Another account of CIA activity in Chile, however, states that during this period 1970–1973 the CIA worked diligently to propagandize the military into countenancing a "coup", e.g., the CIA supported and cultivated rightists in the formerly "constitutionally minded" army to start thinking 'outside the box', i.e., to consider a "coup d'etat". Thus, writes author Tim Weiner, while not per se orchestrating the 1973 "coup", the CIA worked for years, employing economic and other means, to seduce the army into doing so. Allende's own actions may have caused relations with his army to become uneasy. The CIA sowed "political and economic chaos in Chile" which set the stage for a successful "coup", Weiner concludes. Hence, Helms's careful parsing appears off the mark. Yet views and opinions differ, e.g., Kissinger contests, what William Colby in part acknowledges.