NEW 'BEARD MEMOS' CITED

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000030101-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 101
• Publication Date: March 21, 1972
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE EVENING STAR
21 March 1972
ew
Iy WBERT WALTERS
OW JOY ASCHENBACH
Star Staff writers
10 & bizarre turn of events,
thy.-*ow appear to be at
>Meft*ee interoffice memos
written by Mrs.
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publican National
on.
ated newspaper col-
eusatst Jack Anderson says he
her Otis authentic memo. ITT
.AI*J 0ted late yesterday aft-
ewiwer what it described as
do 'genuine" memo. But
MI Ward's former secretary
s neither of those matches.
*A tent of the memo she
ftsWtyping last year.
A]t$arly this morning, an
okesman said the com-
aa"UT* Mvo wa-
regl s msacary sad acknowl-
edging that a third memo ap-
parently is involved in the
growing controversy.
But there's a problem with
that: ITT says the third memo
cannot be found.
Anderson's document is a
June 25, 1971, memo Mrs.
Beard is said to have written
to William R. Merriam, ITT
vice' president in charge of the
corporation's Washington of-
fice.
A Link
That memo, written on the
stationery used by the ITT
Washington office, links the
Justice Department's decision
last year to abandon prosecu-
tion of three antitrust cases
against ITT with a concurrent
corporation decision to con-
tribute up to $400,000 to the
1972 GOP convention in San
Diego.
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from that decumeat oe 11%. 21
touched off a continuing dis-
pute which led to a three-
week-long inquiry on the part
of the Senate Judiciary Com-
mittee and to the indefinite
postponement of Senate action
on President Nixon's nomina-
tion of Deputy Atty. Gen.
Richard G. Kleindienst to be
attorney general.
Mrs. Beard, hospitalized in
Denver while recovering from
a heart ailment, last Friday
issued a statement through
her attorney in which she disa-
vowed the Anderson memo
and described it as a "fraud,"
a "hoax," and a "forgery."
Her disavowel came almost
three weeks after publication
of the document by Anderson
and only a week ate'
disavowed some of itst~,i
tions. C' .'~.}"
Yesterday afternMw;_
Judiciary Committee. aer
terials - a press
three affidavits and
memo attributed
Beard - designed t
discredit Anderson's
The press release
the so-called Beard
See ITT, PI -
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dum of Anderson was a
fraud." The company state-
ment also referred three times
to the newly disclosed Beard
memo as the "genuine" one.
"The various affidavits also
contain important other evi-
dence indicating that the An-
derson memorandum is
false," the press release add-
ed.
However, two of those three
affidavits contained evidence
which appeared to challenge
the authenticity of the compa-
ny's "genuine" memo.
That memo, like Anderson's
document, was dated June 25,
1971, written on ITT Washing-
ton office letterhead and said
to have been sent from Mrs.
Beard to Merriam. But unlike
Anderson's memo, the ITT-
disclosed document appeared
to be principally a description
of Mrs. Beard's responsibili-
ties as ITT's lobbyist.
The one-page memo re-
leased by ITT contained no
mention of the then - pending
antitrust litigation and only
one reference to the compa-
ny's involvement in planning
for the GOP convention:
"The negotiations for the '72
convention being held on ITT
properties in San Diego have
been wholly my (Mrs.
Beard's) responsibility. If this
possibility becomes fact, it ob-
viously means unbuyable pub-
licity for ITT."
Secretary's Statement
One of the sworn statements
distributed by the company
was from Mrs. Susan Licht-
man, who said that she
worked in ITT's Washington
office from May 24 through
about July 14 -last year. "My
principal responsibility," her
affidavit said, "was to provide
secretarial assistance to Mrs.
Beard."
Mrs. Lichtman, now living
in Toronto, said: "I do recall
typing, during my employ-
ment, a memorandum having
to do wish the Sok Dkp Caa-
vaaliea." Ass a "it ooatio-
-United Press Inter"
California Secretary of State Edmund G
Brown Jr. announces the filing of a suit to
Los Angeles charging that the controversipl
ITT contribution to the Republican NationW1
Convention violates federal law. He is seeking
an injunction to block it.
ai
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and ls4a*iia?irI M ad
copy of a memorandum u ted
June 9b, 1971, and do net rec-
ognize it (Anderson's version
of the memo) as a memoran-
dum which I typed ... I am
sure that had I typed (it), I
would have remembered the
sentences which I have brack-
eted and initialed,' because of
the implications contained In
them.
Mrs. Lichtman said she
could orandum recall t~
a mem
some of the passages" in three
paragraphs o f Anderson's
memo, but she also insisted
that the document she typed
did not contain the two most
incriminating portions of An-
derson's memo.
One of those passages said
ITT's "noble commitment" of
Republican convention support
"has gone a long way toward
our negotiations on the merg-
ers eventually coming out as
Hal (ITT President Harold S.
Geneen) wants them."
The other passage Mrs.
Lichtman could not recall typ-
ing said that if the convention
pledge "gets too much publici-
ty, you can be sure our nego-
tiations with Justice will wind
up shot down. (Then Atty.
Gen. John N.) Mitchell is defi-
nitely helping us, but cannot
let it be known."
Remembers Sentence
Among portions of the memo
which Mrs. Lichtman said she
did remember typing >eas a
sentence which said: "Other
than permitting John Mitchell,
Ed Reinecke, Bob Haldeman
and Nixon (besides Wilson, of
course), no one has to know
from whom that $400,000 com-
mitment had come."
