Project FUBELT : "formula for chaos" -- Destabilizing democracy : the United States and the Allende government -- Pinochet in power : building a regime of repression -- Consolidating dictatorship : the United States and the Pinochet regime -- American casualties -- Operation Condor : state-sponsored international terrorism -- Denouement of the dictator : from terrorism to transition -- Atrocity and accountability : the long epilogue of the Pinochet case
Summary
Revised and updated for the fortieth anniversary of Augusto Pinochet's September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, The Pinochet File reveals a formerly secret record of complicity with atrocity on the part of the U.S. government. Documents that were first made publicly available in the original hardcover edition formed the heart of the international campaign to hold Pinochet accountable for murder, torture, and terrorism?a campaign chronicled for the first time in this updated edition. Peter Kornbluh spearheaded the effort to declassify some 24,000 secret CIA, White House,