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Old Union Guy

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3. Just an aside ...

Reply to Cheese Sandwich (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 11:40 AM

Sep 2015

Although the CIA was definitely OK with what happened and helped it along, there's a little more to it than that. A sizable fraction of Chileans (not a majority) favored the coup.

Allende was no babe in the woods about this. He knew there was a high probability of a military coup, so he made the general staff retire and promoted a younger officer he thought he could trust. That is, Pinochet.

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