U.S. ACTS TO DELETE DATA IN ITT TRIAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000030004-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2011
• Sequence Number: 4
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s to Delete Data in ITT Trial
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Opening a perjury trial yesterday
against an official of the International
Telephone R Telegraph. Corp., federal
prosecutors acted to steer clear of
areas involving certain contacts with
the Central Intelligence Agency and .a.
high Chilean government official.
Robert Berrellez is one of two ITT
employes who have been charged with
lying to a Senate Foreign Relations
subcommittee during its 1973 probe
into alleged involvement in Chile's
1970 presidential election by ITT and
the CIA.
As the trial opened, U.S. District
Court Judge Aubrey Robinson
granted federal prosecutors perrnis- rity, another ITT official, were ac-
Sion to delete from the formal charges cused of lying under oath when they
references to separate meetings be. testified they did not know that ITT,
tween ITT official Harold V. Hendrix, fearing the expropriation of its prop.
.
a CIA official and former _ Chilean erties in Chile, had aided political
newspaper executive Hernan Cubillos. foes of Salvador Allende, a Marxist
Hendrix is an unindicted coconspi- who was assassinated in a coup after
rator in the Berrellez case. Cubillos is his election as Chile's president.
now Chile's foreign minister. Helms was fined $2,000 and given a
A jury was quickly selected to try suspended two-year jail term. Justice
Berrellez, who in .1970 was an K'T Department officials said a mitigating
public relations official in South factor was his oath not to reveal intel-
America. The charges against him are ligence sources or methods.
similar to those to which former CIA Gerrity will be tried later.
director Richard Helms was allowed
to plead no contest a year ago.
Helms, Berrellez and Edward J. Ger-
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