that there had been a breakthrough in the talks" "I've got some important information said Kissinger they're breaking out the champagne in Paris 12 hours later the announcement was made the bombing of" "North Vietnam would cease and final negotiations would begin the prospect of peace give Humphrey a last-minute surge in the polls and then finally just a few days before the election we're moving to substantive negotiations for the first time and they're great" "hopes that time but just three days before the election President to defied" "Johnson and refused to join the peace negotiations certainly one reason is the advice they got from Nixon's people it's clear that they were being told to hold out and not go to Paris the FBI surveillance of the Nixon teams contacts with to confirm this" "hold on he was told we're gonna win and without the participation of south vietnam the peace talks collapsed richard nixon won the popular vote by a margin of less than one percent and we know further that mr. cousins opinion of mr." "Nixon was very low why is he suddenly doing this tremendous favor George election campaign to someone for whom he has nothing but contempt why it's in the hope of a political reward dr. henry kissinger has agreed to come with the White House staff as the assistant to the president elected for" "national security affairs" "I was sitting in the lobby waiting to get the sea the president-elect and there was this" "Rockefeller man as he was described to me going in to see him and what happened was that the Nixon stoli the crown jewel out of his longtime adversaries crown and that was Henry Kissinger the most brilliant man on the Rockefeller staff" "dr." "Kissinger is perhaps one of the major scholars in America and the world a day in this area he has never yet had a full-time government assignment and he will bring to this responsibility a fresh approach" "I did not voted Nixon when he appointed me as its security advice it in fact i had spend three presidential campaigns backing governor nelson rockefeller against richard nixon so when you read about how carefully I plotted my way into Nixon's proximity" "and want to teach that to your children say support the opponent of the man you for whom you under work" " I think he saw what he did is betrayal of the peace process or the move by Johnson to stop the bombing halt" "I really think this guy doesn't see it that way you saw it as a means to an end which is why it's such a good apparatchik is n was getting that job i Richard bill calls Nixon do solemnly swear upon taking office Nixon and" "Kissinger moved to structure the administration in a way that would give the new national security adviser unprecedented power" "dr." "Kissinger is setting up at the present time a very exciting new procedure to revitalize the National Security Council it's centralized control gave Nixon you know and and Kissinger on foreign policy a tremendous amount of sort of day-to-day control they can control the" "paper movement they can control a lot of the policy options it's true also that Henry kissing your chaired most of the committees and subcommittees and that gave him unusual authority for my staff Kissinger personally selected a team of policy experts drawn from academia" "I like to very much and I was happy to follow him I told him in September we're here with our August I ghost he's the most gifted man to work in American foreign policy and any generation since since world war two Kissinger also invited Harvard scholar" "roger morris to join the National Security Council Nixon set the general line of American policy but Kissinger really is the conductor of the train he's the engineer he's the the policymaker the most importantly is in liaison with the Pentagon with the Joint Chiefs of Staff with the CIA" "he's conducting the diplomacy as well as the military policies the major immediate goal of our foreign policy is to bring an end to the war in Vietnam away in public" "Nixon renewed his campaign pledge to bring an honorable end to the war in private the president shed kissing his view that the best piece would be achieved through force" "Moscow had been convinced that we were going to do everything necessary to win that war and when it promptly they would advise their clients to pull back" "Kissinger's definition of an honorable indoor of a decent into the war I think" "I had nothing much to do with with honor or with decency it had to do with American credibility these of the the Soviets and in the long run visa be the Chinese that Kissinger was concerned and so was Nixon at the" "United States not appear weak or indecisive or vacillating as Kissinger is supposed to have said and I don't know if he ever did that our goal is to have a decent interval between with toral American forces on the rape and" "the first version they were looking for remember what the 68 campaign was about they had a plan they were looking for an easy way to get out the vietnam war had just done done the the predecessor President Johnson it's it's hard for you to understand" "what a huge burden this was on these people in order to achieve peace with honor" "Nixon and Kissinger wanted to show ha noi that the new president would use extreme force to prosecute the war that he was capable of anything it was an idea called the madman theory less than a month into Nixon's presidency he and Kissinger began" "planning an attack against North Vietnamese sanctuaries in neighboring cambodia the Americans started bombing Cambodia in 1969 soon after Nixon came into office because they had a problem the problem was that whole areas of eastern Cambodia which was in theory a neutral country" "not on the side of the North Vietnamese or the South Vietnamese whole areas of the country had been taken over by the North Vietnamese communists and they were using them as staging areas and basis for their attacks on the south vietnamese army's in south vietnam and" "on the American army in South Vietnam Cambodia Thailand they were overrun the whole Peninsula