WASHINGTON, DC – On August 25th, the CIA reportedly released Top Secret documents pertaining to the U.S.-backed coup in Chile that occurred nearly fifty years ago at the request of the current Chliean government who were eager to understand more about the history of that particular period within the country.
On September 11th, 1973, a coup was launched in Chile that was led by General Augusto Pinochet, along with several other military leaders, to oust the Popular Unity government led by the democratically elected Marxist, Salvador Allende.
A military junta ensued, leading to all political activities being suspended within the country, as well as the stamping out of anything remotely resembling a left-wing movement within Chile.
Towards the end of the Clinton administration in September of 2000, declassified records pertaining to the U.S.-backed coup detailed how the Nixon administration began taking steps to upend Allende’s role as president of Chile, which included the 1970 orchestrated kidnapping of Chile’s Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Rene Schneider, in order to sway the countries military to stage the coup.
During the attempted kidnapping plotted by the CIA in 1970, Schneider was apparently killed.
When it comes to the CIA’s efforts fifty years back in Chile to outright hijack the country’s democracy, nothing was seemingly off the table: bribery, extortion, kidnapping, murder, and even manipulating the country’s economy to create stark inflation so as to stoke unrest among Chile’s citizens.
Over the past twenty or so years, the government has offered a drip here and there regarding the CIA’s efforts in foreign election meddling in Chile, bringing forth another morsel of information in the form of the President’s Daily Brief from September 11th, 1973, the day the coup kicked off in Chile.
“Plans by navy officers to trigger military action against the Allende government [redacted] are supported by some key army units, [redacted].
The navy is also counting on help from the air force and the national police. Although military officers are increasingly determined to restore political and economic order, they may still lack an effectively coordinated plan that would capitalize on the widespread civilian opposition.
"Socialists, leftist extremists, and communists are equally determined not to compromise. They are gambling that the military and political opposition cannot carry out moves to oust the government or even to impose restraints on it. President Allende, for his part, still hopes that temporizing will fend off a showdown.”
A formal petition from the Chilean government of Gabriel Boric reportedly spurred the release of the Top Secret records, which Chilean officials sought to gain a better understanding of the country’s history in the lead-up to the 50th anniversary of the coup that changed the country forever.
On September 11th, 1973, a coup was launched in Chile that was led by General Augusto Pinochet, along with several other military leaders, to oust the Popular Unity government led by the democratically elected Marxist, Salvador Allende.
A military junta ensued, leading to all political activities being suspended within the country, as well as the stamping out of anything remotely resembling a left-wing movement within Chile.
Towards the end of the Clinton administration in September of 2000, declassified records pertaining to the U.S.-backed coup detailed how the Nixon administration began taking steps to upend Allende’s role as president of Chile, which included the 1970 orchestrated kidnapping of Chile’s Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Rene Schneider, in order to sway the countries military to stage the coup.
During the attempted kidnapping plotted by the CIA in 1970, Schneider was apparently killed.
When it comes to the CIA’s efforts fifty years back in Chile to outright hijack the country’s democracy, nothing was seemingly off the table: bribery, extortion, kidnapping, murder, and even manipulating the country’s economy to create stark inflation so as to stoke unrest among Chile’s citizens.
Over the past twenty or so years, the government has offered a drip here and there regarding the CIA’s efforts in foreign election meddling in Chile, bringing forth another morsel of information in the form of the President’s Daily Brief from September 11th, 1973, the day the coup kicked off in Chile.
“Plans by navy officers to trigger military action against the Allende government [redacted] are supported by some key army units, [redacted].
The navy is also counting on help from the air force and the national police. Although military officers are increasingly determined to restore political and economic order, they may still lack an effectively coordinated plan that would capitalize on the widespread civilian opposition.
"Socialists, leftist extremists, and communists are equally determined not to compromise. They are gambling that the military and political opposition cannot carry out moves to oust the government or even to impose restraints on it. President Allende, for his part, still hopes that temporizing will fend off a showdown.”
A formal petition from the Chilean government of Gabriel Boric reportedly spurred the release of the Top Secret records, which Chilean officials sought to gain a better understanding of the country’s history in the lead-up to the 50th anniversary of the coup that changed the country forever.
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