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Summary: How Far Was The CIA Responsible For The Downfall Of Salvador Allende
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To what extent was the CIA responsible for the downfall of Salvador Allende?
This investigation evaluates the extent to which the CIA’s, along with the US Government’s (which includes former president, Richard Nixon, and Henry Kissinger, former secretary of state), intervention in Chile and its government affected Salvador Allende’s presidency. To assess this, I will be investigating the effect that the CIA and US Government’s covert actions had on the collapse of former president Salvador Allende’s leadership and power. Past newspaper articles, released CIA reports, and other vital sources are used in this investigation to analyze the specific actions committed by the CIA, along with the US Government in the 1960s-1970s …show more content…
For the key jobs in Chile, agents were placed and recruited by the CIA8. The CIA had also managed to infiltrate the “labor movement” and they had also enlisted “Chileans in the media and among the country’s most important politicians”.9 This allowed the CIA to have agency men that were actively working in Chile “to politicize the armed forces and polices in hopes of provoking a coup before the 1970s
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