UNCLASSIFIED TELCON Ted Koppel Kissinger 9 9 74 4 30 p m • RELEASED IN FULL K Hello TK Hi Thanks very much for calling back I just wanted to ask you very quickly whether you think someone is -- is someone out to get you on this Chile business K Look even thought it is a ridiculous thing TK Well I was a little confused by Anderson's statement K · Oh no did he do something again TK Well you know it was an unsolicited response to a question that wasn't a11ked in which he gave us a breakdown of the forty committee and the fact that the committee has to reach unanimous decisions ••• K That is also not true TK It's not true K Look ----- reach a unanimous decision It doesn't have it TK Well what he told us is that it has to reach unanimous decision and then it goes to the President for his decision and the implication of what he was saying of course he didn't say this I was just reading between the lines is that you somehow felt that you were going to be held to account solely for what happened in Chile ••• K Look none of this has anything to do is all total non sense I do not think of what this money was spent for It believe me · But I have another call five minutes TK Alright fine thanks UNITED ST ATES DEPARTMENT OF ST ATE REVIEW AUTHORITY ROBERT L FUNSETH DATE CASE ID JO JAN 2005 200102979 with the coup anyway So this it is proper to go into the bri akdown has nothing to do with the coup Ted I must take I'll call you back in UNCLASSIFIED ii •• •' '• UNCLASSIFIED I • TELCON Ted KoppeUKissinger RELEASED IN FULL 9 9 74 - 4 45 P• m K Hello TK Yes K · Ted incidentally I was talking backgrowtd TK Yes I wtd erstand K I just don 1t think this is the story and ••• TK Well is Cy Herst 1 s story essentially accurate as far as it goes K I just don't want to •• look the forty committee happens to represent the most secret activities of the government and I just am not going to talk about that Everything has been done by regular procedures for defense purposes and I just will not go into it TK I can understand that The only problem though is that you 1ve got a couple of the State Department people before you came into that office who are on the record as saying that we had absolutely no intervention in internal affairs of Chile which is of course a much broader thing than saying we had nothing to do with the overthrow of the flhi'keao g c t514@eek ie Allende government K Well I under stand that TK Can you still on behalf of the State Department say that K Well it depends on what you consider intervention in internal affairs TK ' Well if any of those charges ••• K Well what are the charges They don 1t know what the money was spent for TK votes Well buymg kmdii in the Chilean Congress UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE 'REVIEW AUTHORITY ROBERT L FUNSETH DATE CASE ID 10 JAN 2005 200102979 UNCLASSIFIED UNCLASSIFIED -2K As I understand the story it said that was abandoned TK It said it didn't work Something like I think '$350 000 was set a side £or that K As I remember the story correctly the argument was that this idea was abandoned I TK But could I have you at least on background saying that there is that the United States was not involved in the internal affairs of Chile Or intervening in the internal affairs of Chile K Well how can I say it on background TK Well 11 if you say it on background then I have a high State Department official denying it without it being you personally K I just don't want to go beyond what Isa id today and-what was said -I don 1t know what was said today TK Well I understand you're going to have a backgrounder tomorrow afternoon K Yeah TK Is this going to be a regular thing I really hope it would be It's been kind of a disaster downstat f ff r the past few weeks I think more things are confuse'it ittt»sg briefings than are really clarified K Well that's one of the things I am willing to discuss tomorrow • whether it's worthwhile to have them regularly TK I wish you would K Well why don't you ask me this question TK O K Fine -will do I Oo K Thanks very much Bye bye UNCLASSIFIED