| >Like most "CIA coups", the role the CIA played in Chile is more of a "hey let's help this guy who is already planning a coup" Absolutely wrong, to the point of negationism. Amongst many things, the CIA trained South American militaries and police in torture through the School of the Americas. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2246205 If "this guy" wasn't already planning a coup, the CIA would have done it themselves anyway. Overthrowing Allende by any means was a core mission for them. The CIA was directly responsible for killing a general, René Schneider, who stood against any attempt at a coup. And then they collaborated with Argentina's (and other South Amrican dictatorships') Operation Condor: -mass abduction -death squads -torture of anyone suspected of being even vaguely leftist (electric shocks, prolonged immersion in water, cigarette burns, sexual abuse, rape, removal of teeth and fingernails, castration, and burning with boiling water, oil and acid) -throwing them alive fron planes into the sea, hands and feet bound -kidnapping newborns from their "leftist" mothers (subsequenly killed) to give them to conservative families |
“ In the best traditions of the CIA, catastrophe ensued. Viaux ignored the explicit U.S. instructions to cease-and-desist; two abduction efforts against Schneider, on 19 and 20 October, failed; the third attempt, on 22 October, ended with Schneider being mortally wounded (he died on 25 October);”