Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also all but terminated its economic aid to Chile. U.S. aid dropped from an average of $140 million a year prior to 1970 to $3 million between 1970 and 1973. At the same time U.S. military aid to Chile rose to $12.5 million in 1973 alone. International finance organizations also cut aid to Chile. The World Bank, headed by Robert McNamara, stopped all loans to Chile after 1971. It had given $270 million before 1971. The World Bank said that Chile was a "poor credit risk" and that it did not approve of Chile's expropriating foreign businesses without...
...also cultivated friendship with potentially useful anti-Allende people in Chile. Through the State Department Governmental Affairs Institute, the U.S. maintains the International Visitors Program. This is designed to allow the U.S. government to invite foreigners to be official guests of the U.S. for a month in order to "broaden cultural understanding," according to Jerilyn Reuter, an official in the Governmental Affairs Institute. Reuter says that the U.S. government ties to "select potential or actual leaders of countries to be visitors" in order to acquaint them with the U.S. In September 1973, just after the coup in Chile, the International...
...government wants to contact in a country. The American ambassador in a particular country nominates potential visitors. Porter says that the nature of the country plan is determined by U.S. policy towards a country and "who the U.S. is interested in working with." It seems clear that in Chile the U.S. government was not interested in "working with" the Allende government...
...product of the policies of the U.S. government towards Chile was the military coup that occurred in September 1973, almost three years after Allende's election. The U.S. knew about the coup at least 12 hours in advance but chose not to inform Allende of it. Whether the U.S. actually planned the coup remains in doubt. However, it is clear from the record that the U.S. did all in its power to bring about conditions that would aid a coup by fomenting economic collapse, using the CIA to "destabilize" Allende, maintaining political contacts with anti-Allende elements, funding the opposition...
...difficult to define what elements in the ITT effort influenced U.S. policy towards Chile. ITT did have incredibly intimate contact with the White House, State Department, Henry Kissinger, and the CIA. It is true that all of the proposals made by ITT in 1970 to topple Allende were eventually implemented by either the State Department, the Pentagon, the Treasury, or the CIA. It is also true that the CIA had been involved in Chilean politics since 1964 and possibly earlier. Chile's experience demonstrates that every tie between the U.S. and another country is a potential political lever that...