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...abrupt change in policy by the State Department regarding the Javits-Pell trip can be understood in light of the explosive hostile reaction of the American news media, and segments of the Congress, to the developing Chilean story. It is possible that the trip was permitted simply for tactical reasons. Perhaps government officials were unwilling to further antagonize the Congress and the press by restricting the right of two Senators to travel, the Administration position having been seriously eroded by the Chilean revelations. Hearings had begun before the Foreign Relations Committee, and it was apparent that perjury indictments against high...
...Chilean military junta celebrates its first anniversary, stronger than ever...
Covert assistance went beyond help for the democratic opposition. The CIA infiltrated Chilean agents into the upper echelon of the Socialist Party. Provocateurs were paid to make deliberate mistakes in their jobs, thus adding to Allende's gross mismanagement of the economy. CIA agents organized street demonstrations against government policies...
...economic crisis deepened, the agency supported striking shopkeepers and taxi drivers. Laundered CIA money, reportedly channeled to Santiago by way of Christian Democratic parties in Europe, helped finance the Chilean truckers' 45-day strike, one of the worst blows to the economy. Moreover, the strikers doubtless picked up additional CIA cash that was floating round the country. As an intelligence official notes, "If we give it to A, and then A gives it to B and C and D, in a sense it's true that D got it. But the question is: Did we give...
Clearly the CIA considers the junta to be the lesser of two evils. Still, it rates the Chilean enterprise a failure since it ended in military dictatorship. Several years of dangerous, costly and now nationally divisive intervention in another country's internal politics might better have been avoided. Though Soviet propaganda blames the CIA for the Chilean coup and the death of Allende, Soviet intelligence analysts do not give the CIA any credit. The Russians think the fault lay with Allende himself for not being enough of a strongman. He temporized with constitutional processes when he should have disregarded...