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Again, if you dig into the details, the CIA involvement was minimal. They didn’t even think Pinochet was a viable coup leader.

Not to mention that Allende was far from democratic at the time. He had ignored the Supreme Court, the Senate voted to call his actions “unlawful” in a majority vote.

It was a crisis that would result in a coup whether or the CIA was there. Not to mention the CIA played no role in the actual coup itself. It may have involved itself with dissents, but Allende was leaving no matter what they did.