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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400160026-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: February 15, 1975
• Content Type: TRANS

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THE AM ER I CAN WOMAN!
FF.RRUARY 15, 1975
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LEE THORNTON.: THE AMERICAN WOMAN, Mew. charges that the
CIA used the League of Women ?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 g.rouos overseas. Ann
?oberts who worked as a secretary for the Overseas E-ducat ion
Fund of the League says she can substantiate the charge.
ANN ROBERTS: I knew 'it because I gathered this much
from reading the correspondence.i.n 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 care 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-cl.ass women
who were demonstrating that created quite a bit of disruption
in Allende's government. And, I don't want this to happen
.again, women being manipulated like this.
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