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The death of Schneider had the opposite effect of what was intended by the Nixon administration--even as the CIA worked to buy off the Congress so as to prevent Allende's appointment, it ensured that the nation would rally behind the otherwise polarizing leader. At the very least, Kissinger's comments to Nixon were callous, if not incriminating.
The death of Schneider had the opposite effect of what was intended by the Nixon administration--even as the CIA worked to buy off the Congress so as to prevent Allende's appointment, it ensured that the nation would rally behind the otherwise polarizing leader. At the very least, Kissinger's comments to Nixon were callous, if not incriminating.
The moderate left-wing extremist [[Christopher Hitchens]] (who has praised the "valiant guerillas" of the Viet Cong and who openly admires [[Vladimir Lenin]]) has gone further than most in his condemnation of Kissinger (he is renowned for his use of hyperbole). Although he acknowledges that the US refused to directly assist any military coup against Allende and instead sought to influence the Chilean Congress; he nevertheless asserts that Kissinger attempted to ''orchestrate'' a military coup against the Chilean government in 1970 (by contrast, most left-wing sources sensationally refer to the meetings with Chilean generals in which US officials stated that they would not cut off aid in the event of a coup, although they would not assist one, as an ''attempt to instigate'' a military take-over). He generates this conclusion by stating that the CIA attempted to kill Schneider in 1970; it attempted to make his death appear to be the work of left-wing terrorists; it hoped that this would "inspire" the Chilean military to intervene against Pinochet; and Kissinger was directly and personally involved in approving all of these operations.<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/feb/24/pinochet.bookextracts</ref> Kissinger has refused to debate with Hitchens, saying "''I'm not going to deal with Christopher Hitchens,''" while his colleague [[Alexander Haig]] has called Hitchens "''a sewer pipe-sucker.''"
==Evaluation==
==Evaluation==