Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SENATOR McGEE: As we pursued the collection of information with the assistant secretary so we might better understand the situation [in Chile], invariably the line of questioning would stop with his suggestion that that is all he knew, that he was not in on the final decisions. So the first questioning that comes to mind obviously is the intimation he made that after the coup was planned that somewhere at the top there was a conscious decision made by somebody to insure non-involvement, neutrality? At what level would that take place...
McGEE: Is the Washington Special Actions Group the group of State that works out the concrete that is sometimes, in the press in this case, alluded to as the task force on Chile...
...this case we had to find out, for example, what supplies were going into Chile, so that it did not look as if we were suddenly pouring in supplies. We had to shop around to various departments to find whether in the routine delivery of existing programs, something might be planned for those two or three days that would create problems. That sort of thing. We would give the instruction and then the task force on Chile would work out the concrete details. We have got them right now working on a study of what the various dimensions of humanitarian...
McGEE: [U.S.] Ambassador [to Chile] Davis was home the weekend before. There are those who jumped to the conclusion that there must be a cause and effect relationship...
When I mentioned his name I was told there was turmoil in Chile. I then asked the department to instruct Ambassador Davis to come back in whatever 48-hour period he thought was least likely to cause difficulty, and he himself chose that weekend...