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Part Six: Kissinger

Behind the Bastards

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Kissinger's Past Sins

Peter Jennings is basically the only person at Kissinger's social level who calls him out. The subject of Kissinger's past sins was very much in the air at the time. Judges in both France and Spain were seeking Kissinger for questioning as the long simmering debate over his connection to Chilean general Augusto Pinochet's brutal killing of dissidents in the 70s returned with a vengeance. These developments clearly rattled Kissinger, who had preemptively written a lengthy article for foreign affairs decrying the dangerous legal precedent under which German courts hope to try Rumsfeld.

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