HELMS ACCUSED OF LYING TO SENATE

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• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
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BALTIMORE SUN
helms accused of lying to Senate
Washington (NYT)-The ll
staff of a Senate Foreign R.ela-i
tions subcommittee has recom-
mended that contempt of Con
gress charges be placed
against Richard M. Tlelms,i
former director of the Central;
(Intelligence Agency, and threei,
retired Nixon administration
officials because of their al-I
egedly misleading Senate tes-
timony on Chile last year,
highly reliable congressional;
sources said yesterday.
They said that, besides Mr.I
Helms, a report by the sub-
committee staff cited Charles
A. Meyer, former assislant se-
cretary of state for inter-A-
inerican affairs-,. Edwin M.
Korry, ambassador to Chile
from 197 to 1971, and William
C. Brow, former director of
clandestine activities for the
CIA in Latin America.
Mr. Helms, Mr. Meyer and
John M. Hennessy, former as-
sistant secretary of the trea-
sury for international affairs,
the report said, might have
conimiticed perjury in their
testimony before the subcom-
mittee on multinational corpo-
rations in the cprir,g of 1973.
No; )e of the men named in
the subcommittee report could
he Immediately reached for
comment.
The staff report, written by
Jerome I. Levinson, chief
counsel of thc subcommittee,
was prepared last week at the
request of Senator Frank
Church (D., Idaho), chairman
of the subcommittee.
Details of Mr.Levinson's re-
port, which was distributed to
subcommittee members over
the weekend, were provided by
,a senator's office.'
At issue is the discrepancy
between the testimony pre-
sented to the subcommittee last
year about the clandestine role
of the CIA in Chile and recent
news reports indicating that
the agency had been authorized
to spend more than $ million
from 1970 to 1973 In a covert
attempt to make it imnossible
for the Chilean president, Sa-
vador Allende Gossens, to gov-
ern.
In addition, sources said, the
subcommittee staff report'
cited Mr. Hennessy's sworn
testimony that the Nixon ad-
ministration's economic sanc-
tions against Chile were based
exclusively on its lower credit
rating after Dr. Allende's
election.
It was reported Sunday that
Henry A. Kissinger, as Presi-
dent Nixon's adviser for na-
tional security affairs, had per-
sonally headed an interagency
panel that decided shortly
after Dr. Allende's election in
lfr7O !o attempt to cut off all
economic aid and international)
credits.
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