The Other 9/11: A CIA Agent Remembers Chile's Coup

On September 11, 1973 41 years ago, Chile 's Socialist President Salvador Agendé was knocked down by a coup d' etat. He committed suicide in a mysterious situation, because the army surrounded his palace and opened the military dictatorship for more than 15 years under the guidance of Augusto Pinochet. Since then, the CIA admits - but I have not taken part in the plot. Government agencies acknowledged the military coup d'etat and continued the information gathering relationship with some planners - in 1970 the CIA tried to start the coup without preventing the acquisition - it was allowed It's written in his career in the South American countries. (Documents released from confidentiality reveal how the Nixon regime instructed the government to collapse the Agende government and "let the economy scream.")

During the coup, Jack Devine was a CIA agent in Chile. In an interview with the Atlantic Special Editor and Efecto Naim's host Moisés Naím, he discussed the role of the CIA in uprising against Allende and its support. In the decision not to stop the coup, Devine claimed that institutional instructions came from the White House, which was then occupied by Richard Nixon. "This is Washington's policy decision, which is not a CIA decision," he said.

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With the new discussion on the role of CIA in supporting military coups in Chile, publication of these records is in progress. The upcoming "diplomacy" includes articles by former CIA agent, Jack Divine. "What really happened in Chile: The Central Intelligence Agency, the Coup against Agendi, the Rise of Pinochet" Revealing the information he got on September 9, 1973, and proposing the timing of the coup in advance to President Nixon did. "I sent a special type of top-secret cable called CRITIC to Langley's Central Intelligence Agency Headquarters, which takes precedence over all other cables and is passed directly to the highest level government," The coup's Telegram is reading that the attempt will be launched on 11th September. "

Secret intervention in the United States in Chile: plan to prevent Alende from commencing before September 1970 election

During the coup, Jack Devine was a CIA agent in Chile. In an interview with the Atlantic Special Editor and Efecto Naim's host Moisés Naím, he discussed the role of the CIA in uprising against Allende and its support. In the decision not to stop the coup, Devine claimed that institutional instructions came from the White House, which was then occupied by Richard Nixon. "This is Washington's policy decision, which is not a CIA decision," he said.

On 11th September 1973, Agende died during the military ceremony of Augusto Pinochet, commander of the military commander who became president. The document issued by the CIA in 2000, entitled "Activities of the Chilean Central Intelligence Agency", states that after the overthrow of Alend through the CIA, the United States actively supported the military regime and made many Pinocchet officers into the CIA Respectively. Paid contact information. Still the US military. In 1976, Chile 's anti - Pinochet regime, Orlando Reteril was assassinated by Washington, DC' s automobile bomb. Prior to that, Kissinger chose to cancel the letter to Chile confirming that he was released from prison and warning them not to do any political assassination. Chile 's US ambassador David Popper said that Pinochet may insult his inference about the assassination plan. It was confirmed that Pinochet ordered the assassination directly