SENATORS TO PROBE CIA ROLE IN CHILE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 112
• Publication Date: September 13, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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nAbnieft.sl'UN STAR
13 SEP 1974
enators to Probe
By Jeremiah O'Leary
Star-News Staff Writer
The Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee will meet
in executive session Tues-
day to examine all aspects
of the growing furor over
White House-authorized
CIA operations against the
government of the late
President Salvador Allende
in Chile.
In the absence of Chair-
man J. William Fulbright,
key Senate committee mem-
bers will explore several
courses that may be taken
following disclosures that
the United States was in-
volved in extensive clandes-
tine activities, designed to
subvert the Allende govern-
ment. State Department
officials were testifying to
several committees at the
time that there was no
American intervention
against the Marxist but
democratically elected Chi-
lean government.
Informed sources said the
staff of Sen. Frank
Church's subcommittee on
multinational corporations
will complete a study of
testimony it received more
than a year ago and today
will report to the Idaho
Democrat whether there
appears to be a prima facie
case of perjury in the sub-
committee record.
CHURCH has said he is
resolved to turn the matter
over to the Justice Depart-
ment if the transcript indi-
cates State Department wit-
nesses perjured themselves
.during hearings in April
1973.
Subcommittee staff coun-
sel Jerry Levinson is
scrutinizing testimony
taken under oath from for-
mer Asst. Secretary of
State for Latin America
Charles A. Meyer and for-
mer Ambassador to Chile
Edward M. Lorry. The two
witnesses, now in private
life, indicated the United
States had adopted a hands-
off posture toward thet Al-
lende government.
But it is being admitted in
a number of government de-
partments now that both
had knowledge of the covert
expenditures of the CIA,
estimated at $11 million
over a 10-year period and
authorized by the "40 Com-
mittee" headed by Dr
Henry A. Kissinger at the
National Security Council.
Rep. Michael J. Harring-
ton, D-Mass., who first dis-
closed the extent of CIA
operations in Chile, yester-
day denounced what he
called the "fiction of effec-
tive congressional over-
sight" of CIA activities.
Based on his scrutiny of 48
pages of secret testimony
by CIA Director William
Colby before the House
Armed Services subcommit-
tee on Intelligence, Har-
rington said Chairman
Lucien Nedzi, D-Mich., was
not aware of the specific na-
ture of the CIA activities
CIA Role in
mand that our war plans be
published. I
"It is even necessary for
the Congress to conduct
some of its business in ;
executive (closed) session,
while remaining account-
able to the voters for the
legislation it passes."
Similarly, Coby said, the
CIA maintains "the neces-
sary secrecy of the sources
and methods of our intelli-
gence." '
Colby is proposing legis-
lation which will penalize 1
ex-CIA agents and others
who reveal classified
material.
and that the details are un-i
known to this day.
i
THE RELEVENT infor-
mation about these activi
ties is not available even to
those committees in Con-
gress in charge of
overseeing the CIA," Har-
rington said. "This is as
much an indictment of Con-
gress as it is of the execu-
tive branch."
Harrington charged that
all State Department wit-
nesses who have appeared
before various committees
on the subject knew or
should have known what the
CIA was doing in Chile. He
said he would like to see
hearings conducted on why
and how the United States
got involved in Chile during
the Allende period.
Harrington urged Ful-
bright to reopen the Chilean
inquiry and determine
whether transcripts of
previous testimony should
be sent to the Department
of Justice for perjury. The
money authorized for the
Chilean operation, Harring-
ton charged, was laundered
in Europe. He said there
were references to Cuba
and Guatamala in Colby's
testimony to the Nedzi sub-
committee, but these were
not explained.
MEANWHILE, in a
speech prepared for a meet-
ing sponsored by the Na-
tional Security Studies sec-
tion of the privately
financed Fund for Peace,
which has castigated CIA
operations, Colby said:
"Our military forces must
be responsive to our public,
but our public does not de-
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