MCCONE'S TESTIMONY IN ITT-CHILE SENATE INQUIRY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000600100014-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2005
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• Publication Date: March 21, 1973
• Content Type: OPEN

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DATE March 21, 1973 7:00 P.M. CITY Washington, D.C.,
McCONE'S TESTIMONY IN-.-ITT-CHILE SENATE INQUIRY
HOWARD K. SMITH: A Senate subcommittee probed deeper
today into efforts by the International Telephone and Telegraph
Company to prevent. the election of Chile's Marxist president
Salvador Allende.
ABC's Frank Tomlinson reports.
FRANK TOMLINSON: John McCone, former head of the
CIA, now a director of IT&T, told the Senate subcommittee that
IT&T never made a money offer to the CIA to keep Salvador Allende
out of office. but McCone did recount a plan by IT&T president
Harold Geneen to keep Allende from becoming president.
The pl r,n called for a million dollars to subsidize
a coalition agairsst Allende in the Chilean congress, which had'
to name Allende president even though he won the popular election.
McCone took that plan to the White House and discussed it with
Henry Kissinger.
JOHN I 1cCONE: Mr. Kissinger thanked me very much and
said that I would hear from him. I didn't hear from him again.
And therefore I nnssumed that no such plan was -- was adopted
as a matter of national policy, and that was the end of it as
far as I was concerned.
SENATOR: FRA14K CHURCH: You approved of G,eneen's proposal
to offer up to a million dollars of company funds to help-;finance
a plan of this character if the government formulated it?
McCONE: That's correct.
TOMLINSON: After first endorsing the coalition plan,
John McCone had a change of heart.
McCONE . ? > discussed this wi th -- with Hr. Geneen
and told him -- and in telling him I think I was just concurring
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