The objective of this article is to analyse the trajectories of the intellectuals who participated in the different instances in charge of legislating around the educational policy implemented during the Civil Military Dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet in Chile (1973-1990). The group of intellectuals analysed includes the Ministers of Education from the period 1973-1978, the Frigate Captains Eduardo Cabezon Contreras and Juan Enrique Froemel Andrade, as well as the civilian and military members of the Legislative Commissions related to the educational field. In methodological terms, the article adopts a historiographical approach built upon a wide variety of sources that provide information about the actors involved in the legislative process and their initiatives. Laws and decrees promulgated by the Civil Military Dictatorship were thus analysed, together with the minutes of the Military Government Junta that record the meetings for the legislative work in which the subjects here considered participated. The results show, on the one hand, the relevance acquired by military intellectuals in the first stage of the regime, as well as the early influence of the Chicago Boys in the ideological production on education of the Chilean Civil Military Dictatorship.