A presidential election was held in Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

 on September 4, 1964. Christian Democratic candidate Eduardo Frei Montalva

Eduardo Frei Montalva

Eduardo Frei Montalva was a Chilean political leader of world stature. In his long political career, he was Minister of Public Works, president of his Christian Democratic Party, senator, President of the Senate, and president of Chile from 1964 to 1970...

 won the election by an absolute majority.

The Church Committee

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 of the U.S Senate

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 in 1975 revealed that the Central Intelligence Agency

Central Intelligence Agency

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 (CIA) interfered substantially with the election to prevent the accession of Marxist

Marxism

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 Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende Gossens was a Chilean physician and politician who is generally considered the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in Latin America....

. The CIA secretly funded more than half of Frei's campaign

United States intervention in Chile

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 and supported an array of pro-Christian Democratic groups. Two other political parties were funded as well in an attempt to spread the vote. The CIA's assistance to Frei took the form of polling, voter registration and get out the vote

Get out the vote

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 drives, in addition to covert propaganda

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.

Results

Candidate	Party/Coalition	Votes	%
Eduardo Frei Montalva Eduardo Frei Montalva Eduardo Frei Montalva was a Chilean political leader of world stature. In his long political career, he was Minister of Public Works, president of his Christian Democratic Party, senator, President of the Senate, and president of Chile from 1964 to 1970...	Christian Democrat Party Christian Democrat Party of Chile The Christian Democratic Party is a political party in Chile and governs as part of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy coalition. In the 2009 election it won 19 congress seats and 9 senate seats....	1,409,012	56.09%
Salvador Allende Gossens Salvador Allende Salvador Allende Gossens was a Chilean physician and politician who is generally considered the first democratically elected Marxist to become president of a country in Latin America....	Popular Action Front	977,902	38.93%
Julio Durán	Democratic Front Frente Democrático Frente Democrático may refer to:* Democratic Front of Chile* Democratic Front...	125,233	4.99%
spoilt vote Spoilt vote 'Bold text'In voting, a ballot is considered to be spoilt, spoiled, void, null, informal or stray if it is regarded by the election authorities to be invalid and thus not included in the tally during vote counting. This may be done accidentally or deliberately... s		18,550
Total		2,512,147	100%