SUNSHINE JIMMY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100190014-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 14, 2007
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: March 17, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Approved For Release 2007/03/15: CIA-RDP99-00498R000100190014-9
AhTICLE
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The. citizens of Chile clearly were too
irresponsible to be left free. Why, Salvador
Allende was about to come to power as the
result of a democratic election. God knows
the CIA had tried -terribly hard to. save
these people from themselves. The Agency
had secretly funded-with your tax dollars
-huge propaganda campaigns in Chilean
newspapers. It had paid workers to stay
out on strike to further "destabilize" the
situation, and it had spread bountiful
anti-Allende. bribes around. Nonetheless,.
the natives had insisted on making up
their own minds.
- And so, on September 15, 1970, CIA
Director Richard Helms attended a meet'-
ing with- President Richard Nixon, At-
. orney General John Mitchell, and Na
tional Security Advisor Henry Kissinger.
The sole item on the agenda was "Track
II"-the mounting of a military coup in?
Chile. (Not Afghanistan. Chile.) When he.
left, Helms quickly wrote down the es
sence of the Star Chamber resolution:
I in 10 chances perhaps, but save,
Chile!
worth spending
not concerned risks involved
no involvement of embassy
$10,000, 000:available,'more if
.-necessary
full-time job-best men we have-
game plan w:=< ?:,. .:
48 hours for plan.of action. -'
l.a.. It'didn't work then: Three years later,
it did. Largely because of the CIA,.Ameri-
.can ::banks, and multinational 'corpo-
rations, Allende was killed, and the child=
ishly-. free-thinking, citizens of Chile were
placed under the. protectorate off a dic-
tatorship. Many had :Lo be murdered be-'
THE VILLAGE VOICE
17 March 1980
cause of their incurable addiction to liber-
ty, but what the hell, Chile had been.
saved. -
.This Helms document-both the hand-
written original and a typewritten copy-
DOCUMENTS:A shocking collection of
memoranda, letters, and telexes from th
secret files of the American intelligenc
community, Christy Macy_ and- Susan:;
Kaplan assembled and annotated the
documents, and the publisher of this in-
-valuable outsize paperback is Penguin.
lished without the Freedom of Information
'Act which, as Macy and Kaplan say, "is:
responsible for much of what we now know
tional security apparatus-." -
Also in Documents is a draft ~of the
anonymous (actually, FBI) letter-t6.
Martini Luther King, Jr., in 1964 urging
that he commit suicide to forfend the
release of tapes made from bugs planted
by the FBI. in his hotel rooms: "There is
but one way oufor,you. You better take
it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent
That's an. FBI document,, but the CIA
also spied on King. Not only overseas, but
here. As George Lardner, Jr., has pointed
out in the Washington Post, not a trace of
the. CIA's surveillance of. King appgared
"in the" extensive congressional or ex'-
ecutve branch investigations of the agen-
cy. conducted in recent years." But; 'when
Harold Weisberg, a writer from Frederick,
Maryland, filed a Freedom of Information,
King, they finally made their way-much.
to the discomfiture of the Agency-into
the light. _
There is a long list of crucially instruc-
STAT
CIA Direetoi'Stansfield Turner:-
Only the Shadow knows.
tive books-that could not have.been writ- t
ten without the FOIA. One is William;
Shawcross's Sideshow. Another is John
Marks's The Search for the Manchurian
Candidate'.-. The CIA and Mind Control, i
just reissued in .a McGraw-Hill paperback. I
In:1975,_Marks noticed two sentences in
.the Rockefeller Commission report on thej
CIA. They had to do with a "CIA program!
to study possible means -for controlling!
human behavior" and said that some of!
'the studies had ."explored the effects ofl
radiation, electric-shock, psychology, psy- 4
'chiatry, sociology, and harassment sub-A
stances-" J