"September 11, 1998 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. The violent overthrow of the democratically-elected Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende changed the course of the country that Chilean poet Pablo Neruda described as "a long petal of sea, wine and snow"; because of CIA covert intervention in … Continue reading Chile and the United States: Declassified Documents Relating to the Military Coup, September 11, 1973
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From Mind Control to Murder? How a Deadly Fall Revealed the CIA’s Darkest Secrets
"Decades later, however, spectacular revelations cast Olson’s death in a completely new light. First, the CIA admitted that, shortly before he died, Olson’s colleagues had lured him to a retreat and fed him LSD without his knowledge. Then it turned out that Olson had talked about leaving the CIA – and told his wife that … Continue reading From Mind Control to Murder? How a Deadly Fall Revealed the CIA’s Darkest Secrets
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