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[[File:USSR stamp Salvador Allende 1973 6k.jpg|thumb|A [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] stamp honoring Salvador Allende]]

[[File:Salvador Allende & Fidel Castro.jpg|200px|thumbnail|Salvador Allende and [[Fidel Castro]] in 1971.]]

'''Salvador Allende''' (b. [[Valparaíso]] July 26, 1908–d. Santiago, on September 11, 1973) was a Chilean medic, physician and politician, member of the [[Socialist Party of Chile]] who worked as an agent for the [[KGB]] since 1952.<ref name=KGB/> He ruled as the President of [[Chile]] from 1970 to 1973. A self-proclaimed "militant socialist", "marxist-leninist" and [[demagogue]], his overthrow and death are very controversial.  

|office=[[File:Presidential Standard of Chile.png|35px|frameless|center]][[President of Chile]]

|preceded=[[Eduardo Frei Montalva]]

|succeeded=[[Augusto Pinochet Ugarte]]

|terms=May 15, 1945 – November 3, 1970

|preceded=Luis Ambrosio Concha

|succeeded=Adonis Sepúlveda Acuña

|office=Minister of Health, Welfare and Social Assistance of Chile

|religion=[[Agnostic]]

'''Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens''' (b. [[Valparaíso]] July 26, 1908–d. Santiago, on September 11, 1973) was a Chilean medic, physician and politician, member of the [[Socialist Party of Chile]] who worked as an agent for the [[KGB]] since 1952.<ref name=KGB/> He ruled as the President of [[Chile]] from 1970 to 1973. A self-proclaimed "militant socialist", "marxist-leninist" and [[demagogue]], his overthrow and death are very controversial.  

==History==

==History==

===International support===

===International support===

US intelligence reports implicated Allende in the assassination of several opponents,<ref>http://nixontapeaudio.org/chile/517-004.pdf</ref> while KGB files smuggled out of Russia by [[Vasily Mitrokhin]] indicate that Allende received funds and support from the Soviet Union. The book "The World was Going our Way" by Vasili Mitrokilin (former KGB agent) and Christopher Anurew reveal: {{quotebox-float|By far the most important of the KGB’s confidential contacts in South America was Salvador Allende Gossens (codenamed LEADER by the KGB),— whose election as President of Chile in 1970 was hailed by a Moscow commentator as ‘second only to the victory of the Cuban Revolution in the magnitude of its significance as a revolutionary blow to the imperialist system in Latin America’ (...) Allende had first attracted KGB attention in the early 1950s when, as leader of the Chilean Socialist Party (Partido Socialista), he had formed an alliance with the then banned Communist Party. In 1952 he stood with its support at the presidential election but won only 6 per  

US intelligence reports implicated Allende in the assassination of several opponents,<ref>http://nixontapeaudio.org/chile/517-004.pdf</ref> while KGB files smuggled out of Russia by [[Vasily Mitrokhin]] indicate that Allende received funds and support from the Soviet Union. The book "The World was Going our Way" by Vasili Mitrokilin (former KGB agent) and Christopher Anurew reveal: {{quotebox-float|By far the most important of the KGB’s confidential contacts in South America was Salvador Allende Gossens (codenamed LEADER by the KGB),— whose election as President of Chile in 1970 was hailed by a Moscow commentator as ‘second only to the victory of the Cuban Revolution in the magnitude of its significance as a revolutionary blow to the imperialist system in Latin America’ (...) Allende had first attracted KGB attention in the early 1950s when, as leader of the Chilean Socialist Party (Partido Socialista), he had formed an alliance with the then banned Communist Party. In 1952 he stood with its support at the presidential election but won only 6 per  

cent of the vote. Though there was as yet no KGB residency in Chile, a Line PR (political intelligence) officer, Svyatoslav Fyodorovich Kuznetsov (codenamed LEONID), probably operating under cover as a Novosti correspondent, made the first direct contact with Allende in the following year .— At the presidential election of 1958, standing as the candidate of a left-wing alliance, the Frente de Accion Popular (FRAP), Allende was beaten into second place by only 35,000 votes. What Allende ’s KGB file describes as ‘systematic contact’ with him began after the establishment in 1961 of a Soviet trade mission in Chile, which provided cover for a KGB presence. Allende is reported to have ‘stated his willingness to co-operate on a confidential basis and provide any necessary assistance, since he considered himself a friend of the Soviet Union. He willingly shared political information . . Though he became a KGB ‘confidential contact’, however, he was never classed as an agent. The KGB claimed some of the credit for Allende’s part in the campaign which led to the establishment of Soviet-Chilean diplomatic relations in  

