BRING OUT CIA DATA OR DROP CASE, U.S. TOLD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2011
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Washington (AP)-The perjury prose-
cution of Robert 13errellez, a corporation
executive, came to au atrupt halt yes`.er?~
day when a federal judge gave the govern-
ment six days to decide which it wants
more, a trial or the protection of Central
Intelligence Agency secrets.
The judge, Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr., of
the District Court, dismissed the jury of
four men and eight wome~~ and gave fed-
eral prosecutors until Monday to decide
whether to go forward with the case. "
14ir. 13errellez, a 58-year-old public af-
fairs officer and expert on I:atin America
for the International Telephone & Tele"
graph Company, is accused of lying to a
Senate panel about attempts by I. T. T.
and the CIA to stop Salvador Allende, a
Marxist, from becoming president of Chile
iu 1y70.
The government is charging that the
corporation and the intelligence agency
conspired to give false testimony about
their activities in Ghile.
The iBerrellez case is one of a series in
which the government has been faced with
the delicate choice of going ahead with a
prosecution while running the risk of dis-
closing secrets of intelligence gathering
and covert activities.
Moaday, for example, the Justice De-
partment won permission to remove three
acts from the conspiracy count of its
charges against Tvlr. Eerrellez.
One involved a meeting between an un-
indicted co-conspirator in the case and
llernan Cubillos, a former Chillean news-
paperexecutive who is now Chile's foreign
mtnlster.
Earlier the government excised a num-
ber of the counts in ,a perjury charge
against another I. T. T. executive, also nn
grounis that presenting public testimony
about them would expose national securi-
tysecrets.
Last year a public perjury trial of Ri-
chard M. Helms, a former CIA director,
was averted when he was permitted to
plead no contest to a reduced charge of
failing to tell the whole truth to a Senats
Foreign Relations subcommittee investi-
gating the conduct of U.S. multinational
corporations.
Again the case revolved around testi-
monyabout the CIA, I. T. T. and the Chile-
an elections, bir. Helms was subsequently
fined 52,000 and atwo-year prison term
was suspended.
In a separate but related development
yesterday, federal J~dg~ Barrington Par?
ker refused for the second time to accept
a Justice Department plea-bargaining
.agreement with the Westinghouse Electric
Corporation to settle an overseas bribery
charge without identifying the country or
official allegedly bribed.
- Judge Parker acted after reviewing se-
cret information on the case. Westing-
house had agreed to plead guilty and pay a
x300,000 fine on 30 counts of making false
statements to U.S. agencies that financed
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