THE STRANGE MEN OF THE C .I. A.

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THE STRANGE MEN OF THE C. I. A.
Many conservatives are loolcing for the reason
behind the exposure of certain C.I.A. activities since
the only ones who benefited from them were the
left-wingers and Communists. This type "expose"
is not usually found in the "liberal" press which
suddenly became indignant to learn thatC.I.A. funds
had been used to subsidize left-wing causes and
organizations. That, this policy had the approval of
top government leaders was confirmed by Nicholas
Katzenbach, head of tho three-man Warren (''onrnris-
sion-like panel selected to "investigate" Ihe'sit.un-
tion. He stated, after a preliminary "investigation,"
that the C.I.A. followed national policy and acted
"with the approval of senior interdepartmental re-
view committees. inc?lnding the secretaries of state
and defense or their representatives."
Everything about the C.I.A. is supposedly top
secret but suddenly long lists of recipients of their
largesse were made available to the general public
under sensational headlines. While one should not
"look a gift. horse in the mouth," we can only get
the feeling that these activities are probably among
the more innocent ones of the C.I.A. Involvement in
assassinations and financing of actual known Com-
munists were not "exposed" but are among the other
activities of the top U.S. international intelligence
agency.
The ('.I.A.uparntes on a tremendous seerel. bud-
get, estimated to he t'ar in excess of it billion dollars
per year. Appropriations to it are covered up by ad-
ding them to the budgets of' other government de-
partments and agencies. The secrecy necessary for
its operations has made the C.I.A. a perfect haven
for many doubtful characters. The N.Y. TIMES of'
March 30, 191;7 stated:
"In the late 1940's and early 1950's many liberals
w ho w ished to serve their country found in the C.I.A.
not ,,Illy a personal haven, safe ('rurn the onslaughts
of Mt,et'_arrtbyisnr, but also nn opporl.nnil.y to bring to
hear uri the probh'nrs uf' tin cold war .r realistic and
Iib,?ral uuderst.turcliut; ,t' the pluralism of enraging
countries."
American history is replete with examples of
how "liberals" afraid of McCarthyism serve their
country. They are typified by the man in the C.I.A.
who was in charge of covertly subsidizing the afore-
mant coned long list. of le('t-wing causes and organi-
V'zations. lie is ('.cord Meyer, Jr., described by the
\' Y 1MlS as a "hidden fideralsubmerged for
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sixteen years "in the anonymity of' the ('entry Ia-
tell igence Agency," but. well known in Washington
social and intellectual circles. 'I'ha revelation of
Cord Meyer's role came as a 'surprise even to his
friends, one of whom is quoted as stating: "lie was
not the C.I.A. type. lie was a world government
man." But then, of' course, perhaps this friend does
not underst.aud what, the C.I.A. 1y n' really is.
Cord Meyor's a4socinfion with the C.I.A. had
been revealed previously all, the t.inr' o(' the murder
of Iris divorced wife, Mary 11inahot. Moyer, on Oc-
tober 13, 1964. The N.Y. TIMES states that this
murder was never solved but a 25-year-old laborer,
Raynroncl? Crump, Jr., had been arrested at the time
mind charged with the crime.
Cord Meyer, Jr. wits horn in Washington, D.C.,
on November 10, 1920. His father, who was 'l'ur many
years a career officer of the State Department., was
a liberal as was his grandfather,who was Treasurer
and later Chairman of the Democratic Party of' N.Y.
State. Both were also named "Cord." His mother
was the former Katherine Thaw whose father, Alex-
ander Blair Shaw, was known as it confirmed liberal.
Cord Meyer, Jr. was educated at St. Paul's School
in Concord, N. II. and graduated from Yale in the
Class of 1943. Later he attended Harvard (don't
they all '?).
On April 19. 19"l, he married Mar J"'no l'i
ehot'the wedding heist; perl'urnuvl b.y 1c v. _Iti1-- rlrrl
c ocumented in goveranrant records. Miss Pinchot.'s
('ather, Amos, was a leftist who had been vice chair-
man of' the Civil Liberties Bureau and a meinher of'
the American Union Against. Militarism, Oil May 25,
1919 he addressed a meeting of' the "People's
Council" at Madison Square Darden in New York
City. The People's Council was modeled after the
Russian type and many of' its members became notc-
r?ious trs ('ununtill isLS and left-wing Sociali~.ts Miss
I'iuchot.'s mother was chairnrnn of Hu.Wunrrrn', I'i-acc?
