SENATORS TO PROBE CIA ROLE IN CHILE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000200010019-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: September 13, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

By Jeremiah'O'Leary
Star-News Staff Writer
The Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee will meet
in executive session Tues-
day to examine all aspects
of the growing furor over
White House-authorized
CIA operations against the
government of the late
President Salvador Allende
in .Chile.
' In the absence of Chair-
man J. William Fulbright,
key Senate committee mem-
bers will explore several
courses that may be taken
following disclosures that
the United States was in-
volved in extensive clandes-
tine activities designed to
subvert the Allende govern-
ment. State Department
officials were testifying to
several committees at the
time that there was no
American intervention
against the Marxist but
democratically elected Chi-
lean government.
Informed sources said the.
staff of Sen. Frank
Church's subcommittee on
multinational corporations
will complete a study of
testimony it received more
than a year ago and today
will report to the Idaho
Democrat whether there
appears to?be a prima, facie
case of perjury in the sub-
committee record.
WASHINGTON STAR
13 SEP 1974
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mittee" headed by Dr
Henry A. Kissinger at the
National Security Council.
Rep. Michael J. Harring-
ton, D-Mass., who first dis-
closed the extent of CIA
operations in Chile, yester-
day denounced what he
called the "fiction of effec-
tive congressional over-
sight" of CIA activities.
Based on his scrutiny of 48
pages of secret testimony
by CIA Director William
Colby before the House
Armed Services subcommit-
tee on Intelligence; Har-
rington said Chairman
Lucien Nedzi, D-Mich., was
not aware of the specific na-
ture of the CIA activities
and that the details are un-
known to this day.
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mand that our war plans be
published.
"It is even necessary for
the Congress to conduct
some of its business in;
executive (closed) session,
while remaining account-1
able to the voters for the
legislation it passes."
Similarly, Coby said, the'
CIA maintains "the neces
sary secrecy of the sources
and methods of our intelli-
gence."
Colby is proposing legis-
lation which will penalize
ex-CIA agents and others
who reveal classified
material.
' THE RELEVEN.T infor-
mation about these activi
ties is not available even' to
those committees in Con-
gress in charge of t
overseeing the CIA," Har-
rington said. "This is as
much an indictment of Con-,
gress as it is of the execu-
tive branch."
Harrington charged that
all State Department wit-
nesses who have appeared
before various committees
on the subject knew or
should have known what the
CIA was doing in Chile. He
said he would like to see
hearings conducted on why
CHURCH has said he is and how the United States
resolved to turn the matter got involved in Chile during
over to the Justice Depart- the Allende period.
ment if the transcript indi- Harrington urged Ful-
cates State Department wit- bright to reopen the Chilean
nesses perjured themselves inquiry and determine
during hearings in April whether transcripts of
1973. previous testimony should
Subcommittee staff coun- be sent to the Department
sel Jerry Levinson . is of Justice for perjury. The
scrutinizing testimony money authorized for the
taken under oath from for Chilean operation, Harring-
-
ton charged, was laundered
mer Asst. Secretary of
in
State for Latin America Europe. He said there
Charles A. Meyer and for- were references to Cuba
and Guatamala in Colby's
tier Ambassador to Chile
testimony
Edward M.Korry. The two to the Nedzi sub
rivate committee, but these were
witnesses, now in private explained.
indicated the United .
States had adopted a hands- MEANWHILE, in a
off posture toward the Al- speech prepared for a meet-
lende government. i ing sponsored by the Na-
Eut it is being admitted in tional Security Studies Sec-
a number of government de- tion of the privately
partments now that both financed Fund for Peace,
had knowledge of the covert which has castigated CIA
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