Chile, the CIA and the Cold War : a transatlantic perspective / James Lockhart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lockhart, James (Assistant professor of history), author.

Series:

Intelligence, surveillance and secret warfare.

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Intelligence, surveillance and secret warfare

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War.

Chile--Politics and government--1970-1973.

Chile.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency--History.

United States.

Cold War (1945-1989).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

James Lockhart reinterprets Chile and southern South America's Cold War experience from a transatlantic perspective. He argues that Chileans made their own history as highly engaged internationalists while reassessing American and other foreign-directed intelligence, surveillance and secret warfare operations in the region.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. The England of South America

2. Chilean Anticommunism

3. Gabriel González Videla and the Transatlantic Origins of the Cold War

4. La Ley Maldita: The Law for the Permanent Defense of Democracy

5. The Frei Administration

6. The Viaux Movement

7. Plan Alfa

8. Cool and Correct

9. Jefe de la Plaza: The Rise of Augusto Pinochet

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [262]-270) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-6524-2

1-4744-3562-9

OCLC:

1306538470