LETTER TO LEONARD R. SUSSMAN FROM DENNIS BEREND

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PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Phone: [phone]
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Leonard R. Sussman
Executive Director
Freedom House
Wilkie Memorial Building
20 West 40th Street
New York, NY 10018
Dear Mr. Sussman:
WASHINGTON. D. C. 20505
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8 February 1978
Thank you very much for your quick response to my request for
information on freedom of the press around the world. The material
you sent was most useful, and I'm keeping it on hand for future
reference.
Reimbursement for the material is to be provided by another
office in the Agency. Please let me know if you have not received
it.
STADT/DCl/PA/D
Thank you again for your help.
/JW
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Sincerely,
SAT
Deputy Assistant for Public Affairs
to the Director of Central Intelligence
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at the Willkie Memorial Building 20 West 40th Street, New York, N.Y. 10018
Programs to strengthen the institutions of freedom
Research, publications, advisories on domestic and foreign affairs
Comparative Survey of Freedom in every nation
Freedom at Issue, a bimonthly ? Book program in Asia. Africa, Latin America
Deputy Assistant for Public Affairs
to the Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear
[phone]
January 17, 1978
In response to your call today I am pleased to enclose the
following information on our estimates of the level of press
freedom around the world. As I indicated, our judgments under
civil rights/liberties in the several tables are determined in
large measure on the actual independence of journalists from
the regime (whether or not independence is proclaimed in con-
stitutions, etc.; and whether or not communications media are
operated or regulated by the government, as in the case of the
BBC).
I also enclose Mass News Media and the Third World Challenge
and other articles on this related subject.
Please let me know if we can be of further assistance.
im
enclosures
John Richardson, Jr., President
Philip van Slyck, Chairman of the Executive Committee
Leon Levy, Treasurer
*Ned W. Bendier, Jr.
Karl R. Bendetsen
ZbIgniew Brzerinski, on leave
Sol C. Chaikin
John Diebold
Wayne Fredericks
Richard Gambino
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Caroline K. Simon, Assistant Treasurer
John W. Riehm, Secretary
Roscoe Drummond, Vice-Chairman
Executive Committee: above oMcers and at-large members.
Richard N. Gardner, on leave ?Norman Hill William C. Lewis, Jr.
Nathaniel L. Goldstein Sidney Hook Gale McGee
Roy M. Goodman Jacob K. Javits Daniel P. Moynihan
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Arthur L. Harckham William R. Kintner Norman Redlich William E. Simon Francis Pickens Miller. Trustee Emeritus
Rita E. Hauser Aaron Lowenstein Gerald L. Steibel '
Whitelaw Reid Leonora FL Sussman. Executive Director
Sincerely,
L?iard R. Sussman
Executive Director
Margaret Chase Smith. Chairman-Emeritus
Harry D. Gideonse, President-Emeritus
Leo Cheme, Honorary Chairman
Whitney North Seymour, Honorary Chairman
*Burns W. Roper Herbert Swope
Richard R. Salzmann Robert C. Keever
Howland H. Sergeant Eugene P. Wigner
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PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Phone: [phone]
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Leonard R. Sussman
Executive Director
Freedom House
Wilkie Memorial Building
20 West 40th Street
New York, NY 10018
Dear Mr. Sussman:
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
8 February 1978
Thank you very much for your quick response to my request for
information on freedom of the press around the world. The material
you sent was most useful, and I'm keeping it on hand for future
reference.
Reimbursement for the material is to be provided by another
office in the Agency. Please let me know if you have not received
It.
Thank you again for your help.
C4nnevineklt,
Deputy Assistant for Public Affairs
to the Director of Central Intelligence
DA/DCl/PA/D Berend/JW
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Programs to strengthen the institutions of freedom
Research, publications, advisories on domestic and foreign affairs
Comparative Survey of Freedom in every nation
Freedom at Issue, a bimonthly ? Rook program in Asia, Africa, Latin America
Deputy Assistant tor Public Affairs
to the Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Dear I
F
[phone]
January 17, 1978
In response to your call today I am pleased to enclose the
following information on our estimates of the level of press
freedom around the world. As I indicated, our judgments under
civil rights/liberties in the several tables are determined in
large measure on the actual independence of journalists from
the regime (whether or not independence is proclaimed in con-
stitutions, etc.; and whether or not communications media are
operated or regulated by the government, as in the case of the
BBC).
