Chile, 1975 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 31 October 1975, during the peak of repression under Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship in Chile, two years after the September 1973 coup that overthrew Salvador Allende. By late 1975 Pinochet had consolidated one-man rule, having been named Supreme Head of the nation in December 1974 over the objection of Air Force General Gustavo Leigh, and was suppressing both leftist opposition and internal military dissent. The secret police, DINA, under Manuel Contreras and answering directly to Pinochet, was responsible for the majority of secret arrests, torture, and disappearances, and was mounting transnational assassination operations against exiled opponents, including the September 1974 car-bomb killing of General Carlos Prats in Buenos Aires and the October 1975 shooting of Christian Democrat Bernardo Leighton in Rome.
Operation Condor, the coordinated regional campaign of the Southern Cone secret police agencies, was formally founded at the Pinochet regime's behest in late November 1975. The October 1975 coding sits in this period of DINA-driven repression and internal military tension within the junta.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
15510311975
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Pinochet held power and consolidated his dictatorship, which lasted until 1990.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
New York Times
Washington Post
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