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'A Cold Blooded Assessment'

'A Cold Blooded Assessment'

Chile coup documents resonate in different ways today, with the U.S. facing foreign interference

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Jeff Stein
Sep 16, 2020
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Fifty years ago this week, President Richard Nixon ordered the CIA to meddle in Chile, to stop the likely election of a socialist, Salvador Allende. If that failed, Nixon told CIA Director Richard Helms, he wanted the spy agency to make Chile’s economy “scream” until conditions were right for a military coup. It didn’t matter that the agency assessed th…

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