Kristian Gustafson??'s Hostile Intent reexamines one of the most controversial chapters in U.S. intelligence history, the Central Intelligence Agency??'s covert operations in Chile from 1964 to 1974. At the request of successive U.S. presidents, the CIA in conjunction with the State Department and the Defense Intelligence Agency first acted to prevent Chilean socialist Salvador Allende from becoming the democratically elected president of his country and then tried to undermine his government once he was in office. Allende??'s government eventually fell in a bloody military...