WAS FORD CONNED ON CHILE?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000020061-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 61
• Publication Date: September 20, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON--The di;clL,,we that
the Central Intelligvncer A~_e;-~:y fi-
nanced the series of ,,rikes that pre-
ceded the overthrow of President Al-
1 `Writ: irn Chile nut to ma:e Gerald
Ford hide iii, face. I"Sthet he has b;: alt
conned by the C.I.A. into rr,',' 1 i l;is-
leadin; the American p ople and giv-
ing his approval to into latin:il gang-
slcri,nl, or he did it on his own,
Mr. Ford, confirmin -, at. his recent
news conference that the C.I.A. had
carried out covert oceiauc ns in Chile,
sugn'";trd that, it happened "three or
four ye rs a^o" ;anti lint it war lv ralY
an aft( ,t,nt. t0 s.i t tile lwc,,rrvatioll
of opposition tuvvsliai,~s and elec-
tronic media and to preserve opno>i-
tion polilic_l patties."
The facts are that the Allende Gov-
ernn'ent did not Irv, as Mr. Ford
Clio, t.;c;~i h ch U, to ?. o r t,. t ion
nesss m dia . . . and to dcrtroy 0'-,p0-
cition p?,litical parties," 'fi'e parties
colit.itttcti to function throughout tic
Allende regime. No Gov'ctrrment cen-
sorship of the press was established,
A rite-day shutdown of an opposition
paper, I"I Mercurio, was t:mtle poSSibie
by a libel law p used i i the previous
regin, of Eduardo I rc i, who was sup-
portet c Cr:
in the t 1 i'\l per,, for . cooper-a-
t.r ; '5 h r n sod
tn)r!~rali0t: trtci c? :',i. r~IGtl
of the intercols of other
It T (,l 1bly tell; Us ti--' G -"!!J F aI
l 1 ~: sc'd a b ll o! 1?
C LA. ,,'" that t, e d P
C I ! irl r, sit?io,s in t 1 o, ) t,
pert eras cl in foreign ifta, tto t
iit,uh
ia'?,ud..tcCl by the at Lis
tan,, sling to i, case aria?;
staudul Ttc!icies
I'u, , -an i isti,7cUvc ha`.,lt :.
;tr~ ~v!thi, s?id what tlrcy v.? sled }Mini
to 5; r i;t their' bt st litter t >t,
And that tells us further t'rtt if the
vvr z s of the C.I.A. 'ire t I ,p, c'r}red
env ni? t of , and if X71 }v ,?ngor's
rr , 1 ?ibilit}" for the rr
in Chile is to li- (:n;l-
^;'e5S v.'i!1 ilave to Clo it, 1`:tali to i;Ci;i
from the, White House,
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