JFK BEGAN CHILE BRIBES ENVOY SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000030095-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 95
• Publication Date: November 28, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/08/05: CIA-RDP09T00207R001000030095-8
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N U.S.. interference in ChileariJ
Fy J;?~ ;; s politics went so.[ar that Dungao'
Copy ishC397o~y'1'aeKexs=JouraalCo. ",
suggested Frei name a Chriatian;
Under direct orders ?rom Presi-.
eats ' .Kenaady, . 'chnson . and'
:ixcn:-the Unitacl States govern-
with multina-
ient, in partners! .
onsl. corporations and' at times
to rC^thel;c'C Lurch, spent' ?mil-
ons of d ".12::: br!;^!ng Chilean
ificials and noliticai parties.
:, I1L:.`.LV.;-IL l?VLILIT-UJ ALa" LULL." charges are "ot g at]. apparent.
David Rockefeller, . chairman'.af :critr_inai nature," according to Al-!
Chase -Manhattan Bank; to start ?fred L. Hantman, chief of general
the Business Group for Latitj l crimes in the Justice Depart--l
America and this group. of .key ; ment's criminal division.
TT;ese allegations and others by Corry contends that "a deal"
;dward~M. Corry, U.S._ am bassa-4ihand in hand with covert action was made within the Senate coin-
_- programs: in Chile durin the
dor to Chile from 1967 to_ 1971, are i Kennedy, ? Johnson - and Nixon mittee between Chairman. Frank
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being examined by the Justice De Presidencies. Church, D-Idaho, and Vice Chair-partment for possible perjury and -Tcras. Under. n fraud by high U.S. and corporate;: ;Allende The t;over accepted ed nt of bribes from such uch
Salvadore m;thean John alleged Tower, deal, JZItorr. says,
officials who appeared before the companies as International Tile-. Church and the 'liberals on the?~i
Sena-.e Select Committee on Intel-=. l committee agreed to-give only' a
phone . and' 1'eiegr-p.t, . General
multi
tsL ?ece:.t. :. ; .r~s a_.... ?~ a.._., -, Tire, Cerro' Copper and Anglo- superficial look. at the CIA,
national .'corporations . and the
Corry s charges were confirmed Lautaro Nitrate Mines to prevent Kennedy assassination if Towcr~
in part ley.: former` top-ranking;': expropriation by the Chilean gov- Kennedy
the conservatives did not'push"
diplomatic officials : and in State- ernment. The Marxist Allende, for a full probe info the illegal ac-.
Department cables, Central Intel- elected in 1970; died an; apparent Lions of Presidents Kcrineay -and
ligence -' Agency'' documents, and'.. suicide after his overthrow in 1973.
? ' ? ITT "defrauded the U.S. ov- Johnson.
oilier government files''e2amined g
by the Sunday News Journal, ernment out of $99 miilion by eel- Church flatly denies this
In a series' of interviews at his ' Iecting Insurance-- after paying !_- :"There' was no deal 6r under
Briarcliff ,Manor; : N.Y., home? bribes to Allende officials, in di- = standing between myself and Sen.
iiorry said he had fold the Justice ,:rect violation of the Overseas Pri- Tower or anyone else to withhold
Department' and had testified"?in .ovate ? Investment ? Organization ' information involv:ng Presidents
secret before the intelligence-coin-'. insurance . policy ITT collected Kennedy, Johnson or Nixon."
mitteethat ~of; from theU:S. government." Church told the Sunday News
1 Under direct orders the late. 0 Even today the military junta : Journal.. "In fact, the covert ac- ?
Robert -F; Kennedy;' `tens of irfl running Chile has upper-echelon -Lion report treats extensively -the
lions of dollars in CIA and Agency'. civilians accepting bribes from :intervention during the adminisr,.!
for:. International'Development ; ? multinationals on a continuing; tritions of ill three prcSidenls." :S?.
funds .were funnel'
d into Jesuit-basis.
led Catholic groiips in'order to - i l The Senate Select Committee Korry disagrees that an effort
fight "layicism (sic),'. Protestan= on Intelligence "covered up these was made to get all the facts.
tism and Communism; and to as- ;crimes and lied to the American He points out the Church com-
sist in : the election of ? President' people in order to protect the mittee issued its report on the
Kennedy-supported: candidates in a: memories of-Presidents Kennedy `Kennedy assassination on Nov. 14,
Chile."~ t~r.s:;~j. :~?