CHILE (CONT.)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000303370009-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 10, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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AtZTICL i?i'tr Ls
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
ON pACI 10 February 1981
Chin (cont:)
The case of Edward Korry has become an
object lesson against rushing to judgment on
individuals when institutional wrongdoing is
disclosed. For years doubt has been cast on
Mr. Korry's self-exculpating version of his
role as US ambassador to Chile a decade and
more ago. That was when the Nixon adminis-
tration, the ITT corporation, and the CIA
were later found to have been trying to sub-
vert the Chilean political process. Now new or
previously underplayed evidence has come to
light in support of bIr. Korry's credibility. It
deserves no less airing than the earlier dam-
age to his reputation: -
A. central point in the emerging story is
that Mr. Korry was-telling the truth when he
denied that he had received a "green light"
message to move in the name of President
Nixon.-against Chile's Marxist President
Allende. Later evidence showed that the mes-
sage had, in fact; gone to a CIA station chief.
In this and other matters, it now appears, Mr.
Korry, was testifying honestly out of igno-
rance whereas some others were simply ly-
ing. One of the dismaying sidelights reported
by the New York Times is that Mr. Korry re-
ceived compliments on his testimony from
senior government officials who assumed he
was lying, too. Indeed, it strained belief to
think that the ambassador on the spot did not
know _of his government's machinations.
Again the folly of two-track operations -
keeping those in the public diplomatic track
in the dark- - was exposed. A sorry episode in
US history might have been avoided if all had
acted in the spirit of.Mr. Korry's warnings.
against trying to topple Allende...
Press and public would be well advised to
allow a margin for error.whenever there are
big breaks-in- secrecy as in the CIA investiga-
"tions of recent years: The fullstory_on Chile
itself is probably still to be'told,_
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