U.S. ROLE IN CHILE PROTESTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300490009-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 17, 2004
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: September 12, 1974
• Content Type: NSPR

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r.emorstrated in front of the/ government in the overthrow
`edera1 Building Wednesday of the Allende government." she
to protest what demonstrators said.
ca led "continued American "Tne P o p u I a r Unity
r sta.ce to the Chilean government of President
r r ;rtarylt nta. "
Salvador Allende was chosen
,?a e demonstrators, mostly by the Chilean people in 1970
C.iversity of Texas students according to the
a,7.' members of the Latin constitutionally established
',:erican Policy Alternatives electoral process. Since
-Crrj-~ip, carried signs and overthrowing the Allende
vyked cheerfully around the government, the military junta
_n'aza in-front of the federal has ruled Chile with terror and
J-fi . i:ws? represesion of all civil rights,"
Katherine W'iikr, a member Ms. Wilker said.
-af.. the group, said the The demonstrators said they
-r onstration had been called strongly objected to the
.o "denounce overthrow one Central Intelligence Agency's
~:sar ago of the Chilean roleintheovert
;vdarUnity government." '"Many suspicisons were
':e particularly deplore the confirmed recently when a' -
Washington Post story
revealed that, according to
secret testimony by CIA
Director William F. Colby,
more than $11 million was
targeted against President
Allende," she said: The story
reported that the CIA funds
were spent over a - period of
years to accomplish Allende's
overthrow.
Trs protestors, which
included represenltatives of
the Committee for Concerned
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Asian Scholars, the Indochi
Peace Campaign and the of
American Movement, urg
citizens to actively support
bill -sponsored by JJ.S. Se
Edward Kennedy designed
end U.S. military aid to Chi]