JACK ANDERSON STORY RE: ITT AND CHILE

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2002
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: March 21, 1972
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SUBJECT : JACK ANDERSON
STORY RE ITT AND CHILE
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1. WASHINGTON POST CORRESPONDENT LEW DIUGUID INFORMED US OF
JACK ANDERSON STORY LAST NIGHT, AND I WAS ADVISED OF IT IN MIDDLE
OF AIR FORCE RE CE PT I ON .ATTE NDED BY. PRESIDENT ALLE NDE. D OM
AND I CONCLUDED IT WOULD BE ADVISABLE T O TELL PRESIDENT ALLENDE
ABOUT IT m PARTICULARLY AS AIR FORCE CEREMONIES TODAY WITH
PRESIDENT AND CSAF RYAN IN ATTENDANCE MIGHT BE MARRED BY SOME
ILL-CONSIDERED PUBLIC REACTION BY ALLENDE. I DID ADVISE PRESIDENT
ALLENDE OF ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF ANDERSON COLUMN AS I KNEW THEM,
POINTING OUT THAT THIS MAY WELL HAVE BEEN SPILL-OVER FROM DOMESTIC
POLITICAL ISSUE,! INVOLVING ITT, KLEINDIENST CONFIRMATION AND JACK
ANDERSON ALLE GATIONS IN THAT CONTEXT,. ALLE NDE TOLD ME HE WAS
FAMILIAR WITH US DOMESTIC ISSUE INVOLVING ITT, AND'WAS
INITIALLY UNDERSTANDINS. IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN. HOW HE WILL
REACT WHEN HE GETS FULL FORCE OF ANDERSON COLUMNS AND FEELS
CHILEAN IMPACT SUMMARY ACCOUNT OF FIRST ANDERSON ST CRY
BROKE IN LLT IMA HORA THIS AFTERNOON UNDER BANNER HEADLINE.
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By JOY ASCHRNBACH
Star Staff Writer
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a Wit: r, ene?aa. TTT was
"ready to see anyone or do
anything possible," one paper
stated.
Anderson, whose syndicated
columns late last month set off
the investigation into ITT's
links with the Republican con-
vention, yesterday published a
soi,,m,, caving that ITT "ma-
neuvered at the highest level
to stop 'the' 1970 election of
leftist" Allende.
ITT immediately denied that
it has ever "intervened or in-
terfered in the internal affairs
of Chile in any way," contend-
ing that it "has been-and con-
tinues to be-a good corporate
citizen in Chile...."- ThCIA
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