The evidence of US culpability in the destruction of democracy in Chile could not be more clear and undeniable. The disclosure of memos from the CIA, National Security Agency and other official sources points incontrovertibly --despite the lengthy catalogue of blatant denials by Henry Kissinger and many others--toward the US's central role in the coup. The documents speaking coldly of an "accretion of arsenic" has established without a doubt that the US decisionmakers had determined that a coup must take place, set the coup in motion, recruited leading actors, and bribed the media.