U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN CHILE: TRUTH IS SOMETHING ELSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404440171-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 171
• Publication Date: September 15, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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15 SEP 1974
U.S. Involvement
.In Chile: Truth I
Something Else
The disclosure that the Central Inte;-
!igence Agency secretly spent millions
of dollars to "destabilize" the Govern-
ment of the late President Salvador Ai.
lende Gos6ens- of Chile has led to
charges on Capitol Hill that the public
once again had, in effect, been lid to
by the Government.
There is a significant difference be-
tween the public testimony of State
Department witnesses and the secret
testimony by the head of the C.I.A.
4, Last year, reacting to widespread
rumors that the United States had had
a hand in the overthrow and death of
Dr. Allende, two State Department of-
ficials and a former Ambassador to
Santiago assured a Senate Foreign Re
lations su$committee that Washington
had of intervened in internal Chilean
-affairs after Dr. Aller'de's election in
1970.
Last April 22, in "classified" tes-
tirconv before a House Foreign Affairs
subco :..-aittee, C.I.A. director William
E. Colby revealed that his agency had
covertly spent $8-million in Chile be.
tween i970 and 1973 to undermine-Dr.
Allende's ability to govern.
A nogg other things. the C.I.A. tried
to bribe members of the Chilean Con-
gress. .. Colby said the project was
author:=ed by the "=0 Committee,"
headed by Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger. Mr. Kissiner is also re-
ported to have personally directed cur-
tailment of all economic aid and credit
to the Allende regime.
The State Department's comment
last week was that it was "unaware of
any misstatements" in its officials' tes-
timony. What that apparently meant
was that the officials had been com-
menting solely on rumors of United
States involvement in the military
coup a^_airst Dr. Allende, a democrati-
ca!!v elected Marxist, not on any
covert C.I.A. operations that may or
may not have taken place prior to the
coy.:a. 1.1 the light Of last ~ Sunday's dis-
c;;,sere the subcommittee chairman,
D'r - ratio Senator Frank Church 'oc
i authorized the staff to review
the testimony and refer any misleading
portions to the Justice Department for
an investigation of possible perjury.
In Summary
'Suspicions' in India
The reports or C.I.A. activities in
Chile have also raised fears abroad
that the United States might attempt
to subvert regimes4in other countries.
Daniel P. Moynihan, the American Am- . ,
bassador to India, warned 'Mr. Kissin-
ger in a cable dispatch last week that
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
"is rot, sure that we would be content
to see others like her overthrown."
Mr. Moynihan said that he had for-
mally assured Mrs. Gandhi at the time
of the Chilean coup last year that the
United States had not helped bring
about Dr. Allende's overthrow. The re-
cent revelations, Mr. Moynihan said,
have contradicted his assurances and
confirmed her "worst suspicions and
genuine fears" about the American at-
titude toward her government. ltr.
Movnihaa has flown home to confer
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