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Hostile Intent (Hardcover)
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Kristian Gustafson's "Hostile Intent" reexamines one of the most
controversial chapters in U.S. intelligence history, the Central
Intelligence Agency's covert operations in Chile from 1964 to 1974.
At the request of successive U.S. presidents, the CIA in
conjunction with the State Department and the Defense Intelligence
Agency first acted to prevent Chilean socialist Salvador Allende
from becoming the democratically elected president of his country
and then tried to undermine his government once he was in office.
Allende's government eventually fell in a bloody military coup on
September 11, 1973. President Richard Nixon's administration and
corporate interests were not sorry to see him go, but did U.S.
covert operations actually play a decisive role in Allende's
downfall? The declassification of thousands of U.S. government
documents over the last several years demands that historians take
a new look.Since 1973, most observers have maintained that U.S.
machinations were responsible for the success of Gen. Augusto
Pinochet's coup that forced Allende's fall and suicide. This
assessment has been based on a thin documentary record of U.S.
activity, the myth of an all-powerful CIA, and the CIA's checkered
history of covert action in Latin America. However, Gustafson
convincingly shows the conventional wisdom about the impact of U.S.
actions is badly flawed. His meticulous research is based upon an
intensive examination of previously unavailable U.S. records as
well as interviews with key figures. "Hostile Intent" is the most
comprehensive account to date of U.S. involvement in Chile, and its
provocative reinterpretation of this involvement will shape all
future debates.
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