 No security breach was detected and details of the affair were ordered classified by Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, leaking only in 1987 during Barnes' tenure in Chile.Although the American government, in particular Henry Kissinger, had supported the rise of dictator Augusto Pinochet, by 1985 the Chilean opposition started to campaign against extending his rule.Barnes supported the ultimately successful effort, angering Pinochet, who called him "Dirty Harry," and advising the dictator that, "The ills of democracy can be cured only with more democracy."