FORD, KISSINGER BRIEF HILL

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
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• Publication Date: September 19, 1974
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19 SEP 1974
Ford, Kissinger Brief Hill
By Jeremiah O'Leary
Star-News Staff Writer
President Ford and
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger today briefed
congressional leaders at a
White House breakfast on
foreign policy matters -
presumably including the
controversial role of the
CIA in Chile now under
investigation by the Senate,
Foreign Relations Commit-
tee.
Also reportedly on the
agenda at the meeting were
the U.S. Position on the
Strategic Arms Limitation
Talks and detente with the
Soviet Union, on which
Kissinger was scheduled to,
give a major statement,-,to
the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee later
today.
The leaders also were
thought to have received
up-to-date information from
Kissinger and the President
on the state of negotiations
with the nations of the Mid-
dle East and on the develop-
ments to be expected at the
United Nations General
Assembly.
Included among the con-
gressional guests today
were: House Speaker Carl
Albert, D-Okla.; Majority
Leader Thomas (Tip) O'-'
Neil, D-Mass.; Minority'
Leader John Rhodes, R-.
Ariz.; Senate Majority
Leader Mike Mansfield, D-
Mont.; and Senate Minority
Leader Hugh Scott, R-Pa.
THE MEETING took
place just two hours before
Kissinger was scheduled to
make what was described
by State Department
spokesman Robert Ander-
son as a major statement of
50 to 60 pages to the Senate
committee on SALT, de-
tente and the whole spec-
trum of U.S. relations with
the Soviet Union.
Anderson told reporters
yesterday the United States
has' now reached a unified
position on nuclear arms
limitation. Informed
sources said there had been)
differences between the;
positions of Kissinger and
Defense Secretary James
R. Schlesinger but that these
differences had been resolv-
ed by decision of President
Ford. -
The decision is believed
to have been refined by the
President last weekend at a
National Security Council j
meeting. This decision is!
believed to have been trans- I
mitted to Ambassador U.1
Alexis Johnson, chief of the
U.S. negotiators at the
Geneva SALT talks which
resumed yesterday.
Johnson said he is
"reasonably optimistic"
that a comprehensive 10-
year agreement with M.ios-
cow can be achieved next
year on SALT II.
WESTERN disarmament
experts, however, said they
doubt that any far-reaching
pact could be achieved so
soon.
The second round of
SALT began almost two
years ago and the most re-
cent high-level discussion in ,
Moscow got nowhere be-
cause, experts believe, the
Russians were dealing with
the United'States in the
waning days of President
Nixon's administration.
Kissinger can hardly
avoid informing the Cony
gress of more details of the
role of the CIA in Chile
against the Marxist regime
of President Salvador Al-
lende. The CIA ' was
authorized by the "40 Com-
mittee" on covert activities,
headed by Kissinger, to
spend up to $11 million in
Chile until just before the
military overthrew Allende
Sept. 11, 1973. Members of
Congress have been react-
ing angrily to the evident i
lack of control by the legis-
lative branch over clandes-~
tine activities of the CIA.
THE SENATE Foreign
Relations Committee staff
has been ordered by Chair'
man J. William Fulbright,
D-Ark., to investigate the
entire episode and report
back next week. Some of
the congressional anger
was aimed at news leaks of
recommendations by sub-
committee counsel Jerome
Levinson that would have
reopened Kissinger's con-
firmation hearings and
charged former high rank-
ing State Department offi-
cials with both perjury and
contempt.
The subcommittee recom-
mended perjury
proceedings against former
Asst. Secretary of State
Charles E. Meyer and for-
mer CIA Director Richard
Helms. Contempt proceed-
ings were recommended
against former Ambassador
to Chile Edward Korry,
among others, for his refus-
al to answer questions dur-
ing the hearings without a
legal basis.
United Press Internation-
al, meanwhile, quoted
Korry as saying that during
the 1970 presidential elec-
tion the U.S. Embassy in
Santiago was approached
for contributions by "high
level fund raisers" to all
three candidates. Korry
said Allende's fund raiser
asked for $1 million.
KORRY MADE the state-
ment at an Aug. 15 seminar
at Georgetown University
and UPI obtained a copy of
it.
The U.S. government
made no contributions to
any of the candidates," the
statement said.
However, Korry said the
Nixon administration offer-
ed Chile "an incredibly
generous economic pack-
age" to enable Allende to
compensate three
nationalized U.S.-based
firms - ITT and the two
copper companies Anacon-
da and Kennecott.
"To reach an accommo-
dation," he said, "the U.S.
offered Allende a deal
which could only be de-
scribed as the most incred-
ibly generous package we
have ever offered any gov-
ernment in an economic
relationship." He indicated i
the offer was made in early
1971.
He said Washington pro-
posed to underwrite Chilean
bonds with "the full faith
and credit of the American
Treasury, if the Allende re-
gime would negotiate a set-
tlement with ITT and the
two copper companies."
Korry said Allende reject-
ed the offer "for ideological
reasons," fearing that he
would have lost support for
his Marxist-Socialist gov-
ernment by accepting help-
from the United States.
Allende felt, Korry said,
"that if he accepted the
deal - and he told me this
himself - there would be no
`Chilean revolution'."
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