You realize the $450k is next to nothing at the level of nation states, right? That was something like ten man years of engineer time. That's a rounding error as far as these states are concerned.
And them refusing to play Pinochet's government says more that they don't like a brutal fascist (surprise surprise) than any support for Allende.
Re:Project Cybersyn
by 29athrowaway on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @02:04AM
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$450,000 1970 dollars are $3 million 2020 dollars.
And in 1970 Chile you could do a lot with today's equivalent of $3,000,000.
And everything else you said is pretty much pretentious nonsense.
If you want to join a personality cult, at least follow someone worth following not a failed alcoholic communist sponsored by the KGB.
I bet Allende met Stafford Beer by accident while looking for beer.
Mitrokhin worked 30 years for the KGB and defected to the UK in 1992, bringing a collection of notes now known as the Mitrokhin archive. These notes contain the facts I am mentioning.
Some of the funds sent to Allende were raised by KGB director Yuri Andropov himself, the guy that then went to become the 6th paramount leader of the Soviet Union.
After Allende was overthrown, the Soviet Union refused to play Chile in the 1974 FIFA World Cup for political reasons.
The KGB directly supported Allende, and Allende directly received help from them. It's well documented.