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Marchers for Allende

Photograph showing a crowd of people marching to support the election of Salvador Allende for president in Santiago, Chile.

Memo from Mr. Martin to Under Secretary Concerning A Contingency Plan for Brazil (18855): 12/12/1963

This document is a memo describing possible US responses to varying changes to the Goulart Regime in Brazil. It outlines what those changes may be,…

No left turn

Cartoon shows newly inaugurated Brazilian president Joao Belchior Marques Goulart in the saddle of a horse labeled "Brazil." The left rein is…

NSC, Telcon, Kissinger Discussion with Nixon on the coup in Chile, September 16, 1973

In their first substantive conversation following the military coup in Chile, Kissinger and Nixon discuss the U.S. role in the overthrow of Allende…

Khrushchev expresses outrage at Kennedy’s establishment of quarantine in Cuba.

OIR Contribution to NIE 100-6-57: Nuclear Weapons Production by Fourth Countries - Likelihood and Consequences [Brazil Section]

This recently declassified, lengthy report was INR's contribution to the first National Intelligence Estimate on the nuclear proliferation, NIE…

ORPA Guerilla

ORPA soldiers holding AK-47s

President John F. Kennedy is informed of the Cuban Missile Crisis

President John F. Kennedy (at right, in rocking chair) meets with United States Air Force (USAF) officers who took part in aerial photo-reconnaissance…

Prisoners of Brigade 2506 guarded by Cuban Fidelistas

Prisoners of Brigade 2506 guarded by Cuban Fidelistas after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion.