PERJURY INQUIRY URGED ON CHILE DATA

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
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Panel Gets Report
By Laurence Stern
Washington Post 5teff \Voter
A Senate staff report recommends
that a perjury investigation be initi-
atcd against former Central Intelli-
genie Agency Director Richard M.
helms and accuses Secretary of Slate
Henry A. Kissinger of having :'de-
ceived" the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee in sworn testimony.
The report, which centers on testi-
mony given by high-ranking officials
on U.S. covert intervention in C'IlilF s
internal political affairs, also recom-
mends perjuy and contempt inv'-Sti-
gat ions of three other government v; it-
ne,ses in the Chile inquiry.
Prepared by Jerome Levinson, chief
counsel to the Senate Foreign P,cls-
tions Subcommittee on Multinational
Corporations, the confidential report
will he taken up for possible action to.
day at an executive session of the
Foreign Relations Committee.
The committee has the option of
endorsing or re;lecting the report iu
whole or i,i part.
The tat gets of the proposed insesti-
gationS are former Assistant Secrctat'y
of State for Inter-American Alfalit-s
C'h le, F. ;Moyer, former L S
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11 illiam Broe, for'nter chief of Cie
CIA's Latin American Division.
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The rep t subnutted to subcotu llec1slon aternoraudtun poor reached the conclusion that I
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'Lo asks that the record o'. ;vhieh the Forty Committee au-
J ton disclosure was to qua' Lon thorized clandestine aactivities
i~.I.S1eg(`t confirmation bearing ;Oleth(r Colby has used the
caul>encd in public session to questicti word "destabilization iu his desig led to destabilize the
the secretary- on the "rationale" tot April 22 testimony to a Ifou;e Allende aovccnt.
U.S. covert political actions in Chile Such a policy docmr.cn-
C'IA ov ea sight conuntttee
after 1(16:1. Would have been ch'att(.?c: 'ui
It father recornnnended that 7'i.- chaired by I(ep Lucien Nedzi (lei, the direction of Kissinger
sin; Or be asked to testify gene au+ nn Dlttc'll.) Who also chaired the Forty
L~ S. ; oitc toward '-dilly eC'" 1.71's only personal tom Committee meetings at v,'hich
ernnicttts which n:ay be elected ct tz.ated meat on the Harrin,tort report. the anti-Allende action nro-
not to tofu-h, Was that he wottlcl neitht?r colt-
policies to tt,c hh;rants were authorized.
of the United States.' firm nor deny its authenticity "'The report was also cribc?l
The staff recommendations
reflected risiri concern in
Congress over major discrepan-
cies in the sworn testimony of
high State Department wit-
nesses and the disclosure of
secret teat imone last April 22
by ('iA Director AVilli-,m F.
Colby that the a-,enc?y spent S3
m llion in Chile to lull the late
S, lvadore Allenct('s candidacy
in 1901 and $8 million attempt-
ing to block his election and
undel?minc his?overnment af-
ter 1969.
The report tilt's prcuously
seerel testil"I,ol by iii: ut er
dc-lit erect at an cxecut,v e .,( s
sion of his e?arlfirmatior, hero-.
in-,' on Sept. 17. 1973. mittinriz-
in" the role of the CIA in time
197;; Ali,'ride election.
.snore it etas ;.=IVCtI in eXccutivc ~
1 session. Last Friday Colhv of Assistant Secretary of (Ile
commented that the disclosure freasury' for liltel-national Af-
of his testimony tlu?ough a rails John M. Hennessy, who
conticletttial letter by Harring- as`isted in cootdinatin:r U.S.
economic- policy toward the
ton to his chairman, sed
Allende government that
Thomas -Wol-all raised
!questions about the ability of )caned hetivily toward with-
(?rival of lines of credit ? by
government Wi?!iesses to tcs
lily on "delicate" matters such international lcndin?
.
1 he report desc t it c? ,; birches as the \Corld Bank, 1 n-
ter-:\nlericall 1)evolei nlen+:
"disinr,enttous" Kiss. n.rers t< ;.
timuny that since 1970 we Bank and Expel f-inhport llo'ik.
have ;,bso)utely stayed aw'ls' Hennessy, said the Levinson
report. ''either perjured hint-
him-
rum ary coups'" in Chile. Kis
elf or seriously misled '?le
sin>er. %,,rote Levlnsun, 'must
suhcomrn:itce ir: slant, drat
h`!~'e l.ttoverr tiut ~per!?.iin::
h pril,i;im e (tcr;tt i s i t -
f , ! + i r i : f L1( , S a
tit r".O?C ~.
of er(.i+n)~;
zutinn had to cn'., rrce ii " no- tLe -Alta:ic,c _:c,rcrnmcmt s.as
of the coup v, hi:l), it Jaet, lroe, it' hi
took I1iaee. r;llll\'11_
n yuvcc'~ i is- miI'g 'r as : In the case of ilelrns, the ce
saying: port cited an exchange 1)e?,
"The CIA was heavily in- teen the former CIA dire-tor
volved in 1964 in the election, and one of his ieaclin senator' _
was in a very minor way iu- rial defender., Stuart Symintl-
volved in the 1970 election amid ton d)-Mo.). during an (-Veen America, was quoted in,1he re
since then efo vet absolutely tine hearin~ on the helms port as hav'?no testified) tl7,'t
nomination as amhassador to there was no U S- policy, toin
Our efforts in Chile Were to Iran on Feb. 7, 1973.
strengthen the democratic po? tt rv ere in the 1970 Ghii('aI
Syminytoil: Did you Im
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election
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]tote,) parties and Hive them a
ny money passed to the oupo? ey er, are 'technically, shy', of
basis for winning the election a
in 1976, which we expressed ,tents of Allende? perjury," the re?port,',(lilt
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our hope was that Allende ' Helms: No, sir. eluded. thouah they
:could be defeated in a free Symington: So that the 'to"intended to convey tee . -in
democratic election." ries that you were involved in 1)r("stun of it policy of; no n
At the time Kissinger gave that are wrong entirely:' The testimony . -
of NatLn iel
'his testimony, the report j Helms: Yes sir .. Davis. U.S. ambassador- t
noted. "the Forty Committee But Colb 's testimony, s. rc? ('bile during last year's. anti
[tote National Security Coun- ported in the Harrinttton. let-
ctl s senior covert action Allende coup, conformed it
' ter, vv as that the .A es- otatt
panel) pact ahrar authrn'izcd CI the -overall pattern of 'S
pended $500.000 in i06'! +,r I), rtment Witnesses dis eni
the expenditure. of . .. $3 mil- fund anti-Allende forces 1t'! b.ln:t and deceiv~ii.g the corn
lion for the purpose of do to Curing, the 1970 election `_(+0- initiea and subeornniittcc... 1;
hilizin;,, the Allende .ovc.r)t- 000 was iven to op;~?+?~t o;i
meat so as to precipitate its party p 1 te. )ect to the true scope of
downfall? personnel. After ilne US.government activities de
t Sept. 4 popular election in signed to undermine Ill'(, Al
011'..N a mouth before Kis which Allende Won a plurality, Icndc rc_+ime," the I.et i:i on
singer testified, the report fur- the account con tinued, $3:i0, e
ther noted, the Forty Commit eves-, add No action h v
000 was authorized "to uriha ever, W a s s recum tnC t, c,:c
tee-- which he chaired-au- the Chilean Congress" in an
thcnizec! the expertdittu'c 01 Sl a gainst Davis,
million his amount for afoot) to "overturn" the re- l'issillger and )ley;.r v,Mc
million political or this mou ! suits of the popular election in not available for contnient
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