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	Chilean coup of 1973 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chilean coup d'état of 1973 was a watershed event in the history of Chile and the Cold War.
		On May 26, 1973, Chile’s Supreme Court issued a unanimous resolution denouncing the Allende regime’s "disruption of the legality of the nation" by its failure to uphold judicial decisions, due to the government's constant refusal to allow the police to carry out the judicial resolutions that were opposed to its own measures.
		Over the years, both the perpetrators of the coup themselves and their supporters have justified the coup by arguing that it was essential for preserving freedom, democracy and prosperity in Chile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chilean_coup_of_1973 (3062 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Chilean coup of 1973 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Chilean coup d'état of September 11, 1973 was a watershed event in the history of Chile and the Cold War.
		That the U.S. planned a potential coup in Chile is evident in a secret cable from Thomas Karamessines, the CIA Deputy Director of Plans, to the Santiago CIA station, dated October 16, 1970, after the election but before Allende's inauguration.
		Over the years, both the perpetrators of the coup themselves and their supporters have justified the coup by arguing that it was essential for preserving democracy and prosperity in Chile.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Chilean_coup_of_1973 (4483 words)

	Coup
		Coups d'Г©tat have often been seen as a means for powerful nations to assure favorable outcomes in smaller foreign states.
		Veto coups and guardian coups tend to be led by senior officers.
		In cases where the coup is led by junior officers or enlisted men, the coup is also a mutiny which can have grave implications for the organizational structure of the military.
	www.transporteon.com /Cars-C/Coup.php (2124 words)

	TAP: Web Feature: Hit Records. by Jonathan Goldberg. September 15, 2003. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the final analysis, the coup was a Chilean affair, conceived and executed by Chileans.
		Kornbluh also documents the CIA's broad re-engagement with the Chilean military in May 1973, after Allende's coalition won 43 percent of the vote in the March congressional elections -- a victory that suggested to the CIA that its considerable support for opposition parties and media would not be enough to topple Allende at the polls.
		If the mythology of Sept. 11, 1973 existed for the terrorists of Sept. 11, 2001 and their hateful brethren, it was not as a true reflection of the ugly face America showed the world in Chile -- but rather as a false caricature of it.
	www.prospect.org /webfeatures/2003/09/goldberg-j-09-15.html (1778 words)

	Augusto Pinochet - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The coup ended a period of strained relations between the United States—which had actively sought Allende's removal—and the South American country, and allowed Pinochet to implement profound neoliberal economic reforms and, at the same time, to commit extensive human rights violations, both at home and abroad.
		In his memoirs, Pinochet affirms that he was the leading plotter of the coup, and used his position as Commander of the Army to coordinate a far-reaching scheme with the other two branches of the military and the national police.
		Unemployment, 4.4% in 1973, increased to 19.9% in 1976, and peaked at 30.4% in 1983 [9].
	www.voyager.in /Augusto_Pinochet (4593 words)

	Strange Defeat: The Chilean Revolution, 1973 - Pointblank! \| libcom.org
		As the respective blocs of world opinion "choose sides," the Chilean tragedy is reproduced as farce on an international scale; the class struggles in Chile are dissimulated as a pseudo-conflict between rival ideologies.
		When the Chilean proletariat showed that it was prepared to take the slogans of the UP program literally - slogans that amounted only to empty rhetoric and unfulfilled promises on the part of the bureaucratic coalition - and put them into practice, the contradictions between the content and form of the Chilean revolution became apparent.
		The Chilean workers are not alone in their opposition to the forces of counter-revolution; the revolutionary movement that began in Mexico with Villa's guerrilla bands has not yet come to an end.
	libcom.org /library/chilean-revolution-1973-strange-defeat-pointblank (3452 words)

	Talk:Chilean coup of 1973 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Talk:Chilean coup of 1973/Archive 1, mostly about (1) a much earlier state of the article and (2) the 1970 Chilean presidential election, now a separate article.
		This is a classic scenario for a coup: neutralize numerous elements of society at the crucial moment by having them believe, falsely, that you are acting on their behalf, then seize power for yourself.
		Paragraph 7-12 (starting from "Once it became clear") in section U.S. role in 1973 coup is not contained in the United States intervention in Chile article.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Chilean_coup_of_1973 (8055 words)

	Chilean coup of 1973 - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On September 11, 1973 the Chilean military overthrew Allende, who apparently committed suicide during the coup.
		On August 9, General Prats was made Minister of Defense, but this decision proved so unpopular with the military that on August 22 he was forced to resign not only this position but his role as Commander-in-Chief of the Army; he was replaced in the latter role by Augusto Pinochet.
		In October 1973, at least 70 persons were killed by the Caravan of Death (Caravana de la Muerte).
	voyager.in /Chilean_coup_of_1973 (4639 words)