I'ta'ly of' N.Y.C., auuthar left.-whit; orgaa,rr.,,liun.
While studying at Harvard, on it Lowell h'al-
lowship, Co-?d Meyer, Jr, was invitied to attend it
conference on World Government presided over by
Justice Owen J. Roberts and called by Grenville
Clark, Robert Bass (former governor of New Hamp-
shire) and Thomas it. Mahoney, a Boston lawyer
who was chairman of (he Mass. Committee for World
Federation. The conference was held in Clark's
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In 1?'ehruary, 1917, all the U.S. organizations
interested in AV'orld Govern meat met together at.
\shcville.N.CC. "These included the Mass. Committee
'or \\'orl(1 Federation. Americans United for World
Government, World Federalists Inc., World Citizens
Committee of Georgia and the Student. Federalists.
At this time Cord \lever, Jr was director of Amer-
icans for World Covcrnttrent.. (Jul )lof this n,ect.ing a
new organization Caine into being - the Ignited World
federalists- Cord Meyer, )r, soon became its presi-
dent and made hundreds of lectures all over the
Hired States promoting World Government.
:\nlorig the officers and directors of the United
iId Federalists have been many familiar names
.nc?h its: Walter Reuther. Dore Schary, Rev. Donald
' zantho ll:rrringlon, Cren\ ille (Cl,u?k,"A. Philip R:ur-
dolph, Scoll Nearing. Dr 15:id(i1 Lubin, l tIw:u?d M
\\arbur;.t. Rep. I?ntartnel ('tiller, Rev. John Haynes
(lolna?s. Prof. tilringl'ellow li:u?r, Harry A. Overstreet.
mid niau\ others with records of contiuuuisl.-('rout
al'I'lliat ions according to official goveI'll Ill v111.rocords
'l'ire World FcderalisIs issued I.hc ",Second
Dublin Declaration" in October, 1965 in which they
state: "We believe that the United Nations, through
,tmencimenI of its ch:uler. is the hest. instrumentality
t'or the achievement of the goals we seek,." Among
these goals are:
I. Universal and complete disarmament, subject to
effective inspection
2 An adequate world police force, compOSecl of
individuals and not national contingents.
:1. Universal meillbership, with world
for all persons, and nc). n,tirnher nation
withdraw
citizenship
allowed to
\r?nng those attending the five-clay
oul of which this "1)1'clarillion" emerged
Pr?i,cill:t .Johnson of Cambridge, Mass.. (a
rently ill the news in connection with
conference
was Miss
name cur-
a famous
Soviet "defector"). Some others attending were
Ferry of the Center For the Study of Democratic
Institutions, Rev. Donald Harrington, Gerard Piel
'isler \htrv 'I'oncasin' of Rosary College, River Vu
rc,(. III , Dr Il;trl ecr Shrtltlc) and Dr. Paul Dudley
1\'hily. Hit- hear( slccei,tlisl who (rented IKisenhower..
Cord \lever, Jr wets one of Harold sta"'Sell's,
aides during the summer of 19d5 when the United
Nations Organization was being set up in San Fran-
cisco (the other was John 13. Thompson). A story
concerning (Cord Meyer. Jr. which appeared in the
tnww dcllrncI i Iefl-wing newspaper P.M. on March 21,
1?118 slattid: 'liec?cully. Slassen w?as :(gain asked
to sir' tip Meyer Ill t1 light of his :iclivitIes in
licll;lll' of world ggovcrnntcnl ''I'ii l young 1111111 has
1114' lic?r,l mind,' tila:;scrt ;ncl without hesitttlion, 'ol'
any young mail in ;\ntc?ric?a.' " Around this I line Cord
was getting the full Ircaltncnt and another "profile"
stated (Closeup, January 14, 14148 by Mary Brag-
giotti): "To a growing number of Americans - and
people in other countries, too - Cord Meyer, Jr. is
ppr---,-a-,For l efiease
young hope or the (one) world (ers)" was personally
put into the C.I.A. by Allen Dulles over the objec-
tions of Senator McCarthy.. IIc has labored dili-
gently under the cloak of anonymity I'or his goal,
World Government. In an article written for 'I'llE
ATLANTIC on the U.N. shortly after its formation,
he wrote:
For (hose of us who have fought nut for power
lint because we believe in the po,;siltility of peace.
