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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 6, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free december 1982 Nixon Jekyll and Hyde by Thomas Oliphant Boston Globe Washington when he was in it often seemed that Henry Kissinger lived two lives dazzling Diplomat and perfidious in his present incarnation of big Money prominent figure in the press and Reagan administration adviser the double image Contin and this week the contrast could not have been More on the one there he is in the author of a three part series on the future of the american relationship with the soviet Union that began in the current you could not get Many better forums to strut your stuff before a mass Audi ence and be paid for the of is Only one tip of the Kissinger iceberg for he retains very close ties to the Reagan administration in general and Secre tary of state George Shultz in Partick and has been a frequent counsel Lor on a number of pressing especially the Middle but on the other there he sin the Atlantic once again the subject of Seymour Hershy this time with regard to his role in an Effort by Richard Nixon administration to sabotage the results of a free election in Chile 12 years the grim consequences of which soil americas reputation even the Public Kissinger writes of the ultimate superpower relationship with the conceptual thoroughness that marked his tenure As National Security adviser and Secretary of the arms race imposes dangerous uncertainties and staggering Finan Cial burdens on both but especially on the soviet says the former Harvard the recession in the West and economic stagnation in the communist world May compel both of us to reevaluate our High Levels of military spending As Well As to seek mutually beneficial economic and the in creasing complexity of a world filled with regional tensions reminds both sides of the necessity of lest a minor crisis explode into a major As it did in in a somewhat less lofty How Hersh quotes Kissinger on the subject of the poverty racked nations of the Southern hemisphere during a private lunch with Chiles ambassador to the United states in 1969 you made a strange said this you come Here speaking of latin Ameri but this is not nothing important can come from the history has never been produced in the the Axis of history starts in goes to crosses Over to and then goes to what happens in the South is of no youre wasting your protested the Gabriel Valdes you know nothing of the replied Nixon foreign policy Man and i dont so it the past haunting the the images for those tortured souls seeking to make sense of this to strike some kind of analytical there is Only endless in the new York the impeccably Liberal Anthony wrote after an approving sum Mary of Kissinger views on the Middle As told to the economist Many of us who criticized Henry revelations about actions in Chile Are giving Henry Kissinger much to Brood Kissinger he was in office have not changed our View that on such issues As Vietnam and Chile he used Power beyond the limits of but on the Middle East he has consistently been both practical and far israelis and arabs should Lis ten to him and act before it is too others might not wish to be so particularly after a careful Reading of Hershy article in the magazines current this is the second instalment of the former new York times reporters work the last contained new and damning details relating to water Gate that is scheduled for publication in Book form Early next the subject of Chile was exhaustively investigated by Congress in the it is known that before the late Salvador Allendes election the on White House financed a Covert propaganda Campaign against and that after the avowed socialists Victory it plotted with various righting politicians and military officers to keep him from taking the Hersh article takes the Story much further in these ways d it provides evidence from those involved that the plotting was far More extensive and Complex than previously d it provides evidence that it continued after the Date 1970 on which Kissinger and his the Deputy Alexander Haig testified under oath to a special Senate committee that it had been u it provides evidence suggesting that the plotting included discussions at the highest Levels of though the evidence of a specific plot is sketchy As regards an attempt on the life of who did die during a coup in the fall of 1973 by a right Wing group that still rules the coun since Hersh first began working on his project in a on room office in the National press club building Kissinger has consistently refused to discuss his work and his that refusal continued this As inquiring reporters were told Kissinger would have Noth ing to say beyond what is in his own memoirs on the Kissinger Book jibes with his Tes and his key assertion has always been with Haig that whatever funny business had been going on was ordered stopped nine Days before Allende took has found Cia agents who were sent into the country at the time and unearthed previously classified documents showing Exten Sive activity and plans subsequent to that included the passing of Large sums of Money to the right Wing chileans subsequently convicted of kidnapping and murdering the senior army general Rene who at the time stood in the Way of a it is Hershy Contention on the basis of this Evi Dence that the plotting in one form or another never the ultimate dirty of is on this most sensitive of Hersh makes no direct he raise some questions involving the the director of the Richard they ultimately involve a White House meeting on the subject of Chile on 11 Days after the chilean attended by attorney