	What is Howard’s Role in the Timor Leste Coup? : Melbourne Indymedia
		Coup plotters rarely act without assurances of outside support, or at the least post-coup recognition.
		A US guarantee of regime recognition was central to the Chilean coup of 1973, and the abortive 2002 coup in Venezuela.
		The current situation is complicated by the arming of civilian groups on both sides of the coup plot, and the fact that troops from several countries have been invited.
	www.melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2006/05/113555.php (2286 words)

	11th September, 1973: The Chilean Coup
		The Chilean constitution in force at the time states that when no candidate obtains the majority, the Congress chooses the new president among the two most successful candidates.
		However, this plan had to be abandoned when it appeared that Frei, in spite of being an opponent of Allende, would not cooperate with the CIA because of his respect for Chile democratic traditions.
		1973, having survived a previous coup a few months before, the Presidential Palace was besieged by rebels.
	www.canadafreepress.com /2006/ludwig091106.htm (1008 words)

	US Role In 1973 Chilean Coup Revealed
		Now, on the 30th anniversary of the coup, professors, journalists and citizen activists around the world are continuing to expose the full role of the US government in financing and promoting this bloody coup, which ushered in the 17-year military dictatorship headed by General Augusto Pinochet.
		While conservative Chileans argue that the coup was a home-grown affair, the current Chilean minister of education, Sergio Bitar, says: "That internal crisis was activated by the North American policies against it.
		Just weeks after the coup, the US ambassador in Chile sent a memo to Henry Kissinger noting that "the military government of Chile requires adviser assistance of a person qualified in establishing a detention centre for the detainees...
	www.rense.com /general41/pinochet.htm (794 words)

	Shadowy interests revealed behind Venezuela's April 2002 coup d'etat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The CTV’s stormtrooper role in the April 2002 coup d'etat only served to further reduce its political influence among the better-off workers it had previously organized and in the middles classes who’s interests it had championed.
		Especially since its “civic” forces were so thoroughly exposed by their role in the April 2002 coup d'etat, the strength of the opposition has been increasingly stripped down to its bear essentials...
		Jorge Jorquera is a long-term Chilean solidarity activist and a member of the Committees in Solidarity with Latin America and the Caribbean.
	www.vheadline.com /printer_news.asp?id=9402 (1210 words)

	Wizblog: U.S. Role in 1973 Chilean Coup
		There were, in fact, a couple of different CIA-hatched plots to assist in a coup in 1970 between the election of Allende and his officially taking power, but they were called off in advance as they were thought to be unworkable.
		Nothing would be worse than an abortive coup." The President responded, "Just tell him to do nothing." The next day, CIA headquarters cabled its station in Santiago that although "we are to continue to generate maximum pressure" toward a coup, "a Viaux coup.
		Thereafter, there is nothing at all until June 1973, when he and Nixon discuss a failed military revolt against Allende, and then no further references until after Pinochet's assumption of power with the September 11 coup.
	www.danwismar.com /archives/wizblog/001528.html (818 words)

	Remembering Anolther 9/11 [1973 Coup Ousted Chile's Red Regime] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chilean exiles--mainly Communists, socialists, radicals, Christian Democrats--were welcomed with open arms by their counterparts across Europe and Latin America, in international organizations from the United Nations on down.
		A few weeks later, Pinochet came to power in a coup d'Ã©tat on September 11, 1973, in which the military surrounded and attacked the presidential palace while the air force bombed the Presidential Palace.
		The situation in Chile came to international attention in September 1976, when Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean ambassador to the United States and minister in Allende's cabinet, was assassinated in Washington, D.C. by a bomb in his car.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1699080/posts (4146 words)

	U.S.-Chile Documents
		According to the Report of the Chilean National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation, he was tortured in Paraguay, turned over to the Chilean secret police, and disappeared.
		CIA, Report of CIA Chilean Task Force Activities, 15 September to 3 November 1970, November 18, 1970: The CIA prepared a summary of its efforts to prevent Allende's ratification as president and to foment a coup in Chile-- track I and track II covert operations.
		The CIA supplied a group of Chilean officers led by General Camilo Valenzuela with "sterile" weapons for the operation which was to be blamed on Allende supporters and prompt a military takeover.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB8/nsaebb8.htm (1647 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Documentaries - Chile: The Other 9/11
		On the morning of Tuesday 11 September 1973, two jets launched a deadly attack on the Presidential Palace of La Moneda in the heart of Santiago, Chile.
		A military coup led by Augusto Pinochet ousted the presidency of Salvador Allende, the world's first democratically-elected Marxist head of state.
		Historical overview of the Pinochet regime from the 1973 coup onwards
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/documentaries/features/chile.shtml (785 words)