this became one of those the greatness of the Vietnam War was that the key to success was getting rid of the the vietnamese communist bases on the Cambodian side of the port" "Cambodia's and magnetic Princess Fiona can manage to keep his country out of the Vietnam War he hoped to avoid taking sides and so prevent an open violation of cambodia's neutrality this led to all sorts of problems because taking the war secretly into a" "neutral country meant you had to to to destroy the actual records or to conceal them very effectively to lie in fact well it was a because the motivation was for the secrecy because it was illegal so I mean that simple" "under the US Constitution bombing Cambodia was an act of war that would require the approval of the US Congress" "I don't know that Congress would have allowed it the last thing Congress wanted then was an expansion of a war in February 1969 in a secret meeting on Air" "Force One Kissinger and his aide alexander haig met with air force colonel raise certain to plan for the secret bombing of Cambodia with" "Kissinger want it done was they are sitting to find a way in the master bombing so nobody would know what's going on and sit in it if our way the initial secret bombing Cambodia in 1969 was called Operation" "menu and each of the targets were different all supposed to be different North Vietnamese bases in Cambodia and they were called after names of meals breakfast lunch dinner snack" "starting with breakfast Kissinger approved a plan to conceal the Cambodian bombing missions from military records under this duel reporting system b 52 pilots would be pre assigned targets in south vietnam in mid-flight their planes would be re-routed by ground radar stations and guided to" "secret targets in Cambodia the returning pilots would report that their bombs have been dropped on South Vietnam Cambodia would never appear in the record I think Kissinger was clearly an extraordinarily brilliant man and brilliant and also a manipulative and also very secretive under Kissinger" "supervision the US for 3600 secret missions over Cambodia in 14 months dropping a hundred and ten thousand tons of bombs Colonel sitting recalled that" "Henry Kissinger was intimately involved in the direction and timing of the bombing raids real attention to the cruelties of the details picking targets selecting Hamlet's and villages to be bombed it is an absurd it to say that a country can occupy a part of another country" "kill your people and that then you are violating its neutrality when you respond against the foreign truths that are on that neutral territory" "I it is a little hypocrisy one week after the first bombs had fallen and" "Cambodia rumors of the operation began to surface in the press" "Kissinger contacted the FBI to request that wire taps be used to find the source of the leaks he wiretapped American journalists with whom he had supposedly friendly and close relations it legitimized me there was a reporter writer commentator for the New York Times and everybody felt a little creepy about" "uses mix an apologist to writing for the time but then when it turned out that i was wiretapped all of a sudden I was in a new fraternity he wiretapped aids  associates in the Pentagon" "I was one of the people who was wiretapped while serving under him" "I cannot forgive him for being a party to it or four never apologizing it was not one of the things that filled me with a while joy on the other hand it also seemed the way by which it could be demonstrated" "that my staff was loyal but i'm sure they were complex of reasons that that went into it to some the wiretapping was just a part of a campaign by Kissinger to fortify his position as nixon's deputy he was endlessly playing off his" "own staff one against the other and playing them off against the President and there was a lot of Jackie particularly on him apart for position and Kissinger was determined to accrete as much power as possible to him we used to joke that that the real hostile foreign powers were not Moscow" "or Beijing or any of our rivals in the world the real Hospital powers were the rest of the American government the Department of State the White House stand the CIA the Defense Department those were Henry's principal adversaries because they were the rivals for for power in Washington like a moth to flame" "Henry Kissinger was always attracted to his critics and the best way to get him to return your phone call was to write something negative he understood more about my profession the most of us he always understood if you could get the three networks and Time and Newsweek he was home free" "what makes a man sexy what you know what is it is it money the whole thing and" "Henry says power it is the ultimate aphrodisiac" "he cultivated the press before anybody even knew it was possible to do he realized that in this celebrity-obsessed aid that if you became a celebrity it gave you more power I was at a party and young lady came up to me" "and said are you a swinger and I said I'm too busy to any public swinging and" "I don't want you to think that I don't do any swing so why don't you just assume I'm a secret screening it" "Henry used his flamboyant personal life to cover up his professional life and it gave him a lot of cover he could go and have meetings he could do things he could take stand and everybody is concentrating on our kissing to the" "swinger you love the thrill of dating starts dating beautiful women these were not deep romantic attachments this wasn't some great sexual desire as much as a sense of fun a sense of knowing that he could be in the limelight that he could be with" "beautiful people that he got a thrill from it and we get to the restaurant and" "Sinatra who was terribly paranoid he's saying" "Oh everybody says i have mafia connections I don't have mommy connections and Henry said that's too bad" "Frank I need somebody to take care of my enemies" "Kissinger as enemies in Vietnam continue to haunt him while the war dragged on an official state