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...counterintelligence officer." In the years that followed, all the directors of the CIA leaned on him. Allen Dulles seldom made a move on the clandestine side without first consulting him. Walter Bedell Smith made him his youthful éminence grise and bequeathed him his cherished fly-tying equipment. John McCone found him a fascinating and shrewd counselor...
JULY 16, 1970. Broe met with ITT Chairman Harold Geneen in Washington. The meeting had been proposed to Richard Helms, then the CIA chief, by John McCone, an ITT director and former head of the CIA. Broe said that Geneen told him that ITT was willing to put up a "substantial fund" to support a conservative candidate for President in the elections in Chile to be held Sept. 4. According to Broe, at that time the CIA declined the proposal because the U.S. was not supporting a candidate in the Chilean election...
SEPT. 9-10. Geneen told McCone at an ITT board meeting that he was willing to put up $1,000,000 for the U.S. Government to use in Chile. A few days later, McCone made offers to both Henry Kissinger and Helms of "up to $1,000,000 to support any Government plan for the purpose of bringing about a coalition of the opposition to Allende." McCone did not receive an answer...
During the hearings, several witnesses gave conflicting versions of the purpose of the million-dollar offer. Contrary to McCone's testimony that the money was to be used for an anti-Allende coalition, Gerrity maintained that it was for constructive programs, such as housing and social development, "to make Allende happy about the American presence." Later, Charles A. Meyer, then Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, repeatedly emphasized that the U.S. policy toward Chile during this period was one of strict non-intervention-a statement that seemed to conflict with Broe's testimony about CIA suggestions...
...John McCone, an ITT director and former head of the CIA, testified last week that he had offered as much as $1,000,000 in corporate funds to CIA Chief Richard Helms and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger at the behest of ITT Chairman Harold Geneen. The money, he said, was to help bankroll whatever plans the U.S. Government might have to "encourage the formation of an anti-Allende coalition in Chile." McCone, who is still a consultant to the CIA, explained that what Geneen had in mind was not to create "chaos," but to channel money "to people...