COURT WON'T KILL INDICTMENTS OF 2 ITT OFFICIALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000030076-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: August 22, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHINGTON POST
ARTICLE APPEARED 22 August 1978
ON PACE-A-11
Court Won't Kill
Indictments of
2 ITT Officials
U.S. District Court Judge Aubrey E.
Robinson Jr. yesterday denied defense
motions to dismiss the indictments of
two International Telephone and Tele-
graph Corp. officials accused of lying
in a 1873 Senate hearing. '"""?
, The, action followed an unexpected
government move last Friday toward
dismissing three- of the six felony
charges against one of the defendants,
Edward J. Gerrity Jr., an ITT senior
vice president, rather than risk disclo-
sure of classified information.
Gerrity and Robert Berrellez, an
ITT public relations official, are
charged with lying about the corpora- I
tion's financing of opponents of Marx
ist Salvador Allende in Chile in 1570. I
It was later disclosed that ITT and
the Central me `gence Agency had
worked together to op ose Allen e
who won the presidential election but
later di in a coup. .
Berrellez's trial has been set for,
Oct. 23, with rr 's in December.
Lawyers for both have indicated the
will i e additional motions see ne
"discovery" of CIA documents rele-
vant to the events in Chile.
A Justice Department official famil-
iar with the cases said yesterday that
the department has no plans now to
drop- the cases, against Gerritys ands
Berrellez. ? :.... _ ; ..a i; J'T Iltet ;L;.; .31
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