#ChileanCoup1973
4 entries tagged ChileanCoup1973.
People (3)
- Charles Horman American writer seized at his Santiago home by the Chilean army on September 17, 1973, and shot the next day, whose death the American embassy attributed to leftists while the State Department's inquiries concluded otherwise.
- Frank Teruggi American student in Santiago, the subject of an FBI subversive file that recorded his Chilean address, who was taken from his house after the 1973 coup and shot at the National Stadium.
- Salvador Allende Socialist president of Chile from 1970 to 1973, the object of fourteen million dollars of CIA covert action over a decade, who died in the presidential palace during the military coup of September 11, 1973.
Organizations (1)
- Patria y Libertad Chilean rightist paramilitary group formed after Salvador Allende's election in 1970, which received 38,500 dollars from the CIA during the agency's coup plotting and joined the failed tank uprising of June 1973.