	The role of the USA and CIA in the 1973 Pinochet coup in Chile
		The Chilean coup leader, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, held power for the next 17 years, relinquishing control in 1990 only after arranging immunity for himself and his top generals.
		In February 1974, Kubisch delicately raised the American deaths with Chilean Foreign Minister Manuel Huerta, according to a newly declassified memorandum of the conversation.
		Popper met with the Chilean minister of economic coordination, Raul Saez, on April 6, 1975, to discuss the concerns.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/mexico/usa/chile_1973.html (3282 words)

	US played key role in 1973 Chilean coup: Can Henry Kissinger be extradited?
		Pinochet's seizure of power on September 11, 1973 was the product of a protracted US campaign of political manipulation and destabilization in Chile.
		Allende and his Stalinist backers in the Chilean Communist Party spent the next three years restraining, discouraging and disorienting the mass movement, blocking any decisive challenge to the Chilean ruling class and American imperialism, while the right-wing and fascist elements prepared their counterattack.
		On September 10, 1973, the day before the junta struck, the names of 3,000 high-level and 20,000 mid-level leaders of popular organizations--trade unions, student groups, tenants' groups, peasant committees, civil rights and civil liberties groups, left-wing political parties--were distributed to the death squads.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/oct1998/kis-o21.shtml (893 words)

	Missing
		Because this book documents how the US government was not only involved in the 1973 Chilean coup which brought Pinochet to power, but how they condoned the killing of an American student, Charles Horman who had stumbled upon evidence of this involvement.
		The first victim of this policy was general Schneider, the commander in chief of the Chilean army, who was murdered by a US backed group little less then a month after Allende had won the elections.
		From eyewitness acounts of other Americans and Chileans later, it turned out that he was then taken to the football stadium in Santiago, the new regime's ad hoc prison, torture chamber and execution square.
	www.cloggie.org /books/missing.html (783 words)

	Chilean President Ricardo Lagos to Deliver Duke’s Commencement Address
		Duke literature professor Ariel Dorfman, a Chilean author, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and human rights activist, said he was pleased that Lagos, whom he has known for many years, would be speaking at commencement.
		After receiving a Ph.D. from Duke, he returned to Chile and was set to become ambassador to Moscow in the Salvador Allende government when Allende was killed in a 1973 coup.
		After the coup, by which Pinochet came to power, Lagos went into exile in the United States, where he was a visiting professor for two years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then an economist at the United Nations.
	www.dukenews.duke.edu /2004/11/lagos_1104.html (552 words)

	Gustavo Leigh, key leader of 1973 Chilean coup, dies at 79
		Gustavo Leigh, key leader of 1973 Chilean coup, dies at 79
		Chilean Air Force and one of the original members of Chile's four-man
		Salvador Allende, was admitted to the Air Force hospital in the Chilean
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /chile/leigh.htm (366 words)

	The Chilean Revolution
		La Moneda, the seat of the Chilean government, was under siege.
		coup of 1973 - nobody imagined that the military regime would be so bloody nor so
		This was the military that most Chileans knew, or thought they did.
	www2.truman.edu /~marc/webpages/revsfall99/chile (2864 words)

	Chile 1973: The other 9/11 - Indymedia Ireland
		The best tribute we can pay to those who died is to draw the lessons from the mistakes they paid for so dearly.
		In September 1970 The main question was the strategy of the Chilean left.
		Yet the Chilean experience, especially the struggle of workers in the cordones, is an inspiring testimony to the ability of working people to organise themselves.
	www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=60953&print_page=true (256 words)

	ON THIS DAY \| 11 \| 1973 'The wounds still hurt us'
		This year is the 30th anniversary of the military coup in Chile which led to the death of President Salvador Allende.
		No matter what their political creed was at that time, illusions, dreams and friends died in 1973.
		I was living in Santiago and about 2,000 Chileans died in the US-backed Coup.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/witness/september/11/newsid_3101000/3101146.stm (442 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Analyst Unveils ‘Pinochet File’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A senior analyst at the National Security Archives showed newly-declassified documents that reveal the extent of U.S. involvement in the Chilean coup in 1973 in a presentation last night.
		Kornbluh said it is now possible to read transcripts of cabinet meetings “where regime change was plotted” during the Chilean crisis that show the U.S. was aiming to remove democratically-elected president Salvador Allende Gossens.
		He said that there is evidence that the CIA was involved in covert actions in Chile, such as attempts to block loans to Chile from multilateral banks which may have facilitated the coup.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=349573 (429 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Ellsberg Says CIA Chief Anticipated Chilean Coup
		They implied that the reports were not taken seriously because rumors of a coup had been current throughout 1973.
		Ellsberg said Colby told him he was aware of and agreed with the "political decision"--presumably made by then national security adviser Henry A. Kissinger '50 or then president Richard M. Nixon--not to alert Allende to the impending military revolt.
		But Ellsberg said there was an "unmistakable inference" that the CIA "preferred" this coup to happen than not to happen--and indeed Colby made that very clear during the day, that he preferred the current regime to the past regime.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=345753 (566 words)

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