CHILE AND CUBA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000020119-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 119
• Publication Date: September 11, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
1 1 SEP 1974
Chile and Cuba
THE UNITED STATES has consistently denied using
the CIA to fight leftist Salvador Allende in Chile.
Yet, it now turns out, CIA director William E. Colby told
a House committee last April that: The CIA gave $3 mil-
lion to the Allende political opposition in 1964 and $500,-
000 more to "anti-Allende forces" in 1969. It authorized
$350,000 to-bribe the Chilean congress against him in
1970, the year he won. It contributed $5 million for
`'more destabilization efforts" in 1971-73 and $1.5 million
in by-elections in 1973. In August of that year, it author-
ized $1. million for "further political destabilization ac-
tivities." A coup ousted him, and he was killed, a year
ago today.
The Colby revelations do not answer once and for all
the question of whether, as the Latin left already be-
lieves, the United States destroyed Allende; some part
of his difficulties were of his own making. Nor do the
revelations demonstrate that the CIA had a direct hand
in the coup. They prove beyond dispute, however, that
the United States acted in a way to aggravate Mr. Al-
lende's problems, and played into the hands of those
who made the coup. We did so, moreover, deliberately:
According to Mr. Colby, the anti-Allende acts were not,
the work of a mindless uncontrolled agency but of a CIA
operating at the instructions of the appropriate White
House review panel, the "Forty Committee," headed by
Henry Kissinger.
Dr. Kissinger and President Nixon, one gathers, had
decided there were to be "no more Cubas": no more
.Marxist states in the western hemisphere. Any means,
apparently, would do. Would it not be better, Dr. Kissin-
ger was asked at his confirmation hearing as Secretary
of State a year ago, to take the CIA out of such
clandestine efforts as overturning Latin governments?
"There are certain types of these activities, difficult to
describe here," the Secretary-designate replied, "that it
would be dangerous to abolish."
This information comes to light now through the sur-
facing of a confidential letter from Rep. Michael Har-
rington (D-Mass.) to House Foreign Affairs Committee
Chairman Thomas E. Morgan (D-Pa.), in which Mr. Har-
rington asks for a deeper investigation. Dr. Morgan, like
his Senate counterpart, J. William Fulbright (D _Ark.),
has been reluctant to press such a probe. But it is laugh-
able for Congress to assert a larger foreign-policy role
if it is to shy away from this outrageous instance of
hemispheric realpolitik. Last year, for instance, the Sen-
ate Foreign Relations Committee's subcommittee on mul-
tinational corporations investigated charges that in 1970
ITT had sought to induce the CIA to block Allende. The
subcommittee found that the CIA had not followed ITT's
bidding. But now it turns out that-before, during and
after the ITT episode-the CIA was intervening in Chile-
an politics.
Since the 1960s, the United States has used its influ-
ence to keep Cuba a hemispheric pariah. And why?
A principal stated reason has been Cuba's ostensible
support of subversion in Latin America: putting guer-
rillas ashore here and there, sounding the revolutionary
trumpet, and the like. But whatever Cuba has allegedly
done in the past is peanuts next to what the United
States has admittedly done in Chile. To bar Cuba from
hemispheric society on the basis of a test we fail our-
selves is absurd.
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