CIA ACTIVITIES IN CHILE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000020048-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: September 21, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORTS, INC.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS STAFF
Special Report
September 21, 1974 1:45 PM
STATION WTOP Radio
Washington, D.C.
STAT
JIM BOHANAN: The Senate Foreign Relations Staff is looking
into whether former CIA and State Department officials should be investigated
for perjury for testimony given before that committee on possible U.S. intervention
into Chilean internal affairs.
With another in our special series of reports on this situation,
here's WTOP's Ernie Moye.
ERNIE MOYE: Under the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1939,
the CIA can spend money without regard to provisions of the law. There
is now a question as to how much, if any, of the $750 million authorized
budget was used to destabilize the Allende Government in Chile.
In 1970 testimony before a subcommittee of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, former CIA director John McCone testified he had been
told by then CIA director Richard Helms that the matter of whether the United
States would intervene in the Chilean elections was considered by the Forty
Committee, chaired by Henry Kissinger.
McCone testified that Helms told some minimal effort would be
mounted within the flexibility of the CIA's budget.
The current CIA director, William Colby, is believed to have
testified before a House subcommittee that the CIA spent some eight million
dollars to intervene in Chilean internal affairs.
The Senate Multinational Corporations Subcommittee Chairman,
Democratic Senator Frank Church, says his staff is looking into possible
conflicts between the Colby House testimony and testimony given before his
Committee.
SENATOR FRANK CHURCH: The earlier testimony was all to the
effect that the policy of the United States was one of noninterventionism,
at least from the time that the elections took place in which Allende won
the plurality of the vote.
We want to make certain that that sworn testimony was not given
in perjurred form. If we find evidence that there may have been perjury
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committed, we will turn it over to the Justice Department for appropriate
action.
MOPE: Senator Church says there will also be an investigation
into recent news leaks concerning Colby's secret Senate testimony indicating
the CIA spent up to eleven million dollars to intervene in Chilean affairs.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, Senator William
Fulbright, says his committee will decide within a week or so whether to
reopen hearings on CIA intervention in Chile.
This is Ernie Moye.
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