TRANSCRIPT OF BROADCAST BY FULTON LEWIS, JR.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP63T00245R000100220137-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 137
• Publication Date: January 28, 1958
• Content Type: TRANS

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TRANSCRIPT OF BROADCAST
By
Fulton Lewis, Jr.
Station WGWS at 7-7:15 P. M.
28 January 1958
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Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, has to do with a man by the
name of Fletcher Bartholemew. A chunky athletic, soft-floating
individual now 39 years old, who lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He has a semi-crew cut and a talented, pretty and very intel-
ligent wife by the name of Cynthia, and, at the time this story
took place in the summer of 1956, he had three children. They
now have four. His mother and father are both living, are peo-
ple of culture and modest dignity and they too live in Minne-
apolis. Fletcher Bartholemew worked his way through MIT, Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, one of the most exacting, dif -
ficult institutions of learning in the world, and he was on the
dean's list for six semesters out of a possible seven. There
was no dean's list the first semester, of course; He spent two and
a half years-as a test pilot for the air force, came out with
an excellent record. He is a meteorologist--.by profession and
held jobs in the Far East and in South America. As of 1954,
he was employed in the big meteorological section of General
Mills in Minneapolis.
When the Free Europe committee decided to set up its
balloon propaganda program across the iron curtain, General
Mills loaned Barthole