ITT AIDE'S PERJURY TRIAL COULD DISCLOSE DATA ON TIES AMONG FIRM, CIA, CHILEANS

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• Publication Date: October 23, 1978
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Monday. Oct. 23, 1978 Tl
TT Ai d e, 's Pe 'i ' 1 Cool F ?sClose
Data on Ties A o i CIA,
Chil~dns
I .Worked t. osely With CIA.`-;
.. .
Previous disclosures have:made- It- c
that ITT officials worked veryclosely I
the CIA In efforts to block Mr. Allen
election. But Mr., Hanke's memo is the cl
est indication that-the.'CUtkneww abou
leged perjury by'ITT dttlcials iramedia
after it happened- And, along with a Ions
of contacts betweei,.various CIA off e
and various ITT offlciai9'prior to the? 1
testimony; the Hanke memo raises the q
lion of whether' the CIA 'helped argan1ze
. effort to mislead, the subcommittee.
The case itfustrates what has becone
increasingly difficult problem for theJust'
Department as It seeks tnr prosecnte.Illei
activities by corps rate executives and o!
em abroad. ? 1: ..
In such'cases, which often touch on sea
tive national-security matters, the defer
ate Intelligence Committee; the El Mercurio
By DAVID IGNATIUS " P.
41cJJ Reporter of '?HR WALLSTRSsT JouRNAt: chain was'one' Institution In Chile which
WASHINGTON =- A perjury trial' that .'was Used in a general anti-Allende effort."
'
both the U.S. govern-
open.: here today could prove embarasstng The report adds that '
to fl- Central Intelligence Agency and a.ment and ,ITT were funneling money into
high official of-the Chilean government. " the hands of Individuals associated with the
. The trial pits the Justice Department paper' during 1970 and after. apparently to
- pose Mr.'Allende. N:-
against Robert Berrellet, an executive of In-. OP
ternational Telephone & Telegraph Corp. . In a subpoena, request flied in federal
Mr. Borrellez was charged last March In a court here earlier this month, Mr. Berrel-
six-count criminal information with lying to' lez's attorney, Patrick Wall, requested from
a con ogressional committee and a. govern- the CIA "all documents which reflect the re-
m nt agency about ITT's,role ib the 1970 lationship of,o'ne Herman (sic) Cubillos to
r ;die .n election. . - - '? the agency, .Including those describing: -a)
The Justice Department hopes to show actions by him on behalf of the agency, and
Berrellet perjured himself when he b) communicattohe 'betweeb him and the
that Mr
,
derte9 that ITT had worked to block the agency.' The government has asked the
1970 election of-5a',:'ador' Allende, as. presi?? coi'rt to q'lasi. that subpoena request, which
Bent of Chile. But go iernment official- also =ougfiit numerous oth't CIA documents.
wo ,y that this prrsecutiou-t:ould 'disclose Seals d at Goverriihent's Request-'
hew details about the tangled relationships Some CIA documents have already been
between the CIA, ITT and certain prominent
obtained by Mr. Berreliez's attorney, but
C!iileans.
Scvcral Sensitive Matters , . .
Court documents available to the pitbliE+
outline several sensitive matteis'that could
be disclosed at the trial, including-
.. + -Pentad in. late 1911 between Chile's
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current foreign minister, Hernan Cublllos,
and an. ITT official to distuss matters- re-
lating to coming testimony about ITT's role
In 1970 efforts to block Mr.- Allende's elec-
tion: Mr. Berrellez's attorney alsohas~re-
ceuestedinformation about Mr. Cubillos's con-
,act.. with the CIA.. '. V
Extensi%?a diar_ussions between CIA and:
TIT officials before and after Mr. Berrel-
laz's alleged perjury.*One CIA document, for-
example, expresses relief that Mr. Berrellez
"got safely over" a 'question about his dis.,
"tuzsicna with a Chilean about ITT contr?ibu-
tiors to a stop-Allende movement. Mr: Ber-.
rel,'ez was.later charged with. perjury for
these remarks.
The criminal information charging Mr.;
Berreliez includes a 11st of meetings between
ITT and CIA officials In which a conspiracy.
was allegedly arranged to obstruct a 1973 in-
vestiglion by a Senate subcommittee on
multinational corporations. of ITT's Involve-
ment in Chile. .
This conspiracy charge rites a meeting in
December 1972 in New York between Harold
Iiendrix, an ITT executive who was alleg-
edly part of the conspiracy, and Mr.?Cubil-
los. Biographical information on 'Mr. Cubil-
los made available by the Chilean embassy
here states that he was at that time vice
president of Et Mercurio S.A.P.-Co.. a Chilt
can ne+~spaper chain. '
_ According to a report on the CIA's covert
action In Chile published In 1975-by the`Sen-
? vestigation, Mr. Hendrix wasn't indicted.). ? ; ; .
In the alleged illegal activity. Such. tae-ti
are. currently figuring. In several frireioJ
bribery prosecutions. lilt IudIa :one- invol
CIA document that was available from the , What's unusual about the Bertellez ca;
court clerks earlier this month outlines a de-' I's- that the government's own 'crirrtln
briefing of an ITT official the d:r3- after one ; charge-Is the chief source of the potential)
Instance of Mr. Berrellez's alleged perjury.
The document was prepared by Jonathan
.G, Hanke,? who has been identified by the
Justice.Department as a CIA official. In this
-memorandum. dated March 22, 1973, Mr.
Hanke'recounts his conversattion'the same
-day,)iith ITT's Mr. Hendrix, in which Mr.
Heedri 're,iewrd tire prevtois day's testl-
m9ny before the'multinattunals :;ubcomm't-
.`.In dislussing.Mr. Berrellez's testimony,
Mr. Hanks notes "Berrellez apparently got
'safely over- the question of his discussion
with Arturo Matte reported in 17 September
message... . -"-This ITT metr=o recounted
M
Mr. ? Berrellez's' ?1970 conversation withr.
Matte, an anti-Allende Chilean. In which Mr.
Berrellez said ITT was "ready to contribute
with what was necessary" In the effort to
block Mr. Allende's election.
embarrassing irifotTnation. The same pro
,
lem arose in the companion. prosecution
Edward Gerrity, a senlor ITT executive wll
will R to trial for allege l erjtiry later thl
year. The Justice Department recently noti
fled Mr. Gerritys attorney that It planned t
drop .three-counts of that. indictment. -Thl
.three counts dealt: with'-:alleged.. perjnr'
about JTT'S 1970 deeltngt with executives d
Hi Mercurio:
An. apparently relieved Mr. Hahke noted.
that "13errellez explained away the phrase
'contribute with what was ,necessary' by
saying that in Spanish It has a slightly dif-
ferent meaning and was essentially a cour-
teous expression of concern." In its criminal
charge, the Justice Department termed Mr.
Berrellez's discussion of Spanish Jdiom
"blatantly false and evasive testimony."
Mr. Hanke's Internal CIA memorandum
also notes that ITT's Mr. Hendrix had been
asked by the subcommittee' whether he
worked in any way for the CIA. He denied
such a relationship three times. Mr. Hanke
notes. (Although he Was named by the gov-
ernment as a conspirator In the alleged ef-
fort to block the Senate tubcommittee's In-;I-I
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