#ProjectFUBELT

8 entries tagged ProjectFUBELT.

People (6)

Camilo Valenzuela Chilean brigadier general to whose group the CIA delivered three submachine guns and pledged 50,000 dollars for the kidnapping of General René Schneider in October 1970.
David Atlee Phillips CIA propaganda officer in the 1954 Guatemala coup, chief of Cuban operations in Mexico City during Oswald's 1963 visit, co-director of the 1970 Chile task force, and the man Antonio Veciana named as Maurice Bishop.
Edward Korry United States ambassador to Chile from 1967 to 1971 who planned the covert campaign against Salvador Allende, was kept ignorant of the CIA's coup plot, was blamed for it, and accused the Church Committee of a cover-up.
Rene Schneider Commander of the Chilean army who held that the military must respect the 1970 election and was shot on October 22, 1970, by officers whom the CIA had paid, armed, and encouraged to kidnap him.
Roberto Viaux Retired Chilean general whom the CIA paid and encouraged in October 1970 through officers posing as third country nationals, and whose men shot General René Schneider.
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.

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.

Project FUBELT CIA operation ordered by President Nixon on September 15, 1970, to provoke a military coup before Salvador Allende could take office, in the course of which the agency armed and paid officers plotting to kidnap General Rene Schneider.