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  1. Browsing the archive of declassified US Government documents on Bolivia shows some pretty dramatic conversations before and after three events: the 1964 coup by René Barrientos, the 1967 San Juan massacre, and the 1979 Natusch Busch coup. Three very different US roles, perhaps.
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      1. Prior to and after the Barrientos coup, the US monitored the pending military moves, and put forward its demands and priorities for them.
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        Per an October 29, 1964 cable: “Barrientos told [US} Air attache last evening that Armed Forces would depose [President Víctor] Paz [Estenssoro] within week. He wished to be absent from country so could return with clean hands as constitutional successor after Paz deposed.”
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          Processing this news, the State Department concluded "our understanding is that government would be taken oven either by military or by non-communist civilian elements supported by military"
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            This cable orders the Embassy to get out of the way, and let the coup happen: "no U.S. national purpose is to be served by U.S. intervention into present political situation in Bolivia and many disadvantages to intervention by us."
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              Further, like Barrientos it urged no direct US fingerprints on the coming coup, thanking the Embassy for refusing to offer him a plane and for formally expressing its non-encouragement of a military takeover.
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                Meanwhile, Embassy staff and the Air Attache were to cease their conversations with the military. “Warn them to refrain from intervening in the next days … until situation is more stable.”
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                  There were, however, two hints that this "non-interventionist stance" was a ruse: first, the Embassy was to prepare to intervene directly if a leftist takeover was possible. Second, we learn that "tear gas and gas masks are being readied" for the Bolvian government.
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                    (part 2, on the San Juan massacre and a strange coincident request from the Barrientos government, tomorrow)
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