ambassador, particularly in the third world, demands certain qualities. You must have no scruples. You need to be able to organise political assassinations at the drop of a hat.
You must know how to bribe the generals and colonels, and make speeches about defending Christian values.
Dean Hinton, newly Salvador qualify on of these TIOSI counts and, unlike other applicants, has an impeccable record to prove it.
From 1969 to 1971, Mr Hinton was the boss of the ARCHICY IOr antenauona Development's mission in Chile. Like his buddies in the Department, which plays the tunes to which AID dances, he did not like Allende.
Along with the State Department's representatives, AID and the CIA distributed the dollars Pos. At first chese we t hn At first these went ir the direction of the Chrislan wemoc ars wno were fighting an election campaign against Allende. Chile Unfortunately for Hinthe Chilean people Loll. voted Ior better wages, better education and a better health rather SCrVICe than Coça Cola and anticlil uls l But Hinton knew that when door closes Ulic another can be opened. If the ballot box coula not ao it then the carbine could Out WCHlL the Christian Democrats, came the military. Supported, couraged and financed by the Hintor LUCH like Pinochet recruited an army of murderers and torLureS Two years after Hinton had left Chile his work bore fruit: Allende was overthrown and a nation was put in chains.
What had particularly qualified Hinton for his WOlk was previous : job as AID top man in (uatemala here he had been on the best of terms the military gangsters who overthrew Joseph ADeN UI E behest of the United Fruit Company in 1953.
With friends like that keep uppity peasants in their place. But Hinton's education did not end there. Virtues After his work in Chile he went home to the USA There he worked at the Sulf Ci of chicanery and crookedness as an internaLulal ccono nc dovisor to President Nixon's National Security Council.
Like all those who worked with Nixon he had a chance to learn at first hand all those virtues US CaDilaasu przes SUCI how to exploit and cheat the majority of the humar Lalc Hinton was reared by US capitalism, trained in the school of Nixon and Luch. by the CIA Guatemala and Chile. No wonder the El Salvador rulers pleased al C appointee, but can anyone seriousiy ex pect anything else