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...Monday evening press conference, President Ford acknowledged reports that the United States had financed covert operations in Chile attempting to "destabilize" the government of former President Salvador Allende. Never before has an American president so off-handedly admitted that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has undertaken activities aimed at influencing the internal affairs of a democratically elected government. Ford also told the nation that he had every intention of continuing this course of action, which, he said, has been U.S. policy since the Truman administration...
...committee's impeachment charges, two other offenses were endorsed as impeachable by the committee. Article II, alleging that Nixon had abused the powers of his office, mainly through misuse of such agencies as the FBI, CIA and IRS, as well as by initiating politically motivated wiretaps and covert investigations, was approved 29 to 9. Approved on a largely partisan 21 to 17 vote was Article III, which claimed that Nixon's failure to honor the committee's subpoenas was Impeachable...
...Gray called Helms and said I think we've run right into the middle of a CIA covert operation...
...agents, in violation or disregard of the constitutional rights of citizens, authorized and permitted to be maintained a secret investigative unit within the office of the President, financed in part with money derived from campaign contributions, which unlawfully utilized the resources of the Central Intelligence Agency, engaged in covert and unlawful activities, and attempted to prejudice the constitutional right of an accused to a fair trial...
...points is to remember what actually happened as a result of the instructions I gave on June 23. Acting Director Gray of the FBI did coordinate with Director Helms and Deputy Director Walters of the CIA. The CIA did undertake an extensive check to see whether any of its covert activities would be compromised by a full FBI investigation of Watergate...