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S ET III. Covert Action Preceedin the 1970 Presidential Election (1970') ' The September 1970 presidential elections were 'pr eceeded 'by many months of intensive politicking to determine who the candidates woul d be. Mr. Jorge Al essandri emerg'ed as the candidate of' the Center-Right, and Mr. Radomiro Tomic for the Christian Democrats. By early 1970, All ende again emerged as the candidate of the Popular Unity forces Ig. March 1970 the 40 Committee decided that the U. S. should not support either of 'the candidates opposing All ende but that spoiling operations should .be undertaken against the Popular Unity '(UP) electoral front, a coalition of Communists, Socialists and other leftists supporting Al 1 ende .In March 1970, the 40 Committee approved to support a propaganda mechanism During the campaign, incidents of violence became increasingly ' frequent; but Communist avowals of. disapproval of political viol ence were drowned-out by the din of explosives detonated by the extremist Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR) The visual impact of more than one hundred thousand posters remindfng the Chilean voter that a vote for Al1ende was a vote for viol ence, not to mention innumerable js S E ET/NNN~