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[[File:Salvador Allende & Fidel Castro.jpg|300px|thumbnail|Salvador Allende and [[Fidel Castro]] in 1971.]]

[[File:Salvador Allende & Fidel Castro.jpg|300px|thumbnail|Salvador Allende and [[Fidel Castro]] in 1971.]]

US intelligence reports implicated Allende in the assassination of several opponents,<ref name=nixontapeaudio>{{cite web|url=http://nixontapeaudio.org/chile/517-004.pdf|title=Conversation 517-004|date=June 11, 1971, 9:37 - 10:36 a.m.|location=[[Oval Office]]|author= [[Richard Nixon]], [[Harry Robbins Haldeman|H.R. Haldeman]], and [[Henry Kissinger]]}}</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" (...)  

US intelligence reports implicated Allende in the assassination of several opponents,<ref name=nixontapeaudio>{{cite web|url=http://nixontapeaudio.org/chile/517-004.pdf|title=Conversation 517-004|date=June 11, 1971, 9:37 - 10:36 a.m.|location=[[Oval Office]]|author= [[Richard Nixon]], [[Harry Robbins Haldeman|H.R. Haldeman]], and [[Henry Kissinger]]}}</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"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ellibero.cl/actualidad/la-mano-de-la-kgb-y-la-cia-en-el-quiebre-democratico-en-chile/|title=La mano de la KGB y la CIA en el quiebre democrático en Chile|September 11, 2015|language=es|publisher=El Líbero}}</ref> 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 Acción Popular (FRAP), Allende was beaten into second place by only 35,000 votes.  

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 Acción Popular (FRAP), Allende was beaten into second place by only 35,000 votes.