GALINDEZ FUNDS STILL A MYSTERY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R001100670011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2013
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: June 2, 1958
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2013/05/14: CIA-RDP74-00297RO01100670011-8
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Ga1jndez ~
By Drew Pearson.
Most important point raised,518,000 'a month-. ''his-is a lot
in the long-awaited Morris;of money to roll into the lap"
(Ernst report on the strangelof a college professor who.
`disappearance of Prof. Jesus sent out no " -.tare to ask;
for money, r-. few letters,!
de Galindez Is,, !made almost no speeches ?to,i
how and where r You s of eople
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Ilumbta University- Ilindez took charge. Obviously
Ernst concludes that the Co-;the money came to him be-
" mbia professor is ? till miss-1
ling and still nobody knowsicause someone, possibly an ap-
g p
't h e Professor c` a a g
inc money continued to
was able co'col- oll in in amounts ranging be-
,1::- , one million -s ~ween $4000 to $24,000 a
!dollars. That is month for the next six years.,
a lot of money In January, 1956, just before
;for a cortege .F he was killed, or.. disappeared
profess or to he filed the largest receipt Of amounts nf money spent for'
pull in from all-$26,039, "espionage than anyone else in`,
Span i s h Ras- The money was supposed to Washington,
ques, and,.?the Pearson ?= come from Spanish. Basques in j,
big question' is Venezu.ela, Me xi c o, Chile, Washington P: ijieinie
'whether be was Peru, Colombia, Cuba, France,;
Despite Ike's optimistic
actually getting it from .fi6an-;Belgium and Italy. I-lowever;statement about the end of the
lards or.};; i;?jt,didn't come!there are exchange restric-!,
fecession, chances are that
tions in most of these coun-
froth secret espionage agents. unemployment will hit tlfe six
n! n ,:?-.F...-.. tries, so it's impossible to s.endmillion mark by the ent. of.
Ernst, after Sla montIl~`' 0f money to other countries' - ,
June and seven million by them.
investigation for the Domini-;.Furthermore, money collet-;
government, has come uptions' are not easy even foi,'end-of the summer ... Prime,
can Min ster Macmillan will tei14
with some important, though killed'_'_money raisers, and ~,rPsident Eisenhower .