CHILE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-108-5-2-4
• Release Decision: RIFLIM
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: October 7, 1970
• Content Type: MEMO

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.,range strategy than we had originally thought was necessary.
Attached is an item from the CIB of 7 October which I want especially to
call to your attention.
Note particularly the third paragraph. . This indicates:
-- Frei did not pitch in and help the anti-Allende forces;
-- PDC remains the only possible center of effective political oppo-
sition to Allende even though almost irrevocably divided now;
-- Those parts of the Christian Democrats who are the most anti-
Allende interestingly enough include the leaders of the party's
grass roots--labor, peasant, slum-dweller, and women's groups.
These anti-Allende Christian Democrats could form the nucleus of effec-
tive opposition if they had some support. Their strength would depend
on their "independence. " However, we should consider, I think, covert
support of these people in a longer range "game-plan" than just October 24.
I fear that we will have to begin from scratch and create a somewhat longer
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
MEMORANDUM FOR DR. KISSINGER
FROM: Viron P. Vakyt~
WN
SUBJECT: Chile
ON-FILE NSC RELEASE INSTRUCTIONS
APPLY
Attachment:
Excerpt fm CIB 7 Oct., page 10
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HILL: The swing of most Christian Democrats
C
to Salvador Allende virtually ensures..-his selection
as president in the congressional runoff on 24 Oc-
tober.
0 Monday the majority of the national con-
1
as 0
gress of the governing Christian Democratic Party
(PDC) voted to 'support Allende. The group now in
control of the party executive carried through a
resolution that requires only "agreement by Al-
lende to a constitutional reform bill to be worked
out with his leftist Popular Unity (UP) coalition.
Significantly, most of the 75 Christian Democratic
'legislators voted for the motion.
Anti-Allende forces in the party tried to?old
off a decision on whether to declare.supp t
Allende until a PDC-authored bill containing guar-
antees of democratic freedoms could be passed by
leadersformally theby
both houses of Consincludedaccepted
Allende. These forces
party's grass roots--labor, peasant., slum-.dweller,
and women's groups. President Frei did not use his
prestige to help them, although he opposes Allende.
The losers are likely to pay dearly, both politi-
cally and personally, for their hard fight. The
PDC, Chile's largest party and the only possible
center of effective political opposition to Allende,
seems irrevocably divided.
guAllende's
Until the eve of the PDCcr~or congress,
arantees
initial refusal. to discuss demands n
had increased pressure within the party against
ai Oc-
tober-to him. The UP's vague agreement 2
tober -to negotiate swung the majority of. the PDC
congress, however. (SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEM/BACK-
GROUND USE ONLY)
Central Intelligence Bulletin 10
7 Oct 70
..~. SECRET
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