SUGAR & SPIES & PRINCESS DI

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000402830022-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 7, 2012
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: December 1, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE WASHTNGTON POST
I December 1982
Magazines - .
Sugar & Spies
~ I3incess12j.
B)ow?n Cover
Atlantic's cover plugs its sec-
ond excerpt from Seymour
Hersh's forthcoming book, "The
Price of Power. Kissinger in
Nixon's White House," centering
on 1970 and U.S. efforts to pre-
vent the election' of Salvador Al-
lende in Chile. Hersh spends
much time reviewing the climate,
of U.S.-Chilean relations, private
corporate actions to . sway the
election and American backing of
a military. coup. These make use-
ful, if often stiff, reading-But his.
principal thesis is that Richard
Nixon "specifica-IlF,irrtied - the
CIA to get rid of Allende," that
Kissinger acquiesced in the de-
cision, and that then-CIA head
Richard Helms had "no doubt in
his mind at the time what Nixon.
meant"-assassination. The case
is not convincingly made. The
closest. Hersh comes to a "smok-
ing gun" is a former National
Security Council aide who says
he saw a White House options
paper that proposed the killing,
and the bulk of the -remaining
evidence consists of "blind"
quotes about Helms and circum-
.stantial inference from previous
U.S. actions against Castro, Lu-
-mumba, eta :.It just isn't
enough... _ ... ._:r< _ .. .
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/08: CIA-RDP90-00965R000402830022-4