LETTER TO WILTON B. PERSONS FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01676R000800050017-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2008
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: January 5, 1961
• Content Type: LETTER

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25 YEAR
RE-REVIEW
5 January 19 61
The Assistant to the President
The White House
Washington 25. D. C.
ajor General Wilton B. Persons
Dear Jerry:
UO/P
As you know, it has been customary for the past several years for the
President to hold a White House luncheon on behalf of the Crusade for
Freedom, the fund raising organization for Radio Free Europe. Usually
30 to 40 distinguished leaders of Aneriean business and industry attend,
together with the Secretary of State, myself, and the Crusade chairman.
The President has always been good enough to say a few words in support
of Radio Free Europe at the luncheon, and his *odor endorsement has invariably
been instrumental in kicking off the Crusade's yearly fund-raising drive
to a good start.
I am hopeful that it will be possible for the President to hold a meeting
the Crusade between now and January BO. Because of the President's
y schedule. I believe a short, informal gathering of say, 25 people
would be more in order this year. A suggested guest list is attached.
I have cleared this with the Department of State who concur in the idea.
I cannot emphasize too strongly bow much the President's continued
support of Radio Free Europe has meant to its American sponsors and to
its listeners in Eastern Europe.
d you be good enough to lot we know whether this will be possible
ear, and if so, When.
incerely.
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Allen W. Dulles
Director
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3 January 1961
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Deputy Director (Plans)
SUBJECT: Radio Free Europe - Crusade for Freedom
1. This memorandum suggests action by the DCL Such
requested action is contained in paragraph 4.
2. In accordance with your request we have drafted the
attached letter for you to send to General Persons requesting
that President Eisenhower meet with a small group of Crusade
contributors in order to get their annual fund raising campaign
off to a good start.
3. It has been cleared with the Department of State.
4. We recommend that this letter be sent to General
Persons as soon as possible, as time is growing short.
STAT
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Chief
International Organizations Division
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12/8/60
RADIO FREE EUROPE FUND
(CRUSADE FOR FREEDOM, INC.)
WHITE HOUSE INVITATION LIST
ACCEPTED DECLINED
Eugene N. Beesley, President
Eli Lilly and Company
740 South Alabama Street
Indianapolis 6, Indiana
Ben Belt
The Houston Club Building
Houston, Texas
Carter L. Burgess, President
American Machine and Foundry Company
261 Madison Avenue
New York 16, New York
L. L. Colbert, Chairman
Chrysler Corporation
341 Massachusetts Avenue
Detroit 31, Michigan
Charles E. Daniel, Chairman
Daniel Construction Company
429 North Main Street
Greenville, South Carolina
Frederic G. Donner, Chairman
General Motors Corporation
1775 Broadway
New York, New York
Henry Ford II, Chairman
Ford Motor Company
The American Road
Dearborn, Michigan
If Mr. Ford declines, his alternate is
Robert S. McNamara, President
Ford Motor Company (same address)
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Carl J. Gilbert, Chairman
The Gillette Company
15 West First Street
Boston 6, Massachusetts
John F. Gordon, President
General Motors Corporation
General Motors Building
Detroit 2, Michigan
Crawford H. Greenewalt, President
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
Du Pont Building
Wilmington, Delaware
Eugene Holman
Room 835
60 West 49th Street
New York 20, New York
Arthur B. Homer, Chairman
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
701 East Third Street
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
General Clark Hungerford, Chairman
St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company
906 Olive Street
St. Louis 1, Missouri
Frederick R. Kappel, President
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
195 Broadway
New York 7, New York
Charles H. Kellstadt, Chairman
Sears, Roebuck and Company
925 South Homan Avenue
Chicago 7, Illinois
Augustus C. Long, Chairman
Texaco, Inc.
135 East 42nd Street
New York 17, New York
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Neil H. McElroy, Chairman
Procter and Gamble Company
301 East Sixth Street
Cincinnati 1, Ohio
W. B. Murphy, President
Campbell Soup Company
375 Memorial Avenue
Camden, New Jersey
Albert L. Nickerson, President
Socony-Mobil Oil Company, Inc.
150 East 42nd Street
New York 17, New York
T. S. Petersen, President
Standard Oil Company of California
225 Bush Street
San Francisco 20, California
If Mr. Petersen declines, his alternate is
Ralph Gwin Follis, Chairman
Standard Oil Company of California (same address)
Gwilym A. Price, Chairman
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
3 Gateway Center
Pittsburgh 30, Pennsylvania
Edwin J. Thomas, Chairman
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
1144 East Market Street
Akron 16, Ohio
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., President
International Business Machines Corporation
590 Madison Avenue
New York 22, New York
Charles M. White, Chairman
Republic Steel Corporation
Republic Building
Cleveland 1, Ohio
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William K. Whiteford, Chairman
Gulf Oil Corporation
Gulf Building
Pittsburgh 30, Pennsylvania
Leslie B. Worthington, President
United States Steel Corporation
525 William Penn Place
Pittsburgh 30, Pennsylvania
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