ITT ADMITS TRYING TO STOP ALLENDE'S ELECTION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000600100015-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2005
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: March 21, 1973
• Content Type: OPEN

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PROGRAM Nonstop News
March 21, 1973 4:15 P.M.
WTOP Radio
Washington, D.C.
ITT ADMITS TRYING TO STOP ALLENDE'S ELECTION
ANNE TAYLOR: Former CIA Director and now ITT Director,
John McCone, testified today that the President of International
Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, Harold Geneen, was willing
to provide up to a million dollars to try and head off the election
of Marxist Salvador Allende as President of Chile.
JOHN McCONE: What he told me at that time was that
he was prepared to put up as much as a million dollars in support
of any government plan that was adopted by the government for
the purpose of bringing about a coalition of the opposition
to Allende. It was not a plan generated by ITT or in ;fir. Geneen's
mind.
TAYLOR: McCone said that the carried the offer to
Presidential aide Henry Kissinger and CIA Director Richard Helms.
McCone himself had preceded Helms as Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency.
McCone said that Kissinger's office never responded
to the offer, that he assumes no plan against Allende ever was
launched. He said International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
had offered to contribute the one million dollars to U.S. Government
assistance programs in Chile.
McCone also said that ITT did not originate the plan,
and that he could not say whose idea it was. ITT feared that
Allende, if elected, would seize its property in Chile which,
indeed, did happen.
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