TRIAL OF ITT OFFICIAL WON'T INVOLVE CONTRACTS WITH CIA, CHILE AIDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000030003-9
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• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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? ~ WALL STREET JOURNAL
Trial o f I T T O f ficial
Won't Involve Contacts
With CIA, Chile Aide
'WASHINGTON (AP)-opening a perjury I
hial against an official of the International
Telephone & Telegraph Corp., federal purse-
cutors acted to st er clear of areas involving
certain contacts with the Central InteIli-
gence Agency and a high official of the gov-
' ernment of Chile.
The official, Robert Berrellez, is one of
two ITT employes who have been charged
with lying to a Senate ;,om.r-itt2e during a
197;! probe ,into alleged involvement in
Chile's 1970 presidenrial elections by ITT
and the CIA.. ~ ~.. , ' ,
As the trial opened, DisMct Judge Au-
brey Robinson granted federal prosecutors
permission to delete from the formal
charges references to separate meetings be?
tween ITT official Harold Hendrix, a CIA of-
ficial and farmer?Chilean newspaper execu-
tive Hernan Cubillos. Mr. Hendrix is an un-
indicted coconspiratat in the Berrellez case.
f Mr. CubWos currently is Chile's foreign
minister.
~ Mr. Berrellez and Edward J. Gerrity, an-
other ITT official; were accused of lying un-
der aath when they testified they didn't
Imew that ITT, fear'r. g the expropriation c2
its properties in Chile, had aided political
foes of Salvador Allende, a Marxist who was
assassinated in a coup after his election as
ChJle's president. Mr. Gerrity will be Med
later. _ . , ;. ..: _ .
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