department delegation met with the" "North Vietnamese in Paris but Kissinger was confident he could secure more favorable terms he opened a second channel of secret talks with North" "Vietnamese negotiator lay duct oh and we were told that those negotiations were to be kept secret not only of course from the public not only from the media but also from the rest of the US government neither the secretary of state nor the Secretary of Defense were to know" "anything about it and Henry was flying off quite to secretly on weekends to meet with late" "October and swan tree in Paris at a safe house this was all very conspiratorial full of intrigue which he loved he put out the story that he was meeting a girlfriend Jill st." "John or someone in New York when in fact he was in Paris negotiating with the North Vietnamese how do I get out of it because we're having a meeting today sir well do something for friday have a secret wonderful and certainly" "you'll be meeting again tomorrow sir we expect alien Kissinger secret talks made little progress toward peace in vietnam but they did expand his power in Washington the negotiations that he conducted their way of exercising his own control establishing his own" "authority in the negotiating process as it became apparent that Nixon would turn to Henry for strategy he gained in that influence they gain some more self-confidence and made an enormous contribution to Nixon's policy" "Nixon and Kissinger is Vietnam strategy was still entangled in Cambodia the secret bombing had failed to destroy the sanctuaries the North Vietnamese had formed an alliance with Cambodian communists and had moved deeper into the country" "Prince see an open the one man capable of uniting the nation was deposed in a" "CIA supported cool the Cambodian coo set off a kind of chain reaction inside the American government in Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger denying CIA support for the coup Kissinger and Nixon announced us support for the coup leader lon all who" "probably attacked the North Vietnamese means North Vietnam counter-attacked and moved even deeper into Cambodia they saw that as a challenge again to American strength to the credibility of American foreign policy" "Nixon decided to invade cambodia to send a message to North Vietnam a few days before the invasion" "Nixon had a friend relay a message to Kissinger the president wants you to know Henry that if this doesn't work it's your ass" "Kissinger told his staff are peerless leader has flipped out but Kissinger defended and implemented the decision to invade saying which scared North Vietnam Nixon would be more emphatic he said let's go blow the hell out of them" "I decided to resign along with Tony lake and with Bill Watts our colleague on the NSC staff because I felt that that the Cambodian invasion was a betrayal of the president's pledge to seek an honorable and just peace in vietnam" "I knew that that piece was within our grasp I was intimately involved in the negotiations" "I knew that the other side was ready to agree that we were ready to agree and that the Cambodian invasion really destroyed all of that devastated it for years to come and literally cost tens of thousands of American lives" "hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese lives in April thirtieth 1970 US forces invaded Cambodia Vietnam attacks are being launched this week to clean out major enemy sanctuaries on the Cambodian" "Vietnam but as news of the invasion spread the US domestic reactions explosive nearly 500 American universities shut down and on the morning of May fourth national guardsmen opened fire on 15 students at Kent State" "University killing for as Nixon promise publicly to remove forces from Cambodia" "Kissinger review to plan to increase the pressure on North Vietnam to surrender" "Henry Kissinger began in the fall of nineteen sixty-nine in September to plan a savage brutal blow against North Vietnam these were his words he said to us as a Planning Group" "I can't believe that a fourth-rate power like North Vietnam does not have a breaking point for 11 days in december of 1972 and what became known as the Christmas bombing a hundred and twenty-nine b-52 bombers dropped 40,000 tons of bombs on how am I and high farm hitting a" "hospital and other urban centers" "what many did not know was that Kissinger had struck a piece of cord with North Vietnam two months before but South Vietnam is present to the man who had undermined the 68 peace talks will not accept the deal without proof that" "the Americans would enforce it the Christmas bombing had much more to do with the South Vietnamese than with the North it was a gesture to the two regime it was a way of saying the United" "States is willing to make this this one great last brutal blow against the North they buon the North Vietnamese simply to persuade the South Vietnamese that they meant it was a demonstration bombing it was a public relations mass murder from" "the sky the bombing did appease the south and Kissinger persuaded the North Vietnamese to make a few cosmetic concessions in january nineteen seventy three kiss and just signed a peace accord with North Vietnamese negotiator laid octo the terms of peace were almost identical to the terms that johnson administration" "and nearly secured before the election of 1968" "half the names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial incised in stone for dates after january nineteen sixty-nine there is enough marble in Washington to put all the names on one wall" "we wouldn't dare try and put up a wall that had the names of all the enemies on you don't end up here then I shall receive the award to get over it my old colleague in the search" "for peace in vietnam a doctor in 1973 Kissinger and laid octo were jointly awarded the nobel prize for peace symbolize the end of the anguish and suffering but to his embarrassment" "Kissinger was unaware that lady octo would not attend the ceremony in Oz low the Vietnamese counterpart with me shared history took to