C.I.A. Is Linked to Strikes In Chile That Beset Allende; Intelligence Sources Report That Money Was Distributed to Help Truck and Taxi Drivers and Shopkeepers C. I. A. Is Linked to Anti-Allende Strikes Informers Inside Parties Official Defends Activities A 'Marginal Input' Professor Described Offer Link to Military Severed
Date: 20 September 1974
By SEYMOUR M. HERSHSpecial to The New York Times
Intelligence sources reveal US CIA secretly financed Chilean labor union strikes for more than 18 mos before '73 overthrow of Chilean Pres Salvador Allende Gossens; CIA Dir William E Colby has no comment; US Sec of State Kissinger, testifying at Sen Foreign Relations Com hearings, asserts that CIA involvement in Chile was authorized to keep alive pol parties and news media threatened by Allende's minority Govt and was not aimed at subverting it (S)