‘Roman’s Circuit’s’ Escala Humana Prepping CIA Drama Series ‘Golpe’ (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Anna Marie de la Fuente Chile-based Escala Humana Prods., led by Sebastián Brahm and Che Sandoval, is developing an ambitious English-language series titled “Golpe” about a little-known story behind the CIA’s involvement in the fall of Chile’s first Socialist president, Salvador Allende.

Intended for a U.S. audience and based on declassified U.S. government documents, the first season of the historical crime drama series, titled “The Abduction of a Commander-in-Chief,” will dramatize the CIA’s covert attempt to trigger a coup before Marxist candidate Salvador Allende assumes power in 1970 Chile and a CIA officer’s initial instinct to undermine it. “It pits traditional corporate interest in U.S.

interventionism against the ultra-liberal disciples of Milton Friedman that would later run the show, to whom the chaos of a communist regime was a necessary step before full-scale privatization; Chile was a global test case and ‘Golpe’ will tell the story,” said Brahm, adding that he reviewed the entire declassified [communication] traffic for that year and “put the sequence together, fictionalizing on top of a very detailed reconstructed chronology spanning from Sept 4, 1970 to Nov 4, 1970.” “In the traffic, the CIA Station Chief Henry D.

Hecksher, repeatedly voices his concerns about the operation, but in the end, he complies,” he added. “Hecksher was not doing it out of a sense of humanity but because he was persuaded by his ultra-liberal Chilean acquaintances who orbited around his friend, informant and El Mercurio newspaper owner Agustin Edwards that it was best to let Allende wreck the economy and use the backlash to take over and change the entire economic system,” he noted.