C.I.A. SAID TO HAVE ASKED FUNDS FOR CHILE RIGHTISTS IN '73

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• Publication Date: October 21, 1974
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C.I.A. Said toHaveAskedFunds
for Chile Righ tis is in '73
By SEYMOUR M. HERSH
WASHINGTON', Oct. 20-The
Central Intelligence Agency
sought to finance art extreme
right-win; opposition group in
Chile six weeks before the over-
,throw of President Saivadore
Allende Gossens in September,
i1973, highly reliable sources
said today.
The sources said that the
'first word of the C.I.A.'s at-
tempt to become involved with
the extremist group became
known two weeks ago when a
close aide to Secretary of State
Kissinger leaked documents in
an effort to discredit a former
high Nixon Administratio.7 in-
telligence official who was
known to he privately crincal
of Mr. Kissinger's role in
The docun7ents. althou n in-
,tended to show that there was
a consensus inside the Admin-
istration over the clande;tine
C'.T A. n~eratinns in Ch, have
instead railed new
;
about tae extent of t' s- i'( get'
United States involvement in
the overthrow of Dr. Abend'.
'1 he sources said ti?.at
rence S. Eagleburger, 'Cr. r ~ s-
inger's executive i>s;~tant.
leaked three summaries of nro-
posa!s for clandestine i I.A.
op t a r o s in Chile : : - r , 2 a
brief,:g for the CBS or
newsma:. Daniel Schorr. ?T -e
docume:ts had been ore- i - i=n
for n.eeungs in 1970 and 1'x73
of the 40 Committee, the hi?h
level irtf?lligence hoard that re-
views co-. ert activities for, the
United stares Government.
'.:"reactionary Croup
The l,"73 document, sources
sand, showed that as late as
July 5. 1173, the C.I.A. recom-
mended to the 40 Comm,uee
that 5204.000 be provided clan-
destir':ely to the National party
in Cntle, a conservative group
that had urged Chileans to re-
ject-,vah Violence if n(!ces-
sary-the Allende Administra-
tion "il!o~airnate" and '
constitutional."
The Nar:ora ]party .sac , n-
sidered to represent the sew.
cf the orc nertied class in
assn. In the ,ear herore
c.:c row of Dr. was
kr )vn to i sv'- , Icon ti . TO
Patti -t , a rr,c[,r, arv
,trot., , i.', n,, :2ct
it?: 111% C. . n; iri ri 1. l;:,-r
torts in n. i throw the a.l;end~.
Government.
Since the first published dis- about. All I provided was a
closures last month of the C.I.A. general broad statement [ceal-
operation; in Chill knowledge- trig w:th mLr. Canes role."
able Ford Administration ottt- ' H nrv s rile was only to
cials have mainted that the ask me to do a check of the
main goal was to enable mod- files." Mr. Eaoleburger said.
erase political factors to sur? It v-as me, on nmv own, who
give the Allende period. told some pPnple what the files
Whether the 40 Corn mi[
tee specifically approved A !r. Schorr has made no
proposed funds tton the Natii na
party could not he le,-.;: -I public use of the materials
hut \V:11 am F. i, u. .. the reportedly supplied by Mr.
d,r-ctor, road a -, e n' Eagieburger and in a telephone
;ence subcomrnit'~e earner interview refused to discuss
tni.c year that SI-million was. the issue, adding: "I don't
authorized in August, 1973, for know what you are talking
use in (ht?e. Mr. Colby further about."
testified, however, that less I The first word of Mr. Eagle-
than $50,000 was actually spent burger's action came indirectly
because of the coup d'etat in front State Department officials
Chive the next month. who learned that a search had
Mr. Eagleburger's intention in been made of the department's
briefing Mr. Schorr, the sources special vault containging its 40
said, was to rebuff off-the- Committee documents.
record statements made to the In a telephone interview yes-
newsman earlier by Ray S. terday, Mr. Eagleburcer ac-
(.Lne, the former director of knowledged that Mr. Kissinger
tire- Mate Department's R'lreau` had au[nurized file searches
of Intelligence. Mr. Cline par- both of the National Security
ticiprcted in 40 Committee de Council minutes in the White
l,heretions on Chile from 1970 House and of the 40 Committee
documents stored in the State
to ;9%3 and has recently criti-
cired 'Mr. Kissinger's role at Department in an effort "to see
those meetings. I whether we could come upwith
i he disclosure of the nnu-i something that would indicate
mutts took place less titan a whether those [Mr. Cline's]
r c e after Mr. Ki !,t(,r, statements were correct.'
fourth his spokesman. ii,d As Mr. Eag!courger described
n u)i:cly called such ieaks "a it, the file sea , cc 'ce_an short-
o:-:race to the Foreign Srr?c IN, alter Mr, K '.singer learned
,ice ' and dangerous to national tll.it Mr. Cline, who retired last
security. year, "itad made some state-
One of the 1970 doer ntents ments about. his AL-)r smtion to
si)r,wn to Mr. Schorr in: i;ud,d 'a number of activit:ec in Chile
ti;e name of a Chilean Go`,ern and Henry and Nixon had over-
mertt ottic:al who served as al ruled hint and the State Depart-
n.ent,"
cc -;duit Inc C LA. hews and "It is true," Mr. Eagleburger
a. ,o apparently helped relay added, "that I have told some
funds to anti-Allende forces people who asked about it that
Such information troptionaliy the documents made available
has been argon _ the most close- demonstrated tne- opposite of
h guarded government secrets. what Cline said."
