PENTHOUSE FEEDBACK

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2004
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• Publication Date: December 1, 1977
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in re_.. -_ forpubitcation the Editor, Send to ,end house Feedback. Penthouse Inlernaltonal Ltd.. 909 Third swenue, New York, N.Y. 10022. views published are
not necessarily endorsed editorially.
Jive years. I might add that dictator- Edwards, who procured $1,600,000 in CIA
controlled governments have accused funds, was president of IAPA until
us-with equal irresponsibility-of being November 1969, when his newspaper be-
an instrument of Moscow. came embroiled in the CIA's infamous
The IAPA and the International Press In- Track iI programs against Allende.
stitute recently established a World Press The Track lI program, as you no doubt
Freedom Committee with a two-fold pur- will recall, involved former President Nix-
pose: (1) to oppose Soviet-inspired initia- on's attempt, in the fall of 1970, to prevent
tives, especially in UNESCO, to promote Allende from being inaugurated as.presi-
government control of the press, and (2) to dent of Chile after his election to that office
assist Third World countries in the devel- by the people of Chile. Former President
opment of their media. Here again your Nixon---following a twd-hour meeting at the
article could undermine our efforts to fi- White House on September 15,1970, which
nance and convincingly develop the World included Augustin Edwards, Henry Kis-
Committee's program. singer, John Mitchell, and Donald Kendal,,
I trust that you realize the enormity of (Pepsico)--ordered CIA director Richard
what you have done and that a frank and Helms to do anything short of outright inva-
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your publication.-James B. Canel, Gen- to keep the matter a secret from the State
prestige that we have built up over thirty- from coming to and remaining in power.
CIA and IAPA
I am concerned about an article in your
August. issue entitled "The Spies Who
Came in from the Newsroom" by Joe Trento
and Dave Roman. In it the Inter American
Press Association is described as "pure
CIA." This statement is a malicious fabrica-
tion that we find extremely irresponsible,
particularly since no source is named. A
letter to the editor would not be sufficient.
A retraction reaching all readers would be
in order.
The IAPA is a nonprofit organization that
depends exclusively on dues-paying
members for its existence. An attack such
as this article has launched could seriously
undermine our present and potential
membership.
As the enclosed folder shows, the mem-
bers of the IAPA are publications and in-
dividuals apsociated with journalism. Our
present membership includes major
dailies and magazines throughout the
Western Hemisphere-from Alaska to
southernmost Argentina. To mention just a
few: the New York Times, Chicago Tribune,
Miami Herald, Washington Post, Time,
Newsweek, La Prensa and La NaciOn in
Argentina, O Estado and Jornal do Brasil in
Brazil, Novedades and Excelsior in Mex-
ico, and many others.
The IAPA was founded in 1942, in Mexico
City, and through the years it has battled
I against governments that seek to control
the press, whether or not such govern-
ments have been friendly to the United
States. I refer to such dictatorships as
those of PerOn, Trujillo, Perez Jimenez,
Somoza, Castro, and others.
We pride ourselves on independence
from all governments. This is the source of
our strength. Your article could damage the
era! Manager, Inter American Press As-
sociation, Miami, Fla.
I have received a copy of the August issue
of Penthouse together with your press
release promoting the article in which Joe
Trento and Dave Roman maintain that the
Copley News Service is a CIA blind.
Since Jim Copley is dead and, therefore.
unable to be interviewed, I would rather
pursue the statement in the article that the
inter American Press Association is "pure
CIA." I would appreciate it if you would find
out from the two authors how they reached
the conclusion that an organization of
newspaper men that has battled many
more right-wing dictatorships in Latin
America than left-wing dictatorships is a I
secret U.S. government agency.
I would also appreciate it if you would let
me know about the Fund for Investigative
Jounalism-how it is financed, who are the
chief contributors, and by whom it was in-
corporated.-Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Editor
and Publisher, The Tulsa Tribune, Tulsa.
Okla.
Joe Trento and Dave Roman reply:
We find it difficult to believe that you are
unaware of the relationship between the
CIA and the IAPA. That fact has been
verified not from one but from several intel-
ligence sources. In addition, numerous
Latin American officials, including the pres-
ident of Peru, have made the same charge.
Various leaders of the IAPA, such as
former IAPA president Jim Copley, have
had intimate dealings with the CIA. Another
excellent example is Agustin Edwards,
publisher of Chile's El Mercurio, who, in
close association with the CIA from 1963 to
1973, worked to prevent Salvadore Allende l
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Department and the ambassador to Chile.
As you are aware, Helms and other CIA
personnel are at present the subject. of a
grand jury investigation involving perjury.
Furthermore, Lt. Gen. Victor H. Krulak
(Ret.), president of Copley News Service
and former adviser to the joint chiefs of staff
on counterinsurgency in Latin America,
was a member of the IAPA's technical
committee and governing board.
Our research has clearly demonstrated
that the IAPA functioned under a dual stan-
dard in its so-called defense of press free-
doms. On the one hand, infringements of
the press when it involves right-vying gov-
ernments are usually opposed by mere
denouncements. When, however, the viola-
tion or infringement emanates from a left-
wing source, the IAPA has been extremely
heavy-handed. As a point of information,
there were more freely operating newspa-
pers under Allende than there are under
the present government.
While the IAPA gives token slaps on the
wrist to such right-wing dictatorships as
that of President Juan Velasco Alvarado of
Peru, its main thrust is against left-wing
dictatorships in Latin America, such as
those of Cuba, Venezuela, and Jamaica.
We have been advised that the IAPA ac-
cepted CIA scholarship money, some of
which, we have been told, was directed to
a Copley employee. Based on what we
have learned from various intelligence
sources, the Senate Intelligence Commit-
tee record, the secret history of the Council
of the Americas, and the public record of
the relationship between the CIA and the
IAPA, we stand by our article.
The Fund for Investigative Journalism is
a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, in-
corporated in 1969 in the District of Colum-
bia. The fund is financed by foundations
and individuals.
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