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...tact and loyalty he demonstrated as national chairman in the worst days of Watergate. A third candidate is Herman, who won his organizational spurs by deftly moving the 1972 G.O.P. National Convention to Miami Beach from San Diego, where it had fallen under the cloud of the ITT contribution scandal...
...know that that was so. ITT offered our CIA one million dollars to block Allende's election. We are told that that offer was refused. In effect, the Nixon Administration told ITT to keep its money: the administration would make it impossible for Allende to govern, using the tax-payer's money...
...closed meeting in October 1971, the then Secretary of State, William Rogers, told executives of such American corporations as ITT, Ford, Anaconda, Ralston-Purina, the First National City Bank and the Bank of America: "The Nixon Administration is a business administration. Its mission is to protect American business." That is clearly also the mission of the Ford Administration. Mr. Ford stated publicly in September 1974 his approval of the activities of the CIA in Chile...
...part this was because it was the first elected socialist regime in Latin America, and so aroused the fear that if it was successful there might be a domino effect throughout the Latin American states. Also there was the direct involvement in Chile of such giant U.S. corporations as ITT and Anaconda, both of which have recently negotiated large financial settlements with the Chilean junta: $125 million to ITT, $253 million to Anaconda...
...agency supplied information about Maheu in connection with his successful defamation suit against Hughes for calling him a thief. For their part, Hughes' employees kept the CIA informed about the activities of White House Plumber E. Howard Hunt. Among other things, they reported that he had interviewed ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard and planned to rifle the files of Las Vegas Publisher Hank Greenspun in search of information that might embarrass Democratic Presidential Candidate Edmund Muskie. At the time, ex-CIA Agent Hunt was also working for Robert R. Mullen & Co., a now defunct public relations firm in Washington that...