STATE DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR CABLES FROM AMEMB, SANTIAGO, CHILE, TRANSMITTED VIA CIA FACILITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89B00552R000100030003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 24
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 11, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR: The Review Staff
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ATTENTION:
VIA:
SUBJECT: State Department Request for Cables from AmEmb,
Santiago, Chile, Transmitted
REFERENCE: Review Staff 76-0305, 10 March 1976
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25X1 C 1. Per verbal request of 10 March 1976, attached
herewith are two ca es from Ambassador Korry to Under Secretary
Johnson which were transmitted on 25 September
1970 and 8 October 1970. These two cables were included in a group
of cables provided the Review Staff on 1 August 1975 for transmittal
and review by the State Department for release to the Senate Select
Committee Staff. We are unaware whether the State Department made
these cables available to the SSC Staff.
2. It is our understanding that these cables will be forwarded
to Mr. Verne H. Jennings, Jr., INR/DDC/RPS, for perusal by Under
Secretary Eagleburger.
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Chief
Latin America Division
Attachments:
1. 25 September 1970
2. 8 October 1970
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1. 13EFOR E OFFERING COFf',I_NTS Ai:D RECC-i::;1 I:DATIO::S,
ONE. (O;;E F)%CT : PDC TECHNICIANS YE IGHI::G THEIR FUiU ES
HAVE GONE THIS TO CO(]IN)UUIST DEPUTY JC GE I NSU 'ZA ,
TO EE;,APU DEPUTY SILVA SOLAR AND TO MAPU LEADER CHO,',*CH(`L
THE LATTER TUO EX-~DC, TO INQUIRE ABOUT THEIR CHANCES
OF LEAVING CHILE AFTER NOV. ~;. THE COi:i`,Ui:IST SAID
THEY HAD LEARNED FROM CUBA THEY COULD HOT PLR :~JT LOSS
OF NATION'S BRAINS AND THE OTHER Tk O HAD SAID THERE
WOULD EE NO CLOSING OF Fi;Oi3T IERS BUT THE RED TAPE- BLOCKS
MOULD BE VERY 1"ORNIDAI;LE.
?_-. I HAVE SOUGHT TO PROVIDE AS MUCH IM;OBILITY AND
AS l:i6MY OPTIONS AS I COULD FOR FRI?:I AND FOR CHILE I;:
PROTECTION OF U.S. I1]i'E::rll S"1S Hi NE s IN THE AREA AND BEY0 D .
FREI HAS FULFILLED EO5T OF HY I]E HAS
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CREATED AN ENVIORNI]ENT IN WHICH SOMKT.HING COULD STILL
HAPPEN, PARTICULARLY IF SPARKED BY A DECLINING ECONOMIC
SITUATION. BUT HE HAS NOT ROVED BEYO;ID STAGE-HANAGIt;G
TO PLAYING THE DECISIVE ROLE AND HE ':/ILL NOT.
3. HE WOULD WELCOME. THE U.S. DOING HIS DIRTY t/CRK
FOR HIM BY SEEKI;IG TO PROVOKE A MILITARY COUP. ASIDE
FROM THE t,ERITS OF A COUP ACID ITS INPLICAT IONS VOR THE
U.S., I AM CONVINCED WE CANNOT PROVOKE ONE AND THAT W/E
SHOULD NOT RUN ANY RISK SIMPLY TO HAVE ANOTHER 3AY OF
PIGS. HENCE I HAVE INSTRUCTED VERY STRO,":G1_Y OUR t1ZLIT^RY
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4. ONE OF THE "IN" FIE- Oi LE Olt HAT AiBOR~TIVE 0; ERA-
TION, MAY I UNGRACIOUSLY INSERT I{: RE, ;';AS iM;Y , .~EDEC SSOR.
IN THSS POST, RALPH DUNGAN, l'/I{OSE ARTICLE IN Till: W/ASH-
INGT0,1M POST YESTERDAY HAS HAD f'I~:71 OU:iD EFFECT TODAY,
PARTICUL1RLY ON THE PDC. IT IS IN1E.RPi{ETED QUITE
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U.S. SUPPORT FOR WHAT SO[' E CALL A FF,SCI NA.T I NG EXPERIMENT I SHALL COMMENT VIA STATE CHANNELS ON DUi'.'GAN EVENT, U/:LL.Y
BUT I WOULD ONLY NOTE FOR THE MO Eh:T THAT HIS PLEA FOR
INON-INTERVENTION AND USG MATURITY IS FROM THE SAME VOI CE
THAT IS REGARD 'D UNIVERSALLY IN THIS COUNTRY AS THE SIF!LE
GREATEST I;NTFRVTI'}:R IN TEE HISTC?Y CF OU RFLATIO"S (.I'D
THE ORGANIZER OF' THE MASSIVE IId"I} RVr:i:i IOL T O STOP
ALLENIDE IN 1966.