A number of persons familiar ! "I guess that I have to say
with State Department opera- that a guess cncc kof ti,e ,ies showed
tions expressed doubt that Mr? noth[n to sicpotrt
Fie eliL e r would have snowr7 o:7 2t I'
Mr. S,-' such doe an". on ,~,tti suitr^-
a had to
:o )c tr r,_
t.p- 'L:CLCrie if The JeC'' td ti' of ,n mutee on C, i.e,'' '~~ _P.J. "lt7
sae. - ...
fact, tnrsC f' s d> aced.
Ea2:enur2i?r Y.as ogled
?.~r. .nr, "r. ;j:.. nrr t.^... Opiin:. .
t ,,z In a nter',.cw With The;
oersor.au . i > rz 'on to ~' ~' r!c Tr;: e .:bli-lied
br.. ',1 ore. i c ant T` r.c
gi.ics come e. =r' It.
d t;. a of !,-,c ,gar c OC hot:' r. Cline also
i e d d confirmed that the C.I,A.'s ac-
e en . s p at w e re b e i
'. r~ ;, s u ,
2 1 OCT 1974
tivities in Chile included the.
financial support of strikes by
shoo iecpers and truckers.
President I ord and %Ir. Kis-
singer have said that the C.I.A.
fur.dng in Chile 7va-4 limited to
opposition-newspapers and pol
itici.+ns.
Told of ?,Ir. Eagleburger's
efforts to contradict his Views,
Mr. Cline said that he was "un-
willing to omment on the
staff papers prepared for 40
Committee ,neetings."
"No one should discuss in-
ternal papers of such impor-
tance." he added.
Mr. Cline, who served with
the C.I.A. for more than 20
years before becoming the
'head of State Department in-
telligence, is row executive di-
rector of thf, Georgero-,vn
University School of Str,sie,tc
Studies.
The Three Documents
'Tne three documents riees-
cribed by SIr. Lagieburger dealt
wit it t:?.> Slate Departnents
con's gems on C.I.A. pr:.,po,ais
to he di~cussed at 40 comet:t-
tee m^et.ngs.
Ac.orsitn to reliable scmn:es,:
i ( as director c,f
in- could make -nddition
a! recommendations or cv`v-
ments on the documen,s, '.h.c.`
were to be forwarded to the
Undersecretary for Polio, ,l A,-
fairs the ot'i.ial v: .,, :AeCa-
tionaliv represented Mate c,:
the p0 Committee.
The first document, ti?e
sources said, was dated Aug.
.,._
31, 1970. and dealt with
C.I.A. recommendations t;-, case
Ch n 0
;tal resulted 'n a run-
off n':ol\ ,r.g Or. .Allende.
7hr^e onoitO al,. or on,t;cn=,
for tnv ng money in an-:our o_,
ran rung from $330,000 to S9UJ,-
000 7,:~r., reported discussed,
with the Stair: Department urg-
ing limited funds or no at all tor cc, r s it 'r.
Clne, in a 31 risen
n:ent, ca::, d for t., tii!anc;al
support for ant,Aiieooc fovea
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if it could "make a difference"
between victory or der at for
Dr. Allende, the source said-
A second document, dated
Sept. 4, 1970, the day Dr.
Allende barely won the Chilean
election, reportedly discussed a
C.I.A. proposal for bribin,
,members of the Chilean Con-
gress, which, under that coun-
try's Constitution, would have
to ratify the election and thus
ultimately choose the President.
Wymberly Coerr. then tha
State Department's coordinatoe
for 40 Committee staff recom-
mendations, ureed that no
program involving what he
termed "subornation" he initi-
ated, according to the sources.
%ir. Cline, in anotiher hand-
written comment, reportedly
depicted 'Mr. Coerr being
"hung up" on the cototiunal
overtones of the word orna-
tion. "In the world of realpoli-
tik," Mr. Cline is said to have
written such activities do take
place.
Spending Authorized
The 40 Committee e'.entua'Iv
recommended that 5330,000 be
spent in an attempt to bribe
the Congress. which 'rued
nonetheless in O.tober to ratify
Dr. Allende as President.
The third document, dated
July 25, 1973, was said to have
been forwarded to William .1,
Porter, then the tinder Secre-
tary for Political Affairs, by
Jack B. Kubisch, then t`,e As-
sistant Secretary for S. to for
Inter- American Affairs. The
document reportedly di, cussed
C.I.A. proposals for etandes-
I tine financing of the anti-Al-
lende political parties. includ-
_:- ing a specitic recommendation
that 5350,000 be given to the
Christian Democrats and an-
ot:-,er suggesuon that 5200,000
be given to the National party.
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