POSTSCRIPT ON CHILE

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CIA-RDP90-00552R000303370005-2
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February 22, 1981
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/29: CIA-RDP90-00552R000303370005-2 ON FAGS THE NEW YORK TIMES 22 February 1981 '; Letters - Postscript-__ _ - Ori Chip Tdthe Editor: There is much that-might be- said, and will be said, of The Times's front- page:=article ?of Feb. 9 which. finally. ends- a ypersonal nightmare of nine years'2-duration.- -That nightmare started in-1972 with the publication by , Jaclr:Aaderson of -the so-called I.T.T. papers; whose : egregious !; and - mali- Claus: authors 'ascribed- to me-White 'House: orders -which,' as. your paper= now, acknowledges, wereunknown to methen,aslater::--=< ", wrk ?'However; = 1, must-now-?correct: one' facttiaTerror in your story,whieh does-. ~graveinjustice to:formerPresident . EduardoFrei of Chile ~ ~s >ntold yourcorrespondent'-- as I have. told: all-others in the?mediaand-as I have sworn under oath = that r- never discussed with President Frei any plan, ? :constitutional or other, to prevent the inauguration of President- elect-Salva-dor Allende is 1970 (the so-called Track ,1) and that I never discussed with Mr. Frei any C .DL program in Chile,'- ei-ther during or after his tenure. Hence, totally 'untrue to'.write-that I :"worked closely'1 with President. Frei oa?,Track I as your story alleges. Moreover, as I have told your corre- spondent",repeatedly- -and.lunwaiver-~ : ingly-du:ing, the past five- years, I re- fused;by official,:secret'cable, to im- plement the Sept. 14, 1970, instruction =from .the. 40` Committee to meet::with President Frei and to discuss Track I, - and-Falso rejected the $230,000. which the40 Committee then said was being ' plat edat my discretion r=- ,hberefore,the money was allocated by~Washington< but, to the-best ofmy_ knowledge to this date, was never sent orspent;contrary Lathe assertions of the-Senate?:Select- Committee and of your-:correspondents during the. past fiveyears. 'p 'Y EnWARD M. KORRY= s Stonington,Conn., Feb 14,1981 T h e writer w a s United States Ambas- sadorto Chile from I967to1971~ Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/29: CIA-RDP90-00552R000303370005-2