Previously classified documents released by US show knowledge of 1973 Chile coup
WASHINGTON — Every once in a while, the voices of ghosts emerge to reveal dark chapters in U.S. political history.
The State Department with the CIA last week declassified two 50-year-old documents that had been withheld from public view that shed new light on the military coup in Chile that overthrew the country's elected president.
One is then-President Nixon's intelligence briefing notes from the day of the coup, Sept. 11, 1973, marked top secret "For the President Only." The National Security Archive, a non-governmental research organization, described the papers as some of "the most historically iconic of missing records" on the coup.
"[T]hey contained information that went to
