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The Gathering Storm
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The Nixon administration, after choosing not to involve itself in the 1970 presidential race to the extent the Johnson administration had in the 1964 election, reacted with great alacrity to Allende’s victory in the popu lar elec-tion of 4 September.1 The prospect of a government headed by a co ali tion of avowedly Marxist parties with ideological and sentimental ties to Cuba was utterly unacceptable for Nixon, as it prob ably would have been for any Cold War U.S. president. On 15 September, Richard Nixon himself instructed CIA director Richard Helms to conduct covert operations in Chile, behind Ambassador Korry’s back, to prevent Allende from attaining the presidency.2The story of those operations, whose only tangible consequence was the death of the commander in chief of the Chilean army, René Schneider, has been widely treated in reports issued by the U.S. Congress in the 1970s and by numerous scholars and other authors, so it will not be reiterated here.3The covert operations carried out by the CIA without informing the am-bassador, however, were not the only efforts against Allende in the weeks before the runoff election of 24 October. Chilean politicians, particularly Christian Demo crats of the Frei line, tried or at least explored, ways of avert-ing an Allende victory and sought for that purpose the support of the U.S. embassy in Santiago. Korry’s correspondence with the State Department and the White House, a good deal of which has been recently published in the Foreign Relations of the United States series, shows the dejected mood that took over President Frei and some of his closest advisers in the days and weeks after the 4 September election and the courses of action they considered to block Chapter 8Eduardo Frei, the U.S. Embassy, and the Election of Salvador Allende
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The Nixon administration, after choosing not to involve itself in the 1970 presidential race to the extent the Johnson administration had in the 1964 election, reacted with great alacrity to Allende’s victory in the popu lar elec-tion of 4 September.1 The prospect of a government headed by a co ali tion of avowedly Marxist parties with ideological and sentimental ties to Cuba was utterly unacceptable for Nixon, as it prob ably would have been for any Cold War U.S. president. On 15 September, Richard Nixon himself instructed CIA director Richard Helms to conduct covert operations in Chile, behind Ambassador Korry’s back, to prevent Allende from attaining the presidency.2The story of those operations, whose only tangible consequence was the death of the commander in chief of the Chilean army, René Schneider, has been widely treated in reports issued by the U.S. Congress in the 1970s and by numerous scholars and other authors, so it will not be reiterated here.3The covert operations carried out by the CIA without informing the am-bassador, however, were not the only efforts against Allende in the weeks before the runoff election of 24 October. Chilean politicians, particularly Christian Demo crats of the Frei line, tried or at least explored, ways of avert-ing an Allende victory and sought for that purpose the support of the U.S. embassy in Santiago. Korry’s correspondence with the State Department and the White House, a good deal of which has been recently published in the Foreign Relations of the United States series, shows the dejected mood that took over President Frei and some of his closest advisers in the days and weeks after the 4 September election and the courses of action they considered to block Chapter 8Eduardo Frei, the U.S. Embassy, and the Election of Salvador Allende
© 2020 Cornell University Press, Ithaca

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  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Abbreviations xiii
  5. Introduction: The United States and Chilean Politics in the Cold War 1
  6. 1. The U.S. Embassy in Santiago and the Presidential Election of 1964 16
  7. 2. Time of Hope, 1964–1967 46
  8. 3. Time of Trouble, 1967–1969 72
  9. 4. Chilean Copper and U.S. Companies 97
  10. 5. The Presidential Candidacy of Radomiro Tomic 118
  11. 6. The United States and the Last Two Years of the Frei Administration 137
  12. 7. The United States and the Presidential Election of 1970 151
  13. 8. Eduardo Frei, the U.S. Embassy, and the Election of Salvador Allende 165
  14. Conclusion: The Influence of the United States in Chilean Politics 189
  15. Notes 205
  16. Bibliography 235
  17. Index 247
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Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Abbreviations xiii
  5. Introduction: The United States and Chilean Politics in the Cold War 1
  6. 1. The U.S. Embassy in Santiago and the Presidential Election of 1964 16
  7. 2. Time of Hope, 1964–1967 46
  8. 3. Time of Trouble, 1967–1969 72
  9. 4. Chilean Copper and U.S. Companies 97
  10. 5. The Presidential Candidacy of Radomiro Tomic 118
  11. 6. The United States and the Last Two Years of the Frei Administration 137
  12. 7. The United States and the Presidential Election of 1970 151
  13. 8. Eduardo Frei, the U.S. Embassy, and the Election of Salvador Allende 165
  14. Conclusion: The Influence of the United States in Chilean Politics 189
  15. Notes 205
  16. Bibliography 235
  17. Index 247
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