Newly declassified transcripts provide new evidence that the U.S. helped orchestrate the 1973 coup in Chile where Augusto Pinochet seized power from the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Shortly after the coup Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told President Nixon “The newspapers are bleeding because a pro-Communist government has been overthrown.” Kissinger then added that he and Nixon would have been heroes in “the Eisenhower period.” Nixon replied “Our hand doesn’t show on this one, though.” Then Kissinger said “We didn’t do it. I mean we helped them.”