PANEL SAYS JACKSON GAVE SECRET ADVICE TO C.I.A.
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Senator Henry, M: MSackson .s
cretly advised the Central
telligence Agency,~ia~t973 ?on
how t6 protect itself against,an
investigation-'by Senator' Frank
Church into the -agency `s ,rela-
tions` ywith` the International-
Telephone and Telegraph Cot,
poratlon in Chile, according to
the ? final report ofa House
committee. ..- ; A ,
-The report, by. the House 5e
lect Committeeon Intelligent
randurfl.
quotes a C.I.A. ._ memo
of- -Felt. that said,
"Senator.:` Jackson repeatedly
made the -comment that in. his
view they C.T A "Oversight: Com'.
mittee [of Whicli'he was'then.a
member] had the responsibility
of protecting the "agency 'in the
type off situation .that was in-
herent in the Church sulicom-
mittee."
.,"As it result-of this ! convic
tion, Senator Jackson would
work with the agency .to see
that we got- this. protection,"'
the menorandum.said.. '
From. the beginning of sweep-;
ing investigations of the intel-.
ligence. - community last year,,
one paramount' criticism has
who novy beads; the Senate Se-'
~ect Committee on Intelligence,!
which last .,year conducted--1#
subsequent, investigatl(ih into
,i1
intelligence 'agencies.//;; Y,
Mr. Jackson was ,the second
Senator in two ' days to . ac-
knowledge that he had given
private advice,, to C.I.A. off!-~
cials worried about how toy
answer Congressional questions
on operations ip Chile.
Late Friday,'. Senator Stuart
Symington, Democrat of Mis-
souri, said he had advised a
former Director of Central ?In:
telligenee, _ Richard -l3ela1s, .. on
how , to .respond .to questions
about the C.LA;'s Chilean, op-.-
erations and other matters. ,
Mr. #-Ielms faced questioning
in ,1973 Senate hearings before
's confiz~matioe`as Ambassadof
to Irari,-'the position he now.
holds.: ' -
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been . that Congressional hover- s
sights committees were.protec-
tive: of the C.I.A.-and-did not
attempt to control . truly''he
agency's, functiohs- ';
The House report has hot'
been made pubic, .but this and
other portions-were made avail-
able 'to' The' New York' Times
today';'' e. a
Reached. by telephone, Sen-
ator Jackson said that- the
author of the 'CI:A:.inemor'an-
'du'd . had taken literary. -Ii?
ten. a"' .in`descrlbjng his posi-
tion He said; 71owever, that he
"did recall advising .C.I A,oYfi-
11 'orals.. on -"p"rocedural. `m`atters.'
in responding .,to; Senator.
Church's mvestigation-
"This-was no coverup," he
Said. "Nothing like
In ahe. spring : of , ,,1973,' :the
Multinational' corporation Sub-
committee Hof the "Senate' For-
eign Relations -.Committee:be-
gan_ :an..- investigation'; of the
Chilean activttigs. -6f. the . biter-
national, Telephone.and:'Tele-
graph-: coi-pocation= and ifs-re-
Iation's 'with 'the` covertactivi-
ties of the 'C.I.A.. jiie spbco ri-
mittee Was .headed-. by Mr.
Church the Idaho 'Democrat
sub-'
Until; the multinational
committee began -its investiga=
tion, the'C.LA. had never.been
scrutinized 'by any Congres-
sional committees other than
the principal oversight subcom-'
mittees of'the Senate and House
Armed Services and Appropria-
tion committees,,.{"r
The C.I.A. me orandurn~ pre-
sumably, prepared by William
V. Broe, chief- of the agency's
Western Hemisphere division,
who.. w.aa a 'key. figure 'in
Chilean bperations. purports to?
describe a , meeting with Sena-
for Jackson on Feb.. 3,1973:._
The memo skid that Senator
Jackson had recommended that
should-as a "first'drder of bust
ness discuss the problem with
the White - House," and sug-
gested that 'Mr.` Schlesinger'
talk only with President Nixon
I or H.,A. Haldeman, his chief. of
staff...
"Senator Jackson felt - that
the ultimate solution to the
problem : facing -, the . , agency
could be found in getting Sen-
ator McClellan, acting on be-
I half of Senator Stennis,'to cal!
a . session of the. C.I.A. over-
sight committe.,
[Senators' John C. Steams.
Democrat of Mississippi, and
john L. McClellan, Democrat of
Arkansas, :..headed different
committees . with some legal
^nthnrity, pver. the. C.LA.]
"This committee" the in.
continued, "'would then 'look
into the' nature and scope of
C.LA.'s activities ' in ' Chile in
1970. Once that was; accoon -
plished, the oversight cominit-
tee 'would handle 'the Foreign:
Relations Committee. "Senator Jackson repeatedly,
made the.comment that in hiview the C.I.A. oversight--66th-?
mittee had the responsibility of
protecting- the' kgency in the'
type. of situation that was in
herent -in the Church subcom=
.`mittee," the memorandum 'said
in
It went onto note that."once
the oversight. committee ~ear?d.
the details provided' oa the.
