HISTORY 166D Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: National Congress Of Chile, Price Controls
24 May 2016
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Lecture 16: end 8th and end of 9th, allende attempted to build a socialist peaceful revolution, us"s role. Chile under allende had no soviet basin. Was not being subsidized by cuba or soviets. Us embassy in 1970 unable to identify any vital us interests (threats) 10 days after election of allende the national security council and president nixon approved a covert plan track i . If they could prevent chilean congress from approving allende us began to use contacts in congress to try to block allende"s confirmation. Cia, national security advisors, nixon meet the next day come up with. Nixon instructed cia director richard helms to save chile by instituting a coup. The loyalty of general scheider problem because he was a constitutionalist. October 1970 wanted to kidnap the gen (then with him out of the way the military uprising could occur: plan called off but right wing extremists still do it (they manage to kill gen scheider)
