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(doing a newspaper search of "Allende Regime" from 1972....)
Here's one from 1973 blaming "Leftists" for the coup. Says that blaming CIA would be "paternalistic" newspapers.com/image/30227810… 
This kind of propaganda is so blatant in hindsight. Author of the article, James Theberge, was CIA propaganda agent. unz.org/Pub/Inquiry-19…
"CIA Psychological Warfare Operations" - 1982 investigation by Fred Landis, author of paper quoted above academia.edu/6122543/CIA_PS…
How to spot CIA subversion / takeover of a newspaper - sensationalism, dumbing-down of content, always blaming socialist governments
"Local catastrophes become the only image of the world." Stories are collected or manufactured to create themes of social + economic chaos.
NY Times on Chlie, January 1973 - "shortages" "government economic mismanagement" timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1…
"Chileans Chasing Runaway Prices" - timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1…
August 23, 1972 - "The President [Allende] whose policies are blamed for the food shortage..." timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1…
July 2, 1972: "Economist: Chile Will Probably Go Broke" timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1…
Financial mismanagement in "Rattling" Allende Regime newspapers.com/image/18137371…
"Blaming the CIA for the coup would be paternalistic" - reminds me of certain libcom commenters
Peaceful "March for Democracy" draws 200,000 in Santiago (April 13, 1972) nytimes.com/1972/04/13/arc…
After the coup, Chile can be summed up by experiences of "winners" and "losers" nytimes.com/1973/10/11/arc…
Inevitably, studying the coup against Allende uncovers some little detail that's just too much and I have to quit for the day.
I mean, imagine smuggling a cyanide capsule to your son in prison just so you can save him from being tortured to death.
This is what liberal imperialists like Jacobin are excusing when they do their handwringing over the shortcomings of the "Maduro regime."
Propaganda for supporting the coup in Chile was created by Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) powerbase.info/index.php/Cent…
CSIS, not to be confused w/ the Canadian intel agency, employed many "former" CIA who had been benched by politics. powerbase.info/index.php/Cent…
The current head of CSIS is Thomas Pritzker, head of the Pritzker Organization (Hyatt hotels fortune) csis.org/about-us
(he's the cousin of Obama's former Secretary of Commerce, and early backer, Penny Pritzker)
Pritzker family also put alot of money into CIA-front Castle Bank back in the mid 1970s.
"CIA Helped Quash Major, Star-Studded Tax Evasion Case" - CIA told IRS that investigation would expose covert ops washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…
Castle Bank was set up by OSS veteran Paul Helliwell and tax attorney Burton Kanter, who sat on the board of Hyatt thenation.com/article/penny-…
Kanter, who specialized in mafia laundering, may have been introduced to Helliwell by OSS Chief "Wild Bill" Donovan books.google.com/books?id=FzWJ6…
When Kanter died the settling of his own estate became a Supreme Court case forbes.com/2009/12/15/irs…
(the kind of guy who would set up a shell company and call it "The Holding Co.") taxpravo.ru/sudebnie_dela/…
Or getting lazy with front company names - "Saturn Agency" (cargo) and "Satco" (financial planning) ustaxcourt.gov/InOpHistoric/K…
Kanter was indicted in several tax cases, but never convicted. Associate Calvin Eisenberg was convicted in 1985 archives.chicagotribune.com/1982/02/25/pag…
Kanter passed on his legal work for the Pritzkers to Marhsall Eisenberg (relationship w/ Calvin unknown) forbes.com/forbes/2003/11…
Eisenberg eventually founded the law firm Neal Gerber & Eisenberg, which still represents (parts of) the Pritzker organization.
(Pritzker family members sued each other recently over squandered inheritance, but settled rather than disclose tax shelter details)
So there's parallel lines of succession here between covert operations in Latin America, and the Pritzker family.
CSIS, which ran covert political + psychological warfare operations in Latin America for decades is run by a Pritzker heir.
And while Castle Bank imploded, the law firm that created Castle, Kanter & Eisenberg, still represents Pritzkers as Neal Gerber & Eisenberg.
(now it would be especially ironic if some fake left podcast celebrity would turn up a close relation to this mess, but not surprising)
For another iteration of the CIA's destabilization playbook, see Covert Action Information Bulletin on Jamaica, 1980 ia801209.us.archive.org/32/items/Cover…
For a contemporary take on economic warfare in Venezuela, read "The Visible Hand of the Market" by Pasqualina Curcio 15yultimo.com/wp-content/upl…
"An army of unpunished speculators gradually destroy the socialist project."
Going back to that original Theberge article, it really is an early articulation of the "Agency" argument, coming right from the CIA.
"as though the countries of Latin America had no independent political life of their own."
"A touching faith in the potency of [the] U.S." - not only are anti-imperialists crackpots, they're also naive patriots.
