Chile, the CIA and the Cold War: A Transatlantic Perspective

James Lockhart blends Chilean, inter—American and transatlantic national, regional and world—historical trends into a century—long Cold War narrative. 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 Chile and southern South America. The book transcends a well—known, US—centred historiography while offering a more equitable and global interpreta...