Conclusion

This chapter restates the book's findings and their implications.

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

This chapter explains Chileans' contributions to the origins of the larger Cold War from 1947 into the 1950s. It incorporates the González administration's conflicts with Chilean Communists and the Soviet bloc, from events in Santiago and Chile's coal mining regions to those in Prague, Bogotá, and the United Nations, into the unfolding global conflict, thus reframing the passing of the Law for the Permanent Defense of Democracy, which banned the Chilean Communist Party.

The Frei Administration

This chapter assesses the Frei administration's national and international response to the energy the Cuban Revolution unleashed in Latin America in the 1960s. It presents President Eduardo Frei as an independent actor with his own agenda, which included the backing and accelerating of Chileans' developmental project in nuclear science and technology. It also reconstructs and reevaluates the United States, particularly the CIA's, relationship with Frei.

Chilean Anticommunism

This chapter evaluates the rise of social conflict in Chile from the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth. It presents Chile's labor movement, the Chilean Communist Party, Chile's conservatives, Chile's professional officer corps, and the Ibáñez dictatorship as the earliest expression of Cold War struggles in Chile. It connects the Chilean Communist Party to the Comintern's South American Bureau and the Soviet Union. It explains why the dictatorship broke relations with the Soviet Union and suppressed the communist party in 1927. And it reviews the nature of United States perceptions and involvement in these events.

The England of South America

This chapter assesses Chile's emergence as a modern nation in the early nineteenth century. It describes its evolution into an influential power in southern South America, aligned with liberals in Latin America, the United States, and Europe in at the end of that century. It introduces Chileans as internationalists involved in the construction of modern Latin America and the inter-American and transatlantic communities.

Cool and Correct

This chapter clarifies the Nixon administration's approach to the Allende administration after November 1970. It also evaluates President Salvador Allende's worldview and internationalism -- and Allende's relationship with the Soviet Union and KGB as well.

Gabriel González Videla and the Transatlantic Origins of the Cold War

This chapter examines the period from the Second World War to 1947 from transatlantic, southern South American, and Chilean perspectives. It integrates Chile into the narrative story of the origins of the larger Cold War, illuminating Chileans' contributions to it.

Plan Alfa

This chapter assesses the Viaux movement's Plan Alfa, more commonly known by its White House name, Track II, which led to the murder of Gen. René Schneider in October 1970. It reviews the developments in Chilean politics that led to this while clarifying the United States and CIA's influence in it, particularly its limitations.

The Viaux Movement

This chapter discusses the rise of Brig. Gen. Roberto Viaux's anticommunist movement to the Tacnazo, an acuartelamiento, or mobilization of a military unit for political purposes, in October 1969. It explains how Viaux's movement represented a continuing expression of Chilean anticommunism while identifying and exploring the movement's grievances with the Frei administration. And it examines the United States and CIA's involvement in this.

Jefe de la Plaza: The Rise of Augusto Pinochet

This culminating chapter examines the rise of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, an anticommunist officer who became dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990. It assesses the coup that overthrew the Allende administration in five parts: Allende's politics, the professional officer corps' politics, the relationship between the professional officer corps and their senior commanders, Pinochet's decision to commit to the coup, and the involvement of foreign military and intelligence services, including the CIA and KGB.