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...essence it said that when Helms testified on Feb. 7, 1973, and March 6, 1973, he was fully aware that the CIA in 1970 had secretly funded anti-Allende propaganda, financed groups opposed to Allende, applied economic pressure on Chilean military forces to thwart Allende's selection, and discussed with the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. the support of candidates opposing Allende. The actions had been approved by the 40 Committee of the National Security Council under President Richard Nixon. But Helms had testified that the CIA had not tried to influence the election. All the efforts failed...
...prospect of handling down an unprecedented indictment of a former CIA director on serious perjury charges daunted the Justice Department from the very beginning in 1973 when Helms lied about CIA involvement in plots to secretly deliver funds in 1970 to the opponents of the late Chilean president Salvador Allende Gossens. Once on the witness stand, there was no telling how many intelligence secrets a desperate Richard Helms might cough up to save his own neck. Conversely, Justice officials and, in particular, the Carter administration acknowledged the need to hold Helms accountable for his transgressions while under oath; the post...
...Mass.) and Robert Drinan (D.-Mass.), held here in Boston just last week. (You missed it.) Or there is an address to write if you're interested in helping the Institute for Policy Studies get a special prosecutor appointed to look into the murder of Orlando Letelier, the late Chilean ambassador to the U.S. Or ways of helping the National Organization of Women get the ERA passed in those crucial four last states. Even if you're not interested, it's good to see what leftists...
...criminal charges, and his current troubles can be traced back to that fateful meeting in the waning days of the summer of '70. Helms left the White House in the late afternoon with very precise orders from the President: to take any measure short of assassination to stop Chilean president-elect Salvador Allende from taking office later that year, a plot that took on the code name of "Track II." A team player in the best Nixonesque sense of the word, Helms instructed CIA operatives to contact the most powerful elements in the Chilean Right that fall, hoping to pressure...
...some time now. A federal grand jury last summer recommended multiple-count perjury indictments against Helms, ITT chief executive Harold S. Geneen and ITT senior vice president Edward J. Gerrity for allegedly lying to two Senate committees in 1973 about an ITT-CIA conspiracy to bribe members of the Chilean Congress to withhold confirmation of Allende's victory in the September, 1970 popular presidential election. The grand off-again investigation of possible perjury charges against Helms and the two ITT executives that spanned some four years. Yet two months have elapsed since the grand jury passed on its findings...