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suicide, Davis believes) and the toppling of his Unidad Popular (UP) regime the Chilean military. Suspicions of such involvement are justified. President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger called Allende's 1970 victory at the polls a "serious threat"; accordingly, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) concocted two plans for removing the Marxist leader. U.S. firms, including Interna- tional Telephone and Telegraph, felt threat- ened by Allende's nationalization proposals. But Allende had...
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