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…