#Chile

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Augusto Pinochet Augusto Pinochet was Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army who, with CIA backing, led the September 11, 1973 coup against President Salvador Allende and governed Chile as dictator until 1990; his regime participated in Operation Condor, a CIA-coordinated transnational assassination program targeting leftists across Latin America.
Richard Helms Richard Helms served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1966 to 1973, authorizing Operation CHAOS domestic surveillance and ordering destruction of CHAOS and MKULTRA records before congressional investigation.

AIFLD The CIA-funded American Institute for Free Labor Development, the AFL-CIO's Latin American arm, which organized anticommunist labor unions throughout the hemisphere and whose operatives played a documented role in the 1964 Brazilian coup and other Cold War regime changes.

Operation Condor Operation Condor was a CIA-facilitated transnational program of political repression, intelligence sharing, and assassination coordinated among six South American military dictatorships from November 1975, tracking and killing an estimated 60,000 people including opponents who had fled across borders.
Project Camelot A 1964 US Army project run through SORO at American University under contract ARO-7 and a budget Secretary of State Rusk described as 'more than $4,000,000' that attempted to build a predictive social science model for revolution in developing countries; cancelled in July 1965 after its exposure by Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung provoked a Chilean diplomatic protest, congressional hearings, and a permanent rupture between the military and academic social science communities.

Santiago Santiago is the capital of Chile and the site of the September 11, 1973 CIA-backed coup that installed Augusto Pinochet, including the bombing of La Moneda presidential palace; it was subsequently the operational base for DINA and the founding location of Operation Condor.