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

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000030081-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2011
• Sequence Number: 81
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Trial o f I TT Official
ti~on't Involve Contacts
with CIA, Chile Aide
'WASHINGTON (AP)-Opening a perjury
trial against an official of the International
Telephone & Telegraph Corp., federal purse-
cutors acted to st er clear of azeas invGlving '
certain contacts with the Central Intelli-
Bence 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 '
v~th lying to a Senate committee during a
19T'.i probe ,into alleged involvemen' in
Chile's 1970 presidential 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 CL4 of?
ficial and former~Chilean newspaper execu-
tive Hernan Cubillos. bin. Hendrix is an un? ,
indicted coconspirator in the Berrellez case.
i bin. CubWos currently is Chile's fcreign
minister.
Mr. Berr811ez and Edward J. Gerrity, an-
other ITT official; were accused cf lyin; un-
der oath when they testified thay didn't
lm~w that ITT. fear'r.g the expropriation cf
its properties in Ch'.le, had aided politiu~:
foes of Salvador Aliende, a D3andst who was
assassinated th a coup after his election as
Chile's president. Mr. Gerrity will be Med I
later. _ ~. .. _. .
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