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  • The 1973 coup in Chile the military government of 1973 to 1990: the Rettig Commission recorded 2,279 victims (2,115 of human rights violations, 164 of political violence); an updated version in 1996 gave 3,197; a 2011 government commission counted 3,065 killed or disappeared and 40,018 victims in all Primary record 456
  • Chile’s presidential election, 1970 its Congress was to decide between the first and second finishers on 24 October 1970 Primary record 1
  • The economic squeeze on Chile, 1970–1973 under what became known as the Allende Doctrine it proposed to deduct “excess profits” from compensation, so that U.S. copper companies “were in fact told they owed money” Primary record 1
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  1. Nov 1970 – 11 Sep 1973 Salvador Allende head of Government of Chile
  2. 12 Sep 1973 Augusto Pinochet head of Government of Chile
  3. 18 Dec 1974 Augusto Pinochet head of Government of Chile
Proof 6 sources
  1. Covert Action in Chile 1963–1973: Staff Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, U.S. Senate, 18 Dec 1975. Primary record Archived copy
    On November 3, he was inaugurated.
    joint session of its Congress decide between the first- and second-place finishers.
    U.S. copper companies were in fact told they owed money.
  2. Kissinger and the Chilean coup: documents posted on the 40th anniversary (Electronic Briefing Book No. 437), National Security Archive, George Washington University, 11 Sep 2013. Scholarship & press
    Allende's inauguration on November 4, 1970
  3. CIA Activities in Chile (report to Congress, 18 September 2000), Central Intelligence Agency, 18 Sep 2000. Primary record Archived copy
    Pinochet was designated as its first President, and the four verbally agreed to rotate the office.
    On 18 December 1974 Pinochet was declared Supreme Leader of the nation.
  4. Report of the Chilean National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation (Rettig Report), English edition, National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation (Chile), 1991. Primary record Archived copy
    Victims of human rights violations 2,115 Victims of political violence 164 TOTAL NUMBER OF VICTIMS 2,279
  5. Fighting impunity in Chile for over 50 years, Fritz Bauer Forum, 2016. Scholarship & press
    came to the conclusion in 1996 that 3,197 people were murdered
  6. Chile recognises 9,800 more victims of Pinochet’s rule, BBC News, 18 Aug 2011. Scholarship & press
    The official number of those killed or forcibly disappeared now stands at 3,065.
    The new figures bring the total of recognised victims to 40,018.
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