THE AMERICAN WOMAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300430001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 15, 1975
• Content Type: TRANS

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THORNTON: THE AMERICAN l?/OMAN, New charges that the
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CIA used the League of 'Iomen Voters overseas to conduct surveillance
on women's groups. I'm Lee Thornton reporting on the CBS Radio
Network. More in a moment.
THORNTON: A Seattle woman is charging that the Central
Intelligence Agency used a branch of the League of '-omen Voters
to collect information about women's groups overseas. Ann
Roberts who worked as a secretary for the Overseas Education
Fund of the League says she can substantiate the charge.
ANN ROBERTS: I knew it because I gathered this much
from reading the correspondence in the office that was freely
circulated and was not secret or anything. It was everyday
information in the office, and it didn't take too long to
figure it out.
THORNTON: And what did it benefit the CIA to spy on
overseas women's groups?
ROBERTS: In doing this, they can learn how to manipulate
women's groups as they did in Chile, and I think it has been
proven that the CIA provided funds to various movements in
Chile in order to disrupt and sabotage the Allende government,
and they can do the same thing -- they did it with the women's
groups in Chile, they bussed them from one area of Santiago
to another, and it was called The Empty -- the March of The
Empty Pots, and it made it look like the poor people were against
Allende's government when in fact it was the upper-class women
who were demonstrating that created quite a bit of disruotion
in Allende's government. And, I don't want this to happen
again, women being manipulated like this.
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THORNTON: Why women's groups? Ann Roberts says women
are so eager to participate, to take a roll in government,
that they may be easily manipulated and easily misled. Roberts
was asked if she had faith in the Rockefeller investigation
of the CIA.
ROBERTS: No, I don't. I have some degree of faith In
the Senate investigation though, and I hope they will take
up this matter. The Rockefeller brothers' foundation was one
of the places funding the Overseas Education Fund, and I'm
sure that they didn't want this to come out, and I don't know
how much they're going to look Into it, but I hope that the
Senate will.
THORNTON: The Overseas Education Fund has denied giving
information to the Central Intelligence Agency, and the CIA
has declined to comment on the Roberts' allegations.
THORNTON: THE AMERICAN WOMAN. Lee Thornton, CBS News,
New York.
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