I also enclose Mass News Media and the Third World Challenge
and other articles on this related subject.
Please let me know if we can be of further assistance.
im
enclosures
John Richardson, Jr., President
Philip van Slyck, Chairman of the Executive Committee
Leon Levy, Treasurer
*Ned W. Handler, Jr.
Karl R. Bendetsen
Zbigniew Brzezinski, on leave
Sol C. Chaikin
John Diebold
Wayne Fredericks
Richard Gambino
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Caroline K. Simon, Assistant Treasurer
John W. Riehm, Secretary
Roscoe Drummond, Vice-Chairman
Executive Committee: above officers and at-large members*
Richard N. Gardner, on leave *Norman Hill
Nathaniel L. Goldstein Sidney Hook
Roy M. Goodman Jacob K. Javils
Sydney Gruson Nathaniel R. Jones
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Rita E. Hauser Aaron Levenstein
William C. Lewis, Jr.
Gale McGee
Daniel P. Moynihan
Bess Myerson
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Whitelaw Reid
Sinceiely,
Leo4ard R. Sussman
Executive Director
Margaret Chase Smith, Chairem.m-Emerims
Harry D. Gideonse, President-Emeritus
Leo Cherne, Honorary Chairman
Whitney North Seymour, Honorary Chu'rtnan
*Burns W. Roper
Richard R. Salzmann
Howland H. Sargeant
Robert A. Scalapino
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Gerald L. Steibel
Herbert Swope
Robert C. Weaver
Eugene P. Wigner
Roy Wilkins
Itecgues D. Wimpfbeimer
Viands Pickens Miller, Trance Einerim,
Leonard R. Sussman, Executive Dire, tor
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By Jim Kostrnan and Bob Katz
Last. year, the Rockefeller
Commission investigated al-
legations of illegal domestic spy-
ing by the CIA. Composed large-
ly of men with previous ties to
the US intelligence community,
the Commission concluded that
some abuses had occurred and
made limited recominendations
to prevent future ones. Presi-
dent Ford's recently anrounced
pjans for dealing with this prob-
lem include the formation of a
three-man Intelligence Advisory
Board. It too is compoaed omen
long associated with sovii:
Most ? interesting of these is
-' Leo Cherne, described in press
accounts as a proiessional econ-
omist and head of the Research
Institute of America. For aome
25 years, Cherne has been chair-
man of the International -Rescue.
Committee (IRC), r. stthnglY
anti-communist organization
with the ostenshre oo?iaeose of
setting up relief, opeteitio s in
foreign countries wale ?sed.n.ing
refugees from atier.s?iain :h have
come under cornmuniS,e7contr0l.
With this brief bac!aero?.nd in
mind. it is noteworthy that in
January, 1962, a young Amer-
ican former Marine named Lee
Harvey Oswald,- who had defec-
ted to the Soviet Union in 1959,
wrote to the MC asking for
financial aid for his intended re-
turn to the United States. In
December, 1961, Oswald had in- '
formed the American embassy in
Moscow that he wished to re-
turn to the USA. The State !.
Department then contacted the
IRC and ft Texas chapter of the .'
Red Cross about helping Os-
wait!. At the suggestion of the
embassy, Oswald wrote twice to
the IRC, initially 'requesting
7. $800; then upping- it to $1000.
"After all this time our visas
have finally been granted, thank
?
at a C.
0Avald wrote the IRC on
-Jan. ..?6. 1962, "but our troubles
are not :Thancial, only if your
oeganieaLan in."
The IRC never stepped
ii-
They informed the.State Depart- -
mem that "as a strongly anti?
commun;st organization, we
would hatri-:y he the appropriate
agency for -an Americarr who
went :o Ruse 'a to live there.''''
