COPLEY PAPERS LINKED TO FBI; ALLEGATIONS DENIED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100330009-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 9, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

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Their article, entitled
"The Spies Who Came In
iAS13INGTON - Pent From The Newsroom," said
se magazine said yester- that CNS had provided infor-
that the Copley newspa- mation to the CIA about
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elligence arms of the,Cen- -enlist public support for CIA agency sent me a form letter tion.-Kennedy and the State
Intelligence Agency and activities. The article said telling me that there'was no Department not only repeat-
Federal Bureau of-Inves that the late James S. Cop- opening for me ... Prior to edly denied my stories that
ation iey, publisher and sole the Cuban exile invasion at week but'continued to do so
n an article written' for owner of the Copley Press the Bay. of Pigs in 1961, the almost daily for months. In
August issue, by ; :, Joe until his death in October, local ? Central Intelligence lac ti 1t was,not until U.
man in wait Diego
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gazine said it had learned; the CIA in a number of ef= and I used to talk:; about
-t 23 persons, mostr;of i forts _to ; Influenc -foreign-, preparations that were going
m part -time stringers in. governments :, on there. for the invasion."
in America, had worked,.: .The articlew identified'.. The article said" the' CIA
the CIA while employed Clement David- Hellyer as a',reciprocated -for the with-
the Copley o ganizatiod. F CIA member who.- became holding of news of the pend
hard G. Capen Jr., sen444 the first Latin American edi- ing Cuban invasion by. pro-
'vi?e president fnr opera. tar of- CNS when .-it?F.was; 'fttg"eUpley`reporter
vs of the Cooley Press, 4" 1 Q;;2
,oonded that "we .;haves It said he left CNS to take that the Soviet l niorr had
m assured by the hi esti ' troops and nuclear armed
up other CIA assignments; rockets in Cuba.
els within the CIA that no which ranged- from being a won the Ray-
lo es of C le new a 1 . Keely s story
p y op .Y sP -I'student-in Brazil in- 19fi0-to:mond Clapper memorial
-s or CNS have been em- becoming the final editor of Award. one of the sources of
-yes of the agency"
harles Ohl, editor".and the CIA-funded Santiago Kelly's story, l~enthouse
South Pacific Mail between-said,, was a- Cuban professor
,era" manager of CNS, de- i964 and 1966.:' of. advanced age who had
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n ins. --i. nave oeei?.Wiw `rent CNS` 'Latin `American
It News Service- for 13 - ".It said Keely was directed to
editor, was quoted.'aes saying, persons in the Cuban refugee
31s as foreign . editor; ex he tried' to J
'oin'th?.CIA in
ztivC editor and editor.:]. eommuxiity, some of:'them
zeral manager,"'he said-: 1950 when he was a .'reporter CIA agents, who had . seen
for 'United. Press in Mexico and : worked on the. "rocket
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me there has
ntring that t
'City. The article said Gian and warhead installations.
=n to my knowledge absoe,
1~`was gutted in the-
doni 69fed information to CIe!
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31y no connection
between operative William Kelley in -artiL.it'x as =sayii?Y; be.. could
rento: unsuccessfuIly'
fight the Democraticnoml-
-ion for Congress from the
i Diego. area in 1976'and
is a: reporter . for the
Imingtori . (Del.).' News-:
1rnaL. Roman,._a free,
ce reporter,, was>a teach'
assistant in English at
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9 JULY 1977
The authors said Giandoni Reached, at. his hoarse An
ported o Ke
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appaintact,, that-,
"
:trips to Central America and dis
:Cuban invasion and learned ;attention to. what I said dur
of that upcoming invasion ling his interview.:-with me:,
but did not publish it, acced- 11 ; But it- is all on- his. tape,
uest for ~ recorder and , maybe we,
to a CIA re
in
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g
secrecy,- . ?shoul? ask the court to make-
his tapes public. :,
Trento it was not until April
4, 1%3, that: President`Ken...-
nedy at- a news conference=
for the first'time confirmed,
and documented -these,;
stories?"-s..
1953 MEl:,'IING'
Penthouse asserted.. that
the decision " to: form: CNS
was inspired by a meeting in;
1953 hetween - Copley" and
President Dwight 1). . Eisen
mower "for the purpose of
supplementing , CIA activi-
ty-" The authors said- they
have seen still-secret. docu-
ments that verified this-
They said the documents
confirmed that Copley volun-
teered _.to ' make: CNS "the
eyes and ears" against "the
Communist threat in Latin
and Central America
our intelligence services. T
The.- article' asserted' fur-
"CNS' `reporters:'-often-
acted' as if they- were' doing
CIA public -relations ? When.
the CIA "dcbided to? ?over-
throw,4.Latin American gov-
ernment, CNS -would begin
writing; tuifavoiabie. articles
about; li.: I ditorials would
appear on thy pages"'ctt `tile
Evening Tribune and The
Union in San Diego,,wariiing
of the dire consequences of.
Communists in Latin Amen i-
ca. The articles on 'Freedom
Fighters'. and 'Anti-Commu-
nist Opposition' would ap-
pearon the CNS Wires. Mien
the coup came Copley edito-
rials rejoiced'-' r
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GIANDONI RESPONSE } "If thf
Responding, Giandoni facts fo
said: ! article
while working for buildup
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"in 1950
,
United Press in "Mexico City, have -sa
I applied for employment nedy a
with the Central Intelligence barassn