UPI CAN STAY, ALLENDE SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300240023-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: September 27, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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2 7 SEP 1971
Approved For Release 2D04/09/03: CIA-RDP88-013149
UPI Can Stay,
Allende Says
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SANTIAGO, Sept. 26,--Pres-
ident- Salvador Allende today
cancelled his decision to close
the U.S. news agency United
Press International (UPI) in
Santiago, but said the conduct
.of the agency's bureau chief,
V Martin Ilousemann, was "un-
acceptable."
An interior ministry state-
ment (lid not say Housemonn
would be asked to leave Chile,
but observers said it - was
likely he would now be re-
placed.
The president's change of
mind followed a series of talks
with UPI's Latin American
manager, William McCall.
McCall had agreed that UPI
"transmitted false news sto-
ries which affected Chile in-
ternationally," the statement
}said.
The president first an-
nounced his decision to close
the agency during a rally on
Sept. 15. But he did not an-
nounce a date for the closure;
and the agency has continued
to function normally during
talks between its executives
and the government.
Allende's main criticism of
UPI centered on news stories
the agency put out during his
recent trip to Colombia, Ecua-
dor and Peru.
He objected particularly to
a story the agency picked up
from a Bogota newspaper, al-
leging that three of his aides
who disappeared aboard a
light aircraft in jungle on the
border of -Colombia and Ecua-
dor had been engaged In se-
cret service activities.
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