CIA-CHILE LINK: HENRY ACCUSED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000020113-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 113
• Publication Date: September 13, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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13 S EP 1974
CU-Chile. Lick: Henry Accused
By JEFFREY ANTEVIL
Washington, Sept. 12 (News Bureau)-The Central
Intelligence Agency came under the congressional spot
light today with an unprecedented public conference and
charges by two Democratic lawmakers that Secretary of,
State Kissinger and top State Department officials lied to',
Congress about CIA involvement in the overthrow of l
Marxist President Salvador Allende of Chile.
In separate appearances, Sen.
Rep. Michael J. Harrington (D-
Mass.) called for a public explan-
ation by Kissinger of his testi-
mony last year that to the best
of his knowledge, "the CIA had
nothing to do with the coup" that
resulted in Allende's overthrow
and death a year ago.
Both lawmakers noted that, ac-
cording to secret testimony by
CIA Director William Colby that
recently became public, an $11
million covert operation to "de-
stabilize" Allende's regime was
approved by the NO Committee,"
a shadowy interdepartmental
group chaired by Kissinger.
Harrington c a 11 e d o n the
chairmen of the Senate and
House committees dealing with
foreign policy to "transmit to
the Justice Department for per-
jury" action the testimony of
State Department officials who,
he said, had made statements UPI Telephoto
"which, if not outright lies, are Daniel Ellsberg at conference
at least evasions of the truth." _ on the CIA yesterday.
Accusation Indirect rificed democracy in the interest
Harrington did not accuse Kis- of stability.
singer by name of perjury, but Colby is scheduled to make a
he referred to the secretary in rare public appearance tomorrow
the preceding paragraph of his before the conference, sponsored
letter, calling him "the author by an arm of the privately fi-
of the policy toward Chile." He I nanced Fund for Peace.
also signled out Deputy Assistant In highlights of today's testi-
Secretary Harry Shlaudeman, mony:
No. 2 man in the U.S. Embassy ? Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of
th
in Chile from 1969-1973, whose e Pentagon papers, said an
"invisible government," including
House testimony last June was the CIA, exercises "sovereign and
in conflict with Colby's state- domestic powers" through te 40-
anti-Allende
activ.S.itiesfudning for committee outside congressional
activities. control.
The secret Colby testimony In ? Former CIA official Victor
April of this year became public j Marchetti, co-author of a con-
knowledge when Harrington's troversial new book about the
letters, summarizing it for the agency, declared that its osten-
sible of two congressional col- sible mission of "saving the
leagues, leaked to the press. world for democracy in fact is
Hart, in an opening statement nothing more than propping up
a two-day conference on the corrupt dictators who couldn't
CIA, said there was an "apparent stay in power five days without
contradiction" between Kissing- the CIA."
er's testimony that he knew of ? Rogers Morris. an official
no CIA involvement in the Chi- of the Carnegie Endowment for
lean coup and the fact that he International Peace, detailed five
"presumably chaired sessions of case studies of CIA involvement
the 40 Committee at which the in Latin America, Africa and
ongoing Chilean intervention was Asia in the 1960s and charged
approved." that the agency "left untouched
"It is a little difficult to un- the substantial human misery in
derstand how the CIA had 'noth- all five countries and in varying
ing' with the overthrow of a gov- degrees added the burden of
ernment it had been so actively political repression."
. c ddn,g to 'destabilize for three l ? Author David Wise said "the
yenis," Mart said. I CIA operates its own air force
The conference co-chaired by and, at times, its own army and
Hart and Sen. Edward W. Brooke navy" and that it conducts secret
R-P,1ass.), broght forth a parade political operations around the
of fortnea-government officials globe, including attempted o~er-
and iiUtho}s- ~vho-eh god-?tlaxt -t row of 910A1ec?nrnenta-0 in-rrnirlt
tie cllA, through its covert ac- the target, national leaders are
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