Chile: the balanced view : a recopilation of articles about the Allende years and after

distinct difference between aUlhorizing lunds and deciding to spend them or no! to spend them, What I am saving is (OVERTALK)", 8UCKLEY: That we authorized them but did not spend them. KORRY: Did not spend them. BUCKLEY: Ah, okay. KORRY: Never did. BUCKLEY: Okay.. KORRY: That's Ihe point. For Ihat purpose. BUCKLEY: Now before the Committee -as you know it's not the most widely known outfit in America, but it is an organization I take it that has the authority to do thjngs like that. It has the authority to say slip this hot, American money into the hands of foreign legíslators and see if we can't get them to do what we want them to do. Right? KORRY: Uh-huh. BUCKLEY: Now who set up the Forty Committee? KORRY: Well, the Fortv Committee was in existence under a different name when I came into government under President Kennedy, BUCKLEY: What was it called then? KORRY: I'm not certain 01 this but the last name that il had belore it became the Forty Committee I think was the 303 Committee. BUCKLEY: Now before the 303 Committee, it was called what? KORRY: I'm not certain. BUCKLEY: Now the purpose of the Forty Committee I take it is to remove from the exclusive authority of the CIA decisions as sensitive as those we're now addressing, right? KORRY: That is correcí. B\JCKLEY: Now who belongs in the Forw Committee? KORRY: Well, at the time I was in Chile, Dr. Kissinger was the effective head 01 the". BUCKLEY: Because he was an official or .because he was Kissinger? KORRY: No, because he was the National Security Council Director. BUCKLEY: Mr. Bundy would have been his predecessor? KORRY: Mr. Bundy would have been his predecessor but let me say that prior to my time in Chile and throughout my lour and a half plus, lour and a hallyears in Ethiopia, I didn't knowotthe exístence of il. So I would not really be in a position totell you wnowason Itar not at that time. Secondly, the Chairman 01 the Joint Chiels 01 Staft, was Secretary olDefense through his Under Secretary, the Secretary of State through his Under Secretary, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Mr. Kennedy had his brother Robert as Attorney General attend it and Mr". eUCKLEY: Is it up to the President to decide who sits on the Forty Committee? KORRY: I believe he has that. BUCKLEY: It's not a statutory committee, then? KORRY: I do not think so. BUCKLEY: Are there any representatives from Congress on it? KORRY: None. BUCKLEY: Now, do I understand, then, that suppose you, surveying the Allende situation, had gone back to Washington as, in fact, you did, suppose you had said the installation of Allende is so close that there's really just one or two guys who could make the difference. And since we all desire that Allende should be frustrated, let's have awhack at these two guys. We all know for instance, that Wílly Brandt most probably bribed the critical members of the legislature in West Germany resulting in his becoming Prime Minister. This seems now to be an accepted story. So that it isn't all that unusual. j.'m asking you to reflect on the general question ofthe ethics of using American money thus to insure in the development of the politics 01 another country. KORRY: The principie has been well established and practiced lor so many years that it was taken as a matter 01 course. One of the difficulties in trying to arrive.at an objective issue today is to try to apply the values of the period to the event rather than the hjndsight value 10 tnat event. When I was being briefed lo go lo Chile in 1967 in October, Septem- 289