JACK ANDERSON INTERVIEW WITH CHILEAN TELEVISION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74B00415R000300020011-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 2001
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 27, 1972
• Content Type: OPEN

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SELECT FOR THE DCI
SUBJECT: JACK ANDERSON INTERVIEW WITH CHILEAN TELEVISION
SOURCE : FBIS 05
DTG 0223Z 27 MARCH 72
DISTO : DCI, DDCI, EX/DIR, DCI/IC., USIB/SIGINT, DDI (2), D/OCI (5),
1 , C/OPSCEN, INDIGO, D/OSI, D/OSR, RAD, DDS&T VIA
D/OSI, CSDO, D/ONE, COMIREX, C/IRS, PRES, DDS, CSS, S/SP,
SAVA, CRS/ADD/SS, SDO, ADDED:
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JACK ANDERSON INTERVIEW WITH CHILEAN TELEVISION REPORTED
C270011 HAVANA PRENSA LATINA IN SPANISH 2218 GMT 26 MAR 72 C
(TEXT) SANTIAGO CHILE, 26 MAR--THE CHILEAN 'NATIONAL. TELEVISION
SERVICE HAS INTERVIEWED U.S. JOURNALIST JACK ANDERSON IN THE
UNITED STATES, AND HE HAS DISCLOSED NEW DETAILS OF HIS RESOUNDING
DENUNCIATION OF THE PLOT AGAINST THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT MOUNTED
BY THE U.S. CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.
THE INTERVIEW WILL BE TRANSMITTED TONIGHT ON A SPECIAL PROGRAM
FREPARED BY THE PRESS DEPARTMENT OF THE STATE TELEVISION CHANNEL
UDDER THE DIRECTION OF JOURNALIST MIGUEL VARAS.
PRENSA LATINA HEREWITH, IN ADVANCE, CARRIES THE SALIENT PORTIONS
OF THE INTERVIEW:
(.)UESTIO I) MR ANDERSON, HOW LONG DID, YOU HAVE THE DOCUMENTS
IN YOUR POSSESSION THAT YOU MADE PUBLIC?
(ANSWER) I BELIEVE ABOUT 3 WEEKS. I HAVE BEEN CAREFULLY
VERIFYING THEM....WE DO NOT LIKE TO DISTRIBUTE MEMORANDUMS UNTIL
WE HAVE. VERIFIED THEM IN ALL PARTICULARS, MOREOVER, I HAVE TALKED
WITH EVERY PERSON INVOLVED.
(QUESTION) AS IN THE PREVIOUS CASE, DO YOU EXPECT THE
ITT TO SAY THEY ARE FRAUDULENT OR A FORGERY? (PRENSA LATINA
EDITORIAL NOTE; THIS REFERS TO THE JOURNALIST'S FIRST
DENUNCIATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE $4009000 THE ITT GAVE THE
PUBLICAN PARTY)
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(ANSWER) THE MEMORANDUMS IN THAT CASE WERE NOT FRAUDULENT,
AND NEITHER ARE THESE...I BELIEVE THAT NOTWITHSTANDING HOW MANY
DOCUMENTS THEY DIG UP OR MIRACULOUSLY PRODUCE THEY STILL WILL
NOT CHANGE THE FACTS NOR SWAY THE PUBLIC.
C. STION) DID ANY OTHER COMPANY JOIN IN THE PLOT TO STIR UP
ICON IC CHAOS IN CHILE?
(*$SWER) WE HAVE ON HAND MEMORANDUMS, WHICH WE ARE GOING TO
PUBLISH* THAT DEMONSTRATE THAT THE ITT WAS VERY IRKED WITH OTHER
d 4PAN aIES--FORD, GENERAL MOTORS, AND OTHERS--WHICH THEY TRIED
TO CRUIT INTO THIS CAMPAIGN TO RUIN CHILE'S ECONOMY GOAD THE.
MIL .TRY TO ACT AND TO ESTABLISH A DICTATORSHIP THERBY
iLCHING THE ELECTION. THAT WAS TO BE THE GENE}AL STRATEGY,
NW9 ACCORDING TO THE MEMORANDUMS, THEY TALKED WITH OTHER COMPANIES,
BUT GOT NO COOPERATION....
(QUESTION) WOULD YOU SAY IT IS AN HABITUAL PRACTICE FOR BIG
U .S. OVERSEAS COMPANIES TO HAVE CONTACTS WITH THE CIA?
