How far did we go in Chile. This shows you how we operate. More than a million dollars was used to shore up a newspaper.
Here was Nachmanoff’s plan:
Arnold Nachmanoff, suggested “we should probably take both options and link them”: the paper would receive $700,000 but the U.S. would “condition our support on an understanding that El Mercurio will launch an intensive public attack on the Allende Government’s efforts to force them out of business.”
http://users.beaconschool.org/~lmoscow/chile/The%20El%20Mercurio%20File.htm
So what can we speculate as to Arnold Nachmanoff.
Navy - probably intelligence.
Gets out and becomes a “foreign service officer”
Someone might want to try to find out his classification.
How to spot a Spook.
http://cryptome.org/dirty-work/spot-spook.htm
A few short years later he is a Senior Staff Member for Kissinger on the National Security Council.
Pretty fast rise for Arnold Nachmanoff.