refuse to accept the prize on the perfectly excellent pragmatic grounds that there was no peace in vietnam to celebrate so there shouldn't be a price for it" "I thought it was a a terrible travesty that he should be awarded a a peace prize when in fact he was a war maker not a not a war in der adapted Kissinger what would you say was the high point of your tenure as Secretary of State and i" "would say you 19 in 1973 then I run to know about Peace Prize for ending the Vietnam blah and the wall ." "i'd say 1975 when the vietnam war ended once the paris peace accords were signed in December of 72" "that was that ended the American direct involvement in Vietnam but to preserve peace with honor" "Nixon and Kissinger decided to defend the anti communist regime and Cambodia it was to be a secret mission air strikes against communist forces directed by the American Embassy in phnom penh it made free the American Air" "Force they could not bomb in Laos they could not bomb in Vietnam so that began the the incredible bombing of Cambodia and this is when the number of bombs dropped equal than the amount of bombs dropped on Japan during World War two" "Elizabeth becca covered the war in Cambodia from 1972 to 1974 we would be able to hear the conversation between the pilot the American pilot in the air and the American Embassy which was illegally directing the air strikes we couldn't understand why there are so many civilian" "casualties in this war why were they hitting all these civilians and villages it was every nightmare of how you fight a war from nineteen sixty nine to nineteen seventy three more than 500,000 Cambodians die" "I 1974 the bombing had disrupted the nation's agricultural system and a famine ensued over 2 million refugees poured into overcrowded cities American policy in those years towards cambodia helped create the conditions perhaps the only conditions in which the Khmer Rouge can't power the Khmer Rouge" "drew strength from the chaos of the country when they seized power in 1975 they force populations of entire cities back to the countryside then they began a policy of exterminating the enemies in execution grounds that came to be known as killing fields by 1979 another three million" "Cambodians had lost their lives no one you what the Camaro's we're going to do it's quite wrong to blame the United States for the murderous pneus of the" "Khmer Rouge that sir disgracefully dishonest thing to try to do but the carelessness with which the" "United States treated cambodia as a sideshow to Vietnam did lead to disaster to Cambodia congress authorized money for bombs in south vietnam and they went into Cambodia and there's a criminal act for you you know line and therefore I think anybody who died in Cambodia you could" "argue criminally that they were guilty of murder one people did nobody authorize them the bomb Cambodia there was no american war in Cambodia before President Nixon and dr." "Kissinger that is totally incorrect" "I think we inherited a tragedy we attended to and succeeded in extricate" "America with other from this tragedy oh we inherited it no you did not inherited you created your the designers of the Cambodian policy crimes against humanity are crimes but comprise genocide or torture or mass murder committed on a widespread and systematic" "basis against innocent civilian populations you're talking about war crimes for example when world war two started and" "Germany first bombed London everyone was horrified bombing cities that's that was criminal behavior you bomb troops you didn't Brown bomb innocent civilians but the time the war was over we had virtually wiped out dresden for example in one of the most horrible bombing raids ever and Tokyo we" "virtually burned to the ground so was that criminal" "perhaps in July 1973 the detection of Nixon's taping system would lead to the discovery of the Watergate cover-up the indictment of key members of the White House staff and the end of the" "Nixon presidency the life that had to be told by the administration of a cambodia led eventually to the employment of the plumbers which was a secret White House team employed to stop leaks which led to Watergate which led to the fall of Nixon" "so in a way the bombing of Cambodia was the first step in the chain that led to the fall of nixon nixon resigned rather than face impeachment one of the original articles of impeachment address the concealment of the Cambodian bombing" "from Congress when the impeachment was dropped so was the investigation into the secret bombing the new president gerald ford retain Henry Kissinger as his secretary of state and pardoned Richard Nixon" "Nixon managed to carve a shameful plea accept a pardon his attorney general former campaign manager John Mitchell is put in an orange jumpsuit send down the river no attorney general to have been to jail before but there are more members of the innocent group all of them bound to each other by" "criminal understanding is any one of them left of the people who were involved in the foreign domestic crimes of the year we're delighted to have such a large turnout tonight for what I know will be an informative and perhaps provocative evening with our guest dr." "Henry" "Kissinger i would like to point out that put a while I was both national security advisor and Secretary of State and the reason i mention that it's because never before and never since have relations between the White House and the State" "Department penis ceremony 'as that's a ver good notes days" "Kissinger has written three best-selling books about his life but in the deed of his government papers to the library of congress he has not allowed anyone else to access them until five years after his death out was the deed of the paper" "the right thing to do I was it that it further our understanding of how they operated you know I mean by putting those papers away know of course that it simply was an act of a man who did not dare to have it is lifetime the real papers and the" "real documents of his administration