The MC never even .replied to
Oswald. but the State Depart-
ment eventually came through -
Mtn 8435, apparently the sum .
Oswald required to sail to New .
York.
The Warren Commission Re-
port states only that Oswald at-
tempted between Feb. 6 and
May 1 to procure aid from the
RIC. But this account. is in con- ?
flict with the evidence con-
tained in the 26 volumes of hear-
ings and exhibits published by
the Commission. These docu-
ments show that Oswald con-
tacted the IRCa before Feb.
6, an- Oswa. s letters from the
spring of 1962, prior ? to May 1,
reveal that he had already been
asseteed of the State Dept.
mon;:iy. If Oswald continued to
.cOarespond with the. MC until
May 1, there is no record of it.
Thera are many curious as-
neets Of Oswald's attempt to get
help from the 1RC. In the .early
stages of his attempt I:a get aid,
Oswald wrote to his mother and
got her, with the help of the Red
Cross, to contact the MC. When
the IRC wrote hack to fhe Red_
Cross, they said that the State
Dept. had already been in touch
with them about the Oswald
case. The whole affair, in-
eluding the fact that the State
Dept. wound up financing the re-
turn of this one-time defector, is
one reason why many-people sus-
pect that Oswald went to Russia
as an agent of the U.S. govern-
ment. In fact, when Mrs.
Marguerite Oswald alleged that
her son was a government, agent,
she cited the IRC/State Dept.
enistale, ?
A few clays afti
point ment, the
connections to 'th
subject of a Nei
article by Joh
Crewdson's story
at least some of
lion dollars raise
the MC comes at
ly from the CL2
quoted Fra
man Foundation
was approached i
by a "mysterio,
asked to pass ab
the MC for a a
project in the ?
Andrew Norman.
the Norman Form
called the incident but said the
money .vas ear-marked for an
unspecified Latin American ef-
fort.
Tiu.? Times noted that the
Norman Foundation was rine of 1
many instittions identified in
1967 disclosures as a tonduit fox-
CIA funds. The Tirrres? reported
that the J.M. iKaplan Fund, also
identified as a CIA conduit, has
given money to both the IRC and
Freedom House, an organiza-
tn" which publishes infor-
mation on the alleged surpres-
sion of freedom in socialist coun-
tries, and of which Cherne is
chairman of the executive com-
mittee.
Crewdson's report, if true,
would have established the first
definite link between the CIA
and the MC. But the next clay.
Crewdson reported that Weil
had retracted the original story,
saying that he had "misre-
called" the crucial episode. Free-
dom House, apparently made
nervous by the publicity, wrote
the CIA mid asked if they had
ever ben a direct or indirect re-
cipient. ,of CIA islands. CIA
director Geoeao Bush assured-
Freedom House they were clean.
When Che-ne was :asked by Cee.
Times why he never checked the .
Norman Foundation grants to
the IRC for possible CIA influ-
ence. he replied, "That's the sil-
liest question I've ever heard."
gence organization that pre
ceded the CIA.
But we don't. want to make to
much f this. Cherne himself ba
said that. the IRC is just a hobby
Men entruued with keeping tab
on the spy agencies should b
evauated for impartiality on th
basis of all their past endeavor
hke the Citizen's Contriitte
for a Free Cuba. Founded in Th
..nring of 1963, its membershi
included Charm,- Clare Boot
Luce, General S.L.A. Marshal'.
Christopher Emmet, also of th
TalC and head of the America.
Friends of the Captive Natiom
usavell as Jay Lovestone and Ii
ving Beown, of the American Jr
stit.ote for Free Labor Develor
ine7 t., which has served as a CE,
froht- for manipulating .Coreig?
. labor unions. In a report put
!jailed-. - Cherne's Freedor
House. &le new committee cane
for a new national policy to libel
ate Cuba "by all means nece
This 'meant encouragt
ment of hit-and-run raids o
rather than 'direct IT
taiElary intervernioniThe repoi
sue:eta:dad that these raids woe;
.oat endanger world peace if cat
tied or from hasea. outside U.
territory. The report also cane
for ass.istance to the antiCastr
Cuban underground 'in Cub
"through every possible char
nel."
