MCALISTER DENIES CIA HELP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400580002-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: March 2, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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'Dr. Lyle N. McAlister, direc- bean and +a research professor o He said a a. Mara
for of the University of Florida's Latin American Studies, i s dation gave money to support a $ 'rhe conference 'bitotight pro ;
-D.._' American student exchange program.. but minentspeakers to the campus
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Studies, said 'today' he knows Foundation, which.-, wasbased' didn't personally know.-:of any discuss social and economic
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that the T1)? may have been the WilL'us_ who is slated to retire benefited from such a fund The' ,` .. ,The U.S ? State Department '
beneficiary of CIA funds.
State newspapers in Tampa-.
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from the university ii} June; was LUU1,UaLLULL aLDV ? " w ? ,, was generally, represented by
reported out of .town and ,not publications on' Latin Ameriea,' y , high officials.
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based Pan American Founda- knows of no connection between when the Center for Latin" ar..between $3,500 and $4,500
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ternational spy agency. McAlister; Reportedly, Dr. A. Curtis American -Foundation moved and organizations ' having In- w the United States who were in
Wilgus director of the UF's an- from here to Coral Gables m- terests in Latin America c i terested?rn inter-American af-
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