general John Mitchell and in his own 1975 Helms said when asked specifically about assassination not in my mind i had already made up my mind that we we rent going to have any of that business when i was that careful statement is termed nonsense by Hersh who proceeds to quote an unnamed close associate of who said Helms has told him the following about the 15 meeting Nixon had specifically ordered the Cia to get rid of Helms told the associate that there was no doubt in his mind at the time what Nixon in the weeks following the Helms he was pressured again on the subject at least one time by he further revealed that he had made and kept in his personal Possession detailed memoranda of his talks with Nixon and Kissinger about of his Hersh says Only that he requested his identity not be hinted at but was in a position to know the following this Hershy article discloses for the first four longtime Cia operatives were sent into Chile with false passports by Helms and dealt with the most extreme elements of the chilean plot he says the close associate of Helms told him the former Cia director gave similar information to his Edward Bennett around the time of his guilty plea five years ago to the reduced charge of not testifying fully to Congress about the Chile from the Helms there has also been silence so far this indicating that the latest chapter in the Kissinger Saga has about run its Hersh attempted the follow ing summary of the information in his lengthy article the White House collaborators had differing motives for their High risk attempts to prevent Allendes Richard Nixon was primarily the interests of his corporate for Henry the Issue was More com linked not Only to his need to please the president but also to his world View and his belief that no action to Stop the spread of communism was Trudeau sees provincial funds As Power lever Ottawa h cannot have been hard to convince a government headed by Pierre Elliott Trudeau that it would be repugnant to have Canadian Pacific come under the control of the Quebec in if you piece to Gether the testimony put before the Senate committee studying Bill work on a Bill outlawing such action must have started very quickly after up president Fred Burbidge alerted prime minister Trudeau about the possibility last it was ready for though not be fore the summer this government is not going to let the provinces nibble away at its it would be difficult to in this with the prime ministers logic that inter provincial transport and most certainly an institution that operates on As vast a scale in our National life As Canadian must be operated in the National inter and Well removed from the control of a single the hearings now in full flight in the Senate commit tee also brought into focus some questions and quandaries surrounding the massive funds accumulating for in vestment purposes in a handful of provincial the discussions provided no an just an assortment of but Trudeau thought that a Quebec presence was Likely change the work Ings of up also went the mighty Caisse de depot it place ment do with its billion manages the largest invest ment fund in the fed by 14 insurance and other premi a receiving programs established by the Quebec it holds about billion in commons this it raised its holding of up Stock to per cent of the total outstanding from per cent a year As Caisse general manager Jean Capeau told Fred and last week the its aggressive new investment plan called for it to go to go with Campeau asked Burbidge for one seat on the Board of directors for the rather obvious purpose of Safe guarding the funds the fat at that Point was in the fire Bill an act to limit share holding in certain was unveiled in the Senate ofter the Stock markets closed it slaps a 10 per cent share ownership ceiling on provincial governments and their agents covering All firms in any Way involved with inter provincial transportation and it also removes voting rights for All future Stock not by and perhaps Sug Gesting a machiavellian presence at the drafting the provision affects share purchases in a second major Canadian company Alcan where the Caisse holdings Are also nudging the 10 per cent the aluminium company operates a Small shipping in As finance minister Jac ques Parizeau thundered several Days the Bill puts two of Canadas very few major companies out of Campeaux Parizeau said Quebec had determined to go a different route from that of the other provinces at the time the Canada Quebec pension funds were started some 17 years by putting the proceeds to work to pull the Joan Cohen Ottawa editor frenc Canadian Economy up from its lowly Ottawa was pulling the Rug out from under it by denying it Access to profitable the anger was echoed by Montreal Stock Exchange president Pierre Lor Lortie confessed to sharing some of Ottawa concern about the huge spending funds building up in the prov but he argued strenuously that this period when debt loaded firms were in desperate need of equity fund ing was scarcely the time to be cutting the Caisse out of the Lortie described Ottawa Bill As premature and badly thought and warned that it could potentially under mine in Advance the coming deep de Bate on the future of the Canadian to the thinking behind the bulk of the Bills provisions remains in As in Montreal Campeau argued at great length that he was Only making a sensible Finan Cial decision by seeking out cps which had fared notably better than the Toronto Stock Exchange he had Lortie already on the record vouching for him when he argued that the Crisses method was to do the Best by the funds not to front for the Quebec the cps Fred Burbidge has other addressing the senators late last