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                            THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary
                           (Ottawa, Canada)
________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                                    October 8, 1999


                   STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY

     Today the Department of State, the Department of Defense, 
the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
and the National Archives and Records Administration are releasing 
newly declassified and other documents related to events in Chile 
from 1968-1978.  These documents are part of a discretionary review 
of U.S. government files related to human rights abuses, terrorism, 
and other acts of political violence prior to and during the 
Pinochet era in Chile.  National Security Council staff are 
coordinating this interagency effort on behalf of the President.


     The process of review continues, and a final release of documents 
from 1968 through the final years of Pinochet's rule will take place 
early next year.  Agencies made an initial release of approximately 
5,800 documents on June 30, concentrating on the period from 1973-1978,
which corresponds to the period of the most flagrant human rights 
abuses in Chile.  The focus for this second release was on documents 
dated from 1968-1973, although many relate to the period 1973-1978.


     This second release consists of over 1,100 documents, including
approximately 350 from the Department of State, 60 from the Department 
of Defense, 160 from the Central Intelligence Agency, 430 from the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation, and 115 from the National Archives.  
Information has been withheld from some of the released documents to 
protect the privacy of individuals; sensitive law enforcement 
information, and intelligence sources and methods; or to prevent 
serious harm to ongoing diplomatic activities of the United States.


     A complete set of the released documents is available for public
review at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland.  They also 
are being released simultaneously in Chile.  Copies of the documents 
will be available on the Internet.  Also available at this website is 
a copy of a descriptive guide to previously released State Department 
and other agency records in the National Archives relating to Chile 
during this period.

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