STUDY-LOOKS FOR U.S. LIES ABOUT ALLENDE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000200010018-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: September 13, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

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By DEAN ;MILLS I should be called before the' "It is no longer acceptatiie,"
Wash ngton Bureau of The sun 1 panel to give a public explana-'he said, "for the Congress to
Washington - Senator?Frank;tion of the role of the so-called acquiesce in State Department
J Church, the most influential
administration critic on the
Senate Foreign Relations Can-
In his capacity as director of
gressional committees and
making statements, which, if
the National Security not outright lies, are at least
mittee, initiated a study yes-I
Dr. Kissinger chaired the com- evasions of the truth.
terday to determine whether mittee, which has responsibility , Senator Edward ICI. Kennedy
State Department officials lied for covert activities of the Cen-I(D
Mass.) said at least three
.,
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to various congressional, com- tral Intelligence Agency, times in the last year State De yesterday by urging Congress toi
mittees about American in-i Mr. Harrington, citing secret
partment officials made mis-l explore the CIA role in Chile.
volvement in the overthrow of testimony by William " E..I 7 tt
the Chilean regime of Salvador Colby, the CIA director, beiore ments tleants and deceptive state-~ 'We haven't done a damn,
b to Congress about the thing . . . to revent the Presi
a House Armed Services sub- P
Allende. American role in Chile, it was dent from waging secret wars,"
committee in July, has Aides to the Idaho Democrat g disclosed. Senator Hart said. He said the
charged that the CIA poured1
said yesterday the senator irr $11 million into Chile from 1962; In a letter to Dr. Kissinger? Colby testimony "has more pro-.
. strutted his staff to make the study to 1973 to support Allende op- !Senator Kennedy described the found implications for our for
. ponents and to "destabilize" statements as "contrary to my1eign policy than many i_riterna-'
They said it will be. com- I the Allende government after understanding of the dual re- 1 Lion al issues in which Congress;
pleted within a day or two, it came to power. sponsibility of Congress and theihas shown interest."
clue whether to call for new i Department officials repeat- 1
testimony on the question. edly have denied any Ameri-
Meanwhile, at a press con-lean involvement in the over-
ference yesterday, Representa- throw of Dr. Allende.
tive Michael J. Harrington (D.,I In a lctter to Senator J W.
Mass.), proposed that the Sen-1 Fulbright, (D., Ark.), chair-
ate Foreign Relations Commit-'man of the Foreign Relations
tee hold open hearings on the Committee, released at thee,
role of the United States in press conference, Mr. Harring-1
Chile during the Allende per-'ton said that the Senate panel
iod. 1 should study the possibility of
He said that Henry A. Kis-'lodging- perjury charges
singer, the Secretary of State,! against the officials.
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President in the conduct of U.S.
foreign relations."
The Colby disclosures werell
the highlight of the opening of a!
conference on covert activities!
and the CIA, sponsored by the;
Center for National Security;
Studies.
Senator Phillip A. Hart (D.,
) opened the conference
Mich
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