This is CBS Eye on the World with John Batchler. Here's John Batchler.

September 1973, 50 years, and a memory of a coup in Santiago Chile that darkens the

conversation these 50 years later in Chile, and also as a reason to review the U.S. and

its America's neighbors, because all of the events around September 11, 1973 are endlessly

debated, helped by release of classified documents all these decades later by the United States

with more to come. To help me on this is a Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War

College Strategic Studies Institute. This is not an old story. This is as fresh as the

memories of the people in Chile right now who were debating what to make of the coup and

what to make of what came after the coup, a general named Pinochet, whose reputation

was scarred by brutality. But these days, because we're many generations later, there's

reason to believe it's a case not unlike that of Stalin. I was told one time the taxi drivers

in Moscow, this is before the troubles in Ukraine, well before, back in the 20th century.

Taxi drivers had a picture of Stalin on their front because he was strong. Stalin was

strong indeed, that's correct, but a scar on Russia, as Pinochet has been understood

to be a scar on Chile. Professor, a very good evening to you. My memories of Chile are

exact. I'm old enough to remember those events and how they played in the New York Times,

which was my source of information at the time, pre-internet, pre-i-phone. There wasn't

constant news coming. You knew what was on the front page of the Times the next morning.

We know now that Richard Nixon then president of the United States and Henry Kissinger is

national security advisor. At this time, he was also the secretary of state is my memory

that we're looking at a involvement, a profound involvement, that the president followed daily.

What is important to remember about this from the U.S. point of view before we turn to

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