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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000020058-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: September 20, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON Sec
.retaiy of State Henry A.
Kissinger said- Thursday
that-'the Central- Intel-
1igence - Agency operated
covertly- in Chile- to:, head
off "one -.party . govern-
.ment," but not to'-.."destroy
' or "subvert" the regime of
the late Chilean President
Salvador Allende-,
::'Declaring that=Allende, a
:Marxist, had "moved - to
throttle all. opposition." af-
ter he gained: office1n'1972
with: a plurality,- of. only
37%? of the popular vote,
Kissinger told they Senate
Foreign ' Relations-, Com
mittee. that -the -,U.S.. aim
j was "to keep in,.being the'.
(political) parties that con-
tested the election.",, . _
"Our concern-was with
the' election of 1976 and
not at all about the coup
occurred in 1973,"
that
i Kissinger said in ieference?
to the military revolt in
which Allende died.
The question of the CIA
role in Chile was.raised by
Sen. Frank Church (D-
Ida), despite the.objec-
tions of chairman J. Ful-
bright (D-Ark.) 'that . the
issue had no place. In a
hearing designed to elicit,
Kissinger's views on the
progress of U.S.-Soviet de-
tente.
T h e committee, F u 1-
bright noted, agreed Tues--_
j day to conduct;. hearings
on the Chilean matter fol-
lowing completion of staff
documents bearing -on
compilation of charges
that high officials, includ-
ing Kissinger. misled Con-
gress on the CIA role in
Chile.
Church was undeterred.
and hissing@r responded
guardedly to his questions
until Fiibright cut him
off.` '
hissinger'c 'other testi-
monv included these
-That he expects.: an
ag reement on .Jewish
emigration. from Russia to
be concluded "in the near
future." It should, he said,
"significantly diminish the
obstacles''.'. to emigration
and ease. the hardship.of
p r o spective- emigrants. -
He' said.. that attempts-to
force #.uh er -concessions:
by trade- sanctions would:.'
be futile and warned that.
"a' renewal of the cold war
will hardly. encourage the
LOS ANGELES TDIES
20 Sep. 1974
covert CIA operations.
House Speaker Carl- Al- ,
best said it dealt.primarily
with CIA activities in
Chile, for which expendi-
ture of over $8 million was
authorized between 1970
and 1973.Th'e?White
House 'said-,,-the meeting
c o v e,r a d:--:th e.: range of
covert CIA. activities. .
Later -in the. day, Sens..
Low
ll P Wei
ke
(R
e
c
r
-
Soviet Union to change its, Conn:), and Howard H.
emigration': p o 1 i c i e s, or Baker (R Tenintro-
adopt a more benevolent,---, duced, legislation to create
attitude toward dissent"- -
-That the United States a joint Senate-House tom-
deliberately : entered 'the : puttee to -oversee CIA I
second phase of the arms operations:
limitation talks at Geneva
Wednesday without stat- Kissinger told t h e
ing a hard position.-He Foreign Relations Com-
said he intends to discuss m i t t e e that President
the U.S. proposals with -Ford was prepared to
Soviet leaders when he vi- work with Congress to
sits Moscow next month - develop procedures to in-
because S o v-i e t leaders crease the CIA's presently
prefer to deal with vital - -tenuous accountability to
issues directly at the high-. Congress, but he did not
est level. comment directly on the
proposal.
-That --the effortto Church raised the ques-
achieve a,- 10-year agree- tion of Chile after a.pre-
m e n t on limitation 'Or' liminary observation that
strategic weapons in the a totally pragmatic foreign
so-called SALT 2 talks is policy can become "utterly
planned weapons deploy- that Chile is not a nuclear
ments and" make it pos- power, he asked Kissinger
sible to set ceilings on how he could justify a not-
weapons that will amake icy of "unfettered inter-
future reductions "a real- vention in Chile designed
istic objective." to stabilize a government
-That he enjoys an "ex- that had been freely elect-
tremely constructive'' re- ed~issinhQer began with Secretary l gan a -en-
of Defense James R. Schle- eral discussion of covert
singer, despite reports to operations of the United
the contrary. Their differ- States, observing that he
ences, he said. are "in em- could not be specific in
phasis . . . but not in pia- public testimony.
tosnohv "
Kissinger came before
the F o r e i g n Relations
Committee after a White
House meeting at r:'r.ich
he and President ',~-nrd
briefed congressional lead-
ers of both parties on
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