HOW CLOSELY WAS LEFTIST INSTITUTE TIED TO CIA?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700660005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 24, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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revelation
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of a wide variety of politically The question of the CIA role
consistently accused the U.S. of
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The curt'ent flap confirms .that SHIFTED SUPPORT
the CIA from 1961 till last.year After Mr. 'Bosch beeamie
materially helped New York's Dominican president, the CIA
Institute for International Labor ? backed. and. Volman-run New ''
Research, which had the York organization shifted its
sponsorship of longtime Socialist economic support from'. the
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'chief. recommendation to Latin founded and run by Air. Volman.t,
American leftists. It ' was in. the Dominican Republic.
actually run by the Secretary- ` In the political spectrum,' the
General,. Sacha Volman. Vol-nan-Bosch group at this
?Mr. Thomas denies he knew. time moved considerably to the y---?
his organization was a channel 14 of ithe donweratic-letlblst
for the CIA. ' M. ' Volman : movement sparked by former ,,,j
President Jose Fionaran of
had to know and Mr. Volman is' president Romulo Betancourt of ?:.?`.
im
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"'J ? heavy pressure from pro-Oasbro? +'r"
1 funds 'or whether he also .? guorlllas
asked Bosch to crack
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i received CIA direction. For he, ,~ ,,, ,,, tm111X11? organizations
has played a hey role in tilC
~.- 411 his own country. Bosch re- internal'~affairs of the '
nlsts had fought Trujillo's dicta-
Mr. Volman's relationship for;ship. ' " t~
with -former President Juan Bosch and Volman : then `i
Bosch of the D o m'i n i c all obviously set out to capture a' ,;!
,1 ? ltcpublia was ., extremely close ! continental leadershili of Latin',
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eare Mr n--I, ..,.,s America's democratic left. and
t thru the
visited the U.S. as Dominican of the CIA?
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connivance? Or was this done .;-
t Indeed,. 'whenMr. Bosch with the knowledseand consent :.,
Whloh the Volman-run or;ani- ? political empire while accepting
: CIA backing, but without CIA
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nustalneu durllig part of his , .v c caw one cons
radical than exile by teaching in the Costa the rigueres-
,, ? ,? , ' Betancourt movement.. The
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