NEW CHARGES ARE RAISED ON PLOTS BY THE C.I.A. TO TOPPLE ALLENDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000402830028-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 28, 2012
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: November 23, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE NEW YORK TIMES
23 NOVEMBER 1982
New Charges Are Raised on Plots
By the C.I.A. -to Topple Allende
By LESLIE IL GELB
Special tong New YarkTlmm
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 - American
intelligence officers maintain that ef.
forts to overthrow President Salvador
Allende Gossens of Chile continued long
after Secretary of State Henry A.
Kis-
singer testified they had stopped, as
cording to an article in The Atlantic
Monthly.
In the current issue of The Atlantic,
Seymour M. Hersh names and quotes
Central Intelligence Agency officials
who were involved in the coup plotting
as having said they had reason to be.
Iieve they were simply carrying out the
orders of President Nixon and Mr. Kis-
singer. lese activities began in 1970
with the prospect of Mr. Allende's elec.
tion and ended in 1973, when Mr. Al-
Iende died in a military coup.
Before the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence Activities, Mr. Kissin-
ger stated in sworn testimony in 1975
'that covert plans to topple the Allende
1970, and that be heard t nothing further
about any such American actions. He
was supported to this by Alexander M.
Haig Jr., who was W. Kissinger's
deputy, and by Mr. Nixon. They stated,
in effect, that whatever happened after
that date, the Central intelligence
Agency did on its own.
Mr. Hersh names and quotes C.I.A.
agents and cites classified documents
showing extensive . contacts between
American covert operators and Chilean
coup plotters, including the passing of
money to those Chileans subsequently
convicted of assassinating Gen. Rene.
Schneider, the Commander in Chief of
the Chilean Army, who stood in the way
of efforts to overthrow Mr. Allende.
Mr. Hash's account alsp cites intelli-
gence officials and others who would
not be identified as saying - that. the
C.I.A. was pressed by the White House
in the fall of 1970 to arrange for the as-
sassination of Mr. Allende. To support
this charge, Mr. Hersh describes what
be says was a conversation between
Richard Helms, Director of Central In-
telligence at the time of the coup plot.
ting. and "a close associate" of Mr.
Helms. The associate said that Mr.
Helms had told him that the White
House had ordered him to get rid of Mr.
Allende and that there was no doubt.in
his mind what the White House meant
bythis.
A spokesman for Mr. Kissinger,
asked about the Hersh article today,
said, "He has nothing to add to what be
has previously written on the subject."
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