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...socialism" was still being paved, but no one really knew where it would lead. Inflation was climbing above 200 percent. The black market thrived like a parasite on the rationed existence of the people. International credit was all but nonexistent. Copper prices had fallen on the world market, leaving Chile bereft of its most profitable source of international monetary reserves. There were threats of violence and whisperings of coups...
Over all this lay something more. Two weeks before a North American newspaperman named Jack Anderson had told the world what Allende had been telling Chileans for years. ITT, an American corporation, had attempted to influence the electoral process in Chile through the CIA. Moreover, ITT was involved in efforts to provoke the Chilean military into a coup, and to cut off all international financial aid to Chile. ITT had also funded Allende's major opponent in the press, the newspaper E1 Mercurio, owned and operated by the Edwards family, which was popularly identified as Chile's most capitalistic...
...protesters confronted Colby inside the Faculty Club, asking him to come outside and answer questions about the CIA's role in the September 1973 military coup in Chile...
Barely one week after the toppling of Salvador Allende's regime last year, Chilean authorities set about arresting drug smugglers. During the Allende years, according to Interpol, Chile had played host to the world's largest cocaine-trafficking operation, and the U.S., which was at the receiving end of the line, was not at all happy. The new junta and American narcs quickly worked out a cozy arrangement. Five federal drug agents flew to Chile to finger smugglers. Chilean police arrested and eventually expelled the suspects on a nonstop flight to the U.S.-often after days of torture...
Picked up in Chile during the past year, the suspects were shipped out via chartered planes. Many slept peacefully through the flight, thanks to tranquilizers administered by U.S. drug officers, and awoke in New York City, where indictments awaited them. Though few had ever been in the U.S. before, they were subject to federal law because each was said to be part of a smuggling conspiracy that extended into the U.S. In most of the cases, there was little question that the men involved had dealt in cocaine and sometimes heroin. The question was whether they had been abducted...