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Busti. Says Freedom House
Did Not Get C.I.A. Funds(
In response- to , a request
made three weeks ago, Free-
dom House,' an organization
that monitors, the degree of
freedom enjoyed by the citizens
of various countries; has re-
ceived from the: Central Intelli-
gence Agency .an asSurance
that the C.I.A. has never passed
funds to the organization.
The assurance came in a
letter dated March 2 from
George Bush, the Director of
Central Intelligence.
Freedom House hash request-
ed the assurance after.its name
appeared in published :reports
saying that. C.I.A. funds had
been channeled in the 1960's
to the International Rescue
Committee, a humanitarian
organization headed by Leo
Cherne, one of President Ford's
appointees to a new intelli-
gence oversightboard. Mr.
Cherne is also 'chairman of
Freedom house's executive]
committee.
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Cherne-Unit Not Tied to C.I.A Fund
By JOHN M. CREWDSON
spedai to The New York Vales
.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20?
.1-:rank Well, president of the
lklanhattan - based Norman
Foundation, said today that he
erred in his assertion yesterday
that the Central Intelligence
Agency had passed about $15,-
000 through his organization
to the International Rescue
>Committee in the mid-1960'S.
r.Mr. Well ?said in a telephone
linterview that on checking the
'foundation's records, he had
.s diacovered that none of the
.$27,000 it gave to the I.R.C.
;rom 1961 to 1965- had been
r?,...vided by the intelligence
agency. ? - ,
He said that the $50,000 in
'C.I.A. funds passed through the
foundation in that period had
gone instead to four other orga-
nizations- ?the American So-
ciety of African Culture, the
,African-American Institute,. the
'Pan American Foundation and
the International. Development
,Foundation.: . , -
? Leo Cherne, one of President
Ford's three appointees to a
. new intelligence ? oversight
board sat up to check for pos-
sible abuses of authority by
the C.I.A. and other intelligence
agencies, is board chairman of
the ; ? )
Mr. Cherne,-,a . professional
I.R.C.'s
work involves assistance to
political refugees round the
world. The I.R.C. project funded
by the Norman Foundation was
a medical-service unit set upiBoard, created by President
in the Belgian Conteo to aidlEisenhower in 1956, is a group
Angolan refugees and others, of private citizens responsible
Mr. Well said today that he for reviewing the functions of
"misrecalled" himself yester- the Federal intelligence corn-
day in recollecting that "a mys- munity and reporting to the
terious gentleman" from theiPresident on the conduct of
C.I.A. had approached him in1those agencies.
1963 or 1964 with a specific' The United States Intelligence
request to pass agency moneyiBoard was a high-level coordi-
to the Congo medical project.lnating group within the intel-
. He said he had also errediligence community, presided
in recalling that the fOundationiover by the director of Central
had agreed to serve as a pass-lintelligence: In the past It met
through for the funds only afterl as often as each week to co-
deciding that the I.R.C. project ordinate intelligence data avail-
would have been worthy ?Ilable from all members of the
a contribution from its own
endowment.
Was Wrong'
community. . ?
In -a -related development
Freedom House, an organiza-
..?eLet me make it very clear,' Ition with which Mr. Cherne
he said . in the interview, )has also been closely associated
made a mistake. I was wrong. 'for many years, asked George
Although he spoke to Mr-Bush, director of Central Intel-
Cherne. last night and againdigence, whether the C.I.A. had
this. morning, he said, Mr.ever given it funds "directly
Cherne "did not ask me to
do anything" with respect to
setting the record straight. He
is amending his earlier state-
ments because "harm has been
done," he emphasized.
Mr. - cherne was appointed
ki 1973 to sit on the President's
Foreign -Intelligence Advisory
Board, which The New York
Times. reported- erroneously to-
day-. was abolished by Mr. Ford
this eweek,..it . was .the . United
States Intelligence -Board that
was abolished by executive or-
der on Wednesday.
