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Korry says he refused as a matter of principle. Hersh heatedly denies that he tried to make such a deal, but concedes that he should have re-examined the Korry case sooner. Says he: "I thought he had withheld information from me when I needed it. I probably punished Korry — unconsciously anyway —for not telling me more."
Hersh called Korry again last November. Says the ex-diplomat: "He asked me to help him with his book. I blew up and asked, 'Why should I?' He mentioned that he now knew everything I had told him was true. I said, 'Put it in writing.
Tell Abe Rosenthal.' I thought that a responsible editor of a responsible paper would want to correct the record." Rosenthal readily authorized the corrective story. Korry, in turn, says that he then provided the information for the Kissinger project that Hersh wanted. Says Korry: "I've always believed in justice.
But there was misreporting by the Times, and certain people at the paper knew that." Korry says he is not bitter about the seven years "spent in a kind of isolation ward." As for the Times's belated effort to clear his name: "It's a start."
*TIME in its coverage of these events gave no great credence to the accusations against Korry, reporting that he was among the U.S. officials who had been accused of and had denied any part in anti-Allende activities and nothing that "they may not have known about the operations."