Kerr had been on the executive board of the Association for Cultural Freedom and Law Association for Asia, which were largely thought to be CIA front organizations. In fact, in an October 15, 2000 article in Australias The Age, author Andrew Clark writes that the Law Association was helped by the Asia Foundation which was exposed in Congress as a CIA established conduit for money and influence .The CIA paid for Kerrs travel, built his prestige, and even published his writings through a subsidized magazine (Clark took this information from Wall Street Journal reporter Jonathon Kwitnys book The Crimes of Patriots). Theres one other facet that plays a role here in terms of foreign policy and it has to do with Chile. A little known fact is that the Australian Secret Intelligence Services (ASIS) was involved in the overthrow of President Salvadore Allende in 1973. Clyde Cameron said that the ASIS operatives were serving at the behest of the CIA to help in the coup against Allende, as the CIA was not able to work effectively in Chile under Allende. They had to do their dirty work through somebody else, Cameron noted, and they chose the Australian intelligence organizations. When Whitlam discovered this he demanded that the ASIS be withdrawn from Chile yet they paid no attention to his orders. When Whitlam discovered they had not yet left Chile he was furious and, as Cameron says put the knife through a lot of these people responsible for ignoring his directions. By that time, however, Allende had been assassinated and Pinochet had taken over (CIA in Australia Part 3, Melbourne, Australia Public Radio News Service, 1986). Like
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