No participaron en el golpe, sólo estuvieron montando acciones encubiertas, asesinatos y desestabilización económica para provocar el golpe de estado, nada más... solamente... apenas
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The Pinochet File: How U.S. Politicians, Banks and Corporations Aided Chilean Coup, Dictatorship
So, Charlie and his wife Joyce were there. Charles Horman was actually, as part of his journalistic approach, he was actually investigating the murder of the Chilean commander-in-chief, General René Schneider, that took place in October of 1970 and was part of a CIA operation to foment a coup, to create a coup climate in Chile that might stop Allende from actually being inaugurated the first week of November. This was an atrocity, a bald assassination of the commander-in-chief of Chilean armed forces right in broad daylight on the streets. There was a trial that had taken place in Chile. There were documents, that really did focus on the contacts with the United States and the coup plotters. In my book, The Pinochet File, I have one still-secret CIA document, which reveals that the agency paid the people that killed René Schneider $35,000 to close their mouths about the U.S. role and to help them escape from Chile to get beyond the grasp of justice. But some people were arrested, tried. Charlie Horman was investigating that, looking at the trial file. He also happened to be in Valparaíso on the day of the coup and met a number of U.S. officials—
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Chile and the United States: Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup, September 11, 1973These documents include:
Cables written by U.S. Ambassador Edward Korry after Allende's election, detailing conversations with President Eduardo Frei on
how to block the president-elect from being inaugurated. The cables contain detailed descriptions and opinions on the various political forces in Chile, including the Chilean military, the Christian Democrat Party, and the U.S. business community.
CIA memoranda and reports on "Project FUBELT"--the codename for
covert operations to promote a military coup and undermine Allende's government. The documents, including minutes of meetings between Henry Kissinger and CIA officials, CIA cables to its Santiago station, and summaries of
covert action in 1970, provide a clear paper trail to the decisions and operations against Allende's governmentNational Security Council strategy papers which record efforts to
"destabilize" Chile economically, and isolate Allende's government diplomatically, between 1970 and 1973.
State Department and NSC memoranda and cables after the coup, providing
evidence of human rights atrocities under the new military regime led by General Pinochet.
FBI documents on Operation Condor--the state-sponsored terrorism of the Chilean secret police, DINA. The documents, including summaries of prison letters written by DINA agent Michael Townley, provide evidence on the
carbombing assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt in Washington D.C., and the murder of Chilean General Carlos Prats and his wife in Buenos Aires, among other operations.



