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17 August 2009

New Nixon Memo Reveals Attempt To Include Brasil In Allende Coup.

NYTIMES.

A secret memo just uncovered reveals that on Dec.9, 1971, President Richard Nixon offered Brasil's president,General Emilio Medici, aid to rid South America of leftist governments...including Salvador Allende of Chile and Fidel Castro.

Peter Kornbluh, director of the National Security Archive’s Chile and Brazil projects, said the documents revealed “a hidden chapter of collaborative intervention.”