DOUBLE-STANDARD DIPLOMACY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000020125-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 125
• Publication Date: September 10, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Double-Standard Diplomacy
A few weeks back, members of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
concluded a special inquiry by warmly
reaffirming their approval of the nomi-
nation of Henry A. Kissinger as Secre-
tary of State. Last. spring, it has now
been revealed, there was another kind of
confirmation hearing. It confirmed sus-
picions that the. Central Intelligence
Agency.had done its best-or worst-to
bring down the Allende government in
Chile.
The proceedings, as we noted yester-.
day, featured closed-door testimony by
CIA Director Colby that the CIA was
given authority to invest more-thmt"'M
million between 1970 and 1973 to over-
throw Allende-who died a year ago,
assertedly by his own hand, after a
ruthless military coup. Colby, a special-
ist in covert CIA operations, explained
that they had been approved by an in-
telligence board headed by Kissinger.
To Rep. Harrington (D-Mass), that
information immediately suggested Con-
gressional probing. While Kissinger has
often objected that there should be no
U. S. interference in Soviet "internal
affairs"-such as policy on emigration.
:--he apparently holds different views
about American intervention in Chile.
.But Harrington, a member of the House {
Foreign Affairs Committee, has been un- {
able so far to secure any commitment to
investigate from either his group or its
Senate counterpart.
That is hard to understand, even
though the Secretary has been treated
by Congress as a sacrosanct personage
for some time. Allende frequently
charged that he was a CIA target-
and he was evidently correct. Many of
the most. prominent members of his
government still suffocate in the junta's
jails. And anxious speculation is in-
evitable about how many other govern-
ments are deemed by the CIA and the
intelligence board headed by Kissinger
to be appropriate subjects for U. S.-
financed subversion.
The issue is not whether the Allende
regime was beyond reproach; it is,
among other things, whether we have
a double standard under which freely- i
elected governments are subject to our
covert sabotage while despotisms are
considered beyond even moral remon-
strance. Are these topics taboo for the
Fuibright and Morgan committees? Who
has a clearer duty to investigate them{
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