CHILE, THE CIA AND NATIONAL SECURITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000020077-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 77
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Approved For Release 2011/08/09: CIA-RDP09TOO207RO01000020077-9
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the CIA and.
The fuss over the role of the Central
Intelligence Agency in Chile is not
really about that agency or that coun-
try. It emerges chiefly from a deep
general suspicion of the ini.ruments
of national security, If h truly wants
to heal the country, President Ford
will have to go out of his way to as-
suage this suspicion.
Two major questions ought tc be
asked at all times about the CIA. The
first enrages the role of the agency
in making and ~:nm~l ing fo eigi; of
ernme.ts by the black arts of sabotage
and subversion.
That issue seems to be c?entrctl to
the present stir over Chile. The e?a:e
grcc~. out of a ]eater written by jtcp.
iii~heel tlarrinurtou tt)?'1l as.) 8, id
lecl:lei to the press. The letter pur
pm ml to summarize testimony to a
liens: e ;uhc'o.nniitjee by Willi un Colijy,
thi? pre: ent 6.irector of the CIA.
a cco r dint; to the letter, Colby testi-
fied that the agency spent 82 million
beiwcen 1970 and ll,io to help the
opposition to the Popular Front go,-
cinment of Chilean President Salvador
Allende. 'j-he letter said the funds wore
used in order to achieve the ' destabili-
i , " c' tV e rn r;me The i*nnli(at!(m
that the CIA arranged the' croup
which overthrew Allende last: year.
In fact, the word "destabilization"
was not used by `11r. Colby in his testi-
rno:y. It is hardly thinkable that so
small a ruin-for 4'3 million is irt'c: iiv
in the modern lent ~i1i, en;-,
,,ame --could have caused t is fall of
tie: (,h;iC;in eot eminent. t'; c dr'r;t
Ford said at his news confcri er,ce what,
most informed sources also say--that
the nicn