3 CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST ITT EXECUTIVE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000030079-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 79
• Publication Date: August 19, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APP ARED 'WASHINGTON STAR
ON PAG 9 AUGUST 1978
3 Charges Dropped
Against ITT Executive
The Justice Department yesterday announced
that "to safeguard national security and U.S. for-
eign intelligence interests" it will not pursue three
of the six perjury-related charges against Interna-
tional Telephone and Telegraph executive Edward
J. Gerrity Jr.
Gerrity is accused of having lied to a Senate
committee about his company's involvement in
Chile.
The first notification that one. count of perjury,'
one of subornation of perjury and one of making a
false statement, would not be pursued. came dur-
ing a hearing before U.S. District Court Judge Au-
brey E. Robinson Jr. when prosecutor G. Allen
Carver Jr. said the government had decided not to
pursue, rather than drop, the three counts..
Gerrity, ITT senior vice president for public af-
fairs. and Robert Berrellez, an official for ITT in.
Latin America, were indicted on six counts each.
last March in separate criminal informations
which charged that the two men, and unindicted
co-conspirator Harold Hendrix, had lied to the Sen-
ate 'Foreign Relations subcommittee on multina-
tional corporations in 1973: r ~' -? -
The subcommitte was investigating allegations
that ITT interfered in the 1970 presidential elec-
tions in Chile and had offered nearly $1 million to
opponents of the-now-late Marxist-oriented Salva-
dor Allende.
In separate hearings before Robinson yesterday,
attorneys for Gerrity and- Berrellez argued that all
charges against their clients should be dropped.
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