The Chile Coup: The U.S. Hand by Peter Kornbluh iF magazine, November / December 1998 Twenty-five years ago, tanks rumbled through the streets of Chile, terrified civilians were lined up before firing squads at the National Stadium, the elected president was dead. Yet, at Richard Nixon's White House, the events were a cause for celebration, a culmination of three years of covert operations, ...

Chile from the book The CIAs Greatest Hits by Mark Zapezauer In 1973, the CIA destroyed the oldest functioning democracy in South America. Twenty years later, the agency is still trying to deny its involvement. The CIA intervened massively in Chile's 1958 and 1964 elections. In 1970, its fears were realized-the socialist candidate, a physician named Salvador Allende, was elected president.