FYI - - ALLEGATIONS AND ANSWERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75B00514R000100170009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2003
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 30, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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SUBJECT "FYI - - Allegations and Answers"
ALLEGATION:
Mr. Jack Anderson's columns of 21 and 22 March alleged that
CIA worked with ITT against President Allende of Chile in 1970. Mr.
William V. Broe was named as CIA's contact with ITT.
ANSWER:
1. The Department of State made the following statement to the
press on 23 March 1972:
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Let me say at the outset that the firm and continuing policy
of the USG toward the Government of Chile has been repeatedly
expressed by the President, most recently in his foreign policy
report to Congress, in which he said:
"In our view, the hemisphere community is big enough,
mature enough and tolerant enough to accept a diversity
of national approaches to human goals. We therefore deal
realistically with governments as they are -- right and left.
We have strong preferences and hopes to see free demo-
cratic processes prevail, but we cannot impose our political
structure on other nations. We respect the hemispheric
principle of non-intervention. We shape our relations with
governments according to their policies and actions as they
affect our interests and the interests of the inter-American
system, not according to their domestic structures.
"Our relations with Chile are an example. Chile's lead.rs
will not be charmed out of their deeply-held convictions by
gestures on our part. We recognize that they are serious
men whose ideological principles are, to some extent,
frankly in conflict with ours. Nevertheless, our relations
will hinge not on their ideology but on their conduct toward
the outside world. As I have said many times, we are pre-
pared to have the kind of relationship with the Chilean Govern-
ment that it is prepared to have with us. "
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To that I would add that any ideas of thwarting Chilean
constitutional processes during the election period during
1970 were firmly rejected by this Administration.
The State spokesman added that this policy extended to all agencies
of the U. S. Government and that no officials of the Government
acted contrary to the Administration policy.
2. CIA does not respond publicly to charges about its opera-
tional activities, which it undertakes only as directed by proper
authority.
W. E. o by
Executive Director -CornptXoller
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