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COVERT ACTION IN CHILE 1963-1973

94th Congress 1st Session COMMITTEE PRINT
COVERT ACTION IN CHILE 1963-1973
Staff Report of the Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities
UNITED STATES SENATE
December 18, 1975
Printed for the use of the Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities
US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 63-372
Washington: 1975

Note: Since the December 4, 1975 hearing the Select Committee has, in the course of its continuing investigation received new information which supplements the following sections of the Staff Report on Covert Action in Chile: Section III.A.4, the Role of Multinational Corporations; Section IV.B.1.e, Intelligence Estimates and Covert Action; and Section IV.C, Congressional Oversight. All pertinent information on the above will be reflected in the Select Committee's Final Report to the Senate.


SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

FRANCK CHURCH, Idaho, Chairman

JOHN G. TOWER,

Roberto Thieme

Chilean political activist (1942–2023)

Roberto Thieme

Thieme in 1973

In office
10 April 1971 – 24 February 1973
Succeeded byBenjamín Matte Guzmán
Born

Walter Robert Thieme Schiersand


(1942-11-16)16 November 1942
Santiago, Chile
Died1 October 2023(2023-10-01) (aged 80)
Spouse

Lucía Pinochet

(m. 1992⁠–⁠1994)​

Not to be confused with Robert Thieme.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Thieme and the second or maternal family name is Schiersand.

Walter Robert Thieme Schiersand (16 November 1942 – 1 October 2023) was a Chilean furniture maker, painter, and politician. He gained notoriety by becoming one of the highest leaders of the Fatherland and Liberty Nationalist Front, an organization strongly opposed to the government of Salvador Allende through violent means, often resorting to worker riots. After the 1973 Chilean coup d'état and instalment of the subsequent military junta, he went through a major ideological ch

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