CULTURAL GROUP ONCE AIDED BY C.I.A. PICKS FORD FUND AIDE TO BE ITS DIRECTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP69B00369R000200240032-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: September 25, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Cultural Group Once Aided by C.I.A. P clcs Ford Fund Aide to Be Its Director
By GLORIA EMERSON decided to change the name of than Parliament, also attended poet and essayist, has also been The channeling of more than At least 20. magazines have 11 offered an executive post. $1-million to the congress was been subsidized by the con-
Special to The New York Times the organization to the Associa- as members of the general as- Both men have been mem- disclosed early this year. ear. It is press, including Encounter
PARIS, Sept. 25 -The Con tion for Cultural Freedom. sembly. So did Ezekiel bers of the general assembly for Y
gress for Cultural Freedom has The organization also offered Mphahlele, a South African many years. believed that . a significantly which received funds from 1952
Posts to two other persons be- writer in exile, and Prof. K. A. Meanwhile, the organization larger amount of money was to 1964.
selected Shepard Stone, for the
tor r of of internal affairs for the sides Mr. Stone. As with the B. Jones-Quartey, a member is continuing with its work of provided by the C.I.A. to the The first issue of Encounter
Ford Foundation, to be its ex- name change, however, no an- of the faculty of the Uni- coordinating and encouraging congress for its anti-Communist was financed by a grant of
nouncement has been made of versity of Ghana in Accra. cultural exchanges. programs abroad. There were $30,000 from the Congress for
ecutive director. Earlier this year, when Mr. also occasional grants that did Cultural Freedom. Support from
the offers or their responses.
Mi One of the most outstanding not involve C.I.A. money. the congress continued until
Mr. Stone will replace
chael Josselson, who last May Support From Galbraith European members, however, Josselson revealed that C.I.A.
assumed sole ers onsibilit made known his resignation by subsidies had helped support Since October, 1966, the as-1,1964 when the International
p y,for Prof. John Kenneth Galbraith, letter during this session. He the congress, he offered his sociation has been totally fi-Publishing Corporation of Lon-
.
the use of Central Intelligence the economist, writer and for- is Prof. Raymond Aron, one resignation. It was not accepted nanced by a grant from the don, headed by Cecil King, took
A enc funds from 1950 to the met United States Ambassador of the founders of the congress at the time. He said then that )Ford Foundation with, accord-'over Encounter's business man
g y to India, was among the prom in 1950, who is a writer, pro- the congress would make aing to Mr. Josselson, a guaran- .agement .and financial burden.
fresh new start. tee of appropriations until 1972.
summer of 1966 to financeiinent men who attended the,lessor at the Sorbonne Uni-
work of the congress. meeting and who continue toversity and a member of the' Mr. Josselson also contended) He said in May that $1.5 Stone Accepts Offer
Mr. Stone is a former con-support the work of the con editorial board of Le Figaro. that the Morganization'srpoliny millionwas+gi+I- by theCFond Mr. Stone. asked in a tele-
sultant to the State Department
and to the United States Arms
Control and Disarmament Agen-
cy. Mr. Josselson, a friend of
Mr. Stone_ will remain with the
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logy -. t_- The group's selection of a, Chicago; the American writer Presente, the Roman monthly
new director is part of an at- Louis Fischer, who specializes'review associated with this or-
tempt to create a new image'' in Soviet history, and Minoo ganization.
following the controversy thatlMasoni, a member of the In-; Pierre Emmanuel, the French
arose last spring when the use
of C.I.A. funds was disclosed.
At a meeting nine days ago
in Paris - the headquarters of
the organization - the general
assembly, or governing board,
1966-67. ! phone interview aoout the otter
A loose organization of about from the cultural organization,
2,000 intellectuals all over the said yesterday: "I decided this
world, the congress has at-' weekend. I am taking the job."
tempted to fight Communism He would not elaborate on
intelligence agency would then by providing a platform of ac- his plans, however, pending a
provide him with the name of a I quaintance and contact for peo- formal announcement from the
foi*dation that was likely to I pie in any country who wish a' organization's headquarters in
facor a request for a grant. Ifree exchange of ideas. Paris.
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greys. Professor Galbraith .. AT.r A work Continues i a:..,,,.ne b
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lung been a
some of its organizers but': An important new post in the ! He said that under the prac
holds no official post. congress has been offered to'1ticeMexisting then he would in-