LAND OF THE WOULD-BE FREE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300020013-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: July 15, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHLNGTON DAILY
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San iPeproved For. Release : CIA-
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whether because of his:' restricted.
D1111, to prohibit private American.
employment rights;. lack of funds or;
detective agencies from helping foreign lack of citizenship, is all too frequently
:'-governments or foreign political Iaarties in an especially defenseless condition.:
to snoop on their own people away from ... The Dominican R e p u 01.i c.' s late
'home has been introduced by. Rep. Cor- unlamented Trujillo regime didn't even.
,nelius E. Gallagher (D., N.J.) balk at killing some-of its. nationals in
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the United States.
Mr. ? Gnllaglier was disturbed by .' The picture of political exiles in the
Virginia Prewett's syndicated' column Land of the, Free being--.stalked by
in The Washington Daily News ' which American gumshoes under foreign hire
reported that Haiti's dictator Francois is, therefore, especially repellent. It
Duvalier, with the help of American smacks of foreign terror,.. licensed.`
private eyes; "is, spying- on Haitians in . within our shores.
New York and elsewhere, with brutal America, as M. Gallagher says, ,
reprisals for those '? who; criticize ?
Duvalier overseas and then ' g'o home." should remain a haven for . the
(The Haitian Government denied this, persecuted. It's certainly an imperfect
but. we know better). haven if persons escaping oppression
discover dogging their footsteps private:-
Of 'course, any .American citizen can U. S. detectives in the pay of the very'
be made the target- of private . tyranny, they fled, . ,
surveillance, _provided it doesn't If a guest in our country r
interfere with his personal freedom, considered a criminal in his native-
safety or. right to privacy - altho this land, ' let his government try to,
last is. only sketchily defined. Still, as extradite him thru. regular :court;
a V; S. - citizen he, has certain legal proceedings. If he hasn't' committed.an'
;protections and guarantees. extraditable crime,.. he should be left!
Qn_ the 'other, hand, 'a political ,exile, alone as4ong as,he obeys our laws.
Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000300020013-6