CRUSADE FOR FREEDOM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090039-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2013
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: December 16, 1957
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASILINGTOB OFFICE
December 16, LW
FI.Aks.,:risiTr at 7:00 P.M. over WGMS (Washington)
and Mutual Uetwork:
LEWIS: *Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, I want to begin for
you a series of reports on ? very important subject, involving an
operation that calls itself the Free Europe Committee, into which
I-hays been conducting a personal investigative job for you for
some month:14'st. It has been a very time-consuming and perhaps
more difficdlt story than I have ever undertaken because of the
road blocks that have been thrown in my way and the attempts that
have been made to bring influence to bear through various powerful
sources.
*During the course of these investigations, I have made
casual reference to the subject with you from tine to time, but
tonight begins the overall comprehensive story. I think you'll
find it as important ? story as we ever tackled, becausedit has
to do with America's foreign ..licy toward the people behind the
Iron Curtain, the future of se people so far as liberation is
concerned.
*I think also that you'll find it a very shocking stogy in
many particulars, because of the things that have gone on and
ars going on under the guise of carrying the messamot frtesiam
to the people behind the n Curtain. La it turnseuls I; 12
not a message of !Freedom, ..t a message or socialist: or nationalist-
ic communism. if you will, Tito communism and Gommlka 0011AUAilla
any comuniem that purports to be independent of the Amain brand
of commnnism, whether it really is or not.
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Rj number of people who have worked on this tree Europe
propaganda pregram have defected and have fled bask to the cos-
munist countries from which they purported to have escaped, war
gesting that they never did escape at all, but rather were agents
of the communist government concerned, planted in the operation
for espionage purposes.
"I have a so-called guidance, or directive, issued by the
oromisation to its editors and general personnelvtle authenticity
of which the organisation attempts to deny, but which I as prepared
to prove by a number of witnesses who were in the organisation in
Larch of 1956 when it.maa.tesuedwhielibinstructs personnel to go
easy an any criticism of ?amanita Sr communists as sushi and to
play up Tito as a great national hero who has saved his country
from foreign barbarians.
"num personal records on many of the propaganda planners
and broa/casters, plus the directing and administrative stuffs in
New York, showing who these people are, who they were before they
were taken into this organisation, what their experience is, or lack
of it, and from their writing and speeches, what they believe in and
what they are telling the people they reach.
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'It's a story of original good inialMOns in an operation that
could have been immensely constructive,- had it been operated by
sound and legitimate beads, but which has became se remote at the
operational level from the.. who sponsor it and stand responsible
to the public for it, at the top level, as to be a travesty.
*Without introduction, let's proceed with the story. The origin
of all this was back in the late forties, 1949, to be stoat, when
the Crusade For Freedom was set up, under the sponsorship of then"
General Dwight D. Eisenhower,,MI. elan Dulles, Ambassador Joseph
C. Grew, John Hu6hes, Arthur Paige and atter/ of similaicharacter.
I'm quoting their own literatureein this case, a letter signed
by Mr. Gwilym A. Price, the head of the westinghouse Corpordem,
who is presently chairman of the board of the Crusade For Freidbm6
"The letter says that all of these men pave aaintained tie
closest interest in the operations, and thats a direct quotation.
Fromppersonal inquiries that I have made and wili go into more
detail about later, it does not seem to be fact. Obviously Mr.."
President Eisenhower is net in any position with all that he has
to do to maintain the closest interest in the operations, as thy
ley, at the real operational level, and in foot, of course, he
does not.
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%r. Allen Dulloo to not oblo to do co oithor, oncopt through
tho modium of hio Control Intolligonoo Agony, and inocmuch ao
that agony, tho CIA, to gonorally roportod to haw a major fingor
in tho pio, that to hardlya roliablo chock oitboro A4y chockn
by tho CIA vould bo tbo CIA chocking on itoolf, in offoct, catch
cortninly to not tbo objoctivoo
(Inhnoondor Jac (Peva to alroot 80 yooro old and in failing
honIth. Obviouoly ho to not (Ala to mointoin a continuouo oboorvo-
tion on that tho oral:11211301ton to Mango uhat it'o putting out in tho
toy of propogiandao
'Tho purport of ihiO7Olain ioMThooettoo thaw rnn organicad
tho Cruoado For Froodan originally baet in 18.50, and boon= thoy
ore con of high roputotion and diotinotion? tin actual ?paean that
ovolvod from thoir original conoopt nuot bo goodo That to juot tho
point of thio otoryo It boo not folloy at oll, an a comnnt'o
rofleotion by oaono 'pith any oxporionco in llfo vili corroLoroto
that fact.
'no truth to that Cam& FOP rroodoc erpoo not conduct th000
propaganda oporotiono itoolf at all. It to puroly a fundaraioing
oporntion to finonco tin actual oporntiono utich it-aand it rai000
tho fundo in an annual campaign for Tvuth Dlloro ditch you probably
hovo hoard procotod in public DOP4i00 announcomonto ovor tho radio
and toloviolon, and through othor codloo
"Tho Cmoado boo a ?tato chairman in ovary ?tato, and tho main
drivo for Tooth Dollar? to dono through nompopor dollvory boyo,
ttioh to a cowondablo ?oho= of oporq=no Lot co cmphooino
tho fact that thorzogit or docorit of tho kroo huropo operation
ahould not rofloct in any yay on tit) nompoporo or tho nom boyo?
who provido thoir oorvi000 tothio oldie Alny haw ovary p000n to
boliavo that tho contributiono thoy oolioit oro boiu mod as tho
ologon (woo to fight ca=unian yith truth. Iltrap I haw mar?
nem for you in juot half a cinutoo
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*Novo tho pooulier part of thio fUnd-oollooting popooitiaa
io that ?you year, thio Crgoado For rroodan financoo ajunhot of'
proninont pcoplo to Mullah uhoro tho Fro? Europo oporntion hoc
Ito Europoon hoadquortoro, to inopoot tho oporotiono thoro and
oloovhoro? uith a otopovor in Porte on tho roturn trio?
