FOIA
ITT/CHILE PRESS COVERAGE 31 MARCH - 1 APRIL 1973
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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
0005493006
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RIPPUB
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U
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2
Document Creation Date:
June 24, 2015
Document Release Date:
August 31, 2011
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Case Number:
F-2000-01886
Publication Date:
April 2, 1973
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APPROVED FOR RELEASED
DATE: 05-09-2011
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2 APR 1973
MEMOWDUM FOR; Deputy Director for Operations
SUBJECT: ITT/Chile Press Coverage of 31 March -
I April 1973
1. Hearings of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee an
Multinational Corporations stopped on 29 March and are not to be
resumed until 2 April when Itarotd S Geneen of ITT is to testify.
The Now York Times end. Washington Post carried summaries of th*
hearings in. their I April (Sunday) editions which raised as many
' stions about CIA as they did about ITT..
c gs. (Lev#ns 3 .r r h sendo r Kerry this.
covert propaga aa. against Attend. during the 1979
cr ar +ed by any witness. Owl the WC .had authorized
. d by the?S *-_ CAm".I am us the
ima
Allo y war said to . botm partt arly'ia fluenced. ,
r~fse1 to eoxnpantseritre 1O**listrd A errfean copier c *te
2. The Washington Post had two .lengthy articles an i April;.
O article summa rj*iod th* results, of two. weeks of testl any b
referring to swot American Corporation conniving With
iar "tine c e:., ..,. w
".,. .. flee asp ect a .
a ITT cla craft l by a ci of l *
1~tati nsl it 'e The thrust of this *rU410 it t
a lthough Sher 'profeRse eEd positioxa t . a+ tf eti Sraer-d`
Allen+i o's election wao of professed neutrality". the t
Vice Of Mr. Williasak ' . ro nth fix. T. a r ty. of I'T:en
29 September 1910 w" amity a "So My stated mandate of l
to s+vee. What it c d' do ..stsve oft Afetfdea
QM C
3. The at if#-shifaegton Post article r ported tr e
west tk0 be ings had,sea sd l r residont Allende *at there bxid.
indeed. ,beefs a l by the U.,S.' t.rs ilut Vial`: ' to `:pro
his. election in :i97s *I"-* as ww by prod waves a a
of (hit . S,, negotiations at* debt renegotiations Cad e'e
Z Z, IMPDZT
and was told that Korry could not seer any questions about actt ,tie s
of the GIA,.. .lt war also reported from Chile .that Allende has extabw
fished a special task force to study the Subcommittee tests ay for
possible follow up in Chile, particularly among opposition politicians.
.4. The New York Times of 1 April had an article in &Mk,in
Review e ection which stressed the two "separate though interrelated
threats" of attempts by.ITT to influence U.S. foreign policy s whether
CIA sometimes pursues its own foreign policy. On the latter point the
article described left unchallenged" that Mr. Bree'a a one
were not. approved by anyone higher than fir. Helms. This was $ =me-,
diately followed by a stat :ent that nevertheless, there wette, indications
that a change in policy toward Chile was being considered at bi.gheet
Ge rexrament levels.
U.S.
Theodore G. $haok1ep
Western. How. I ruph+e a DMsl a-
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