CIA 'SPENT SEVERAL MILLIONS TRYING TO UNDERMINE ALLENDE'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000020128-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 128
• Publication Date: September 9, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
Sept. 9, 197+
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urz.aernune Allende'l
BY OUR i/ASIJh1'GTOY STAFF;
. lions of dollars' on trying to .undermine
THE Central Intelligence Agency spent mil-
the Marxist Government of the late President
Allende in- Chile, according to leaked reports
of Congressional tes-
timony.
The money is said to have
been used to foster strikes
and unrest.
According. to the New
York Times and the Wash-
ington Post - yesterday that
is what Mr William Colby,
director of the CIA,
secretly told the Clouse of'
Representatives' special sub-
conunittee on the Armed
Services and intelligence mat-
tees. The testimony was said
to have been in April.
The Post said $11 million
(more [hart ?1,750.000) was spent,
but the Times put the figure at
wf, will an (more than
?.3,450,000) over three years.
Copy of letter
Both papers said Brad Mr
Colby'5 condidrrn[ial teshinony
was rcvea'ed in a leaked copy of
a teller front `.lr Michael llar-
ringtcn, ?( \da^sachu?setts Demo-
crest, to, \4r Thomas Morgan, a
Penncv Ivania Democrat who is
cha'irman of he i-louse Foreign
Allairs CoininiUtgee.
\Ir Coliiy has publicly denied
any C I;', invodverue?nt in the
coat) vIi rh toppled the Allenrie
Govcrnrnent ' a year ago. The
.coo;) fu tr'u'ed .severe rc nomic
ditiicrilt c, at;i' ~~idesprt.ul
tnrrc~t in Chi:;,.
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