SUNSHINE JIMMY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100170017-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: March 17, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE .l 'P:".&R D
021 PA?3 2 a
By- Nat Hentoff.
The. citizens of.Chile.clearly were.too
-irresponsible to be left free. Why, Salvador
Allende was about to come to power as the
result of a democratic election. God knows
the CIA had tried -terribly hard to. save
these people from themselves. The Agency
had secretly funded-with your tax dollars
=huge propaganda campaigns in Chilean
newspapers. It had paid workers to -stay
out -on strike. to further ."destabilize" the'
situatiori, and it-had spread bountiful
anti-Allende. bribes:' around. Nonetheless,'
the natives had insisted on making up
their own minds. - ~'
And so, on September 15, 1970, CIA-
Director Richard Helms attended a me-
r-ing with. President Richard Nixon, At-
torney, General .John Mitchell, and Na-
tional Security Advisor Henry Kissinger.
The-sole item on the agenda was "Track
11"-the. mounting of a military coup in
Chile. (Not Afghanistan. Chile.) When he
left, Helms quickly wrote down the es
sence of the Star Chamber resolution::.
I in 10 chances perhaps, but save.
Chile!
worth spending =-- K
not concerned risks involved
no involvement of embassy-
000: ,000,available, -more if
-,"necessary
77 full-time job-best' men we -have
:make the economy'scream-:
48 hours for plan.of action.
"":IE`didn't work 'then . Three "years later,
it did. Largely because of the CIA,,Ameri
.'can ,banks, and multinational ~'corpo=.
rations, Allende was killed,: and the child=
ishly. free-thinking: citizens of . Chile: were
placed under the: protectorate of , a die-
'tatorship. Many. hadtobe murdered ben:
THE VILLAGE VOICE
17 March 1980
cause of their incurable addictionto liber
ty, but what- the hell,.'.Cbile had been,`
This Helms document-both'the hand-
written original and a typewritten copy-
can- be found in the recently=publishe
DOCUMVfENTS:A shocking ..collection o;
memoranda, letters, and telexes from th
secret-files of the American intelligence
community- Christy' Macy-. and- Susan:
Kaplan assembled and . annotated the',
documents,. and the publisher of this. in
-aaluable outsize paperback is Pe
The book -could not have been'. pub
lished without the Freedom of Information"
'Act which, as Macy and Kaplan say, `.`is'
responsible for much of what we now know-',
about the clandestine world of the na-
tional security apparatus:" -.
- Also in Documents is a draft of the
anonymous (actually, FBI) letter_to
Martini Luther King, Jr., in 1964 urging
that he commit suicide to forfend the
release of tapes made from bugs planted
by the FBI.in his hotel rooms: "There is
but one way out-for.you..You better take
it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent
self is bared to the.nation."
That's an. FBI document, but the CIA
also spied on King. Not only overseas, but
here. As George Lardner, Jr., has pointed
.out in the Washington Post, not a trace of
the CIA's surveillance of.King appeared
."in 'Ahe- extensive. congressional or ex-
ecutive branch. investigations of the agen-
cy'co-nducted in recent years."_ But,-when
Harold Weisberg, a writer from' . Frederick;
Maryland, filed a Freedom- of Information.
Act lawsuit to get the CIA documents on
King, they finally made their way-much'l
to the. discomfiture of. the :Agency-into
:the.light.
..,There is a long list of.crucia'lly.instruc
CIA Director"Stansfield Turner.:-,
Only the Shadow knows.
tive books-that could not have been writ-!-
ten without the FOIA. One is William
Shawcross's 'Sideshow. Another -is 'John I
Marks's The Search for the 'Manchurian .1
Candidate'.-. The, CIA and Mind Control;
just reissued in a McGraw-Hill paperback.
In 1975,.Marks,'noticed two sentences. in
the- RockefellerCommission report bn the
CIA.. They had to do with a "CIA program j
to study possible, means -for - controlling.1
:human behavior"and'said that some of '
*the studies had '"explored- the .effects of
radiation electric-shock, psychology,'psy-
'chiatry,. sociology, and harassment sub
stances. --:-ti
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