D'ESCOTO/CIA/CHILE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000706820009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 8, 1983
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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RADIO TV REPORTS, INC.
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DATE August 8, 1983 4:45 PM CITY Atlanta
D'Escoto/CIA/Chile
NEWSCASTER: CNN's special assignment unit has learned
one the leading critics of US involvement in Central America
played a surprisingly different role during one of the most
controversial periods of US foreign policy.
Special assignment correspondent Joe Trento reports.
JOE TRENTO: CNN has learned that Miguel D'Escot o, the
bitterly anti-American Foreign Minister of Nicaragua and a Roman
Catholic priest once worked with the CIA in Chile in the late
1960's.
CNN has learned that D'Escoto worked for Roger Vekermans
[?] a Belgian Jesuit who has funneled millions in CIA and foreign
assistance funds to elect candidates in Chile during the Kennedy
and Johnson Administrations.
According to a top CIA official, and a former US
ambassador to Chile, D'Escoto passed CIA funds to US-backed
Chilean candidates.
Edward M. Kory served as US ambassador to Chile between
1967 and 1971.
Kory revealed D'Escoto's CIA connections in a recent
interview near his Connecticut home.
AMBASSADOR EDWARD M. KORY: If you take the spokesman of
a Sandanista government -- the foreign minister of a Sandanista
government, a Mary Knoll priest named Miguel D'Escoto -- well,
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