EXCERPT FULTON LEWIS, JR., AT 7:00 P.M.

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090070-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2013
• Sequence Number: 70
• Publication Date: October 5, 1957
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Fulton Levis, Jr, at 7:00
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"Radio Free Europe, about which I did some Ireliminary reporting last week to
yoe, is dienvntling its balloon laurching pro in Eimich, Gamy,- and despite
the fact that the Ifunich operation is beavily ormisioaded with personnel already,
additional personnel is being sent from this country to oversee the li4uidat4u.
Thu was the program under which pro:cages:la pemphlets were being dropped behind the
Iron Curtain as part of the so-called message of liberty to the Communist-maned
people of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Roumania, and the other countries, but it is =a
beim shand=eci an orders from headquarters here. ?
0/n the Meantime the cats= FOR =EDON, which is a fundouraisiing organizatice
far the Radio Free Europe Cosedttee which runs these various operation, is about to
launch its US? =maim to collect so-called Truth Dollars from you. The campaign
la to take place .some time during this month of November. The Crusade has the Sponsor-
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ship cf some of the stost reliable and mw11-meaning citizens of the natioe. They are
not aware I an sure, es to what?the activities Of Radio Free Europe really are,' or
of the 184 that- the propaganda" line being broadcast ty Radio Free Europe is not the
propaganda of Western freedom at all, but propaganda taTing to sell Tito Communism
to the people, an against Roscoe Communism.
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not: might take note of the fact the State Department in blepargt.on is taking
sudden awareness of Tito's recognition of Communist East Germany, and West Gemara
immediate afters:Ice of diplomatic relations with Tito as a result. Mr. Dulles is
taktm a second look at the foreign aid that we have been pouring into Tugoslavie,
'in spite of the warnings in Congress against it. Representative Walter Judd of
Minnesota, considered the outstanding foreign policy expert in the Rows in either
? party, told ne this afternoon that in his opinion the pitch about playing along with
Tito is suicide. Communiem is just as sinister and sadistic in Toscani*, he said,
just as =successful as it is anywhere else. And the pro:eters who try to tell you
that Tito's brand is all right are betraying this country.
"And yet let me read to you from a directive which Radio Free Euresn distributed
to its employees and editors and broadcasters sal write= in the Mulch headquarters
where the propaganda operations are conducted. Remember this is a policy instruction
? for the propagandists themselves and this is supposed to be the renamed Voice of,
Freedom, as they call themselves. Quotes 'Titoism in Yugo:anis has proven itself
and is defending the country against Stalinist Bolshevism. Titoism as a state con-
cept is not of lasting duration, and will have to yield to democracy after a given -
defeat of world Bolshevism. For that reason it is necessary to see the situation in
the satellite countries of the CM from this point of view, and every effort mist be
sad* in these countries to promote the defection from Communien to Titoism. /t is
necessary to glorify the figure of liershal Tito in the eyes of Yugoslavia and the
Western world.* Please note that* the eyes of the Western world.*
"Who is getting propagandised? The people behind the Iron Curtain, or us? And
? why is it necessary for us to be proper Indised in favor of Tito? But back to this
directive. 'Tito is a hero who has -saved the nation from exploitation from foreign
barbarians and led then from their own possible downfall to listen to a happy future.'
A hem future, mind you. We've poured one and a half billion dollars of foreign aid
into 'Yugoslavia, and the country is still in the throes of siarvaiion. We've poured
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