Chile, the CIA and the Cold War: a transatlantic perspective

Reinterprets Chile and southern South America's Cold War experience from a transatlantic perspective

James Lockhart blends Chilean, inter-American and transatlantic national, regional and world-historical trends into a century-long Cold War narrative. He argues that Chileans made their own history as highly engaged internationalists while reassessing American and other foreign-directed intelligence, surveillance and secret warfare operations in Chile and southern South America. The book thus transcends a well-known, US-centred historiography while offering a more equitable and global interpretation of Chile's Cold War experience than previously possible. This advances research that has progressively expanded the framework of Chile's Cold War since the arrest of Gen. Augusto Pinochet in the UK for human rights violations more than 20 years ago.