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EXHIBIT NO. 3-Continued

THE REASONS

OF THE JUNTA

In Order of the Day No. 5 the Junta outline for the public benefit the reasons which moved it to assume control of the country.

The Text of the Order is as follows:

ORDER OF THE DAY NUMMER 5

WHEREAS:

1. The Allende Government has excceded the bounds of legitimacy by violating the fundamental rights of liberty of speech and of education; the right to congregate, to strike and to petition; the right to own property and in general the right to a worthy and stable existence;

2. the Government has destroyed national unity, encouraged sterile and in many cases cruel class wranglings, disdained the invaluable help which every Chilean could give to preserve the country's welfare, and engendered a blind fratricidal struggle based on ideas alien to our national heritage which have been proven fa'se and ineffective;

3. the Government has shown itself to be incapable of assuring a peaceful association amongst Chileans by non observance of the common law on many occasions;

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4. the Government has placed itself outside the law on multiple occasions, resorting to arbitrary, dubious, illintentioned and even flagrantly erroneous interpretations of it, which, for various reasons, have escaped sanction;

5. by the use of subterfuge, which the Government was pleased to call "legal recourses" (resquicios legales), some laws have not been promulgated, others have been flaunted and a situation of illegitimacy engendered;

6. the Government has repeatedly failed to observe the mutual respect which one Power of the State owes to another, disregarding decisions approved by Congress, by the Courts of Justice and by the Comptroller General of the Republic, offering unacceptable excuses for so doing or none at all;

7. the Supreme Authority has de'iberately exceeded its attributes by exercizing political and gravely compromising the rights and liberties of all;

8. the President himself has been unable to disguise the fact that the exercise of his personal authority is subject to decisions taken by committees of the political parties which support him, impairing the image of maximum authority which the Constitution confers upon him;

9. the agricultural, commercial and industrial economies of the country are in a state either of stagnation or retrocession and inflation is rampant, but there are no signs whatever that the Government is interested in them except as a mere spectator;

10. anarchy, asphyxiation of liberties, moral and economic chaos, and, as far as the Government is concerned, absolute irresponsibility and incapacity have led the country to ruin, precluding it from occupying its proper place amongst the leading nations of the Continent;

11. the foregoing justify our opinion that the internal and external security of the country are in dire peril; that our very existence as an independent state is in danger and that the continuance in power of the Government is fatal to the interest of the Republic and the welfare of its people;

12. that, moreover, the foregoing, viewed in the light of our national and historical idiosincracies, are sufficient to justify our determination to oust an illegitimate, immoral Government, no longer representative of national sentiment, in order to avoid the greater evils which threaten the country; there being no other reasonable method holding out promise of success and it being our objective to reestablish normal economic and social conditions in the country with peace, tranquillity and security for all;

13. for the foregoing reasons the Armed Forces have taken upon themselves the moral duty, which the country imposes upon them, of destituting the Government, which, although legitimate in the early exercise of its power, has since fallen into flagrant illegitimacy, assuming power for ourselves only for so long as circumstances so demand and counting on the support of the vast majority, all of which, before God and history, justifies our action; and hence whatever regulations, norms, and instructions we may think fit to lay down for the attainment of our objectives aimed at the common good and the maximum patriotic interest;

14. Consequently the very legitimacy of the said norms obliges all, and specially those in authority, to abide by them.

Signed. GOVERMENT JUNTA OF THE ARMED FORCES AND CARABINEROS OF CHILE.

Santiago, September 11th 1973,

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EXHIBIT No. 4

(in part)

[Perez de Arce testimony 3/7/74]

Editorial Note

The following material contains excerpts from the "White Book," the official rendition of the Government Council of Chile, of what happened in Chile before and during the September 11th, 1973 counter coup by the Chilean Armed Forces.

The extracted portions contain:

1. the introductory material preceding Chapter I, which provides the highlights of Salvador Allende's 3-year period in office;

2. Plan Z, the master scheme whereby Chilean Marxist-Leninists, aided by foreign revolutionaries, had laid out a proposed program for the takeover of the remaining segments of the government. This included the proposed physical liquidation by trained terrorists of the leadership of the Armed Forces, as well as the opposition leaders from the political and labor sectors of Chilean society.

WHITE
BOOK

OF THE CHANGE

OF GOVERNMENT IN CHILE

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11th September 1973

EXHIBIT No. 4-Continued

The truth about what actually hap pened in Chile has been deliberately distorted before the world.

Those who, from inside the country, forced it into an economic, social, institutional and moral collapse having no precedents in its History, and those who, from outside of Chile, actively collaborated towards such disaster, have all conspired to conceal and adulterate that truth. Com-' plices to this plot are all those who, in any part of the world, and because of doctrinary passions, levity or sensationalistic eagerness or ambitions, have preferred not to see the actual reality of the Chilean happenings.

The people and the Government of Chile do not fear the truth, and, in this White Book, they place it before the eyes and the minds of the whole Universe with all the antecedents and evidence of the

case.

May the world judge whether the Chilean people were or were not entitled, on September 11th, 1973, to throw off the yoke of a dishonorable and opprobious system of government, in order to start on their way towards national restoration and renovation.

SECRETARIAT-GENERAL OF THE GOVERNMENT
REPUBLIC OF CHILE

EXHIBIT No. 4-Continued

SEPTEMBER 11th, 1973

The Armed

Forces and the Corps of "Carabineros" of the Republic of Chile putting into execution an earlier and absolutely unanimous decision- removed President Salvador Allende from his high office. In his stead, the supreme leadership of the Nation was assumed by a "Junta de Gobierno" (Governing Council), composed of the Commanders-in-Chief of the Army, General Augusto Pinochet (who was also nominated Chairman of the Junta); of the Navy, Admiral José Toribio Merino, and of the Air Force, General Gustavo Leigh, and the Director-General of Carabineros, General César Mendoza.

Since then, the "Junta de Gobierno" of Chile in an internal atmosphere of absolute peace and normality- has been recognized as the lawful Head of the Government by many countries, and has started, with the mutual consent of the Chilean people, the urgent and difficult task of reconstructing the Nation.

However, the actual truth of what really happened in Chile is not usually known abroad. This lack of knowledge, combined with a deliberate and well organized campaign to distort such truth —a campaign which is mainly the work of international communism—, has caused a great number of persons and some means of communication to form opinions and to publish or broadcast versions of the Chilean events that are contrary to that reality.

Thus, it is asserted even today that:

-the Government of former President Allende was representative of the majority of Chileans, and that its intentions and procedures were genuinely democratic, both in substance and in form;

-that Government meant economic and social progress along the path of socialism, and without the "cost" of like experiences in other countries, reflected in the shedding of blood and in poverty and sacrifices for the population, and

-the removal from office of former President Allende was a typical "coup d'état" unchained by ambitious men in uniform at the instigation of reactionary circles within the country and from abroad.

Not one of these assertions is true, nor can any one of them be honesty defended in the light of the most cursory knowledge of the facts.

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