La Moneda, Chile's presidential palace, under fire during the 1973 coup that toppled the Marxist government of Salvador Allende.  The military junta that succeeded Allende, headed by Augusto Pinochet, established a record for human rights abuses that continues to haunt Chilean society, and also helped bring human rights matters to the fore in the United States.

The 1970 election of Marxist Salvador Allende (with 38% of the vote in a three-way contest) dominated the Nixon administration's approach to South America until Allende's overthrow in a US-supported 1973 coup. Tonight's class--where the reading is mostly documents--focuses on CIA involvement in two separate coup efforts. We'll also be looking at some raw intelligence the agency provided US policymakers. Please print out all primary documents and bring them to class.