the (U.N.) Charter is more than a scries of harmless
platitudes. Weak and inaclcquale as it ,hinds today,
it is all that we have won tr?ont the war. By our ef-
fort, it may yet become the Symbol and instrument
o1' a just order among men. No matter how remote
our chances or how distant o.ur success, we have in
simple honesty no allernalive but, the allemtrt to
milk(, it. that. As I have suggested, it is possible
1.ha1, we shall full, and that I.Ite death agony of na-
tionalism will be prolonged beyond our lifetime- But.
eventually, if the civiliznlion of the West is nut Co
disintegrate completely, others
do will succeed..."',
ford Meyer, Jr., will unlituited antount.s of
n one.y (taxpayers') at. his disposal, Lhcn proceeded
lo subsidize III(ise organizations also interested in
the "death agony of nal.ionalisnt" 'T'hrough devious
channels (one of which was the J.M. Kaplan Fund,
lac.. of 55 Fifth Ave., N.Y.C.) C.I.A. funds were dis-
pensed to such organizations as the Institute of ln-
/ tcrnat.ional Labor Research, lnc. This outfit maintains,
an office at. 113 Vast 37 St., N.Y.C. and was also
known as Labor Research, Inc. and headed by Nor-
man 'I'hom;ts,now aged and blind, but long-lime mili
tang Socialist. His son, Kvan, is now an editor Willi
Ilarper and Row and very ranch involved with Man-
chester's, "Dtial.h of a Presider,(" and more reccully
will Soviet del'cclA r('?)SvetlanaSt:tliua's I'orthcomir,g
autobiography which Mrs.. Priscilla Mary Post John-
son MacMil Ian (whose address was given as 4I8 Iirattle St',
Cambridge, Mass. when she testified before the War-
ren Commission concerning her acquaintance with
Lee Harvey Oswald in Moscow and who is now writ-
ing a hook about Marina Oswald) is helping her write,
It, is it small One World, isn't it?
Also associated will, I.he IllstitaIA? nl' I.,tln,r
Research (reportedly recipient. of over U million dol
lars of'C.1.A. funds) have been: Leon I)innen, Robert.
J. Alexander, Philip M. Kaiser, Louis Alberto Monge,
Miss Maida Springer, Frank N. 'Prager, Charles S.
Zimmerman and (most important) Sacha Volntan who
was secretary treasurer and the real activist of (.hc?
group. They set, rrp institutes in Costa Rica and tit(.
Dominican Republic and, using, ('. I A funds, pro
milled for polilienl ol'I'ice known IellisL; ::ucb (e:
1:111 Ilosclt..
Vnltunn bad clos(? liti,t willr I,,tlin Aua?rienn
loll 1st. leaders and was c?onnecled wii.lt Ow Marxist
Leninist "Center of Research in Avonumic and So.
cial Development" in Santo Domingo. This organiza-
tion (CIDBS) was also financed by the U.S. State
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ti~'o. it of' !Q1ppC14?i-R(. -FQrlRmkea o c ,k i
as aConununist.training and indoctrination operation
which his intelligence men had infiltrated. Sacha
Volman was an instructor in this operation and was
i the man who, with State Department direction, pro-
rooted Juan Bosch for the presidency of the Domini-
can Republic.
Sacha Volman is suspected of being a Soviet agent.
;assigned to Latin American Affairs. lie was born in
Russia, lived in Rumania, and came to the United
States allegedly as a refugee. lie is now It U.S. cit.i-
zen and has been living at 215 East 60th St.., N.Y.C.
with his wife and one child. In the Hearings of the Seta-
ate Internal Security Subcommittee on "The Con--
inunist'l'hreal to
the tinItedStates'l'hroughtheCariblman,''
General Wessin y W'essin of the Dominican Republic
testified us follows: `''
Mr. SOIRWINE. Now, you spoke of 40 Communist
indoctrination centers operating in the Dominican
Republic under Juan Bosch. Did these centers ol.H'r-
ate openly its a Communist operation?
General WESSIN. Openly.
Mr. SOURWINE. Did they display Communist han-
ners or signs?
General WESSIN. One of these schools located on
Caracas Street No. 54 displayed the Soviet flag.
Mr. SOURWINE. The Soviet flag? Not just a Com-
munist banner with a hammer and sickle, but the
Soviet flag?
General 1VESSIN. It was the red flag with the han--
nter and sickle.
Mr. SOtiRW1NE. Now, do you know where these
-enters were operated? You named the location of
one. Can you tell us where others were?
General WESSIN. In the school Padre Villini Calle-
Mercedes. This building, in spite of' the fact that it
belonged to the (;overnntent, was turned over to the
Communist Data Pagan Perdonto to install to school
Of political science.
