The Pinochet File
A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
Published on 19. July 2019
354 pages
978-1-59558-995-8 (ISBN)
Description
Revised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet's Chilean coup-"the evidence is overwhelming" (The New Yorker).
Published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet's infamous September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, this updated edition of The Pinochet File reveals the shocking, formerly secret record of the US government's complicity with atrocity in a foreign country. The book now completes the file on Pinochet's story, detailing his multiple indictments between 2004 and his death on December 10, 2006, including the Riggs Bank scandal that revealed how the dictator had illegally squirreled away over $26 million in ill-begotten wealth in secret American bank accounts.
When it was first released in hardcover, The Pinochet File contributed to the international campaign to hold Pinochet accountable for murder, torture, and terrorism. A new afterword tells the extraordinary story of Henry Kissinger's attempt to undercut the book's reception-efforts that generated a major scandal that led to a high-level resignation at the Council on Foreign Relations, illustrating the continued ability of the book to speak truth to power.
"The Pinochet File should be considered the long awaited book of record on U.S. intervention in Chile . . . A crisp compelling narrative, almost a political thriller." -Los Angeles Times
Published to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of General Augusto Pinochet's infamous September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, this updated edition of The Pinochet File reveals the shocking, formerly secret record of the US government's complicity with atrocity in a foreign country. The book now completes the file on Pinochet's story, detailing his multiple indictments between 2004 and his death on December 10, 2006, including the Riggs Bank scandal that revealed how the dictator had illegally squirreled away over $26 million in ill-begotten wealth in secret American bank accounts.
When it was first released in hardcover, The Pinochet File contributed to the international campaign to hold Pinochet accountable for murder, torture, and terrorism. A new afterword tells the extraordinary story of Henry Kissinger's attempt to undercut the book's reception-efforts that generated a major scandal that led to a high-level resignation at the Council on Foreign Relations, illustrating the continued ability of the book to speak truth to power.
"The Pinochet File should be considered the long awaited book of record on U.S. intervention in Chile . . . A crisp compelling narrative, almost a political thriller." -Los Angeles Times
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Peter Kornbluh, director of the National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project, is the editor, most recently, of Bay of Pigs Declassified (The New Press). He lives in Washington, D.C.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1: Project FUBELT: "Formula for Chaos"
- CHAPTER 2: Destabilizing Democracy: The United States and the Allende Government
- CHAPTER 3: Pinochet in Power: Building a Regime of Repression
- CHAPTER 4: Consolidating Dictatorship: The United States and the Pinochet Regime
- CHAPTER 5: American Casualties
- CHAPTER 6: Operation Condor: State-Sponsored International Terrorism
- CHAPTER 7: Denouement of the Dictator: From Terrorism to Transition
- EPILOGUE: Atrocity and Accountability: The Long Epilogue of the Pinochet Case
- AFTERWORD: Kissinger's Response
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- INDEX
