LETTER TO REVEREND PETER M. KRETA FROM (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 22, 2002
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: November 30, 1959
• Content Type: LETTER

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Greek Catholic
ftM Avenue
':Port, remaylvanie
On behalf of Mr. Dulles,. 2 wmad like to
mele a and thank you for your letter of
5 Novauber and the enclosed ay of your
letter to President Elsembovw restir that
he visit the Oeci enicel Patriarch of the ate
Ortbod= Church in Istanbul.
This to a matter ehieh doom not fall within
the mew of the dal telligence Agcy.
Diver, your tesy in vriting to us about
this is - Indeed appreciated..
Si=erely,
O/DCI ak(34 Nov. 59)
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ARCHPRIEST PETER M. KRETA
330 SHAW AVENUE
McKEESPORT, PA.
TEL. ORCHARD 2-3444
ovei.aber "2 , 1959
Lion. Alen W. Dulles
Central Intelligence a-gencY
Director
'4ashington D.C.
Dear ,v,r. Dulles:
If you are sympathetic to what we are re-
questing in the enclosed, please, help. de need it.
Tahnk you, sir. mod bless youo
respectfully
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DEAN
VERY REV. PETER M. KRETA
330 SHAW AVENUE
McKEESPORT, PA.
PHONE: OR 2-3444
DEANERY OF PITTSBURGH
STAT
ASSISTANT TO DEAN
REV. NICHOLAS FEDETZ
November 25, 1959
The Honorable Dwight D. Eisenhower
President of the United States
The White House
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. President:
We understand that on your overseas trip you are to visit Italy and
Turkey. It has been publicized that while in Italy you are to visit
Pope John XXIII, Head of the Roman Catholic Church.
To our deep regret we have seen no mention of a visit to the oecumen-
ical Patriarch of the Eastern Ortha dox Church whose headquarters are
in Istanbul. You know the dignitary; he is patriarch Athanagoras,
formerly Head of the Greek Orthodox Church in America.
The clergy of the Pittsburgh Deanery at a meeting held Tuesday, Novem-
ber 24, in the Russian Orthodox Center, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, unan-
imously asked that you be informed of the need for such a visit. Over
a hundred million of the Eastern Orthodox are behind the Iron Curtain
wanting to and trying to worship God and do so under duress. As you
well know, the .regime is definitely anti-God and anti religion.
These over a hundred million Eastern Orthodox need to know that the
Free World, represented by the President of the United States, sympe_
thizes with them, praysfor to eservecndaglorify is
assist them in their desire and forefathers did.
or
In our estimation, no other eg political
ganda could do as much
and with the other Slavic peoples and the United States. We It humbly
i
m means
plead with you, if humanly possible, to make such a visit.
so much to the world in its desires for peace and undertanding.
Humbly and respectfully yours,
ql,ov C . C?S, ~ hn. "~ c e J
The Very Reverend Peter M. Krete
Dean
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