'NEW WORLD REVIEW', IS OLD COMMUNIST RAG

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400020033-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 33
• Content Type: NSPR

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WRITERS CALLED
BACKERS OF CASTRO
WASHINGTON, Jul . 19
,1 gee u i
cal writer' accused three er4
lean reporters today of writing
distorted 'stories on Cuba in
favor of the Castro regime.
In testimony at a Senat(
hearing, Carlos Todd, now pree,
ident and 'editor of the Cuban
Information Service, Coral Ga+
bles, P1a., named the reporteri
as retired Brig. Gen. Hugh B.
Hester of Chapel Hill, N. C.,
Charles Kuralt and John Hlava',
ceck.
Mr. Todd said Mr. Hester
went to Flavana as a special
correspondent for the North
American Newspaper Alliance.
Mr, Kuralt ?va sadmitted as a
Columbia Broadcasting System
television correspondent. Mr.
Hlavaceck went to Havana for
the National Broadcasting Com-
pany.
"Hester's press reports and
Kuralt and Hlavaceck's tele-
vision appearances have all been
favorable to the Castro Com-
munist regime in one way or
another," Mr. Todd said.
Mr. Todd testified before they
,,Senate Internal Security Sub
committee, which is investigat-ing "attempts by the pro-Castro
forc@s to pervert the American
press."
Mr. Todd was a columnist and
political writer for The Times
of Havana until he fled Cuba
in October, 1980. }
A spok$s;man for the North;
Americsn~ Newspaper Alliance`
said he ? yesterday that Mr.!
Hester aid another writer,
Jesse GO n, had written threes
stories f Which were straight In-C
tervlevt with top officials oft
the C't h Government" about
six or fright months ago. The'
spokf 4an said that since then)
Mr. .ter, has "had no connec-
tion tit NANA."
Ff bard S. Salapt, president
of: ? 13, S. News, said C. B. S.
h?q :eompletb confidence in the
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Uub" Political wrrfte+r, now president of the Cuban Infonna?
tian Service, Coral -Fables, Fla., told Senate internal Secul.
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ttee 1 hers that three Amer newsmen,
Re& Brig. Gen. Hu B. Heater, Chapel MR, N. C., and John I -v -r arieK
brought
ed atorleri
on Cuba and the t st
ro
till have been
the Castro regt,~ s in one way or another, he sahL
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