'There was another one, which went under the ini-
tials of CIDES located in the far-n, or Fiucn Jaina
Montt. In this school,, the teachers were, a-nong tile.
others.Juan Bosch, Angel Miolan, and Socha Volman.
11r. S(1tiRWiNE. One of those names has
before. One. is new. Let's identify these
Who is or was Angel Miolan?
come up
General WESSIN. Angel Miolan is a Communist,
and I say that he is a Communist because in order to
be secretary of Vicente Lombardo Toledano for 10
years you have to he a Communist.
Mr.. SOURWINE. Vicente Lombardo Toledano
tan outstanding Comaannist., was he not?
(Jeneral WI?SSIN. Yes, sir
%ir- SOURWINE. Now, who wear; Saa?laa Volimin?
General WI':SSIN. Ile wa;; it I(uniauiau brought Ilivi-v
by ,1uan Bosch. I ,lou't. Inaow him.
Mr. SOIIItWINE,. Did you consider hint uComrnunist?
General WESSIN. In my country there is a saying
that says tell me with whom you go, and I will tell
you who you are.
The C.I.A. has financed leftist administration
elease 19
It is generally accepted that the ('.I.A. played a lead-
ing part in eliminating the anti-communist governments of
the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Vietnam and that
their funds were used to assist in establishing or
ftenipt. to establish left-wing governments in Brazil,
Peru, Indonesia, Laos and Algeria, In Vietnam (Diem)
aad the Dominican Republic (Trujillo) the anti-cotn-
nrunist heads of' government were actually assassi.-
nated.. An attempted asstl55ination of Rut.islta.in(;ubu
failed.. The C.I.A. involvenionl. in this is described in
the book, "I Was Castro's Prisoner" by John Martino
as follows (P. 47):
"In addition to beingull.ra-liberal in their political
thinking, some CIA men were implicated in a series
of conspiracies to InlIrder President llatisttt, stap-
pnocpoly it friend of' the hulled States, and to oVer-
Ihruw his regime..'I'here was it sctuadaloats involvenwnt.
oI' this sort. in the so-called (henl'uego:s Naval ('on-
sl;iracy, an assassination plot against the Cuban
Chief Executive. /
"Years later, a CIA man named Earl Williamsoat`
nact with some of I'idel Casl.ro's agents and sup-
porters III, the Itetiro Odnntnlo.fico, a- da'nt.iHt14'
hiiilding. Without the knowledge or tapprovul of
American Ambassador Smith, Williamson stated that
the United States would recognize the Castro Gov-
ernment as soon as the Rebels overthrew Batista.
There was also some discussion of' the arms which
the CIA was giving Castro surreptitiously.
"WillIamson's remarks were recorded on tape and
given unofficially to Ambassador l hu'I E.T. Smith,."
The C.I.A. not only helped Castro into power
but saw to it that lie stayed there by sabotaging the
Cuban patriots' efforts to win back their country in
the infamous Bay of' Pigs Invasion. John Martino
sums it up in the above-naent:ione(I hook. (P. 201 ):
"The nbaudonnaent. ul' the ('u ban underground may
.have been the result. of cumulative hlrtnders, but, to
the Cubans in prison and the Cubans abroad, it. had
the reek of treason.. A thorough investigation of
what happened would 5eom to be an elenacnt.ary' act
of jnstice toward those who died because of what
the CIA did and because of what, the ('IA failed to do."
The book, "The Bay of Pigs, " by Haynes
Johnson (P. 226-7) describes the bumbling and
(planned) mistakes and concludes: "..in the larger
sense the military bore less responsibility in the
over-all Bay of Pigs operation than the CIA. And,
finally, the responsibility must rest with the CIA....
"The gathering of intelligence, with all that is
implied in thaI. general terra, is the I il'ebluud of 1.111'
uigc'na?.,y. However, in the (:uhan invuisinn the CIA
weitl. far beyond I.Iiiu I'tanc'I iana. 'I'ha' (:IA'n i n Ili 1.11v
field tended to take uautters into their own hands, to
cross the line from intelligence to the furtnulion of
policy. They did this in Miami when they picked and
groomed men and then dictated to the Frente. They
acted for the United States - or implied that they
did - when dealing with the Cubans and led them to
believe much that was not true: Later there was no
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THE STRANGE MEN OF THE C.I.A. (Continued)
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they were eft to (an been ign r . I t foreign
an terminology
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holding the bag.'' service officers, friendly diplomats and "`other"
h
f 1 nt Com-
t
't'he ('uban Invasion.masternminded by the C.I.A.