become known as Secretary of State under" "Ford Henry Kissinger still saw conflicts between superpowers extend to the smallest corners of the world in east timor a small island and the Indonesian archipelago Henry Kissinger saw a communist threat to the global balance of power the Indonesian detection thought it would be better if Indonesia occupied" "and our next the people and territory of his team or" "so they evolve the plan whereby they took the land and they subjected the people to the campaign of genocide" "but what is it is widely known as it could be or should be is that on the day they took that decision" "Henry Kissinger was sitting in the room with the introduced in general stuff good evening from jakarta indonesia the latest stop on President Ford's agent or on the sum of the fifth nineteen seventy-five President Gerald Ford and" "Henry Kissinger arrived to meet with indonesian President Suharto the president day and Indonesia will be taken up mostly by ceremony for and" "Kissinger wanted to strengthen diplomatic ties with Indonesia a non-communist a lie between Australia and Vietnam that controlled crucial ceiling there's more to this trip in China politics and security for Southeast Asia" "Indonesia is a major oil producer and coal reserves have been discovered on the islands reasons enough of the United States to want to maintain good relations dr." "Kissinger met with along with President forward with President Suharto and i was present at that meeting many have interpreted that meeting as dr." "Kissinger is giving a green light to the subsequent indonesian invasion of timor east timor was seeking its independence from portugal Kissinger had long been aware of the growing popularity in east timor of a left-wing independence movement called Fretilin the Indonesian military throughout this period was concerned that they're not be" "a separate independent entity develop on one half of one of their islands with strong chinese communist influence when dr." "Kissinger came" "I think the decision had already been made by the indonesian that the efforts to negotiate with the Portuguese and not come to fruition and therefore they needed to take direct military action but any military action would involve us weapons which had been sold solely for self-defense on december six as forward" "and Kissinger concluded their visit preparations were underway for an invasion" "why they asked the Indonesian is invading us why they asked if the" "Indonesian believe that Fretilin his communist to the not send a delegation to dilly to find out why they asked the strain is not helping us when the" "Japanese invaded they did help us why they asked the Portuguese not helping us we're still a portuguese colony who they asked will pay for the terrible damage to our homes one day after this report Greg Shackleton was killed in east timor" "what we saw was the massive wave of thousands of people as a result of the constant attack of the Indonesian army from days air from see land that's happened" "a lot of people having with no cameras to witness the invasion a radio transmission from the Red Cross is the only live record of the horror of the event" "what I saw was my own government was very much involved in what was going on in east timor we were providing most of the weaponry helicopters logistical support food uniforms ammunition all the expendables of the Indonesians needed to conduct this war" "you can be one hundred percent certain that Suharto was explicitly given the green light to do what he did" "yeah the invasion executions destruction of the land and resulting famine cost the lives of over a hundred thousand two Marines in interviews Kissinger has long denied that he discussed the invasion in the meeting with sahaja we were told at" "the airport as we left jakarta that either that day or the next day they intended to take these two more well I don't want to take issue as the accuracy of dr." "Kissinger's memoirs but it was mentioned in the meeting with sorrow as I recalled sorrow was quite candid said that after several months of trying to resolve this through negotiation indonesian felt they had to take direct action one week after this interview the transcript of the meeting with suharto's" "released so harder I would like to speak to mr." "president about another problem team or we want your understanding if we deem it necessary to take rapid or drastic action ford we will understand and will not press you on this issue we understand the problem you have and the intention to have Kissinger you" "appreciate that the use of us made arms could create problems it depends on how we construe it whether it is in self-defense or is a foreign operation it is important whatever you do succeeds quickly we would be able to influence" "the reaction in America if whatever happens happens after we return the US government knew exactly what was happening in those first days of the invasion december seven eight nine thousands of memories were killed reports of people being herded into school buildings by indonesian soldiers" "with the building set on fire and anyone trying to get out being shot most of people being burned alive people being hurt in the fields and machine gun and people being hunted down in the mountains so anyone out there was in" "what amounted to a free-fire zone the Indian agent did not handle it very well from the standpoint of the global community but again our our leverage was limited and it was seen in 1975-76 and the light of the post Vietnam era as a" "very important country to us and it happened in in a year and southeast asia and into training ahead collapsed it was the question of approval it with a question of not being able to do anything about it knowing full well how many people were killed" "they were so concerned at the US State Department that they cabled Henry" "Kissinger twice saying that the US Congress would cut off military aid in the butt and bilateral weapons sales to Indonesia because clearly indonesia was using these