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"I hnvo a mimeographed hot beforo mo. rhichoaya Cruoado
For Froodom. Radio Froo Ruropo MUnich in,..ction trip. Ootobor 11
through 21--plonoo not that that io tan .1?.a-4.1957; partial
pasoongor hot. Ana hero are ammo of the nameos Ii. Pork Arnold.
Kimanio International, Glondalo. California; Obi* otato chairman
Kenyon G. Bolton, Clovelandealo; G. hrucior, of
Wisconsin national Bank in Blbaukoo, alco a state chairman; the
Bonorablo George Chriatophor. Mayor of San Francloco; George C.
Cornoliuo, prooldont of the Amartean Barites? Foundation; Willimn
Cromell, prooidont of the Koy Club Intornationals Della?, Tom);
Loston Fanouf. Prooldent of the .B?21 Aircraft Corporation--ho in
flea York Stato chaiViii4p-Carl FrFalor, preaidont of the United
Brewery Workore of America AFL-CIO, Cincinnati; I. t4 Garrick,
vico-pronidont of the /Path; Wilford P. proeidont
of the Boll Telephone COmpany of Pennaylvania, otato chairman.
John S. Gleason, Jr., llationfil.Cormandor of tbe Americo
Legion; M.v. Ray f:,41110odbehmationai ,prooidont of tho bodice
auxiliary, Votarann of Poroign Vara; Indiana otato chairman
Robort B. jackpot, proaident of Pilgrim Lifo Inouranco Company;
Woo J. Pat Kelly, national_prooidont of the Amarican Lagion
Auxiliary; R. &mot Kerr, tiarth Carolina otato chairman, aonior
vico-prooidont of the American Truat Company in Charlotte;
Wolter I. Coke, providont of the Heuntain Statos Tblophono &
Tolograph Company?be to otato vico-chairman in Donvor; Cerl
(Cochian?), vico-prooidont and gonoral =lager of the Goorgia
Lookhood Aircraft Corporation and Georgia Mote chairman; John
Loydon, oxooutivo vico-procidont of tbo Tod Bate? Company,
voluntoor advortioins now In mo York,
"Donald B. HoGannon, prooidant of the bootinghouoo Broad-
casting Co?any, Incl., In Bar York; Lamarr 15. HcLood. vice-
prooldont. .botinghoupo glottric Colloration. Biocouridotato
chairman; Mrs,. Robort B. Mahoney, prosidont of the Rational
Council of Catholic Women, Hartford, Connoctiout; Mrs,, Willica
P. (Vivian) Meows, national prooidont of the National ?,ouncil
of Negro Women, Inc Inehington, D. C. H. Bruce Palmer,
prooldoro Mutual mc,,
Life Inaurancd Company. and 1O17 &rimy
tete c rrani_ !Ivo& p. mool) nts_orooident of the
Iona counool for the national Aasociation of Radio and
ral odoration or omen o Clubol Ro-.rt A; Aloha:do, puulio
Toloviabon Broadoutorol Richard Le noudobuob4 Wamandor-ip-
Chief of the Votorann of Foreign Wars; William Sheppard, vice-
preoldent of the Arkrnacio Porer & Light Company, otato chairmani
Dudley Le Slam, firot vice-proaidont. Lion? International,
Charlooton, Vont Virginia.
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*BermanW. Steinkrauss Connecticut Yioewpresident and presi-
dent of the Bridgeport Brass Company; and E. B. Will, president
of the Virginia Electric Power Company and state chairman, Richmond,
Virginia.
"now, I have read you this list in full, so as to avoid any
possible accusation of having selectedjame names and omitting
others, the importanoe of the list being that it 00268 from the
Crusade For Freedom itself, provides an authentic example of the
people who are selected for.,,..9,thesejmkts. .I question the propriety
of using Truth Dollariltiftlpsulepfolect, and I have the following
explanations from the Crusade' Itself. These are direct quotes:
*Radio Free Europe welcomes inspection by all reeponsible
people,.*hich is oily ea& year the, Crusade sponsors a trip to
view the gyration for 60 top American opinion Isadore; also no
part of the Crusade for Freedom collections go towards the muhch
trip. All contributions to the Crusade ta the penny are turned
over to the Free Europe Comiittee. the cost of the trip is
figured into the annual budget of the Crusade For Freedomvpaid
by private sources. The trip does not spend four days in rads.
The group arritie Friday afternoon, spends west of Saturday it
a to level briefing at.SHAPE headquerters and takes off for
New iork on Sunday. The explaaft-that's the and af the quote. The
explanation about the financing of the trip may interest you.
The fact is, of course this is hair-splitting as between Truth
Dollar contributions and other contributions. If the trip were
eliminated, that mach Roney would be saved for the Fres &mope
operation, and which pocket it mos out of mans nothings
have sae DAM!4030 you now in just one minutes
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"There were tio persons in all onthis year's junket, aud
the Crusade 'aye all expenses were not paid. Thy say, quote,
graup members pay for expenses and all meals other than official
dinners and lunches. In the case of William 0. Brunder, chairman
of the Wisconsin Rational Bank, he paid all his own expenses and
did not take the trip on. the chartered plane in .either direction.
In any cases no contributions are used to finance any portions
of the trip, unquote. This, after just having told what portions
of the junket the Crusade does finance.. apparently, Mr. Brumder
felt some uneasiness about accepting the.trip. That's the top of
the news as it looks from here.'
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