CHILE PREPARES FOR ATTACK BATTLE BREWS AT OAS MEETING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000200270001-3
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• Document Release Date: January 2, 2001
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• Publication Date: April 12, 1972
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12 APR 1972
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Chile prepares for attack
Battle brews at OAS. meeti'ng
By VIRGINIA 'PREWETT
I3ATTLE lines of a sort are
already drawn for the Organi-
zation of American States As-
day session here yesterday.
S t a t e s it "cannot ignore" %4'.
Washington's (alleged) schem-
ing in 1970 to prevent the elec-
tion of Dr. Salvador Allende to
its presidency, as tenuously
revealed in the Anderson-ITT
scandal.
The U.S. delegation to the OAS Assembly is
prepared to assume a "statesman-like, digni-
fied attitude," but if attacked hard will "reply
in kind."'
.down to work in committees and may
again at the Assembly, where such
are closed.
Our Secretary of State, William Roger
ob-
viously does not want to become involved. Af-
ter entertaining the visiting delegation heads
at a luncheon today he will leave for a visit to
Canada tomorrow. .
LOUD, CLEAR SIGNALS
The signals launched by the Nixon team to
Chile on the Assembly eve have been loud and
clear. They tell Santiago that Washington has
detailed proof that President Allende is har-
boring a Cuban embassy now trying to upset
governments in both Bolivia and Uruguay.
On Friday, April 7, the New York Times'
roving columnist on foreign affairs published
leaked information aim
d
t b
h C
e
a
ot
astro and
The Nixon Administration, from the highest Allende. It revealed that Bolivian exi'.es in
level,. has signaled-to Dr. Allende what weap- Chile now marshaling to "communize 1; aivia"
ons it has. But it is also clear the White House are directed by a Cuban mission in Santiago.
wants to avoid a knock-down-and-drag-out Dr. Allende is pointedly tied into the affair by
fight at the OAS with Chile. Our side has had the revelation that the Cuban who heads the
good success getting complaining Latinos, mission is a Castro intelligence officer named
;Luis Fernandez Ona, "married to Allende's
,favorite daughter, Beatrice."
AID TO GUERRILLAS
Earlier, -an even more detailed leak of CIA
information to Jack Anderson on March 30 had
given chapter and verse on the way the Cu-
-bans in Castro's Santiago embassy and, the
'Allendista Chileans are working to help guer-
rillas trying to overturn governments in Boliv
pia and Uruguay.
Latin American sources had long since re-
vealed this to me and it comes as no surprise
to the well-informed. But the timing of the
leaks, especially the one to columnist Sulzber-
ger,.indicates the White House holds a strong
hand and wishes it to be known.
But this same White House, at the n oment,
As in a bind on the issue, one it will not be free
of until after President Nixon visits Moscow in
May, if.then. The Nixon-Kissinger team wishes
'to keep its options wide, if possible. Depending
on how Moscow is willing to deal; -the team
might later want to make a 180 degree turn,
specifically on Castro's Cuba.
Other complaints against the United States
'besides Chile's, will be heard at the OAS as-
sembly; echoing those sure to be voiced at this
tweeks' Santiago meeting of the United Nations
'Conference on Trade and Development (UNC-
TAD). And these complaints may become
deeply involved in our domestic, election-year
politics: For none other than the longtime Nix-
on critic, the Senate Foreign Relations Com-
inittee Chairman, Sen. J. William Fulbright, is
meeting with the Latinos on April 14. '. ,..
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