#CovertAction

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Agustin Edwards Owner of the Santiago daily El Mercurio who met Richard Helms in Washington before Nixon ordered a coup in Chile, and whose paper received 1.665 million dollars in CIA subsidies.
Ngo Dinh Diem Premier of Vietnam from July 1954 and president of South Vietnam until his killing on November 2, 1963, in a generals' coup that Washington encouraged, after a decade of CIA subsidy and American lobbying.
Salvador Allende Socialist president of Chile from 1970 to 1973, the object of fourteen million dollars of CIA covert action over a decade, who died in the presidential palace during the military coup of September 11, 1973.

40 Committee National Security Council subcommittee that approved CIA covert action under Nixon, chaired by Henry Kissinger, which voted 1.665 million dollars to El Mercurio and was never told of the 1970 order for a coup in Chile.
CIA Western Hemisphere Division The CIA's clandestine service division for Latin America, which ran the 1954 Guatemala coup under J.C. King and the 1970 Chile task force under William Broe and David Atlee Phillips.
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board White House board of private citizens created by Eisenhower in 1956 to review foreign intelligence and the CIA, renamed by Kennedy in 1961, abolished by Carter in 1977 and later re-established.

Project FUBELT CIA operation ordered by President Nixon on September 15, 1970, to provoke a military coup before Salvador Allende could take office, in the course of which the agency armed and paid officers plotting to kidnap General Rene Schneider.