PRESIDENT NIXON 'ORDERED' SUBVERSION OR A COUP IN CHILE, A FORMER CIA AGENT SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200150005-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 17, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

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Preslclent ixon'' ordered."subver=
a coup Ili Chile; a former_CfA
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. I7avtcl Attee Philips, onetune 'CIS4
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the ,Western
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,
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; ~vho ,resi ,gned tqq"campaign ;for the'
ood'name:of? thi,CIA,.writes;.nin,his
aierv boob;='`The.Night Watch,. that
,. former 'President -Richard M, Nixon
orcterecl tbe~Cf . to,take -.any:,action
necessary to prevent.:. the election
of Marxist,,`-- Salvador,.-Allende . as'IIII
dwn
.. wCis .[\a
thin head of the: National :Security.
Council; and his deputyt Gen: Alexan
der Ilaig, Phillips writes; but it was
kept from' Defense Secretary : Melvin
nd Secretary of state. William
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a
r
a
.ichard lIelms,.then chief of,
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oge
:
. ;CIA covert operations,. was put' in:
Phillips:writes:,. A' coup. was;
charge
,
the, recommended solution," he says;:
?but the chances .of success. looked
Phillips says:1n 1973, the CIA learged'
t
d
no
coup was Imminent but di
'.that ,a
godernment.: The
warn the: Allende
coi-p.succeeded and?;yAllende .was
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