dealing with Allende post-Track II failure, the US government went ahead with the ‘Covert Operation Program for Chile’, which was a series of political and psychological warfare tactics aimed at creating disdain and opposition for Allende. The five points to this plan were as follows: Political action to divide and weaken the Allende coalition; Maintaining and enlarging contacts in the Chilean military; Providing support to non-Marxist opposition political groups and parties; Assisting certain periodicals and using other media outlets in Chile which can speak out against the Allende government; and Using selected media outlets to play up Allende’s subversion of the democratic process and involvement by Cuba and the Soviet Union in Chile. Revelations from declassified documents Among the revelations in the formerly secret documents were the following: Handwritten notes, taken by CIA director Richard Helms, record the orders of President Richard Nixon, to foster a coup in Chile In the first meeting between Helms and high agency officials on the secret operations codenamed "FUBELT", a special task force under the supervision of CIA Deputy Director for Plans, Thomas Karamessines, is established, headed by veteran agent David Atlee Phillips. The memorandum notes that the CIA must prepare an action plan for National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger within 48 hours. Henry Kissinger, Thomas Karamessines and Alexander Haig (military assistant to Henry Kissinger), in a meeting on October 15, 1970, discuss promoting a coup in Chile, known as "Track II" of covert operations. Kissinger orders the CIA to "continue keeping the pressure on every Allende weak spot in sight. In a secret cable, Thomas Karamessines conveyed Kissinger's orders to CIA station chief in Santiago, Henry Hecksher: "It is firm and continuing policy that Allende be overthrown by a coup." The CIA ran a series of secret operations intended to push President Eduardo Frei Montalva to support "a military coup which would prevent Allende from taking office on 3 November." After Salvador Allende's election, the United States considered trying to get Chile expelled from the Organization of American States. Embassy officers and the State Department Policy Planning office called for the cutting off of economic and military assistance to Pinochet's government on human rights grounds, but were overruled by the Ambassador and officials of The Pentagon and Treasury Department. Repercussions to declassification Many of the CIA documents recounting the events of this operation were released on 11 September 1998. Following this, on 10