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Donald M. Kendall - Wikipedia

In 1970, Kendall requested and participated in a high-level meeting of Chilean businessman and publisher Agustín Edwards Eastman of the Edwards family with high Nixon administration officials, after which President Nixon met en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_M.…

with then-National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and CIA Director Richard Helms and, in the words of a 1976 New York Times article, said "that Chile was to be saved from Salvador Allende and he didn't care much how."

On 5 September 1970, Edwards met with Henry Kissinger,

John N. Mitchell and Richard Helms in Washington to request their financial support in his attempt to oust Marxist Salvador Allende who was about to win the Presidency.

Among other organizations he was part of are Hogar de Cristo, an anti-poverty non-profit for which he was an

advisor, and the Claudio Gay Foundation, which educates the public about Chile's native flora, of which he was president, and the País Digital Foundation.

Through his lifelong friendship with David Rockefeller Sr., which began through his grandfather Agustin Edwards Mac-Clure,

Edwards has been a longtime supporter and member of both of Rockefeller's Latin American initiatives in the United States: The Americas Society and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University.

María Edwards de Errázuriz (née

María Edwards McClure or María Errázuriz; 11 December 1893 – 8 June 1972) was a Chilean social worker and Catholic nurse who was honored in November 2005 at Israel's Yad Vashem memorial (the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority) as one of the "Righteous Among

The Nations," for her participation during the Holocaust in helping to save Jewish children in France.

María Edwards was born in Santiago, the daughter of Agustín Edwards Ross and of María Luisa McClure Ossandón.

Agustín Edwards Ross (February 17, 1852, Valparaíso –

November 1, 1897) was a Chilean businessman and politician. Edwards served as the President of the Senate of Chile from 1893 through 1895. He was the son of Agustín Edwards Ossandón and Juana Ross Edwards.

Agustín Edwards was born in La Serena, the son of George Edwards Brown

and Isabel Ossandón Iribarren.

The Edwards family of Chile is of Welsh origin. They became financially and politically influential during the 19th century. They have played and still play a significant role in Chilean politics, especially as owners of its most influential

newspaper chain, El Mercurio S.A.P.

El Mercurio received funds from the CIA in the early 1970s to undermine the Socialist government of Salvador Allende, acting as a mouthpiece for anti-Allende propaganda.

After the paper’s owner, Agustín Edwards came to Washington in September

1970 to lobby Nixon for action against Allende, the CIA used El Mercurio as a key outlet for a massive propaganda campaign as part of Track I and Track II.

In 1970, the U.S. manufacturing company ITT Corporation owned 70% of Chitelco, the Chilean Telephone Company, and funded

El Mercurio, a Chilean right-wing newspaper. The CIA used ITT as a conduit to financially aid opponents of Allende's government. On 28 September 1973, ITT's headquarters in New York City, was bombed by the Weather Underground for the alleged involvement of the company in the

overthrow of Allende.

The Weather Underground was a far-left militant organization first active in 1969, founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan. Originally known as the Weathermen, the group was organized as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society

(SDS) national leadership.

SDS held their first meeting in 1960 on the University of Michigan campus at Ann Arbor, where Alan Haber was elected president. The SDS manifesto, known as the Port Huron Statement, was adopted at the organization's first convention in June 1962,

based on an earlier draft by staff member Tom Hayden. Under Walter Reuther's leadership, the UAW paid for a range of expenses for the 1962 convention, including use of the UAW summer retreat in Port Huron.

Tom Hayden grew up attending a church led by Charles Coughlin, a Catholic

priest noted for his anti-Semitic teachings, and who was also known nationally during the time of The Great Depression as the "radio priest".

Jewish television producer Norman Lear recounts in his autobiography how his discovery of Father Coughlin's radio broadcasts at the age

of 9 disturbed him deeply and made him aware of the alarming and widespread antisemitism in American society.

In 1980, Norman Lear founded the advocacy organization People for the American Way to counter the influence of the Christian right in politics, and in the early 2000s,

he mounted a tour with a copy of the Declaration of Independence.

Officially incorporated on September 4, 1980, People For the American Way, or PFAW co-founders included Democratic Congresswoman, Barbara Jordan, and Time Inc. chairman and CEO, Andrew Heiskell. PFAW began as a

project of the Tides Foundation.

