RFE IS MISSING ITS OBJECTIVE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090029-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2013
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: December 2, 1957
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified and Approved For Release @ 50-Yr 2013/10/29 : CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090029-6
RFE Is Missing Ifs Objective
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.?The
public, which puts up the mon.
eir, is given to believe that
Radio. Free Europe and its af-
filiated operations perform the
mission of disseminating prop.
agenda of hope and freedom be.
hind the Iron Curtain.
This is a worthy objective,
as objectives go,- but perform.
ance are not always as adver.
Used.
? Young Mr. Samuel S. Walker,
Jr., Is in charge or that branch
of the Free Europe operations
which sent propaganda betkrons
to Czechnslovakii, Hungary
and other satellite countries un-
til the operation was..terminato
ed on orders from Washington.
He now has set up- several
new ventures without balloons.
Among them is what he calls
the "Asian Contacts Program."
Thia ta being carried on in
various Far Eastern and Middle
Eastern nations and from Mr.
Walker's-explanation to me, it
CAPITAL REPORT
By FULTON LEWIS, Jr.
consists chiefly of displaying a
moving picture. film, called
"Hungary Aflame." The picture
Is a "documentary" of the trag-
edies. of Budapest in the blood'
'bathe of October,. 1956.
The operating personnel is in-
teresting.' One Pant Tigrhl .a
Czeehoslovaidan Who . somehoW
has not taken the: trouble to be.
home . natUiaThd was dis
patched to .finitin and Hong
Hen& azureithitilted-Allungary
Aflame" at a leading mines club
In Tokyo, which the Free Eu-
rope topside eon-shiers a major
coup.
As of the last time I checked,
he still is on the road, with sal-
ary and expense account.
Two others, Heyman and
Gaho r, were toltave gone to
India- but were unable to get
'visas to enter the country. They
were sent elsewhere, instead.
n had just become an
Atneiferin citizen, Gabor is not
:71. third, Nenoff, also not a
eitizen, is a former member of
tiie. secret. police. in. -rialgtria.
l'COYebs; a Httrigariari, aJto went
tO.,Japan..There is one Ameri?
Pfaff, the subject
? Of considerable' eonitpVersY. .
LAST MAY, in it gesture to
cut down staff because the bat-
loon operation had been aband-
oned, the 31-year-old W
fired 30 low-salaried refug
employees, and hired Platt
$9,600 a year as an "edit
consultant" Tcr this, salary...
Course, is added his full tress
expenses, while he is tearing
the Eastern world.
Pr'
In addition to the cowl
named, the Asian Contacts
gram covers Burma, Thailan
aLayi,:,Pakistan. syrIt'14).
anon, Tuntala, Egypt and :elk
dan.
ROW an this fits into a pis?
tern of hope and freedom props.
panda to enslaved million* be.
hind the Iron Curtain in Europe
is difficult for inc to unders
This, actually, is pro gart
the people of the
ontilidellie. Iran Cattalit; and
queetloO the benefIts to be di
rived.
It stems to he a considerable
departure from the big-name.
studded "Crusade For Free.
dOm," which collects the "Truth
Dollars" , which go to support
the Free Europe operations.
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?Iu? Declassified and Approved For Release @ 50-Yr 2013/10/29: CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090029-6