weapons for offensive purposes and it would be hard to make a case that Indonesia was threatened by an invasion from his to walk so while" "kissing is in the air flying home the State Department has to issue these statements it's a matter of law and they have to say Congress may indeed cut off aid as a result of this as a legal matter when he returns from his trip to Indonesia to" "the State Department he comes back to a bureaucratic rao of his office because it is furious" "Kissinger I want to raise a little bit of hell about the department's conduct in my absence take this cable on east timor it will leak and it will go to Congress to and then we will have hearings on it and it will come out that Kissinger overruled" "his pristine bureaucrats and violated the law the arms Export Control Act and the foreign assistance i passed by Congress that limit the ways in which American weaponry can be used and they can find these uses to external self-defense" "Kissinger and we can't construe a communist government in the middle of" "Indonesia is self-defense" "Lee well Kissinger then you're saying that arms can't be used for defense no they can be used for the defense of Indonesia Kissinger" "I know what the law is but how can it be in the u.s. national interest for us to kick the Indonesian xin the teeth the meeting concluded with the discussion about how to mislead Congress about arm sales which did continue after a brief hiatus" "in a later meeting one of Kissinger zaid's confirmed that normal relations with Indonesia had resumed not very willingly said Kissinger illegally and beautifully today Henry Kissinger is a successful businessman he runs a firm called Kissinger associates in which he uses his" "diplomatic experience to help businesses around the world but while Kissinger made profit from past connections he is also haunted by them last year" "Kissinger was enjoying a tripped packs when a French judge served him with a subpoena to answer questions about us involvement in Chile 30 years ago at issue was Operation Condor a campaign of murder and torture conducted by the regime of augusto pinochet the rest of our gusto peanut che in london in" "October of 1998 directly led to pressure on the clinton ministration to declassify hundreds of thousands of documents secret documents from the CIA from the State Department and elsewhere blacked out as they are these documents are really rather extraordinary there's a paper trail right up to Kissinger is" "office that help us revisit this history and understand our efforts to overthrow covertly democratically elected government in Chile" "I really think chili was probably the basis in the most corrupt of all the actions because it had nothing to do with national security properties used all over the world but the right of known reserve a copper ore in south" "america and the Republic actually in the nineteen sixties chili was fertile soil for American corporate interests including I tnt which controlled the copper industry and pepsi cola early 1970s see and I TNT are concerned about political developments in Chile" "as the country's democratic presidential elections approach a left-wing candidate name in Salvador ind was gaining popular support his ties to feed hell Castro were a particular concern he was the spokesman for castra everywhere as part of his electoral" "platform he had said he would not accept american aid he had inveighed against American capitalism described the United States is not really being a democracy but the" "Soviet Union was a democracy ind promise to nationalize chilis copper industry a direct threat to I tnt and concern to other US corporations" "I directed that an approach be made to both the State Department and mr." "Kissinger his office to tell them that we had grave concern of the outlook for ittt invest as I TNT called on Kissinger to take action against ind pepsi" "President Donald Kendall echoed the same concern to an old friend richard nixon if he does it right in Chile he's can ensure a good flow of campaign money and" "71 and 72 he's got a lot of big money people that want him to do something about chili so chilly became the most important national security item they had what brought about the changes in Chile where the facts that it was being communist" "ties dial in d yeah in September for and1 a plurality of the vote it appeared certain that his victory would be confirmed by the Chilean" "Congress the election in Chile has been one but the president has not been confirmed the new presidents of your and actually has like the united states that transition period of about 60 days the CIA declared that chili on the ind would not be a threat to the United" "States but Nixon found the prospect of an IND presidency unacceptable as advisor to Richard Nixon Kissinger followed Machiavelli's rule of flattering add relating and serving the powerful to be a success in a September meeting Kissinger shared his views on Chili's democratic election" "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the responsibility of its people in September 15 Nixon met in the Oval" "Office with Kissinger and richard helms director of the CIA Helms handwritten notes reveal a plan to prevent a ND from coming to power not concerned risks involved no involvement of the embassy 10 million available more if necessary an internal CIA memo dated September 16 outlines the official but secret policy" "implemented by the CIA under the supervision of henry kissinger Kissinger asked Helms to report directly to him on the details of cooperations concealed from the Department of State and Defense as well as the US Embassy in Chile this plan for covert action became known as track" " of course I was a broad policy" "I make no excuses that should have it another Marxist regime in the hemisphere know in a meeting with Hague and others" "Kissinger emphasize that drastic action was called for" " shocked that your lens Kissinger really became the general manager of this covert operation representing the President of the