CONCERN BY INDIA ON C.I.A. RELATED

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 29, 2010
• Sequence Number: 174
• Publication Date: September 13, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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CONCERN BY INDIA; it) zr-r ji,
ON. C, I. A. RELATED
U.S. Envoy Says Reports on
Chile Have Confirmed Mrs(
Gandhi's Suspicions
By SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Speda! to The Newyork Times
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12-
Daniel P. Moynihan, ambassa-
dor to India, has privately;
warned Secretary of State Kis-
singer that recent reports ofi
Central Intelligence Agency
activities in Chile have con
firmed Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi's "worst suspicions and!
genuine fears" about American!
policy toward India.
In a stinging rebuke of suchi
clandestine activities, Mr.'
Moynihan noted in a confiden
that his embassy formally de-
nied last year to the Indian
Government that the United
States had intervened against
the Marxist President of Chile,!
Salvador Allende Gossens. Mr.'
Allende died in a bloody coup!
d'etat last September.
Writing of Mrs. Gandhi, Mrl
Moynihan said: !
"Her concern is whether the
United States accepts the In-
dian regime. She is not sure
'out that we would be content
to see others like her over-i
thrown. She knows full welt
that we have done our share
and more of bloody and dis-
honorable deeds."
Not Worried About Ouster
The ambassador said Mrs.
Gandhi was not worried about
being overthrown, and added:
"It is precisely because she
is not innocent, not squeamish
and' not a moralizer that her
concern about American inten.
tions is real and immediate.
"And of course the news
from the United States, asl
printed in th? Indian press, re-
peatedly confirms her worst
suspicions and genuine fears.
' Nothing will change her un-
less she is satisfied that the
United States accepts her In-
dia. She does noto now think
do. She thinks we are a
profoundly selfish and cynical
counter-revotu[ionary power."
BecausA nF that helief. Mr.
'?tovnihan r,o-ed, "she will ac-
cordingiv proceed to develop
n:t fear weapons and a missile
delivery s~ stern preaching non-
violpnce all the way."
State Deoair.ment officials
acid that tiro cablegram had'!
-.,en persona; v reviewed 0% 1
..lr. Kissing-r. but his reaction.
could not b' .. arneJ.
T;1ere ?:. :,o official cnri-
c't from State Depart.1
.. ?at a',),)u: t:1P ambassac.,i-'s
a'~'~. Ors .:'l -informed o[fi-
cial ;acknowledged . that. Mr-.i
dignant about the C.I.A.'s ac-
tivities"=in -Chile.... ...
"Pat's always indignant," the
official added. "He write beau- (
tifully-and his cables are a'de-
light tt ..read, but he's always
indignant."
Other officials said that, as
far as they knew, Mr. Moyni-
han was still in good standing
with the Ford Administration.
Kissinger Testimony Urged
'Representative Michael J.
Harrington, the Massachusetts
Democrat whose concern over
Chile policy led to the C.I.A.
disclosures, urged at a news
conference that Mr. Kissinger
publicly be called upon by
Congress to account for that
policy. He said that if the
agency did not cease its clan-
destine activities, it might
jeopardize all of its overt in-
telligence-gathering work.
4Senator Edward M. Ken-
nedy, Democrat of Massachu-i
setts, made public a letter to l
Mr. iKssinger in which he
sought an explanation for the
legal basis of the agency's in-
volvement in Chile as well as
an explanation of why State
Department officials misled
Congress during sworn testi-
mony about the United States
policy toward Cuba.
William E. Colby, director
of the C.I.A., testified in secret
about the Chile operations be-
fore the Senate Armed Serv-
ices subcommittee on intelli-
gence. The hearing was led by
Senator John C. Stennis, Dem-
ocrat of Mississippi and chair-
man of the full committee.
rlA two-day conference on
"the C.I.A. and covert actions"opened in a Senate hearing)
room', with Senator Philip A.
Hart, Democrat of Michigan,
declaring that if Congress did
not fully investigate the
agency's role in Chile, "it will
be sending the executive
branch a clear signal that it is
not really serious about ras-
serting all its powers and its
right to participate in the
foreign pol:rv area."
Adverse Effect Is Seen
Mrs. Ghandi's anger and
fears, as reported by Mr. Moy-
nihan, could have an adverse
effect on the continuing United
States attempt to improve rela-
tions with India in the after-
math of Mr. Kissinger's tilt to-
ward Pakistan in the 1971,
India-Pakistan war.
The Secretary of State was)
known to be planning a visit
to India next month and was
expected to set up a number of
joint United States-Indian com-
missions to work out economic
and-technical aid agreements. .
Mr. Moynihan reported that
Indian newspapers had given
wide circulation to dispatches
about C.I.A. activities against
Mr. Allende thatw ere author-
ized by Mr. Kissinger as direc-
tot of the 40 Committee, a high-
level intelligence review group
that meets in the White House.
Mr. Moynihan also noted thatl
th?,Indian newspaper had re-1
printed Mr`Kissinaer=s denials;
last rear about United States)
involvement in Chile.
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