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the CIA with intelligence crucial to planning the coup, including specifying armed forces officers and government officials who would be allies in orchestrating it. After the meeting, Edwards stayed in
Washington for several days where he shared more intelligence with the CIA, and as evidence suggests, may have even met with President Nixon.
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provide further details about this meeting, the first and only known meeting between a
Chilean (civilian or military) and a United States CIA Director. According to these records, during this meeting Edwards pushed for a U.S.-led, preemptive coup to block the inauguration of Allende. He also provided
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Edwards' former and current employees, exposed serious cases of disinformation in Edwards publications from the 1960s onwards. Since the overthrow of Pinochet's military dictatorship, a number of journalists have attempted to have Edwards indicted for crimes related to his alleged
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Edwards has been active in philanthropic and civil society organizations in Chile throughout his career as publisher. He founded the Paz
Ciudadana Foundation, a civil society organization that fights against drugs and violent crime. Among other organizations he was part of are
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in London, after which he returned to Chile to join El
Mercurio SAP, where he worked in the international section before becoming an assistant editor. Soon after, Edwards, also became involved in several of the family's companies, including one of the oldest banks in Chile,
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in 2000, Edwards defended himself by saying "I honestly think that we always try to simply report what happened. However, there may be serious limitations that cannot be overcome by any means." In April 2015, he was expelled from the
Chilean Order of Journalists
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Edwards' passion for landscaping and gardens, has been brought to life not only in the two private islands he owned (one in the south of Chile and another in Maine), but also through his collaboration with famed landscape architect,
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Edwards was married to María Luisa del Río Fernández, and they have six children: Agustín, Isabel, Carolina, Cristián, André, and Felipe. One of his sisters, Sonia, was a supporter of
Allende and the
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approved three covert payments totalling approximately US$ 2,000,000 to
Edwards so he would use his media empire to help destabilise Chile's democratic process. In the days and years following the
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Edwards was a lifelong dedicated yachtsman, having owned many yachts during his lifetime, and known for having built one of the most celebrated "superyachts", named
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breaches of journalistic ethics and documented payments from the Central Intelligence Agency. In an interview in
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detailing the crimes of the Pinochet dictatorship was released in February 1991 did
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