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OK, we all know that the U.S. Government supported Pinochet of Chile in the '70's, but did we expect that any U.S. bank would still be sucking up to him in this century?

Among the letters obtained from the Riggs bank files were thank you notes from chairman Joseph Allbritton and his wife, Barbara, and a birthday greeting in November 1997 from Riggs President Timothy Coughlin when Pinochet turned 82. "Please accept our best wishes for every success in your continuing service to Chile in 1998 and many happy returns to the date of your birth in the years to come," Coughlin wrote. As Kornbluh points out in his article, Pinochet spent his 83rd birthday under house arrest in London and, since then, has faced prosecution for human rights crimes and now financial corruption.

Read the entire report from the National Security Archive here. It's pretty mind-boggling actually...

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