Volume 22, Number 13 · August 7, 1975
The CIA in Latin America
By Gabriel García Márquez, Translated by Gregory Rabassa
Inside the Company: CIA Diary
by Philip Agee
Stonehill, 639 pp., $9.95
Salvador Allende lost the Chilean presidential election in September of 1964. The winner was the Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei. At that time the victory was considered one more episode in the long and peaceful history of Chilean democracy. It has come to light now, however, that Salvador Allende's defeat at that time was a secret victory of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which had spent millions of dollars to bolster the parties of the right and buy votes against the socialist candidate. Philip Agee, who was then a CIA officer in Montevideo, has revealed this fact and many others in this impassioned book which appeared last winter in London and is now being published in the US.
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