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...wrongdoing has yet been conclusively proved; indeed, hardly anyone seriously thinks that ITT tried to buy off the Justice Department, or that it could have. What is being widely suggested is a Washington atmosphere of moneyed chumminess, of convenient convergence of interests between certain businesses and Government...
Meanwhile, Anderson returned to the attack. Last week he flaunted a sheaf of stolen ITT documents. On the basis of these, he charges that some ITT staffers and U.S. Government personnel plotted to prevent Salvador Allende, a Marxist, from taking office as President of Chile (see box, page...
This indictment too is already having wide impact. Even if the story is only partly true, it confirms the ugly suspicions in Latin America about a modern version of gunboat diplomacy, and about the Nixon Administration's intimacy with those old villains, Yanqui business and the "vested interests." ITT, meanwhile, is worried about the safety of its personnel in Latin America, where radicals like to take symbolic hostages...
...conglomerate is also anxious about further disclosures; Anderson has more documents as yet unreleased. Though ITT has destroyed some of its files and hired the international investigative agency Intertel to look into the leakage, the culprit is still unknown. It has to be someone with news sense and access to tightly held material. One theory: "A goddam angry secretary...
...have sat in on and heard someone say: 'And how do you think that will look in a Jack Anderson column next week?' " It is a sobering thought. Had it occurred in the right minds at the right times, it might have saved some Justice Department trustbusters, ITT executives and many others a lot of trouble...