United States he ignored the advice his own staff that a coup was not possible" "I decided to start sending these increasingly worrying the alarms to Kissinger that anything that might be tried would be an utter failure the Chilean military was not going to engage in anything ind was certainly going to be elected nothing could stop it" "Kissinger swept aside these objections and press the CIA to go forward to foment a military coup but the third cable was the one that really excited" "Kissinger because it said unequivocally that if any adventure were undertaken it would boomerang against the United States and personally against the president worse than the Bay of Pigs that was the cable like they got me a summons home right away because they thought i had stumbled on their plot" "I find it so i flew to washington president greeted me he then launched into a denunciation of ind he kept hitting his hand like that he was going to smash ind economically kept referring to him as that bastard that sob he was going to" "Smashing I want that and then with the inauguration approaching word of possible covert action against ind which general rena schneider head of the Chilean military Snyder announce you would uphold my end is confirmation for the Chilean Congress he was unaware that" "men from within his own ranks were being recruited by the CIA anybody remember sana et al masih me on Arizona a phenomenal idea okay look at this here and we're going to clear a little lazy forgot gee guys" "soon begin a percent 18yo my congregation it to orient aspect or another with Joe be going sat on a cat on the scene over there is a general rené schneider is thought of as the principal obstacle to a military coup" "because he believes the Chilean armed forces take their oath only to the constitution in santiago the CIA helped design a plan to kidnap schneider they thought they would provoke the military into declaring Martial Law suspending the election the CIA is Santiago station chief cabled Washington general snyder is the main" "barrier to all plans for the military to take over Washington cabled back constant pressure from the White House more important than ever to remove him it's therefore decided schneider must go and for this task men of a proven record of criminal violence are recruited" "they're given sophisticated assassination weaponry through the" "United States diplomatic bag a track to see I a community confirms this the cable reports that plans against Neider we're moving along requesting eight to ten tear gas grenades 3 45 caliber machine guns with" "500 rounds ammo each and the given large financial inducement the money was yeah and bounds over a CI h challenge back" "no one sat on a lot after hatching hey too hard to all in late-september why not then US military attaché II had been secretly assigned to work directly with the CIA in santiago an avid equestrian while its love of horses and made him a" "close associate of officers in the Chilean military an ideal go between the" "CIA station gave why matter war chest of cash to pay out" " anti ND groups I should include in my office safe so I took it was giant long rubber band shirt future shouted and i put it more and Butch and no one else boots boots but me I had his best places to achieve it in October the 15th" "kissing to receive word that track to coup plotters had made a failed attempt to kidnap general schneider in a meeting with the CIA he expressed his concern that plans for a cool at this time cannot succeed in his memoirs Kissinger would later write that he had turned off track to at this" "meeting but the very next day the CIA sent a cable to Chile it is firm and continuing policy that ind be overthrown by a cool it is imperative that these actions be implemented clandestinely and securely so that the United States government and American hand be well hidden" "if you Henry Kissinger everybody knows what you want and does he know that they know what he wants sure does he know what they're going to do or how they gonna do it are you kidding anybody that would tell them what's going to happen is never going to get do" "a briefing again do you really think somebody would take a piece of paper into the White House that say a consequence of this may be a death of somebody do you really think so no immediate Santiago submachine guns and ammo being" "sent by regular Korea leaving Washington" "Oh 700 hours 19 October derive Santiago late evening twenty october or early morning 21 October preferred use regular courier to avoid bringing undue attention to operation" "yeah yeah maybe it's a little tricky to bow to a minion and he now talk to your semantically to fail the garlic inna a a young Gandolfini my teens emoticon a family go to co allowed to follow yahoo autos" "e it appeared pass you don't keep the key out of town today" "A Fella hinted romping video on muscle peeling apart at the end totally private vika when they moved to stop sign that morning and he show for didn't pay much attention to me for driver he went the same way all the time" "and then here one morning he goes to go there and it blocked off as over here and then it stopped following the shouting was an American mischief you know that was investigated a nauseam by an opposition senator church and if you read the church here is its all there and nobody" "was invited nobody was was charged with illegal acts" "mr." "Kissinger his presence here should not be interpreted as meaning that he himself was ever involved in any plot to assassinate any foreign figure in the" "Church Committee the CIA testified that Kissinger had been kept fully informed of the Schneider situation every step of the way even after October 15 Kissinger maintained that he turned off all coo plotting on october 15th for Kissinger to be correct this would go down in history as one of the" "greatest misunderstandings between the White House and the CIA but when you read the documents Kissinger was very clear he said let us keep pressure on every I end a weak spot in sight