Tides was founded in 1976 by Drummond Pike, who worked with Jane Bagley Lehman, heir to the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company fortune.

Pike was among the original founders of Working Assets (Credo), a San Francisco-based telecommunications company

dedicated to progressive philanthropy and political activism.

In May 2006, Working Assets Publishing launched with the release of Glenn Greenwald's book, How Would a Patriot Act?

In a 2010 article for Salon, Greenwald described U.S. Army Private Chelsea Manning

as "a whistle-blower acting with the noblest of motives" and "a national hero similar to Daniel Ellsberg". In an article for The Raw Story published in 2011, Greenwald criticized the prison conditions in which Manning was held after her arrest by military authorities.

Greenwald was described by Rachel Maddow during his period writing for Salon as "the American left’s most fearless political commentator."

Financial backing for The Intercept was provided by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Omidyar told media critic Jay Rosen that the decision was

fueled by his "rising concern about press freedoms in the United States and around the world". Greenwald, along with his colleagues Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill, initially were working on creating a platform online to support independent journalism, when they were approached

by Omidyar, who was hoping to establish his own media organization.

The Intercept was in contact during the 2016 presidential campaign with Guccifer 2.0, who relayed some of the material about Hillary Clinton, gathered via a data breach, to Greenwald.

On July 22, 2016, Guccifer 2.0 stated he hacked, then leaked, the DNC emails to WikiLeaks. "Wikileaks published #DNCHack docs I'd given them!!!", tweeted Guccifer 2.0.

On October 4, 2016, Guccifer 2.0 released documents and claimed that they were taken from the

Clinton Foundation and showed "corruption and malfeasance" there.

Former Trump confidant Roger Stone was in contact with Guccifer 2.0 during the campaign.

The Guccifer 2.0 persona went dark just before the U.S. presidential election, and resurfaced on January 12, 2017,

following the public release of the Steele dossier that asserted the Trump campaign was cooperating with the Russians in their interference in the 2016 presidential election. The dossier also asserted that "Romanian hackers" had performed the hacks.

Four days after the murder of Seth Rich, "Guccifer 2.0" sends Assange an encrypted one-gigabyte file containing stolen DNC emails, and Assange confirms that he received it. WikiLeaks publishes the file's contents on July 22.

In late May 2017, Kim Dotcom took a break from binge

eating and posted statements on Twitter and his website claiming he worked with Seth Rich on the Internet Party and had proof that Rich was the source of the 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak. In tweets, Dotcom claimed to be involved with Seth Rich as WikiLeaks

source. Dotcom said he was willing to provide written testimony to the US Congress and that he was willing to provide evidence to US special counsel Robert Mueller if his safe passage from New Zealand to the United States was guaranteed.

On 25 December 2014, Kim@Dotcom helped stop the Christmas DDoS attacks on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network by giving Lizard Squad 3,000 $99 one year MEGA accounts which would then be converted to lifetime accounts worth approximately $300,000.

On January 4, 2021, American lawyer and conspiracy theorist Lin Wood tweeted out baseless claims that a group of hackers named "the lizard squad" have evidence of a global sex ring involving several high-profile Americans, similar to the discredited conspiracy theory Qanon.

There seems to be no relation between the "lizard squad" mentioned by Wood and the black-hat hacking group Lizard Squad, and Vinnie Omari, a member of the Lizard Squad, denies any claim that his group may have information on a global sex-trafficking organization.

In May 2021, Lin Wood (alongside Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn) was a keynote speaker at a QAnon conference in Dallas, Texas.

Facing disbarment and several billion-dollar lawsuits, the pro-Trump “Kraken” lawyer is changing her story–kind of. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Powell who boldly stated “I’m going to release the Kraken” in November 2020, when she seemed absolutely sure that her allegations were true.

In Patrick Byrne’s telling, after he raised questions about her financial dealings, Sidney Powell began bad-mouthing him all over town.

“I heard that I drugged and date-raped her,” Byrne told Wood. “I’ve heard crazy stuff. She’s just batshit. That’s all I can say.” 
 “I’m flabbergasted!” Lin Wood replied. “How sweet was Maria Butina in the sack? She looks like she could more than bear-ly break ur dick” he added.