THE CIA-CILE OPERATION

Approved for Release: 2018/10/17 001294480 (b)(1) (b)(3) TIAL THE CIA-CHILE OPERATION 1. The Genesis On 15 September 1970, CIA was directed by President Nixon to try to prevent Marxist Salvador Allende's assent to the Chilean presidency on 3 November. On 16 September 1970 the DCI informed a group of senior Agency officers that President Nixon had decided that an Allende regime in Chile was not acceptable to the United States...