CENSORED MATTER IN BOOK ABOUT C.I.A. SAID TO HAVE RELATED CHILE ACTIVITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000030023-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2011
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: September 11, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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I `Don't forget." the source
a'few months before the Marx.-;added, ?`the whole idea in the
ist ieada?~yon Lhey;Presidential
election. ininetean sixties was what we
called 'nation building'- and it
Kissinger Silent worked. Frei would have won
' Thus far Secretary of State~re-election easily."
+Kissinger has refused to coin-~ "It's a shame their Constitu-
Iment publicly on the report c'.tion prevented his re-election,"
Ipuhlished Sunciav that the Cen-;the source added. Under Chil-
(tral Intelligence Agency, acting lean law, Mr. Frei. could not he
at the specific direction of thew candidate for re-election in
;Nixon Administration, was au- 1970.
lthorized to spend more than!. According to another ?-~il-'
loft-million between 1970 and:informed source who recei~~ed
1973 in an effort to make itl~~The C.LA. and the Cult of ln-
:mpossible for President Al-itelligence" before it was cen-
~lende to govern. The Allcndc~sored, a somewhat similar
iGovernment w?as overthrown account of the decision to in-
~last September in a militar}?tervene in Chile was presented
coup d'etat in which the Chile-ithe two authors, Victor Mar-
~an leader died. Ichetti, a former C.LA, official
Shortly after the coup, A1r,jand John D. Marks, a former
Kissinger told the Senate For-(State Department intelligence
eirn Relations Committee that analyst.
the C.LA. had nothing to dot The C.LA. later censored a
with the coup to the best of;Part of the book in which, a
~my knowledge and belief." Oth_isource said, the C.LA. was de-
der Government officials, in thcir~p'cted as having been divided
)appearances before Congres-!about. the proposals to invest
sional committees, have gone funds seFretl-y against Mr. Al-
further, insisting that the Ad_~lende. Officials at C.LA. head-
Iministration followed a polic~?~Quarters were said by Mr. Mar-
. iof nonintervention toward the)
Allende regime.
Mr. Kissinger has been de-I
scribed by a number of officials!
I~~ YvKli ['11Y1~J, WC~I~UG~LIAY, t'. dtf1;K 11, 1974
~sin~_er,~ho warms then sere- ut it?-"much more passive;
nl""g"as advtsP,iT,~4ti`onal se- P t aFi i~-~:,orir- :t^eac:-
y ~..P.>1~.~~lal't~M ~ than you'd think" from the ~ ~una ,iasLS,apR>Q~ -
curif`"to Pres published newspaper accounts.'a, o tts ve re ~er~
NixiSn'" "We were just trying to bail ~ nc ude 'sir. Kissinger.
"""'I don't,,:.5ge,~yj~,?need out people who were under thejthe Central Ir.te:iigence Direc-
to sfahd ~ and watch a coun- gun from Allende and his sup-;tor, the chai;~nan of the Joint
t o , olx~,uuis~'~u to, the porters," one well-informed~Chiefs of Staf'? the Deputy Sec-
rresC'~1LtX~p,~~~n P.eO- source said. retary of Statr- for Political Af-
p~' -~ Most Backed Frei ifairs, Mr. Anderson said. '
'dc _ord'n ~ ?~hg boo Mr. ! Alt 40 Comm;ace ~o.*a
Kiser mad. the ~comme'nt Most of those who were ~ _
-TT-~- ,aided, the source added, had mus~ _e,_gpA,~S1Y~~ br the~e_.
~ ~ ee c~reta"4~ C~iimm ttee,t'~heen supporters of the former den.'f"_Te~I ~.r~~j,G,?,,,;?u into ef-
the ii~`?Fi`-1"e~rerzevt>:w panel that~President, Eduardo Frei Mon ifect, Mr. ~nderson.saia.
ources sal a ok s chap- tinned in interviews today that'.., rl,~r sr,~nt-on, ^r,ub;ic:~,..an4.-ti,e
ter on ~ e beg~aM?-~thelthe C.LA.'s efforts against Mr.~c'h;lPan issue hr did authorize
After a lengthy battle in, He told the newsmen them. Mr. Korrv, c~^;ac:ed todz?:
Federal Courts, over prior cen-~~We are taking a close look at at his home-ir, Rr.a-c.:ff A'fanc
sorship, the 434-page book wasithe situation. It is not one in `, Y., declare^ ti,a: he ~s~.~
published in June by Alfred A.jwhich our capacity for influ-,standing by iris te~;iraom? lay:
Knopf with blank space where~ence is very great.' wear to a Senate subcommiaec
168 passages were deleted.( According to still-classified'in which he stated that ti-,r
Much of the chapter dealing~House testimony lasx April by~United States mair.[ained a po!-
with Chile, titled "the Glandes- the Director of Central Inteili-)icy of noninten~ention toward
tine theory", was heavily cen- gence William E. Colby, the in-ithe Allende Goy e*nm~nt.
Bored in that manner. telligence agency was author-~ "I'm not duckirc anybody o~:
Damage Feared ized by the 40 Committee to this," Mr. Korn. said.-"I stand
spend $500,000 in 1970 to head!on all the statertents I have
The C.I.A. had argued that off Mr. Allende's popular elec-!given." He adder that he had
those delitions and 177 other lion, and was later rovided,
passages it unsuccessfully P sent a lengthy letter to Ti~~
sought to censor would "cause with $350,000 to bribe members. New York Times explaining his:
grave and irreparable damage~of the Chilean Congress who position and said he would pre-
to the U.S." if published. nonetheless voted in October to fer not to cor-.rnen. further
As initial) wri en ~1elratify the election. pending receip, o: the letter.
A number of officials eau-i Alt13t1uQCi.~+Lr...iiicc n _r_1-+as
~Censor~ed 1V~att~er in Book About C.I.A.
Said t~~ave Related Chile Acti~~ities
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B-y SEYMOUR M. HERSH ,alar?rned in the Nl~ton Adminis- chetti and A4r. Mari:c to be cn? -
SprdelloThrAr~rYorkTlmrR itration about Mr. Allende's rise~cerned because ~t the possibil~.-
1 WASHINGTON, Sept. IO -'to power. ;ty that a sudden spurt is
'The Central Intelligence i 'St a background meeting with spending against Mr. ANende
newsmen in Chicago on Sept.'would be traceable to Was`-.-
Agency, citing national secur-i16, 1970, shortly after the elec- ington.
ity, censored the first priared;tion of Mr. Allende, Mr. Kis- In addition, r:?e source Sal'
account of some of the agency'ssinger declared that "an Allende the original '.'archetti-Mari:s
clandestine activities against take-over in Chile would present manuscript described what v: a:
President Salvadore Allende massive problems for us, and depicted as ~~rious disp~:e
iGossens of Chile from a re-!indeed to the whole Western ever the Ch ~:_.n t.?,iicy b-
Gently published expos@ of the~Hemisphere. tween Edward '?'. lorry, w~,-.
intelligence establishment,! If the Chilean Congress were sen?ed as Amb