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#ITT

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People (10)

  • Edward Gerrity ITT senior vice president to whom the CIA's William Broe proposed economic pressure on Chile in September 1970, charged in 1978 with lying to the Senate in a case dropped on national security grounds.
  • Edward Korry United States ambassador to Chile from 1967 to 1971 who planned the covert campaign against Salvador Allende, was kept ignorant of the CIA's coup plot, was blamed for it, and accused the Church Committee of a cover-up.
  • Hal Hendrix Latin America correspondent who joined ITT in 1967, co-wrote its 1970 memorandum urging action against Allende, and was named an unindicted co-conspirator when his superiors were charged with lying to the Senate.
  • Harold Geneen Chairman of ITT who in 1970 offered the CIA a fund to keep Salvador Allende from the Chilean presidency, swore to the Senate that ITT had done nothing, and was not charged with perjury.
  • Howard Hunt CIA officer who ran propaganda for the 1954 Guatemala coup and politics for the Bay of Pigs, headed covert action in the Domestic Operations Division, joined the Mullen Company, and was convicted in Watergate.
  • Jorge Alessandri Conservative president of Chile from 1958 and runner-up to Salvador Allende in 1970, whose campaign took 350,000 dollars of ITT money and whose post-election resignation pledge the U.S. ambassador helped draft.
  • Richard Kleindienst Deputy attorney general and then attorney general under Nixon, sworn in five days before the Watergate break-in, who pleaded guilty in 1974 to not answering the Senate fully about the ITT antitrust settlement.
  • Robert Berrellez Associated Press correspondent turned ITT public relations man in Latin America, coauthor of the September 1970 memorandum against Allende, charged in 1978 with lying to the Senate in a case dropped to protect CIA secrets.
  • Salvador Allende Socialist president of Chile from 1970 to 1973, the object of fourteen million dollars of CIA covert action over a decade, who died in the presidential palace during the military coup of September 11, 1973.
  • William Broe Chief of the CIA's Western Hemisphere Division who supervised the 1970 task force against Allende, put to ITT a plan to induce economic collapse in Chile, and ordered a stonewall after Schneider was shot.

Organizations (4)

  • El Mercurio Santiago daily of the Edwards family, to which the 40 Committee voted 1.665 million dollars in CIA money in 1971 and 1972, a month after an intelligence estimate found that it had kept its independence.
  • ITT Corporation American conglomerate whose chairman offered the CIA one million dollars in 1970 to stop Salvador Allende, and whose executives' perjury charges over it were dropped in 1979 to protect intelligence secrets.
  • Overseas Private Investment Corporation Federal corporation created by the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 to insure and finance American private investment in less developed countries, which paid ITT for its expropriated Chilean telephone company.
  • Robert R. Mullen Company Washington public relations firm that gave cover to CIA officers abroad from 1963, hired E. Howard Hunt on his retirement in 1970, represented Howard Hughes, and employed Hunt at the time of the Watergate break-in.

Places (1)

  • Coral Gables, Florida City adjoining Miami that was the headquarters of the Wackenhut Corporation and the site of an ITT public relations office about which the Watergate special prosecutor questioned the CIA in 1973.