'Declassified CIA documents,' National Security Archives, 1970-73.
Thesis
In 1973, the Chilean military overthrew democratically elected socialist leader, Salvador Allende, in a coup d’état sparked by the government of the United States. With the backing of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), authoritarian military leader Augusto Pinochet took power. Fearing the spread of communism, the US had initiated back channel phone and cable communications with Chilean officials that resulted in an oppressive 17-year dictatorship. These now declassified communications had a crippling effect on Chile’s society that is still felt today.
"They have force and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested by neither crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history."
~ President Salvador Allende