Fact check
Is it true: Chile 1973 coup: Pinochet, Allende, and US covert action (September 11 1973)?
Yes — this is confirmed.
Thousands of declassified CIA, NSC, State Department, and DIA documents released 1999–2000 confirm that the Nixon administration ran two parallel covert-action programmes — Track I and Track II — to prevent Allende from taking power and to destabilise his government. Nixon's "make the economy scream" directive is on tape. ITT Corporation collaboration is documented by the Church Committee. The coup occurred 11 September 1973; approximately 3,200 were killed or disappeared under Pinochet 1973–90.
The claim
On 11 September 1973, a military junta led by General Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. Allende died in La Moneda palace during the coup. D
Key evidence
NSA Chile Declassification Project: thousands of documents released 1999–2000
Allende's death: suicide confirmed by Chilean investigation 2011
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