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...Daniel Ellsberg '52 told an off-the-record Nieman fellows meeting Monday that William E. Colby, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has acknowledged that he "knew of the imminence of" the September 1973 Chilean military coup...
...Ellsberg also quoted Colby as saying that "a political decision was made not to inform" the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende Gossens...
...Ellsberg made public his talk with the Niemans yesterday, denouncing Colby's off-the-record meeting with Niemans last night and describing such briefings--in which journalists agree not to publish what they learn--as "a method of plugging newsmen into the government bureaucracy and making them part...
...Ellsberg said Colby told him he was aware of and agreed with the "political decision"--presumably made by then national security adviser Henry A. Kissinger '50 or then president Richard M. Nixon--not to alert Allende to the impending military revolt...
...said, 'Did you know the plans for this coup just before it happened,"' Ellsberg told the Niemans. "Colby did not appear to be mincing any words about how much they knew. A political decision was made not to tell Allende what we knew--now, there would be no political decision if what we knew was what we read...