cent of the vote. Though there was as yet no KGB residency in Chile, a Line PR (political intelligence) officer, Svyatoslav Fyodorovich Kuznetsov (codenamed LEONID), probably operating under cover as a Novosti correspondent, made the first direct contact with Allende in the following year .— At the presidential election of 1958, standing as the candidate of a left-wing alliance, the Frente de Accion Popular (FRAP), Allende was beaten into second place by only 35,000 votes. What Allende ’s KGB file describes as ‘systematic contact’ with him began after the establishment in 1961 of a Soviet trade mission in Chile, which provided cover for a KGB presence. Allende is reported to have ‘stated his willingness to co-operate on a confidential basis and provide any necessary assistance, since he considered himself a friend of the Soviet Union. He willingly shared political information . . Though he became a KGB ‘confidential contact’, however, he was never classed as an agent. The KGB claimed some of the credit for Allende’s part in the campaign which led to the establishment of Soviet-Chilean diplomatic relations in  

1964. — The new Soviet embassy in Santiago contained the first KGB legal residency on Chilean soil.—<ref name=KGB>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/TheWorldWasGoingOurWayTheKGBAndTheBattleForTheTheThirdWorld/The+World+Was+Going+Our+Way_djvu.txt|title=The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the the Third World|coauthors=CHRISTOPHER ANUREW and VASILI MlTROKlilN}}</ref>

1964. — The new Soviet embassy in Santiago contained the first KGB legal residency on Chilean soil.—<ref name=KGB>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/TheWorldWasGoingOurWayTheKGBAndTheBattleForTheTheThirdWorld/The+World+Was+Going+Our+Way_djvu.txt|title=The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the the Third World|coauthors=CHRISTOPHER ANUREW and VASILI MlTROKlilN}}</ref>

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In the infamous "Cuban Packages Scandal" that precipitated his eventual ouster, large quantities of weapons were sent from [[Fidel Castro]]'s Cuba to arm pro-Allende terrorists in Chile.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/articles/219461/pinochet-history-nro-symposium</ref> Kissinger privately told Nixon that Allende might declare martial law.<ref>http://nixontapeaudio.org/chile/517-004.pdf</ref> By 1973, as a result of covert US aid to Chilean dissidents and financing of pro-democracy protestors, US intelligence indicated Allende would likely lose the next Chilean election if it was held.<ref>http://archive.frontpagemag.com/Printable.aspx?ArtId=15648</ref>  Volodia Teitelboim, the chief ideologue of the Communist Party in Chile, declared that if civil war came, "it probably would signify immense loss of human lives, between half a million and one million."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20040108221609/http://lyd.org/noticias/violencia/what_really.html</ref> Allende's sister, Laura Allende, spoke at the [[Peoples Temple]] in San Francisco to make the case for Chilean socialism.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YcXsCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT89&lpg=PT89&dq=Laura+Allende+jim+jones&source=bl&ots=oYzBuLkqli&sig=ACfU3U3WxYWRcNbxWq-X_4F6_pdlCC-JlA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc0unTvargAhWH8oMKHTfkBlwQ6AEwC3oECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=Laura%20Allende%20jim%20jones&f=false Carole M. Cusac, ''Sacred Sucide''].</ref>

In the infamous "Cuban Packages Scandal" that precipitated his eventual ouster, large quantities of weapons were sent from [[Fidel Castro]]'s Cuba to arm pro-Allende terrorists in Chile.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/articles/219461/pinochet-history-nro-symposium</ref> Kissinger privately told Nixon that Allende might declare martial law.<ref>http://nixontapeaudio.org/chile/517-004.pdf</ref> By 1973, as a result of covert US aid to Chilean dissidents and financing of pro-democracy protestors, US intelligence indicated Allende would likely lose the next Chilean election if it was held.<ref>http://archive.frontpagemag.com/Printable.aspx?ArtId=15648</ref>  Volodia Teitelboim, the chief ideologue of the Communist Party in Chile, declared that if civil war came, "it probably would signify immense loss of human lives, between half a million and one million."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20040108221609/http://lyd.org/noticias/violencia/what_really.html</ref> Allende's sister, Laura Allende, spoke at the [[Peoples Temple]] in San Francisco to make the case for Chilean socialism.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=YcXsCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT89&lpg=PT89&dq=Laura+Allende+jim+jones&source=bl&ots=oYzBuLkqli&sig=ACfU3U3WxYWRcNbxWq-X_4F6_pdlCC-JlA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc0unTvargAhWH8oMKHTfkBlwQ6AEwC3oECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=Laura%20Allende%20jim%20jones&f=false Carole M. Cusac, ''Sacred Sucide''].</ref>