MCCONE'S TESTIMONY ON PLAN TO THWART ALLENDE

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 18, 2005
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• Publication Date: March 21, 1973
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CBS Evening News
March 21, 1973 7:00 P.M.
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CBS Network
Washington, D.C.
McCONE' S TESTIMONY ON PLAN TO THWART ALLENDE
ROGER MUDD: John McCone, a director of ITT and former
head of the CIA, told a Senate hearing today of ITT's efforts
to save its Chilean property from takeover by (Marxist president
Allende.
McCone said that after the '70 election when it became
apparent Allende would emerge as the winner, ITT went into action.
George Herman reports.
GEORGE HERMAN: McCone testified that ITT president
Harold Geneen offered a million dollars to any U.S. government
agency with a plan to have Chile's parliament decide the election
in favor of conservative candidate Alessandri [?], thus ending.
Allende's threat to expropriate ITT property. McCone says he
conveyed that offer to the CIA and Dr. Henry Kissinger.
JOHN McCONE: I also met with Mr. Kissinger, and I
told him if he had a plan. Now, Mr. Kissinger thanked me very
much and said that I would hear from him I didn't hear from
him again. And therefore I assumed that no such plan was --
was adopted as a matter of national policy, and that was the
end of it as far as I was concerned.
SENATOR: When Mr. Geneen told you that he was prepared
to offer up to a million dollars of company funds to support
a government plan the purpose of which would be to assist-or
promote a coalition against Allende, the coalition you refer
to would have been a coalition of parties or of votes in the
Chilean congress that had to pass upon whether or not Allende
would be installed as president. Isn't that correct?
McCONE : Yees . I t r,woul d be a coalition of -- of the
senators or the parliamentarians representing the Christian
Democratic Party and the party of Alessandri.
SENATOR: Yes .
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