Pinochet was named the commander of the Chilean Army. He was not a minister in the government and had no position in the constitutional line of presidential succession.
...except that Frei had been endorsing the military's intervention against Allende since at least two months BEFORE Pinochet was even named commander in chief.
Perhaps you don't understand that calling for Allende's arrest (as you have so often mentioned) is very different than calling for an unconstitutional coup. The conditions were very different after the coup. Any pretense of a de jure constitutional life was erased by the coup and Pinochet's rule by decree could not be challenged as Allende's had been.
Much to the contrary. The junta was nothing more than a temporary governing structure established to fill the absence of functioning constitutional government caused by Allende.
Much to the contrary, the junta abolished the constitution upon seizing power. Frei's role in 1976 had no effect on his statements in October 1973.
You have yet to produce evidence of that. In fact all existing evidence is to the contrary. Frei is on record calling for the military to depose Allende several months before the coup.
This is very different than calling for a junta to unconstitutionally seize control of the country. Either Frei was calling for Allende's arrest based on the CoD's allegations of presidential crimes or he was calling for a military coup. If the latter, Frei was also an enemy of the constitution.
Except that the Commander in Chief could qualify as head of the military department.
Perhaps you don't understand that calling for Allende's arrest (as you have so often mentioned) is very different than calling for an unconstitutional coup.
Not if Allende resists arrest and orders his thugs to fire back.
The conditions were very different after the coup.
Yeah. There was no Allende.