CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T00975A022700030002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 2, 1972
• Content Type: REPORT

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CHILE: More talk of showdown as violence spreads.
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CHILE: The spread of extremist-led violence
is again raising talk of a showdown between the
Allende government and its opponents.
The efforts by radicals of right and left to
provoke clashes have been increasingly successful
as Chileans of all classes react to food shortages,
high prices, media exhortations, and the frustra-
tions of a bad winter. All are quick to blame po-
litical opponents for the problems, with the Allende
administration's inept economic performance getting
the most acrimonious attacks.
Some businessmen, encouraged by the widespread
effect of a recent shopowners' strike, are reportedly
joining with the ultrarightist Fatherland and Free-
dom group to try to raise tensions to the point of
rovokin a coup by worried military officers.
they hope to stir
up demonstrations on a variety o issues in the ex-
pectation that leftist extremists will retaliate.
Like their counterparts, the far rightists reject
political solutions. Moreover, they claim to have
military contacts who agree
The Communists, who in the past have seen a
military coup as the most serious threat to the gov-
ernment, appear less concerned than usual by the
new rumors of plotting. One Commu-
nist thinks that, although party leaders are nervous
over their personal safety, even a violent confron-
tation would not lead to a military coup. The Com-
munists may believe that the bulk of the armed
forces consider the defense of public security and
of the constitutional government against all ex-
tremists to be their prime responsibility, over
riding consideration of a coup attempt.
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