DEAR MR. ALLEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01439R000500110025-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2000
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• Publication Date: June 13, 1969
• Content Type: LETTER

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Santiago, Chile
June 13, 1969
CONFIDENTIAL
Mr. Edward L. Allen
Director of Economic Research
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
Thank you very much for the copies of your recent surveys
on agriculture and the economy of Chile.
I am sorry that neither myself nor Sidney Weintraub, the
Director of the combined AID/Embass Economic Mission,
were able to bey on hand when arrived
in the early part of May. It was necessary for both of us
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to be in Washington at that time. , however 25X1A9a
was able to meet with the members of the Mission and did
talk at some length with John Sprott, the Chief of our
Economic Section. Mr. Sprott indicated to me that his
25X1A9a discussion with convered rather thoroughly
the subject and points of view of the memorandum, "The
Chilean Economy: Trends Under Frei and Prospects for
1969-70. " But, and this is the important point, he feels
that even after this lengthy talk there seemed to be no
willingness to understand the concern of this Mission over
what we then considered and still. consider to be a clear
bias in the report. seemed to want to defend, 25X1A9a
not to discuss or understand, and I am afraid this really
served no purpose. I find this attitude difficult to accept and
it causes me to question, I think unfortunately, the
intelligence quality of other reports by this staff.
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in the course of his discussion with John
Sprott, indicated that the answers we formed and sent up
on the early draft of the "Chilean Economy... " had been
rebutted with several unofficial copies floated "around"
(but not to us). I have found this whole procedure of
"intelligence"-- the preparation of a report that is clearly
biased and tendentious, an unwillingness to listen to other
points of view during its preparation, its circulation as a
supposedly impartial study, an unofficial rebuttal that is
bootlegged around, and then a desire only to defend and
not to understand what it was we were getting at when
somebody from your staff took the trouble to come all the
way to Chile -- somewhat less than intelligent and somewhat
less than worthy of your organization, for which I have a
high regard.
Sincerely,
Edward M. Korry
American Ambassador
cc: INR - Thomas Hughes - Asst. Secretary of State
ARA - Charles Meyer , Asst. Secretary of State
ARA/BC - Fred Chapin.
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17 April 1969
The Honorable Edward M. Korry
United States Ambassador
The American Embassy
Santiago, Chile
Dear Ambassador Korry:
Knowing your personal interest in intelligence appreciations
of Chile, I am enclosing copies of our two most recent surveys,
IM 69-19 on agriculture, and. IM 69-53 on the economy as a, whole.
our senior economic analyst on Latin
America, will be in Santiago on 5, 6 and 7 May. He would appreciate
an opportunity to discuss with you and your staff the basic judgments
in these intelligence surveys.
We hope that as a result of this exchange it may be possible
to narrow the gap on our respective views of the Chilean economy.
Sincerely yours,
/s/
Edward L. Allen
Director
Economic Research
Enclosures:
IM 69-19 (Copy Nos. 35 and 36)
IM 69-53 (Copy Nos. 19 and 20)
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