C.I.A.'s involvement,-t!he agthi,'
cy would send a brief state-'
meet tQ the Church subcom=mittee staff members in re-
sponse to the questions. which
they 'had previously posed to
C.I.A."
Indeed.-- the -- memorandum,
said,. i Senator - Jackson - even
agreed on ate-it of a state-
ment the C.I.A. could give, the
-_ ugh Su bcoanmitte?..?,L,;._
- Denial an LT T. 3s
'The testimony of n.,. Heim!
5 and 7 February [1973] before
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee dear! yestablished
that .+C.LA- neither gave nor
received from I.T.T. funds for
use in Chile in 1970 for support
of political parties,": the pro-
posed statement read. - -; . --
? "In " addition, Mr. Helms's
testimony brought out the fact
that there were no joint action
programs established in. the
cbntexf of the 1970 political de-
velopments in Chile. C.I.A. re-
gards. Mr, Helms' testimony on
I this topic to be accurate, thus,
no further elaboration is
planned,"' the memorandum
would have said- .. ' - I -
- In fact, however, Mr. Helms's
testimony- has " been 'sharply
contradicted since then by evi-.
dence collected_" the.subcom_~_
mittee on multinations and by
the Senate Select Committee on
intelligence..'
The Depaitntent of Justice is
investigating whether Mr. Helms
committed perjury doing-those
hearings.'. :-'
".Mr: Jackson said he did not
recall ==a -specific meeting on
Feb. 23, but he did recall dis-
cussing Mr. Church's investiga-
tion with John Maury, then the
C.I.A.'s legislative officer on
Capitol Hill, and possibly with
other officials of the agency.
. He. said he told the agenc'
men to take."their problem" to
the' chairmen of the proper
oversight .'committees." =, une
chairraan was. Sena-tor Stennis,
head of the armed services
committee's Central Intelligence
subcommittee. But Mr. Stennis
had been , shot in -a ...holdup
attempt _on . San. 30, so, Mr.
Jackson said, he suggested that
the C.I.A. talk. to Senator
McClellan, head of the defense
subcommittee of She Appropria-
tions Committee which also has
oversight of the C_IjL_~i
Church's Role Discussed
Mr. Jackson said he believed
that= he. later ' told Senator
Church about _ the-'.C-LA- ap-:
proach Mr:: Church said -iri a
telephone ' interview :'that he
'couldn't recall *-.Mr- Jackson
discussing 'that withace.:,'
I Me. Church' said be believed
that he first learned of the
matter when the ' investigating
committee obtained the same
memorandum -described,-in the
House report
Asked if. he was surprised to
learn that another Senator had
tried to stymie his investi ga_
lion, he said: "It doesn't sur-
prise me. The 'CIA had its
friends up here - [oa - Capitol
Hill] and they often when to
'their friends.",. ~ .- .~_ y .
Whether . Nrr. 'Jack'son- vas
the source of the advice; or not,
T1ce C.LA- followed a plan very
similar to the one described in
the memorandum- Mr. Schles-
inger went to see Senator Mc
Clellan and told him of his con-
cern about discussing covert op-
erations with the Church com-
mittee-A :f +t= -
Mr: Schlesinger; Venior intel-
ligence officials confirmed, did
,not himself know at that time
about C.-A- involvement In an
attempted military coup`:'etat
tin Chile and was only trying to
protect the"political covert op-
erations. At first,- several Con-
gressional sources confirmed,
Mr. McClellan agreed to bold a
closed' bearing on the matter
t which Mr. Church could be
an "OIIIOOI[e!."
Mr. McClellan said in a tele-
phone interview that he could
not recall a spec-ft meetias
, M -but that
~e aoa1~ : i zemes?ls t J
Mr- Church said be refused
to participate in the arrange-
ment to sit in -an a bearing of
the other committee- _ " I told
them our investigation would
go ahead without the coopera-
tion of CIA:,". he said- ' -
Later; Mr. Schlesinger agreed
to permit Mr.. Broe to testify
before the multinational sub-
committee in closed session on
'the narrow question of direct
I.T.T.-C.I.A. relationships-; - ?
The multinational subcom-
mittee investigations and the
late. Senate select committee
inquiry into the C.I.A. h's re-
vealed that the United-States
attempttd to man'.pulate in-
ternal Chilean policy for more
ticularly.: to the Apponents : of
Salvador Allende Gossens, a
Marxist- doctor-'-who- later-be-
came President The C.I.A.,
however. apparently did not ac:'
cept LT.T. money for its opera-
tions.'
When jt appeared that 'Mr.
Allende. would 'become Pre~~ir'-
dent in the fall of 1970, Prersi-
dent Nixon: ordered a massive
covert effort- to keep Mr. Al-
lende from power. In the course
of this the. C.I.A. transferred
three submachine- guns and a
quantity of tear gas bombs to
a- group plotting to kidnap
General Rend Schneider, chief
of the Chilean Army staff. Is
an related plot General Schneid
er was assassinated-
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