''failerl "'their jolt. however, is riot to plan invasions
IJUt to ,,alhrr inlelligenc?c which will be rtccural.e
enough for the gaited Slate- to use in deciding its
foreign policy, A sample of this "intelligence"
Was revealed in Part III 01' "Communist 't'hreat to
the United Stiltes 'l'In?ough the Caribbean" in the
testinwuy on Nov. 5, 1959 of Gen. C.P. Cabell,
Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency. When
asked (P 1(i1) to supply figures concerning Com-
munist Party membership in Latin America, Gen.
Cabell gave the number for Dominican Republic as
U. for Haiti as 15 and for Panama as 110. His
testimony on pages 1(12 and 17.3 is very interesting.
The CHAIRMAN. .What do you have information
about? About what Communists fought in Castro's
Gene rat ('ABEI,L. In Cuba ?
The CHAIRMAN. Yes, sir.
General C1\BEI,I,. 'That question is related to the
question. Is Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro a
I,et rite develop that. thought for you, sir. Our in-
formation shows that the Cuban communists do not
consider him a ('onununist Party nmemher, or even a
pro. Communist.
On the other hand, they are delighted with the
nature of his government, which has allowed the
Communists opportunity, free opportunity, to organ-
ize, to propagandize, and to infiltrate.
We know that the Communists consider Castro as
a representative of the htturgeoisie,and were unable
to gain public recugnit.ion or commitments
during the course of the revolution.
We , It now. that the Communists were
when, at the t intc of his trip to I Ile United
showed evideucc of a friendly alt.ilude
I'nited States.
concerned
States, he
coward the
We know also that it. hits been the assigned task
of the Cuban Communist Party to prevent Castro's
revolution from going to the right, that is, from
establishing friendly relations with the United States,
or ending its tolerance of
Our conclusion, therefore,
not a Communist. . . .
Communist activities.
is thatFidel Castro is
If this is the quality of theC.I.A. "intelligence"
+e are in ii had way, for Fidel Castro himself has
(olil u~, lhnl lie ha;; he en a ('onturnunist nII along.. Ile
1114lniii1 erl Io I'r,ol the C.I.A. lout not most ol)Nervaltl
Ataerttuttts silwolre \vas identified as Jinn litteraalional
l'oill ilk IIIIis I agent in 1915 by IIJe Goverunrcnt of
Colombia in South America otter he was arrested
for participating in an attempted revolution in Bog-
ota. His identity as a Communist revolutionary was.
also disclosed in a book written by Alberto Nino,
head of Colombian Security shortly afterward, and
the facts were reported publicly on radio by Col-
ombian President Perez. At the time Gen. Cabell
~~?:~ ill., C I 1 "r r,nJ In ion" that l~'idel Castro
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intelligence sources, warning o
monist take-over of Cuba. It. would seen" that, the
C.I.A. In?ics to mrnke its "intelligence" I'it tIn' picture
it is trying to paint.
William P. Bundy, more recently Assistant.
Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, was pre-
viously Assistant. Dcfeuse Secretary for International
Security Affairs, and in this capacity approved of'
foreign military aid funds of over it billion dollars.
He was most generous in approving aid to Com-
munist Dictator Tito of Yugoslavia in accordance
with the policy of our former Ambassador, George F.
Keenan. Prior to this, however, William Bundy was
an official of the C.I.A. and was tied in with the left-
wing elements in that agency. Like the other U.S.
Government agencies, the C.I.A. is not all bad and
has many fine loyal Americans working for it. Un-
fortunately they are riot allowed to set. its policy;
the left-wing groups have the upper hand all over.
William Bundy made a trip to Vietnam shortly before
the assassination of President Diem, reportedly to
stage manage the project.
Guy Richards in. his book, "Imperial Agent"
(Devin-Adair, $5.95) states:
"He told how the Russians had hoaxed the CIA,
with the help of some internal collaborators, into
paying $1,200,000 in cash for the maintenance of
some mythical pro-American operatives - money
which had actually been divided, one third going to
the KGB, one third to the Italian Communist Party,
one third to the American Communist I'arty.....
"He told how a number of KGB informants were
spotted in the State Depart nitenit. . .
"How several CIA inen actually gave their first.
loyalty to the KG13 or (;Rtl.."
One of the many "theoriey" concerning the
assassination of Presidenil. Kennedy is that. Lee
Harvey Oswald was working for the C.I.A. In the
light of sonic of the preceding information, is it so
far fetched ?
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