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Legacy of Ashes: The Secret History of the CIA | Tim Weiner | Ep. 167

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Nixon Calls Richard Helms Into the Oval Office

The CIA, sometimes to its regret, is the instrument of American foreign policy. Nixon believed that Salvador Iende was a communist who was going to set off a series of communist rebellions in South America. The president called Richard Helms into the Oval Office and told him: "I give you the bayonet, fuck communism in Chile" It didn't work until it did work three years later when Augusto Pirochett ran Chile for the next 17 years.

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