Assassination of General Schneider

[Brad De Long]

>It must be remebered that general  Arturo Schneider,  the former
>commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army, was kidnapped and murdered by
>unknown criminals as early as 1969 for refusing to lead against a coup
>against Salvador Allende  _before_  he was inaugurated.

I thought that General Schneider had been assassinated by soldiers working
for ex-General Roberto Viaux and General Camilo Valenzuela, whom Richard
Helms at the CIA--ordered by Nixon to prevent Allende's presidency by any
means whatever--had shipped weapons to and bribed in the belief that if
Schnedier were "removed" the Chilean military might stage a coup before
Allende's inauguration...

Brad DeLong