Word: itt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coup that would abort the Popular Unity government's planned experiment in democratic socialism. In the course of carrying out Nixon's orders, the CIA developed a very special relationship with an American multinational worried about the fate of its massive Chilean investments--the International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT...
That relationship has been on the minds of the people at the Justice Department for 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...
...forces and police. For example, IBM computers are used by the South African army and the regime's Atomic Energy Board. The West German company. AEG-Telefunken--of which General Electric (G.E.) owns about 15 per cent--supplied the regime's Simonstown military tracking system with sophisticated electronic equipment. ITT also provided equipment and recruited and trained engineers for the base...
...almost 2000 workers in South Africa in 1976, 1306 of them black. More than 1240 held unsalaries posts. Only one was at the "professional and management" level, compared to 262 whites. In 1972, blacks at G.E. earned between $73 and $213 a month, with most at the lower rates. ITT's main subsidiary paid its African employees an average of $125 a month in 1972, and whites...
Harvard owns $6.3 million in ITT shares, and $15 million in G.E. stocks and bonds...