Newly revealed documents show Nixon, Kissinger plotted Allende overthrow from day one November 17, 2 [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

November 17, 2020 11:21 AM CST BY MARK GRUENBERG



Newly revealed documents show that President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were plotting the overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende essentially from the moment he took office. Their plans were realized in the bloody military coup of 1973 led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet. | AP

WASHINGTON—Almost from the very minute elected Socialist/Marxist President Salvador Allende took office in Chile in November 1970, Republican U.S. President Richard Nixon and his top officials were scared of his example and his impact—and determined to oust him.

That’s the conclusion that can be drawn from a new group of memos on the U.S. campaign to oust the Chilean president, released this week, on the 50th anniversary of Allende’s inauguration, by the non-profit investigatory National Security Archive at George Washington University in D.C.

The memos and notes show top U.S. officials were scared not just that Allende would successfully implement what they believed were anti-American and anti-corporate policies in Chile, but that other nations in Latin America and Europe would see he had been elected to do so—and follow suit.

So they concocted plans to get rid of the Chilean leader—plans which ultimately resulted in the U.S.-crafted coup against Allende three years later.

The newly released, declassified documents from 1970 show Nixon’s National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, plotted in detail with the Central Intelligence Agency on how to destabilize and ultimately overthrow Allende. The CIA even tried to prevent Allende’s nomination before the Chilean election.

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