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Before coming to Harvard, Hall was director of operations support for ITT Sheraton Corporation and vice president of operations for Sheraton Inns...
IRONICALLY, the best documented assertions that Rojas can make concern the complicity of the CIA, the Pentagon, and American corporations such as ITT and Kennecott Copper in the plotting. There is now ample testimony before Congress on the sordid, illegal activities carried out under the innocuous name of "destabilization." From 1964, when the CIA bought so many Chilean escudos to contribute to Allende's opponents that it caused a shortage on the money market, through the conspiracy to kidnap General Rene Schneider and the 1972 truck owners' strike that was funded largely with CIA donations, the history of American intervention...
...Although he was a member of a Senate subcommittee that was to monitor CIA activities, Democratic Senator Henry Jackson of Washington advised the agency in 1973 on how to handle another Senate subcommittee's probe of CIA ties in Chile with ITT Corp. Jackson retorted that he was asked only for procedural advice...
Stephen Saint John Hall came to Harvard in the summer of 1971, during the time that President-elect Bok was assembling his staff of vice presidents. He was 36 years old, director of operations support for the Sheraton division of ITT, and dissatisfied with corporate America when he got the call to take over Harvard's administrative side...
...could have hung in at ITT the rest of my life and they would have cradled me in their tender hands," he said in an interview three years later. "If I had subordinated my needs to the needs of the company, and knelt before the throne, they would have taken good care of me the rest of my life. But that would have meant the loss of my whole identity...