Nixon White House Tapes — Conversation 022-006
Date: Thursday, March 23, 1972 at 5:33 PM
Participants: Nixon, Richard M. (President); Ziegler, Ronald L.; Haig, Alexander M., Jr.
Recording device: White House Telephone
Source: https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/022-006

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[0:00] Yes, sir.
[0:02] Have you said anything, Ron, with regard to the ITT in Chile?
[0:08] The State Department dealt with that today.
[0:11] Oh, they did?
[0:11] Yes, sir.
[0:12] What did they do?
[0:12] Deny it?
[0:14] They denied it, but they were cautious on how they dealt with the Corey statement because they were afraid that might backfire.
[0:21] Why?
[0:22] What did Corey say?
[0:22] Well, Corey said that he had received instructions to do anything short of a...
[0:30] Dominican-type alleged to have said that.
[0:33] Or he did?
[0:35] Right.
[0:36] How'd that get out?
[0:36] He put that out?
[0:37] Well, Anderson received that from some source.
[0:40] Al Haig is sitting with me now.
[0:42] Oh, yeah.
[0:44] It was a report contained in an IT&T thing.
[0:48] Oh, yeah.
[0:48] He was.
[0:49] He was instructed to.
[0:50] Well, but I hope that he just failed.
[0:52] Son of a bitch, that's his main problem.
[0:54] He should have kept all the other of them getting in.
[0:57] Well,
[0:57] In any event, State has denied it today, and they referred to your comments about Latin America and Chile, and so you just refer to that on that one.
[1:06] Fine, okay.
[1:07] Yes, sir.