Word: memos
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...lost the war, however; it had in fact started it in earnest or given impetus to an ongoing conflict. Since 1961 the U.S. had spent $1.5 million on economic aid to Chile. This was in a continuing effort to "keep Chile from going Marxist," according to an ITT memo...
...alone in the U.S. government in taking action against Chile. According to an ITT memo cited in the Senate Multi-National Subcommittee report, U.S. Ambassador Edward Korry, received the "green light" from the State Department "to move in the name of President Nixon." The memo says Korry was given "maximum authority to do all possible--short of a Dominican Republic type action--to keep Allende from taking power." Korry had a reputation in Chile as a virulent Allende-hater. He was a Nixon appointee...
...Parkinson is in greatest difficulty over a Nov. 14, 1972 memo that Howard Hunt, one of the original defendants, sent to Hunt's former lawyer, William Bittman, and which Hunt claims Bittman read to Parkinson. Among other things, it baldly stated that all the defendants had received assurances of pardons and support money in return for "maintaining silence." Bittman, who had repeatedly denied ever seeing such a memo, reluctantly produced a copy one day after his former law partners advised him that they would reveal its existence to the prosecutors. That vindicated Hunt's testimony and makes Bittman...
...gave some interesting clues as to why it was dropped. He says the administration was preoccupied with antiwar dissent, the success of the September 15 Moratorium, the October 15 Moratorium in particular. Magruder's first job was to work on this, working for Haldeman with the aid of a memo from Dwight Chapin, which he gives in his book. The memo begins, "If the president decides to announce escalation on November 3, it will then be hard to contain the November 15 Moratorium...
...bugbear here, head tutors say, is the student with "emotional problems," whose tutor will avoid aggravating the condition by not reporting it to the next tutor. That tutor, the story goes, then needs a semester just to find out what his predessor could have passed on in one confidential memo...