A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE.

UNITED States. Central Intelligence Agency; TRUMAN, Harry S., 1884-1972; INTELLIGENCE service; ALLENDE Gossens, Salvador, 1908-1973; PINOCHET Ugarte, Augusto, 1915-2006

The author asserts that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), created by President Harry S. Truman to gather and collate intelligence, has veered far from its purpose by becoming a non-accountable secretive organization. Topics include a brief history of CIA's formation, the reasons for the difficulty of documenting its covert operations and its activities in Latin America such as its role in the removal of elected President Salvador Allende in Chile in favour of Augusto Pinochet.