RFE AIDE SIDESTEPS QUERY ON CIA LINK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400260010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 28, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

Sanitized - Ap sa: CIA-RDP7
PROVIDENCE, R.Z.
BULLETIN
FG1?Ab3b
-146,005
APR, 2 8 1966
J Aid
CPYRGHT.
Sanitized -Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R00040G20O0I0-2
iA report a .p a,, ,a io Liberty pro a cover for
1, telLgnnce..,Agcnoy,.~s, providedIm-financed organizations, that
Radio', . Free Europe and arm of the _'U.S. government.
with cover _ by " Radio Free
(Europpe (I2FE) drew no firm
"denial-from_atop,executive of
tI}e litter group who spoke
4here yesterday'
Albert 'D...,. Rappel, executive
vice presidcnt' df the radio or-
J,.,ganization, was in town for a
fund-raising luncheon at the
Sheraton-Diltmore Hotel.
Askecl-about the New York
,`Times report. of a conneclion
between the CIA and the RFI.,
he read a carefully-worded prr-
.pared statement saying: "RFE
Is a private organization, pri-
i wkly financed and privately
operated and does. not receive
sfinancial aid from the U.S, gov
r" r'ernmentc"
~ `xhe-T inxs-report said:
""ITA Link
draw upon the research talents
of American scholars and also
service scholars with invaluable
raw material. The Free Europe
Committee even advertises, for
public contributions without re-
vealing its tics to the United
States government."
The question was raised at
the luncheon by John 1-
ender-con, an attorney ' iithMthe pen-
sion trust of Textron, "Inc. He
au Sbtiieone had.suggeste'd he
ask the question, but did not
say who he was.
Mr. Kappel said it is true
that 33 .FE provides scholars with
invaluable- raw 'material ,,but
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