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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818411403321

Autore

Kornbluh Peter

Titolo

The Pinochet file : a declassified dossier on atrocity and accountability / / Peter Kornbluh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : New Press, , [2004]

©2004

ISBN

1-59558-995-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (625 p.)

Disciplina

983.06/5

Soggetti

Human rights - Chile - History - 20th century

State-sponsored terrorism - Chile - History - 20th century

Subversive activities - Chile - History - 20th century

Chile History 1970-1973 Sources

Chile History 1973-1988 Sources

Chile History 1988- Sources

Chile Relations United States Sources

United States Relations Chile Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies (pages [517]-553) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Project FUBELT : "formula for chaos" -- Destabilizing democracy : the United States and the Allende government -- Pinochet in power : building a regime of repression -- Consolidating dictatorship : the United States and the Pinochet regime -- American casualties -- Operation Condor : state-sponsored international terrorism -- Denouement of the dictator : from terrorism to transition -- Atrocity and accountability : the long epilogue of the Pinochet case.

Sommario/riassunto

Revised and updated for the fortieth anniversary of Augusto Pinochet's September 11, 1973, military coup in Chile, The Pinochet File reveals a formerly secret record of complicity with atrocity on the part of the U.S. government. Documents that were first made publicly available in the original hardcover edition formed the heart of the international campaign to hold Pinochet accountable for murder, torture, and terrorism? a campaign chronicled for the first time in this updated



edition.Peter Kornbluh spearheaded the effort to declassify some 24,000 secret CIA, White House,