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...previous year, ITT Executive John F. Ryan, in a memo to William R. Merriam, a corporate colleague, had made a cryptic reference to "Dita and dollars," then reported: "I was asked by Ned [Gerrity] to get some feel for you from Dita as to what is required." On June 25, 1971, Dita Beard wrote to Merriam, her superior, that ITT's "noble commitment" of funds for the Republican Convention had "gone a long way toward our negotiations on the mergers eventually coming out as Hal [Geneen] wants them...
Quietly. Helms and Kissinger turned down ITT's ideas and its cash. Yet ITT did not give up. Nearly a year after Allende came to power, company officials were still plotting to discredit him. William Merriam, then head of ITT's Washington office, sent to Peter G. Peterson, then Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs, an "18-point program." In a letter, Merriam suggested that "everything should be done, quietly, but effectively, to see that Allende doesn't get through the next six months." Among the recommendations: cut off U.S. aid and credit to Chile...
...seem entirely legal. But in attempting to lay to rest the suspicions, Geneen and his aides have sometimes seemed like small boys caught stealing ripe apples. Testifying at Senate hearings, they have told confusing stories and committed some incredible gaffes. The most memorable, perhaps, was Vice President William R. Merriam's explanation of why he ordered ITT's Washington files fed into a paper shredder after publication of the Dita Beard memo. Democratic Senator Sam Ervin remarked that "you could not destroy that memo because you did not have it." Merriam's reply: "No, that is right...
...congressional staff committees scout out newsy morsels on legislation. Says News Director Horner, who spent 30 years in journalism, much of it with the Washington Star: "We provide an early warning system for anything that the corporation or its subsidiaries might be interested in." Vice President William R. Merriam, member of an old, socially prominent Washington family, gives ITT what all its money could not buy-an entree into the city's inner circle. He can open doors to exclusive places like the F Street Club, which his aunt helped found...
There was still more confusion about what role-if any-the White House played, and the amount ITT might contribute to the convention. Mrs. Beard testified that a White House telephone call to Merriam mentioned $600,000. Wilson said, ITT President Harold S. Geneen spoke of a "guarantee" for $400,000. Geneen earlier in the hearings had testified that there was never any commitment for more than...