SCHNEIDER MEETING WITH GENERALS

Created: 9/22/1970

OCR scan of the original document, errors are possible

B. GEN. SCHNEIDER TOLD HIS CCLLEGUES THAT HETHAT SALVADOR

and Approved for Release0

SECMT

C. SCHNEIDER GAVE THE ASSEMBLEDITUATION REPORT IN WHICH HE CLAIMED THAT THE GENERAL SITUATION WAS ACTUALLY NOT AS BAD AS IT HAD BEEN MADE TO APPEAR. THE GEN, IN STRONG TERMS REITERATED HIS POSITION ON THE ROLE OF THE ARMY IN MATTERSOLITICAL OR CONSTITUTIONAL CHARACTER, MAKING IT CLEAR THAT HIS POSITION ON THE ADVISABILITY OF ARMED FORCES ABSTENTION

SECRET

' AOVAMCt CO ft

of tHIl

P-OCJIi NO

5 SANTIAGO flM St/fT FROM ALL INVOLVEMENT IN CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES HAD NOT CHANGED ONE IOTA. THE COUNTRY FOUND ITSELFESS NOT BECAUSE OF THE ARMED FORCES BUT DUE TO THE MISCALCULATIONS OF CERTAIN POLITICIANS. IT 3EH00VED THOSE PXITICIANS TO GET CHILE OUT OF THE MESS.

OF THE GENS WANTED TO KNOW WHATIF ALLENDE SHOULD BE VOTED INTO POWER BY

THE CONGRESS. SCHNEIDER REPLIED, "WE SHALL MAKE SURE THAT HE GETS INTODDING THAT HE DID NOT BELIEVE THAT ANYTHING BAD WOULD HAPPEN UNDER AN ALLENDE GOVERNMENT.

WOUND UP HIS PRESENTATIONTO CERTAIN THINGS WHICH APPEAR TOON BELOW THE SURFACE AND WHICH HETO GRASP. HE HAD, THEREFORE, ASKED TOBY PRES. FREI IN PRIVATE AUDIENCETO BE TOLD EXACTLY "WHERE WE STAND"

;. ^iiT lie

i.

unit

c-id* no.

GO mm 5 E

SCHNEIDERCONCLUDING REMARK WAS THAT IF HIS POSITION SHOULD NOT BE UNDERSTOOD OR RESPECTED BY PRES FREI HE WOULD TENDER HIS

Original document.

---

---