BALLOON PROPAGANDA DEVELOPED SLOW LEAK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090051-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2013
• Sequence Number: 51
• Publication Date: November 20, 1957
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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'By FULTON LEWIS, . JR.,- . nese of all eiluiPhlent-.. He is
WASHINGTON Nov. 19. .
_ , -assigned to do the job ' in. 45
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, -days at an. allowance .of twenty-
The Free Europc balloon Drop- ,
aganda-1675ra-riinVilli'liat-&-.4.Yollars.a day. plus AranSporta-
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quarters in' Munich,. Germany,, ,. tic" " .? ? '
widely touted1113lie of the big. ? I' asked Mr. Walker,- about
guns of ?the so-called Crusade. j? this, becauselirSir'elby had a
. for Freeslorn,ceased opMtir $15,000-a-year assistaat_iMu- -
. ; iff'-t5troSei?Piar ago, after the ntc11-14-, ocv-a-firla:7WA-fe.i.:Whir.
;? outbreak of the Hungarian Rev- hrs'ett.th'Ifi'dfigie Of-the .bal- .
1,,olution..- , , .,..? ;'::loon prograrn since its -incep- .
It had 359 employees ., : tion Weaver also is Yale .,While ?
. :.. , .oi. rutnbVVT-Tr7b7ffirl- -
- r who 268. were on the scene; ,: ' ent to
Munich, Weaver is -being re- ?
''!?.and the operating 'head of it.iS called.- I asked Mr:VValker why.
'1?p. pleasant -young man 'named- :
; Samuel S.- Walker, Jr., in New
?;;,:i.zeervpiilikk4csRsetrill;Ly Lome at- .-, ver's recall' is 'because- he and
, mosphere, Was ei7iirt'arlhe
ale,.....Paitr,*?..-.1--Pthe-'year be : 14-11.111ricag.-V.1-YT,a;4-Me4A?Zr?
-.4;fore-Williairkicy, smokes d'efOrerte black ,mar:kakr,se,l,
1 a pipe' and is 31 years .cil-tdak'''gTsid*A4'Wlillie German
, ealTiToTaialThr 'all of-, - -govepune# took a dun view
m. :
' "wv"..'`'-Americans.?'? had d
' Tidal memorandum dated' De-, . GI t.'-
cember .3 1956 formally sus-
-, deal with a o have him buy'
., , .:1 the cigarettes. for them at the .
:pending. operations ' as' of that Army post exchaoge "at- some- .
thing less than 25 cents a pack,
' 11' GOES SO farp -?as to Rs - :which is about one-third" of'.
i mend substitute prejecAs..*hat they sell for on the tax- .
''which the emloyees:o
culd. be ' :-paid German retail market. .-:.
kept busy. ?
Nearly a year later ? - THE FREE EUROPE head-
Walker has just dispatched a quarters in New York dis-
special representative. G. A. patched its-own General Coun-
Tru_tsky, a Czech,: to finally sel, ,Riclmr4Argenlm from
)rmilig:iiiiiiffe4 the project-and 'dis? . ,New
- -hi trostmg several tnou-
sTilicraoilaVS:4"Th8i'?e"alg5Vanr.',.
All nine Were convicted and _
,.fined by the German court,' and
?Weaver was "recalled kir a new
assignment -in New York.",
The balloon project has the.
atmosphere.: of a sort o Y 3 ?
.post:graduas.,eops:and,r,o
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Walker's_deputy-
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THE! BALLOON BROKE
somewhat ? younger than , he=
John Kirk, also a. _Son of ?Plct
? ttrvfttrmf& a son of GLay_s_on-
ICI-M,L,president. of CM"'
ll'fiTM.Sit-S7-1/6"TarlIttett'fif,
Attrtger-1,95Q,?,,, this ? being his.
:first job, .f.!1.; a year. To-,
day he is dra ii g :10,500, which:
-seems to demonsti , w? fast'
.the modern Young man can rise'
in the ?wOrld.
? Mr. Walker' is not very Specif-'
-lc about 'why the year elapsed:.
between the end Of the balloon'
operations and the long-last
dis-
mantling. He sa,ysit has been
."gradual process," which seems
to be .a masterpiece of ander.'
statement. ? ? ? ? -
Kin g,.F.eatu res' '15C; ;.
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Declassified and Approved For Release @50-Yr 2013/10/29: CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090051-1