CHILE: NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR TO CHILE PRESENTS HIS CREDENTIALS TO LEADER OF MILITARY GOVERNMENT, GENERAL PINOCHET.

Record ID: 367468

  • Title: CHILE: NEW U.S. AMBASSADOR TO CHILE PRESENTS HIS CREDENTIALS TO LEADER OF MILITARY GOVERNMENT, GENERAL PINOCHET.
  • Date: 24th February 1974
  • Summary: 1. GV Government building "Diego Portales" 0.05 2. LV Ambassador's car arrives with escort 0.14 3. SCU Military policeman 0.16 4. SV Ambassador greeted by officials 0.27 5. SV Chilean flag 0.30 6. SV INT Ambassador walks up to General Pinochet and starts to read (2 shots) 0.43 7. CU ZOOM OUT Ambassador presents credentials to General Pinochet and shakes hands 1.00 8. CU General Pinochet leads Ambassador to chair and seated 1.14 Initials BB/0233 CH/PN/BB/0244 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 11th March 1974 12:00
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  • Location: SANTIACO, CHILE
  • Country: Chile
  • Reuters ID: LVA7FV9Q5Z5DG3JXUPR928UMG10S
  • Story Text: The United States Ambassador to Chile, Mr. David Popper, presented his credentials to the head of the military junta, General Augusto Pinochet, in a brief caremony in Santiago on Friday (22 February).

    Mr. Popper relieves the veteran U.S. Ambassador to Chile, Nathaniel Davis, who is to become Director General of the U.S. Foreign Service.

    Relations between the United States and the military junta which toppled President Allende's Marxist regime last September have been good. The U.S. government had been given ten hours advance warning of the coup, but did not inform President Allende of the imminence of a coup.

    The United States has maintained diplomatic contacts and relations with Chile throughout the coup period and the subsequent four-man military junta, headed by General Pinochet.
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