 Karamessines has also been implicated in the plot against General Rene Schneider, the commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army who refused to support a coup against Allende.The CIA, purportedly intending only a kidnapping and "not" a murder, provided weapons and money to the group that carried out the operation, but General Schneider was shot during the attempt and died in a hospital three days later.The operation's failure backfired badly, rallying both the people of Chile and its military in support of Allende.