STAFF MEETING MINUTES OF 23 NOVEMBER 1982

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2007
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• Publication Date: November 23, 1982
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
Staff Meeting Minutes of 23 November 1982
The DDCI chaired the meeting. 0
The DDCI noted that he was impressed with the graphological and
psychological study of written documents done by OTS which aided the Secret
Service in catching an individual who threatened the President and asked
Hineman to determine whether a letter of commendation to OTS should be
The DDCI asked Sporkin to give him a briefing on the Foster vs. US
patent claim in which the plaintiff is claiming $100 million from CIA.
reported tha
will keep the DCI apprised.
Taylor announced that
the NIESO. (C)
Agency be
relook is being reorganized and he
will become the new Director of
asked that all requests from Hill staffers for jobs with the
sent to him for handling. He noted that some of the Job requests
are being accompanied by strong recommendations by Congressmen.
Gates briefed on the current Andropov appointments.
Gates discussed the proposals for an international financial early
warning system and noted that the NIO for Economics and the Director of OGI
will prepare a coordinated plan to be presented to the DDCI. The DDCI
commented that the Director had recently disapproved a plan to establish a
separate NIO for Economic Early Warning since he felt a mechanism already
Glerum reported that the DCI is still concerned over the Agency's
contribution to the Combined Federal Campaign. Glerum noted the Agency has
reached more than 90 percent of its goal and asked all the component heads
to ensure that their employees' pledge cards are returned as soon as nnccihlp
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The DDCI initiated a discussion on the Seymour Hersh article on Chile
in today's Washington Post (attached). In response to the DDCI's question,
Briggs said as far as he could recall, the Breckinridge Committee, which
investigated allegations of CIA operations to destablize Chile, never turned
up any evidence which indicated the CIA was tasked to assassinate Chilean
President Allende. The DDCI asked Taylor to call Breckinridge, who is now
retired, to get his opinion of the Hersh article.
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OP1 TIONS CENTE?CURR.ENT SUPPORT SOUP
News Bulletin
From the WASHINGTON POST, PAGE A-2
New charges Reported
In CIA Piot'on Allende
Allende"--an order that Hersh con-
tends amounted to a go-ahead to as-
sassinate Allende if necessary.
"Helms told the associate there
was no doubt in his mind at the time
what Nixon meant," Hersh writes.
The "close associate," Hersh
i By John Dinges
@peclal to The Wuhington Post
CIA activities to prevent Salvador
Allende from assuming the Chilean
presidency in 1970 were more exten-
sive than previously acknowledged in
official accounts, author Seymour M.
Hersh asserts in the December issue
of Atlantic Monthly.
Hersh charges, based on the ac-
count of an unnamed "close associ-
ate" of then-CIA director Richard
Helms, that President Nixon "spe-
cifically ordered the CIA to get rid of
23 November 1982
Item No. 1
accounts from a half-dozen alleged
participants in the Chile operations,
including two deep-cover CIA oper-
atives whose identities were previ-
ously unknown.
The agents, called "false-flaggers"
by the CIA because of their use of
false Latin American passports as
cover, were veteran agents assigned
to give CIA money and instructions
to "extreme right-wing terrorists," in-
cluding cashiered Gen. Roberto
Viaux and other Chilean military
leaders plotting against Allende,
Hersh writes.
Viaux led a kidnaping attempt
Oct. 22, 1970, that resulted in the
murder of the head of the Chilean
armed forces, Gen. Rene
Schneider-an operation the CIA
has disavowed.
Hersh quotes the U.S. military at-
tache in Chile at the time, Col. Paul
C. Wimert Jr., as saying he "figured
they [the false-flaggers] had . been
sent to Santiago to arrange for Al-
lende's death."
'According to the article, an aide in
the National Security Council, Yeo-
man Charles E. Radford, told Hersh
that he saw option papers that dis-
cussed ways to assassinate Allende.
Hersh's article does not cite any ev-
idence that plans to kill Allende
were put into operation. '
writes, was relating Helms' personal
account of a Sept. 15, 1970, Oval Of-
fice meeting of Nixon and then na-
tional security adviser Henry A.
Kissinger, who the source said later
"pressured [Helms] again on the sub-
ject."
Helms testified in 1975 hearings
before the Senate Intelligence Com-
mittee that Nixon's orders at that
meeting referred to Allende's over-
throw and did not "in his mind" in-
clude assassination.
Hersh's account, which is adapted
from his forthcoming biography of
Kissinger, does not contain the kind
of smoking gun evidence that would
drastically alter the picture drawn in
the 1975 Senate hearings.
Testimony then revealed that the
CIA financed an unsuccessful covert
propaganda campaign against Al-
lende's election, and later partici-
pated in various plots with Chilean
politicians and military, leaders to
keep him from taking office after his
plurality victory in September, 1970.
The article, however, has direct
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