now and into the future until such time as new marching orders are given the sea" "i walked away from its meeting with Henry Kissinger believing it had been mandated to continue trying to foment a coup in chile on october 19 according to the CIA kisses aid alexander haig was briefed by the CIA on continuing coup attempts" "one can only presume that Alexander Haig whose Duty it was to report to Kissinger on this type of information fully briefed Kissinger on what the CI told him according to the CIA on october twenty five days after Kissinger claimed" "he had turned off track - he demanded an update on the Schneider situation there was no policy since to assassin into it's a 10-8 any foreign official listen just said there was no plot I and family hours" "I was not involved you are they like it's part of people concerned in the White House this thing ended in October" "15 then i think around october twenty service so they" "I don't remember the exact date they kidnapped an ID and in the process is killed him it may be impossible to know precisely what happened yet it is hard to understand how on october 19 the CIA could have shipped unmarked guns to" "chill a without authorization he knew schneider was certainly going to get killed but not by us you see therefore it's okay that's the way it works not a fascination and not murder that that the hearing was very clear about that it was a accident old and in terms of the" "United States but isn't kidnapping a crime of kidnapping is it depends on what your what your objectives are I'm not gonna justify they were not my policy if you were found standing over a dead man in the street with a smoking" "gun in your hands and the police come and you say well I'm sorry but I was only trying to kidnap him this import does you no good at all a murder committed in the course of the kidnap any action which is because of" "getting that aggravates the offense chilean police investigation did not find any evidence to support a kidnapping after the murder the CIA commanded the Chilean station for doing an excellent job" "CIA internal inquiry revealed that 35 thousand dollars was paid to one of the killers after the killing perhaps only a legal inquiry will reveal the truth if you could develop a scenario if you develop a factual basis to find that Henry Kissinger was" "compressive then you could sue him in the courts the United States you might face some statute of limitations problems which you have to try to overcome by saying that the duplicity with which henry kissinger has dealt with these issues saying one thing for the official record and another thing in" "private and hitherto unreleased records there'd be some ground which to say that the statute of limitations was told by that kind of concealment you be so he can be thinking in LA and he fit the attack on follow soon be anybody come out of tackle say i attended basically" "they insect or guitar I II didn't get on with it and 0 to figure yes in sector eight anybody in eclectic but that possible political compass under after Schneider's death I end it was elected but the efforts of Kissinger and" "Nixon to overthrow Andy Andy would ultimately succeed in 1973 military forces launched a coup in santiago killing" "I n augusta finishing would assume power and begin a reign of terror that would last 17 years the date was September 11 28 years later to the day" "The Washington Post announced a lawsuit brought against Henry Kissinger by rena schneider junior to the death of his father the news would be overshadowed by the events of later that morning" "sure they would want your observations and what you see here the one hand in testimony to what evil can do in the world but the mayor and his associates have done here showed the millions and the power of the human spirit as the former Secretary of" "State surveyed the wreckage the campaign had already begun to see that those responsible for the loss of innocent life be captured and brought to justice" "I don't think you could have it metaphorically more perfect than that that the hunt for those who will use force against civilians or against democracy for short term or fanatical aims of their own is now hunting which the whole world takes part" "and they can't be any exceptions we're not Kissinger is guilty of crimes against humanity his case raises issues about the accountability of public figures the way the past haunts the present and the movement for universal justice all revolutions are impossible" "till they happen then they become inevitable well one of the things that happened is that this movement has acquired an air of inevitability hundred and thirty nine nations have become signatories to the International Criminal Court a global judiciary with the politic try individuals for crimes against humanity" "I think the idea of Kissinger is a war criminal is a very dangerous ideas you know" "America is not signed up to the International Criminal Tribunal for fear of this in his latest book and international affairs" "Henry Kissinger argue strongly against what he calls the pitfalls of universal jurisdiction it's a facet of American exceptionalism to think that international law is a very fine thing for other countries that international law applies to everyone except Americans the average person things that" "morality can be applied as directly to the conduct of states to each other as it can" " human relation that is not always the case because sometimes statesman have to choose among us" "I to think that somewhere down deep he knows what he was doing he knows it was against a lot of first principles which is why so much his masked and hidden there's so much distrust it's a very very sad way to go to your life" "whatever he did whatever he accomplished i'm not sure it's worth it because he had to live a lot more years and it's been out of power for a long time you know 25 years now in his own way the reason I don't worry about war crimes" "anything else he's got his own sentence he's gotta live with himself yeah" "yeah"