BAD DEAL FOR BERRELLEZ

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000030015-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: April 2, 1978
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PHOENIX REPUBLIC
2 April 1978
Bad Deal For Berrellez
;Robert Berrellez comm
lienjury and obstructed the inves. that the CIA secretly sought to de-
cmmunism in every govern-
ose
HE .courts will decide whether for years; and liberals have done
;++,204 their-best to persuade the world
p
ment in the world before it was
tripped up, along with the FBI, at
Watergate.
Back in 1973 several ITT offi-
cials, including Berrellez, were
questioned about the alleged col-
laboration between the company
and the CIA with the intention of.
influencing the outcome of an
election in Chile. .
The material unearthed by the
Senate committee was submitted..
artment to a
D
ti
ep
ce
by the Jus
federal grand jury in Washington.
No indictments were returned.
But on March 20 of this year, one
day before the statute of limita-
tions would have made it impossi-
alleged crimes, the department
The trial has started, and .prob-.
dreary week. v
Without predicting the outcome,,
we do think it was unconscionable
of the prosecutorial arm, of. the.
U.S. government to have waited so
long to file charges if: it had any
kind of a case at all.. .
'
dan-
And we think* it would be
erous to the security of the
was'living abroad. -
But it doesn't require a judicial
hearing to realize that someone is.
out to make an example of Ber-'
rellez as a big bad American busi-
nessman who meddled in the
internal affairs of a foreign gov-
ernment.
Berrellez works for the'
International Telephone and'Tele-
graph._Co.. He..--was in_- Latin
America for years and now is the .
company's public relations dired-
tor in the Southwest.
'Born in Nogales, he ryas edu-
cated in Arizona. He decided to
become- a- newspaperman and
went to work for the Associated
Press.. in Phoenix. Bilingual,
knowledgeable, able, he. became a
roving correspondent for the AP
with headquarters in Mexico City.
He was in Cuba when Fidel Castro
came to power, and spent six
months in jail for the crime of
beirig-'an American newsman..
If Berrellez is found guilty in his
tri"al?in Washington, he may go to
jail for- having been an American
businessman who helped the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency while he
tigation of a multinational corpo-
ration when he testified before a
Senate subcommittee. . .
been: kicking the matter around court.
CIA helped remove Salvador Al the conclusion that they could not
en a as head of a Marxist govern- talk to American intelligence offi-
nientt in Chile. Congressmen have. cers -without ending up in federal:
nessmen living abroad reached I
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