U.S. ACTS TO DELETE DATA IN ITT TRIAL

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2011
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US. Acts to Delete
Associated Press
Opening a perjury trial yesterday
against an official of the International
Telephone & 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
do a Senate Fa, eiga Relation:;
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 permis-
sion to delete from the formal charges
references to separate meetings be-
tween ITT official Harold V. Hendrix,
a CIA official and former, Chilean
newspaper executive Hernan Cubillos.
Hendrix -is an unindicted coconspi-
rator in the Berrellez 'case. Cubillos is
now Chile's foreign minister.
A jury was quickly selected to try
Berrellez, who in 1970 was ai. I.T
public relations official in South
America. The charges against him are
similar to those to which former CIA
director Richard Helms was allowed
to plead no contest a year ago.
Helms. Berrellez and Edward J. Ger-
Tri .
rity, another ITT official. were ac-
cused of lying under oath when they
testified they did not know that ITT,
fearing the expropriation of its prop-.
erties in Chile, had aided political
foes of Salvador Allende, a Marxist
who was assassinated in a coup after
his election as Chile's president.
Helms was fined $2,000 and given a
suspended two-year jail term. Justice
Departmcn` officials said a mitigating
factor was his oath not to reveal Intel-
ligence sources or methods.
Gerrity will be tried later.
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