CIA 'SPENT SEVERAL MILLIONS TRYING TO UNDERMINE ALLENDE'

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CIA-RDP09T00207R001000020128-2
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December 22, 2016
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August 9, 2011
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September 9, 1974
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Approved For Release 2011/08/09: CIA-RDP09T00207RO01000020128-2 THE DAILY TELEGRAPH Sept. 9, 197+ S -~ e ' y- AL all* o mi ions tr Y111 to - 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:;,. 00874 Approved For Release 2011/08/09: CIA-RDP09T00207RO01000020128-2