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...unprecedented move, the subcommittee heard and released the closed-session testimony of the CIA's chief of clandestine operations in the Western Hemisphere, William Broe. (It was the first time that a CIA agent has testified before a congressional committee.) Broe's testimony, added to what ITT executives told the subcommittee a week ago, unraveled the following chronology of collaboration...
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. 29. Broe then made what amounted to a counterproposal to ITT Senior Vice President Edward Gerrity Jr. Broe said that he discussed with Gerrity "the feasibility of possible actions by U.S. companies designed to create or accelerate economic instability in Chile." Broe mentioned such measures as the cancellation of credit lines to Chile by American banks, a slowdown in delivery of machinery spare parts, action to force savings and loan institutions to close down, and the withdrawal of technical assistance. Broe gave Gerrity a list of American companies that might help in such a plan, "providing the economic course...
...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 to create economic disturbances in Chile...
...blinked, ducked in terror when photographers' flashlights blazed in her face. With imperial MacArthurian self-possession, Arthur marched with his mother through the generals and the crowd to a car where 6-ft. 3-in. Sergeant Donald Broe, of Waterloo, Ia., proudly waited to drive the General behind the four-starred flag on the hood. But the General stayed behind, followed later in a car with the two-starred flag of a major general. In the crowd, General MacArthur spotted Press Officer Lloyd Lehrbas, who covered Washington affairs for the Associated Press when MacArthur was Chief of Staff...