CIA: HOW DEEP ITS TIES? HOTEL ROOM DEATH SHOWED STUDENT LINK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400150020-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: February 26, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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to accept that finding. refused to talk to a reporter `..
? hy., ,;; about the death of his only "
child Later he said
For one thing >tUicide "I have beew asked not to
seemed out of character. Av- litalk about this death by the
rea Ingram was no morose- government.
But all the recent rpm ta.::
worrier, He was remembered
as "a man who never lost his
cool," according to one foriii
er NSA officer.
tions about the CIA and
'?y
NSA have caused people to
wonder. Carl 1y1. Sapers, an
NSA official in 1950-'52 and
now a member of the Boston
Ingra.nr's transition telells; after his presidency to 'join 1gentleman who loved the.., .'!law firm of hill and Barlow,
much about the begins s ISC. i fine things in life; who was, said in a recent letter to
AN ISC FIELD worker as another former officer someone in Washington:
of a relationship that event:i-; in Vienna during and just,) put it, "a bon vivant fond of '
ally wound "armmd every after the Hungarian uprising good food and good times." 4 "I am now beginning to
has facet of any conAmericannection life that' of October 1956. -'His overt Secondly, there was the Avonder,whether there is
outside, not
the United State,,," as gjob was to help escaping stn- ;; CIA'relationship. some relation between the i
ILichard B. Rates (U., Sin dent-freedom fighters fleeing Right after the. funeral, 1. CIA Involvement and his-1
ell Hungary to resettle and re- which he attended in Annis- ii.'! (Ingrams.) death.,
put it last week. sume their studies in the :; tong Ala., Avrea's old friend
But Ingram's death con West.. What else . he may"' , kill. Dentzcr Introduced him ll?'.? For anyone wanting to i
have been doing is no known i self to the Ingram family. check the CIA-NSA relation- d
teals much about how the,
CIA originally got into the r He took Avrea Jr.'s father ships / tha have been dis-
and his uncle, Stanton B + closed now ten years ago, all...)
business of subsidizing the THENi, SUDDENLY, Av Ingram, back to his hotel' r the links were there:
internat.onal programs of rea Ingram was dead. He room, swore them to secrecy INGRAM and ' Dentzer to private groups .from labor, had returned to this country and revealed 'himself' its a
students, women,. secondary after Vienna, and took up, CIA agent .:._
teachers, academics. and, Intel-,~ residence in the Irving'Hote1 ;
lectuals.
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?tions together - creating a Holland from 1953 to 195F,,
relationship that went much The ISC also received CIA
deeper than one which mere- funds according to the diselo.
ly created pro-American pro- sures of the past two weeks,
paganda abroad. In this Job, Ingram succeed-
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The NSA-Ingram-CIA link or c. Then he said Avrea had
13s specific. Ingram was; At noon on Feb. 5,. 1957, a
_ also served his country well,
INTERNA I maid opened the door to
vice president of NSA for Room 19 in' the hotel and . of Tallat S. Avrea Ingram Jr. to iousl wo erms, rom September 1oun ngram lying nude, on, .
dega, Ala., died mysteriously ing:
1951 to September 1953 dur, the floor with a leather belt ;
'in an ofe-way New, Ing the period that CIA gave ? !around his, neck attached to, If the Communists want-`;
York hotel el room at the age ed to kill for their own gain'?
of 30, he sent' the exotic the first of its regular pay-: the knob of a desk drawer.
p they would certainly want to a
last four mints to support NSA's in- The" New , York medical
years of his life kill Avree Jr. He would be
ternational program in the 'examiner called.', the death '
living where the action was , number one on their list.
p r o p a g a n d a fight against '(asphyxia by hanging" and
.in domestic and interlration sir *
international communism. said the indications - were
al student politics. INGRAM S FATHER, a
The president of NSA that suicide.. Some oP'his friends: ,
Ingr~;ii radul d from' retired businessman, first
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the rsrnlcs o of the National first year was William T. and his relatives were
Student Association (o bc- Dent4er, now head of the
iconic an anent for the Cen= ; U.S..aid mission to Peru.
` teal intelligence Agency. He ASSOCIATE soareta; G
of the coordinating secre
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