Reinecke is leiutenant gov-
ernor of California, Haldeman
is one of Nixon's principal
aides and Wilson is Rep. Bob
Wilson, R-Calif., whose House
district includes San Diego.
In telephone interviews with
newsmen and Senate aides,
Mrs. Lichtman said she re-
called typing that sentence "in
general" although "not word
for word."
Similarly, Mrs. Lichtman re-
membered typing a sentence
which read: "John Mitchell
has certainly kept it (the con-
vention negotiations) on the
higher level only, we should be
able to do the same."
Mitchell, in .testimony before
the Judiciary Committee earli-
er this month, denied having
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memo and made no references
to the ITT-distributed memo
described by the company as
the "genuine" one, an ITT
spokesman reluctantly retract-
ed the "genuine" claim.
"The memo that she recalls
writing we do not have,'? said
Bernard Goodrich, an ITT
public relations official based
in Washington. Asked if that
meant the company still was
missing the "real" memo
written by Mrs. Beard, he re-
plied,: "We certainly are."
The second affidavit re-
leased by the company was
that of Russell J. Tagliareni,
an ITT security officer who
said he met with Mrs. Licht-
man on March 2 to discuss her
part in the preparation of the
documents. "I made nb>g
or promises of con ration'o[
any kind," Tam #W.
"She gave me he state~s?nt
as to the facts vo "
Tagliareni x~ '
Lichtman as saying she
"would have reacted" to the
incriminating passages linking
the antitrust litigation with the
convention financing "because
of the moral implications in-
volved."
no tall i
by PIT w that of Merriam,
veto days ,alit
the ssw . AZ' s 1ais1
earlier told the Senate com-
mittee that many of the c u-
ments in the company's Whsh-
ington office had been me-
chanically shredded, but Good-
rich said the new memo was
"found in a New York file."
Brown Sues %
In related developments in
the ITT controversy:
? Edmund G. Brown Jr., Cal-
ifornia's secretary of state,
filed a civil suit in U.S. Dis-
trict Court in Los Angeles al-
leging that the ITT was violat-
ing the federal Corrupt Prac-
tices Act by making a contri-
bution to the Republican con-
vention.
? Senate Republican Leader
Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania,
who solicited Mrs. Beard's dis-
avowal of the Anderson memo
last Friday, said he would not
vouch for the accuracy of the
lobbyist's renunciation. "I
doll _, +?>roliar Wis.
am IrslinMR wiY-dol d
fees. The law firm said, how-
ever, that it was acting "solely
as her independent unsel
without any direction from
ITT whatsoever."
? Anderson, who gave the
original copy of his Beard
memo to the Senate Commit-
tee, accused the committee of
committing an "extreme im-
propriety" by turning over
that document to the Justice
Department, which the news-
man said "can hardly be con-
sidered a neutral party in this
matter."
The original Beard memo
was turned over to Justice so
that it can be subjected to FBI
analysis for authenticity, ac-
cording to John H. Holloman,
staff director of the Judiciary
Committee.
Anderson diei ry aw~ 1
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the document immediately,
especially, he said, in view of
the fact that its authenticity
has now been challenged.
? Anderson published a col-
umn he said was based on
"secret (ITT) documents
which escaped shredding."
Anderson said that the docu-
ments show the company
"maneuvered at the highest
level to stop the 1970 election
of leftist Chilean President
Salvador Allende."
The documents reveal, he
said, that ITT had regular
dealings with the Central In-
telligence Agency and "at
one point considered trigger-
ing a military coup to head off
Allende's election."
ITT officials and William V.
Broe, then director of the
CIA's Latin American divi-
sion, "were plotting together
to create economic chaos in
Chile, hoping this would cause
the Chilean army to pull a
coup that would block Allende
from coming to power," ac-
cording to Anderson.
Details of the plot were out-
lined, he said, in a confidential
Telex message, dated Sept. 29,
1970, to ITT President Geneen
from Edward J. Gerrity, an
ITT senior vice president.
ITT director John McCone,
former head of the CIA, also
played a role in the plan, An-
derson said, and received a .
program report in a ooatiden-
tial me", from Merriam an
Oct. 9, 1970.
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and what he called "hard
drugs" such as heroin.
He also stressed the distinc-
tion between drug users, who
should be treated with sympa-
thy and compassion and given
treatment aimed at rehabilita-
tion, he said, and those who
profit from drug traffic.
At Kennedy Airport, Nixon
inspected customs procedures
in checking the baggage of in-
coming air travelers. Earlier
he conferred with federal,
state and city officials on oth-
er phases of law enforcement.
He was briefed on a program
setting up 12 special narcotics
courts in New York City under
a $7.5 million federal grant.
Assistance Promised
He promised that money will
be available to the extent that
it can help in meeting the
problem of dangerous drugs.
The bill he signs into law
today sets upon a permanent
basis the special action office
for drug -abuse prevention
which has been operating
since last June 17 under an
executive order. Dr. Jerome
Jaffe heads the office.
After his return to Washing-
ton in mid-afternoon yester-
day, Nixon met with his cabi-
net committee on international
narcotics control, reviewing
tie ca AW intaenatiee+e~i
caoprat s. I skit a the ap
ply at heroin and other din-
ja['0" a 0 "S fouft.
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