Chile, the CIA and the Cold War

James Lockhart is Assistant Professor of History at Zayed University (ZU), in the United Arab Emirates. He specialises in the history of American foreign relations, security and intelligence, and Latin American (particularly southern South American) politics during the Cold War. He has published on the CIA, Cuban intelligence, and the effectiveness of covert operations. He is a member of the Cambridge, MA-based Scholars Strategy Network, has written for War on the Rocks, and has been interviewed by American, British, Brazilian and Australian journalists. He earned his PhD at the University of Arizona and has lectured at the Embry-Riddle College of Security and Intelligence and the American University in Dubai. He is currently researching Lt. Gen. Vernon Walters in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina.

Lockhart’s well-written book uses an impressive array of multilingual sources from a number of countries. He does a fine job of situating US-Chilean relations not only chronologically (in the broad sweep of the twentieth century) but in a transatlantic fashion as well.

• IntroductionThe England of South AmericaChilean AnticommunismGabriel González Videla and the Transatlantic Origins of the Cold WarLa Ley Maldita: The Law for the Permanent Defense of DemocracyThe Frei AdministrationThe Viaux MovementPlan AlfaCool and CorrectJefe de la Plaza: The Rise of Augusto PinochetConclusionSelect BibliographyIndex