The President's Intelligence
or through any other ? entity."
The request was in a letter
sent to. Mr. Bush that men-
tioned a report, also in today's
!Times, that Freedom House re-
calved $3,500 from the J. M.
Kaplan Fund between 1962 and
1964.
The Times article quoted exe-
cutives of the Kaplan Fund
as having said that while they
had ? passed C.I.A. money- to
the now-defunct Institute for
International Labor Research,
all . the funds paid bye them
to Freedom House or to the
had been their own.
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Roportedly Got $15,000 From Agency
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By JOHN I'd'. CREWDSON
s;s--..i:.e 1,,-r? :';...,: York. l'^ -
WASItINGTON, Feb. It) ? A
private humanitarian organiza-
tion headed by Leo Cherne, one
of President -Ford's appointcs
to a new committee that will
investigate possible abuses of.
authority by the Central Intet-i
ligence Agency, reportedly re-
ceived some S15,000 of C.I.A.i
funds. in the mid-1960's that;
were channeled , througli a;
New York City philanthropic
organization.. i
------Frankie-Wek.--i-President --iofi
the. Manhattan-based Norman!
Foundation, said in a telephone;
interview today that he was1
approached by "a mysterious,
-gentleman" from the -C.I.A. in
1953 or 1004 and asked to pass
about S15.0(6i0 in :Govern:neat
funds to the International Res-
cue Committee, of v. '-h l`.Ir.
Cherne was then chairmen ofi
i
the board . . -?
--- Mr_ Well ....called. that thc.
funds had been earmarked for
-.a medical services pro: .:t in:
iwhat was then the BLIi;iani
!Congo that was being suppriecd;
by the rescue committee. Ilittl
he said he was uncertainl
whether Mr. Cherne or anyone.
else there had been told that
the money was from the C.I.A.
and not from the foundation's
endowment.
- Mr. Cherne, reached at his
New York City office, said that
neither he "nor any official of
the I.T.C.. had the slightest
knowledge that any of those
funds were C.I.A. funds."
He said that the committee,
which he has headed since
1951, had "never sought C.I.Al
funds" and would not have
"welcomed" them if they had
been offered overtly. ...
On Previous Board
President Ford announced on
Tuesday that he was naming
Mr. Cherne to the newly estab-
lished intelligenco oversight
board, set up as part of Mr.
Ford's reforms . of intelligence
community operations to moni-
tor the C.I.A.'s ? activities for
possible illegalities or impro-
prieties..
Mr. Cherne had previously
been a member of the, Presi-
dent's Foreign Intelligence Ad-
visory Board, which Mr. Ford
abolished yesterday.
_ . .
n,t.r.y Ka.ov,in as the Aaron h. certain twit tie committee h.td Freedom House s executive 1,
;Norman Ford, was among the not unwintingle ta!-:en any C.I.A. committee, and has been asso- .
i!nstitiv-ions i'..lentifir'd nahhcl?.- re-inev, :k.tr. Clierne i ephed thet elated cc oh the organize, tion,?
;in 1957 as these ti-iat I.:R.6 that WaS th,-. "siii:st question since
:served. as "conduits" for C.I.A. I've ever heard." ! An executive of the Kaplan
-financing of a number of do- It would havo been next to Fond said today, however. that
-ineia.iie-orrii,iii-lons-,--principal-'. iraoossible, he said. to cult the his foundation's coJperation
ly the Nationed Student. Asso-, contribution records of an or-- with the intelligence' P-2.-;;IcY
;ciation. ! gani,ation that raised in the had been limited to the under-.
l Those disclosures promoted neighborhood 1 $:3 Toillico each.writing of a single program
. President J&inS0(1 (0 es t:Mlish Year to examine them for dona?ethe 16{30's. and that none of
.an- investigating. committee to to that might have initiated :the S21,500 _given lry it to the,
ilook into the agency's relation-i.wiith.the C.I.A. but. reached the.:rescue committee or the Sl.3.500
sI ips v,iith domestic gronos.i cominittee-'two or-three times given to Freedom llonse had,
.and Mr.- Johnson eill:isequently' removed." . . - i - lbeen supplied by the intellei
'.ordered all Federal rewneicis to 7,1.r..Cherne,,who sounded dis--lgence agency. - ?
