COMMENTS(Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00380R000300100002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 12, 2005
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 11, 1973
• Content Type: MFR

25X1 Approved For Release 2005/11/21 : CIA-RDP75B0038OR000300100002-0
Next 1 Page(s) In Document Exempt
Approved For Release 2005/11/21 : CIA-RDP75B0038OR000300100002-0
 17A " T *- --T,
Approved For Release 2005/g1t,21;!,7,i 1 075B0038OR000300100002-0
~ Chile.WiH
By JEREMIAII O'LEARY No Witness List
Star-News Staff writer
.p.,li_ Arms ,,.point. -ta ana- Asked about the memo and
the Anderson column, Levin-
w ck when the Senate d senate Yo c ign xt son told The Star-News their
.ask when tee on was no evidence of ITT in-
volvemesubcona nt in the Chilean
, inultinatinnal corporations be- breakins. Hendrix, a Pulitzer
-gins Bearings on the allege Prize-winning reporter in Mi-
j qn, l_T lephpne K - ami in 1963, said he and other
Wapli Corp. plotting to inter- newsmen had known Sturgis in
-f.ere with the domestic polio-
_.aal affairs of Chile. early days of Fidel Castro's
.
The subcommittee, headed regime. Hendrix said he had
known Sturgis, a defector
by Sen. Frank C h u r c h, from the Castro air force, as
D-Idaho, will convene on "Frank Fiorini". He said he
March 20 and the hearings are has neither seen nor communi-
expected to last about two c a t e d with Sturgis-Fiorini
weeks. '1 e_ raw material, of since 1961.
U e . probe is explosive since it The subcommittee has not.
involves a Marxist govern- r Je lt5 witness list put
W at verbally hostile to the 1luumrlzly Chu_i anti Dex in-
rllhest States, one - n the wn would like to question_ Til-
icticst.of .the American con- liaM_ V, Broe, who was the
glamerates, the Central Intelli- CSA:.&.-Thin region director in
grace Agency, ' the White 19,7.9 .when the ITT allegedly
House, the State Department ,e4,Mpiced , with U.S. officials
tL1 controversial columnist r certain Chileans to blWk
,jack Anderson. .the. OW71oii o? Marxist Presi-
That the hearings will be (I@-PA-Salvador Allende.
conducted with bare knuckles It might also want testimo-
6 ray from Viron P. Vaky, thee,
nt on Feb
id
.
e
became ev
when subcommittee counsel National Security Council spe-
Jerome Levinson and a staff cialsist for Latin America and
assistant went to New York to now ambassador to Costa
interview ITT executives in Rica, who reportedly had a
advance of their appearance brief conversation with ITT's
here. Q .L when Lev- J.D. (Jack) Neal about the
iiason became exasperated at Chilean matter.
the answers he was getting. he U?:d M. Korry, a former
pvedicted that the "roof was Newswe .h correspondent who
going to fall in" on two of IYilL -.lInbassador To mule:
Late 1971 , also is be-
JT,TT,s Latin region public rela- Wrgugh Lae
.tions specialists, Hal I-lendrix Bared to be ont"l~xe subcominn-
end Robert Berrellez. r itue~s list. Korry last
-
ned
A c c o r d i n g to informed yFar wad alig to the Over
sources, Levinson predicted spas Private I n v e s t m e n t
stories would be Corr'' a Government corpora-
newspaper printed linking ITT with the }inn for -iii wring U.S. private
1 ' g nvestmgnt C?tp.,. a goyerKri-
Watergate intruders and with ment corporation for irssurln l
break-ins at both the Chilean U.S. private investments in
embassy here and the homes developing nations.
of Chilean diplomats in New ITT witnesses will .ho
York.
Thursday, columnist Andcr- tHarold i'it corporation; president of
I'
son did indeed emerge with a vice >anresrdent E..J Gerrity
I piece saying Senate investiga- at;-llendrix, Perrellfi
tors suspected the Watergate ,-mer j slringlon office vice
"Mission Impossible" team. }~Lr slut?'rr 3?. R-_ Merriam_m and
may also have engineered the -ressibly others.
breakins of the Chilean embas- Considerable Contact
s and residences ITT offi-
lba -documents area series
of ] moranda between 1TT
a#fieials and ux icate COfl
a41i_"n1actbelwecnAlLe- nm-
p.anat_and various govcr n]ilent
atficia_lson the subject of
ping -Allende out of power.
ITT had x..$153 million mvgst-
plctot n the Chilean Telephone
#, since expropriated- at
that time and also operates
two Sheraton hotels there.
One memo from Hendrix
and Berrellez reports that the
U.S. government had given
Korry the "green light" to do
everything possible, short of a
Dominican type action, to
keep Allende from taking pow-
er. Allende was the narrow
front runner in a three-man
race for president and was
elected to the office by the
Congress in November, 1970,
two months after the popular
vote was counted.
Hands-Off Policy
The documents purport to
:show that ITT offered money
"in seven figures" to keep Al-
lende from winning the runoff.
Some memos have ITT execu-
tives reporting a plan to stim-
ulate economic chaos in Chile
that might lead to a military
coup against Allende.
In the event, the U.S. adopt-
ed a hands-off policy; there
was no crisis and no military
coup and no evidence that
American companies collabo-
rated to create an economic
disaster in Chile. ITT's people
privately say the memos were
in Hie nature of reports of
what was going on or what
fright happen in Chile, not
clotting by the company alone
ix in concert with any U.S.
agency.
The Church subcommittee
will be trying to elicit hard
answers under oath to ques-
tions raised by the ITT papers.
Enven
y and woof of ti!e
vials wryly spoke of T.evin- Tlx:#,
son's February prediction and ice," ti ar r1-.is the collection
the March publication of the 4L.i11l, Fl} l ciacumenis which
story. CZm . _ iiltQ Anderson:; l an is fgQlil The Levinson nxemo, accord- ==the ~V'ashington office -of
ing to Anderson, said that "the tLQ_Wr P0rati4rl . Anderson has
Cuban community knew they never revealed how he came
had worked together on CIA by the documents and, so far
jobs over n nwnbcr p1~w, ens as is known, ITT has never
and that Sttir]~iss ar}~l` ~lYhed Fp~itRet~e e~~2@ 1l/2 :CIA-RDP75B00380R000300100002-0
had known each sihcr for ited the documents, or collies
years., of them, out of the office.