(ANSWER) I WOULD NOT CALL IT A HABITUAL PRACTICE, BUT THE ITT
IS NOT THE ONLY ONE TO HAVE SUCH CONTACTS. THE OIL COMPANIES
DO-STANDARD OIL, FOR INSTANCE. WE HAVE DISCOVERED. INSTANCES IN
THE MIDDLE EAST IN WHICH THESE COMPANIES WORK WITH THE CIA.
?9C+S TiE) IIITEING INFLDENTiALUA TH GSTILVLS.
WOULD YOU SAY THE ITT EXERTS MORE INFLUENCE THAN OTHER BIG COMPANIES?
(ANSWER) I WOULD SAY IT HAS TWICE THE INFLUENCE. THE ITT
IS ALWAYS AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN A NUMBER OF GOVERNMENTS TRYING
TO INFLUENCE POLICY FOR ITS OWN BENEFIT.
(QUESTION) MR ANDERSON, IN YOUR COLUMN YOU STATE THAT FORMER
CIA DIRECTOR JOHN MCCONE PLAYED A ROLE IN WHAT YOU CALLED THE
ITT-CIA PLOT. DO YOU WANT TO SAY THAT MCCONE WAS QNE OF THE
FL[IENCES IN, THE ITT-CIA CONTACT?
(ANSWER) THIS IS THEs~. WAY IT APPEARS IN THE MEMORANDUM.
THE ITT IS A VERIABLE NAT ION, A GIGANTIC CONGLOMERATION OF
INTERESTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. 7HE ITT IS LIKE THE BRITISH
EMPIRE WAS: THE SUN NEVER SETS'"ON ITS DOMAINS. IT THEREFORE
HAS DEVELOPED TOP-LEVEL CONTACTS WITH ALL GOVERNMENTS THROUGHOUT
HE WORLD. IT HAS ITS OWN SECURITY APPARATUS. THESE TOP-LEVEL
.NT CTS ARE FOUND OR HAVE BEEN FOUND ON THE ITT PAYROLL--NOT AT
TM! PRESENT TIME, BUT THERE HAVE BEEN CASES--A FORMER UN SECRETARY
WHEAL, A FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF BELGIUM, HIGH. DIGNITARIES OF
SEVERAL EUROPEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES. AND, AMONG THESE,
THE FORMER DIRECTOR OF OUR CIA.... THIS SHOWS HOW THIS GIGANTIC
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FLOT. I SHOUL NOTE THAT THE CIA HAS ITS OWN IDEAS AND THAT Ii
CONTRIBUTED THEM IN THE PLOT TO ATTEMPT TO BLOCK THE ELECT IO;11 OF
SALVADOR ALLENDE IN CHILE.
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(U',JESf ION) BUT itEGArd)IN3 THE COINCEPT OF CARRYING OUT A COUP
IN CHILE, WHO MADE THE FIRST CONTACT, THE ITT OR THE CIA...?
(ANSWER) THIS IS NOT ENTIRELY CLEAR, BUT MY IMPRESSION IS
THAT IT WAS THE ITT. BUT OF COURSE, THE PLOT TO RUIN CHILE'S
ECONOMY, THE POINT BY POINT DETAILS OF HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT
CAME -FROM THE CIA--FROM THEIR MAN BROWL WHO DIRECTS CLANDESTINE
ACTIVITIES IN LATIN AMERICA. NEVERTHELiSS9 BOTH WERE WORKING HAND
IN HAND TO INTERVENE IN CHILE'S DOMESTIC POLICY.... AND THIS IS
CONTRARY TO OUR OWN POLICY. WE HAVE TOLD THE COUNTRIES OF THE
WORLD THAT WE ARE NOT GOING TO INTERFERE IN THEIR ELECTIONS;
BY THE SAME TOKEN, WE WOULD NOT LIKE CHILE TO INTERFERE IN OUR.
UPCOMING NOVEMBER ELECTIONS.
SO THERE YOU HAVE IT: THE ITT' THAT GIGANTIC COMPANY, THAT
"COUNTRY" CORPORATION, TO PROTECT ITS INVESTMENTS IN CHILE WOULD
GO SO FAR AS TO WORK JOINTLY WITH OUR GOVERNMENT--UNDER THE UTMOST
SECRECY--AAND ALSO ENLIST OUR CIA IN A PLOT TO SAVE ITS INVESTMENTS.
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