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Washington's Embrace: Recognising Pinochet Within 48 Hours
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Salvador Allende won a free election — Nixon and Kissinger spent three years ensuring it didn't matter. This episode traces the CIA's covert war on Chilean democracy and the White House's swift embrace of what replaced it.
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September the eleventh, nineteen seventy-three. The Chilean air force bombed its own presidential palace.
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