.halt theircovnt ftetling of
, tressed at the disclosure hes1 The Kaplan Fund. according! ,..-
,such org,anizmions.
1 , Mr. Well, later spoke with Gil to tax records compiled . by,:
I
;the -Committee as one of his
\vim bed dc:scrt whi--mt the . Norma v is acti
n money i.--v itie o pr f
s f ivate ounda-i
. ;es, whom he identifted as Group Research, an orgarnza-,E
the I.P. C. fund-raise throug,hition here that monitors theit
Keeping Independence Mr. Cherne,
an Fo
hobbies. s aid tha t he hac l t d a
rie .: i...e.iecl, and teinorted that Mr. lions, gave the I.R.C. 810.000'
,. ' Ione.; hd r' ,t t
o 'he foggiest!' in 19(3S for assistan o ce t reful
111 IIrnel:ItilnYtIoleveht.i.detiple;2:1,:.:-.11tr3 :
st"a tliarc,,th at ti e Nei-Iriu nd ee fleeitag Cz oslovaki
e-'ns ecea.
tus" of the organization, say-- .
source of the moneY.
112d not been the initial zifter the Soviet invlSion Ill it.!
August.
freedom from government as-. Mr. Cherne is an economist The cormnittee,rec..e.h.,--e.....d an-
in gthat he believed that its
sociations was crucial to its- ..cie .profession and exectitivc other $11) 090 fr-
work abroad. i -director of -the' Research Poi- 1971 for 'assist'n'n'c'ilel-t.'c'r P""ernclgairi
,..,.... , , n the wake of. tune of 2\merica, which peb- refugees displaced by to., 1-3,-,i,i,
r\ 't why i .
.? ,_ 1,1,,, di,dosures, .1,.e i.h,d .?!h..es newsletters and us ice stani ar, P.nd l-,i'l,f)Ociii, 1-9i,3:?;.'to
essm
mt asked the 1.1t.C. to recheck .Pal.rii-.?'.';!ets for has cc - itid refe ne Sr
e- in u'e " ? --
.e. , .) ti. I. ? ki, ill
..u..-i.
\.',RS vice chairrnan W
in -
T 7 , eil Is Disputed
. .-- . 197'2 of Democrats for Nixon
l'ilr. Weil's recolicction that
and lias been associated with the C.I.A. money gieen to the
such crganizations ris thoCiti-
committee had be""- userf to
ices' Committee for a. Free
support the Belgian Congo
Cuba. the Council Against Corn- medical program, winch offered
rininist..Aggression and the ?
Chi:ie.:1s' Committ-e for Perp,icce.
with Freedom in Vietnam, .?;:es:ila:s:irci. n\i'lii.:IL:le't others cttlti eobr;;Aiil.:n:tIraite1;%;iv rrer(01:r11-,..
Nor-
cording to the records of Grouoiman, also an officer of the
Research.. Foundation.
One of the foundations i a rla
den- - 6'6
Mr. Norman said he recalled
tified in 1067 as has nag co- that the agency money gassed
operated with the CIA. 1'1'1 co- .
efforts was .,.,, through his fonndetion to the
vert financing t
J. M. Kaplan Fund, also of some effort 1-."` I.R.C. had gone to support.
Nev.' York, and which over the tT,,,"'edectVI.1,1: oi,f11 \L.Icv-h Ahricl.e'ls-la'2fad'!
years has. contrib:.ted not only
, Elle could not remember, and;
tothe rescue 9,(1.1
00 but aiscr
an organ i' the amount. invoiced hadi
to Freedom Ho,:ise,.6 rlt been a "maximum of S15.000.".
zation that monitors and re-?
ports on the degree of freedom
that exists in other countries .
of the world. .. .
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