CIA'S CHILE MOVES TO BE DETAILED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000020124-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 124
• Publication Date: September 12, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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12 SEP 1974
By Jeremiah O'Leary
Star-News Staff Writer
Rep. Michael Harrington,
D-Mass., today was to dis-
close more details about
CIA activities in Chile that
were intended to contribute
to the downfall of the
Marxist regime of the late
President Salvador Allende.
Harrington scheduled a
press conference and in-
formed sources said he
would be making more
revelations of how the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency
ran a clandestine operation
against Allende in the peri-
od from his election in 1970
until a few weeks before he
was overthrown by the mili-
tary a year ago.
Harrington's first disclo-
sures were based on
testimony given in secret to
a House 1committee last
April by CIA Director Wil-
liam Colby, generally spell-
ing out how the agency
spent nearly $11 million
against Allende on specific
authorization of the "40
Committee," headed by
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger.
INFORMED sources also
told the Star-News that
Colby would return to Capi-
tol Hill today to discuss the
CIA-Chile operation with a
group of legislators. But it
was not immediately known
whether Colby would ap-
pear before the House and
Senate committees that
oversee CIA operations or
some other group of legisla-
tors.
Meanwhile, chairman
Frank Church of the Senate
subcommittee on multina-
tional corporations, said
last night he expected his
staff to report to him before
the end of the week on
whether there is a prima
facie case of perjury in the
testimony of two former
State Department officials
who appeared before his
subcommittee in April 1973.
Church ordered the sub-
committee staff to study the
testimony given during
hearings on ITT activities
cials are no longer denying
that the "40 Committee"
ordered the expenditure of
millions of dollars against
Allende but they do deny
that the United'States had
anything to do with the
Sept. 11, 1973 military revolt
or that Colby ever testified
that the money was to be
used for "destabilization"
of the Allende regime.
in Chile by former Ass't. IT IS KNOWN from the
Secretary of State Charles most informed sources that
A. Meyer and the former some of the covert U.S.
ambassador to Chile, Ed- expenditures in Chile were
ward M. Korry. Both men, used for the support of the
now no longer in govern- anti-Allende newspaper, El
ment, testified under oath Mercurio. U.S. officials
thah the United States justify the support for
scrupulously adhered to Chile's largest newspaper
apolicy of non-intervention on the grounds that Allende
during the Allende period.. was trying to cut off. their
supply of news print and
CHURCH SAID that if the that Cuba and the Soviet
subcommittee staff finds Union were secretly sup-
discrepancies in the testi- I porting Allende's efforts to
mony in relation to Harring- create a Marxist state in
ton's disclosures of large- Chile.
scale CIA funding of Chi-
has de-
lean
opposition institutions, ,l A pd sincca Harrington's
he wold reconvene subcom- veloped
mittee hearings on Chile disclosures last weekend is
nd rthe two wit- that all four State Depart-
and recall ment witnesses were aware
nesses.
rch said two other tof the "10 Committee" ac-
Church
Department witnesses to ho h program, but managed
told a House committee edge their testimony testimony be-
told
they were asked only
that there was no U.S. vague cause
questions.
government intervention
against Allende but the "They just didn't ask the
Church subcommittee has right questions," said one
no primary prerogative for official familiar with the
calling them to testify. They testimony of the State De-
calling
former Ass't. Secretary partment witnesses. Har-
of State Jack B. Kubisch, rington's first disclosures
now ambassador to Greece, were based on his scrutiny
and the present Deputy of secret testimony by
Ass't. Secretary for Latin Colby before the House
America Harry Shlaude- Armed Services subcommit-
man. tee which oversees CIA
High-ranking U.S. offi- operations and he was ex-
pected to divulge more de-
tails today.
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