Event

Senate hearings on ITT and Chile, 1973

Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee hearings on ITT and U.S. government activities in Chile, opened in executive session on 16 March 1973.

3 links, 3 backed by primary records

Connections 3

Frank Church Mar 1973 his subcommittee’s hearings on ITT and Chile were called the Church Subcommittee Hearings in a State Department memo Primary record 1
International Telephone and Telegraph 16 Mar 1973 its chairman and a director were to testify in March 1973 Primary record 1

United States government the State Department prepared for them after a March 1972 newspaper column alleged CIA requests to ITT; Assistant Secretary Meyer testified there was no intervention in Chile’s political affairs Primary record 1 2

Timeline 3 dates

Proof 2 sources

Memorandum From the Executive Secretary of the Department of State to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs, 16 March 1973 (FRUS Chile 1969–1973, doc. 322), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, 16 Mar 1973. Primary record
The Church Subcommittee Hearings on Multinational Corporations: Chile–ITT
Mr. McCone and Mr. Geneen of ITT will testify.
The focus of these hearings will be the allegation in the Jack Anderson column in March 1972
Covert Action in Chile 1963–1973: Staff Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, U.S. Senate, 18 Dec 1975. Primary record Archived copy
The policy of the Government, Mr. Chairman, was that there would be no intervention in the political affairs of Chile. We were consistent in that we financed no candidates, no political parties

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