5. BUT RATHER THAN WRING MY HANDS A LA FREI ABOUT
DUNGAN OR OTHER PROBLEMS, LET US MOVE TO THE t,EXT
CHALLENGE: --HOW TO CREATE A SITUATION It WHICH THE TASK
OF IMPOSING A MARXIST-LENINIST STRUCTU :E IS M DE MORE
DIFFICULT FOR ALLENDE AND 110;1 TO ATTAIN THIS GOAL WHILE
BUTThSSING OUR LEVERAGE IN THE DIFFICULT N GOTIATIONS
WITH HIM. AS STRESSED FROM THE OUTSET OF THIS CRISIS,
THESE OBJECTIVES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN UPPERMOST IN MY [,11 0
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6. LEST ANYONE IMAGINE THAT WE
HAVE TINE FOR NCRE
SERIOUS REFLECTION AND DECISION, I STRESS THAT
l'IHAT WE DO NOW, AND I MEAN TOIIORROW AND EVERY DAY UNTIL
OCT 24TH, WILL AFFECT THE LOflGER--'R-1 03JECTIVES AS WELL
AS TI,,E Ii'1iEDJATE ONE. INDEED, IF DONE EFFECTIVELY AI ND
IF $ BY PROVIDENCE'S ~EAND, IT WERE TO WITH OTHER
LOCAL EVENTS, OUR ACT IONS COULD HELP TO BLOCK ALLENDE
BEFORE OCT 24TH.
7. POPULAR. UNITY WILL COME TO POWER AS AN INHERENTLY
Il?}STAPLE COALITION, AFFLICTED FROM THE OUTSET BY IDECLCG-
ICAL DIFFERENCES, POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM AND CCRRUPTIOU,
INCOi;P'ETENCE AID INEVITABLE ADMINISTRATIVE C0:1FUSW110
ITS PARTNERS RANGE FROM FANATIC AND VIOLENT REVOLUTION-
ARIFS OF THE CASTROITF STRIPE CLEFT ';ZING OF THE SOCIALIST
PARTY AND THE MIR) TO A NOTORIOUS GROUP OF POLITICAL
THUGS AND THIEVES (SENATOR TAR LID AND THE RADICALS)
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ITS DECISION-t'A1tI1':G MACHINERY INCLUDING A PROJI~CTLD
HIGH--LEVEL POLICY COUNCIL WITH REPRESENTATION FROM ALL
U.P. GROUPS, IS LIKELY TO FUNCTION IN THE CREAKIEST OF
FASHIONS; ITS ECONOMIC Al D MANP.GERIAL EXPERTISE IN KEY
PO SIT ION4S IS LIKELY TO BE tIED10CRE CR WORSE . TIIESE
PROBLENS CAN. BE OVERCOME AS ALLENDE AND HIS CONNIUilIST
PARTNERS GRADUALLY. GAIN CONTROL. BUT MEANTIME ALLEI.DE'S
GOC WILL FACE THE CRITICAL PROBLEMS OF MAKING A FAIRLY
COMPLEX ECONOMY AND GOVERNMENT t;ORK, WHILE UELIVERIN:G
ON PROMISES OF REVOLUTION AND A BETTER LIFE FOR ALL.
8 . IT WILL BE DURING THIS PERIOD----P ERHAPS SIX T O
NINE MONT HS---TIHAT ALLENDE' S POPULAR UNITY JILL BE, MOST
VULNERABLE. IF THE ECON,OM iC AND ADNI)I1:ISTRATIV)E PROBLEMS
ARE SJFFICIENTLY SEVERE, POPULAR UNITY COULD CRUE:BLE.
IF THEY ARE UNABLE TO COPE, TEE "UN-+I' Y" COULD DISSOLVE,
THE '.'REVOLUTION" TURN INTO CHAOS AND THE PEOPLI::`S SUP-
PORT FOR THEIR GOVI`i?,MENT MELT AWAY. THIS IS THE
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:SCENARIO THAT WOULD UNITE THE ARMY AND SET THE SCENE
FOR EFFECTIVE, POPULARLY-SACKED t';IL.ITMy I IT`RVENTIODU.
9. THE PDC IS PREPARING FOIE THAT DAY---AT LEAST
SOi'IE OF THE HEALTHIER ELEMENTS BY WORSENING THE ECON~C IC
.SIT UAT ION A LA ZAL DIVAR SPEECH AND BY BUYING UP A MASS
OF MEDIA OUTLETS FROM FRIGHTENED CR HH.aR D--FRESSED
M_ESSANiNDiRISTA ELEilt EI I TS. MASSAD'S ADVICE IS AS MUCH
DIRECTED TO THAT SLIGHTLY LONGER-TER'! :ASPIRATION AS
IT IS TO THE IMMEDIATE ONE OF STOPPIt'JG ALLENDDE.
10. IF ONE LARGE INTERP i,ISE UERE UE RE TO SHUT ITS
DOORS NEXT ?EEK, IF ONE BANK WERE TO FAIL, IF ONE S:;'Ilti'OS
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION WERE TO COLLAPSE?, '.,;:E' W:IOULD STILL
HAVE L T E l