Burbidge warned of Sharp Dan Gers to Canadas free Enterprise sys tem from the provincial investment funds operating in Alberta and he described How fund managers in a single phone Call to a broker could succeed in transforming private companies into quasi Public working to promote the interests of the governments they he compared the Money in these funds billion in Albertas Heri Tage fund and billion in Sas Katche along with the Crisses billion to the share total of corporations listed with the Toronto Stock politicians and businessmen alike have been worrying about these kinds of figures for the figures were indeed Stu pen the was and not entirely convince nor did Burbidge manage to explain adequately Why the presence of one Caisse director on his 23man would work against the inter ests of his it could whose restraint has been re has nonetheless shifted with time from a no equity policy to a policy permitting a maximum of five per cent of total shares in a corporation on a nonvoting the debate is just getting under it is Likely to be fuelled this week or next by developments on another front health minister Monique begins Long awaited Green paper on pensions is expected to propose a new set of Premium financed and inevitably giant Public funds to supplement the present pension professor Hambleton and Canadian Law solicitor general Robert Kaplan was being almost Frank when he said that the reason professor Hugh Hamb Leton had not been prosecuted in Canada was because the professor had Bro Ken no Canadian Kaplan avoided saying anything about the lengths that Canadas Security service went to to convince the prime minister that no Canadian Laws had been anyone who watches James Bond movies knows that Security men Are smarter than every Bond watcher knows that Security men regularly have to fool the politicians for the Good of the they do not always when Canadas top Security whose identity is so secret that even his mistress Calls him for Security 1 met prime minister Trudeau to discuss the Hambleton of he knew he was crossing swords with a smart perhaps that is Why he was Only partly successful in protecting the who has told everyone that he is a Canadian not a soviet As Many people is decided he could protect the professor by convincing Trudeau that Hambleton had broken no Canadian is knew which Laws were important to the prime the Public is getting this Chance to read what happened because of the tremendous risks taken by the press mole inside the Security service my Fred Cleverley envelope from the mole contained an unmarked cassette but on it were the voices of is and the prime minis i have the prime minister that you found a Kab decoder in the professors that is prime is but it was an old and could Only receive messages from there is no Canadian Law against having a Kab is paused before you May find it prime that we searched his entire House and but did not turn up any satellite receiving or any evidence that the professor had at any time watched an american television As a matter of the tuner on his television set was welded to the Csc French language score one for the Trudeau but what about All Money the British claim he was paid by the Kab is chose his words with there is no Canadian Law against receiving Money from the per haps it will interest you to discover that we searched the entire and could not find a single measuring tape in feet and everything was in the professor obviously does not take Canadian Law Trudeau challenged his Security and what about those British allegations that the professor was sent to Many countries at the expense of the to report Back on their economic conditions prime is used a tone of surely you Are not suggesting that it is illegal to allow anyone to buy anyone else an airline ticket air Canada gives tickets the Good professor on several letters of complaint about conserva Tives who wanted him to buy his Gaso line by the every englishman Guage Book on his shelves had its own French some translated by the professor himself in his attempts to outperform the official languages he refused to buy any groceries which were not stacked on the French Label Tell me about a minor the prime minister not that it is but did he actually give away nato secrets i cannot be is knowing that he was on thin the British say but we Are convinced that it May be just Margaret thatchers Way of getting something else up something to take the British minds off their economic plight to take the place of the Falk lands we feel that if the professor did give away a few pieces of he did not do anything that was against the Laws of after we have nothing on the books that says we have an interest in protecting pieces of paper in you Are most Trudeau but what about those reports that the Kab wanted to finance his Campaign to run As a member of parliament it was Golden he the professor was planning to run As a even the Kab admitted it was difficult to find much difference Between your policies and those of their a you Trudeau re anyone who has As much re Spect for Canadian Law As you say the professor and wanted to run As a Liberal who am i to look at his sources of Campaign funds i am glad you decided we should not is was trying to close the after that lunch the professor had with Andropov was really no big what lunch Trudeau voice was Why would Andropov have lunch with and not with me i really do not is we do not think that it was an important even though Andropov picked up the we do not think the professor meant any disrespect to your Trudeau you keep saying he did not break any Canadian what about the Law against up staging the most 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