LETTER TO MRS. E. B. SCHOOLER FROM (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01731R003100190014-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 11, 2003
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: October 25, 1952
• Content Type: LETTER

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25 October 1952
Mrs. B. B. Schooler
Dear Mrs. Schoolers
General Smith has asked me to acknowledge your letter of 17
October and to thank you for your interest in the Central Intelligence
Agency. The article which you enclosed had already come to our
attention.
Sincerely yours,
ST
Assistant to the Director
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tIjCFails To It
Anti-U.S. Smears
By VICTOR RIESEL
Half a billion dollars a year is spent by the mys-
terious Central Intelligence Agency. But appar-
ently there is not 25 cents to spare for one of its
cloak and dagger couriers to taxi down a Wash-
ington street to a man who knows more than any-
one in the nation about the anti-U.S.
like Josephine (I Love The Peons Dead
and Alive) Baker.
There aren't many more continents we can afford
to lose. Yet we're losing Central and South Amer-
ica, too, because of a weird CIA allergy to contact-
ing informed anti-Communists who are under con-
stant attack by the Soviet propaganda apparatus.
A bitter wave of anti-United States sentiment is
hurting our defense, endangering the big canal and
driving American businessmen bankrupt below the
agencies, friends
government Latin-American
not in-
RIO Grande. not contacted byl our our
formed, not alerted.
U.S. Pilloried
Thus it is that singer Josephine Baker, of the
famous Stork Club fury, can float down all of
Latin America from Mexico City to Rio, speaking
against us at a series of anti-U.S. rallies, arousing
the colored millions of Latin America, while the
$500 million Central Intelligence Agency does little
to counteract or neutralize her propaganda. Then
she winds up in Argentina, joining forces with the
Fascist government of the Peronistas, which has
smashed free labor as well as the free press in the
streets back of Copacabana beach-and the United
States is pilloried and friendless.
Yet, just a few streets from the Central Intelli-
gence Agency headquarters sits Serafino Romauldi,
Latin-American expert for the American Federation
of Labor. But not once has he ever had a note, a
telephone query or a visit from Central Intelligence.
Typical of the failure of our foreign counter
intelligence is an incident which rippled quietly
rough one of the private dining rooms at the
0 1 Mayflower in Washington the other day.
Six. Nicaraguan labor people, who had been in-
vited to the United States as a good will gesture,
were being dined by the state department. The
Nicaraguan ambassador, one of this country's good
friends, was there naturally. Suddenly one of the
Nicaraguan workers took a leaflet from his pocket
and showed it to Romauldi. It was hair-raising
anti-U.S. propagand officially distributed by
throughout Nicare
Argentine e em bas bassyy,
agua.
Defamatory Leaflet
Following the line of attack used by the sulking
singer, Josephine Baker, the leearil the was titled "T is
is American Democracy." cover was
sketch of the Statue of Liberty-with a ghastly
caricature of President Truman's face ica law in.
The outstretched hand, which symac symbolically holdsl
the torch of liberty, had instead in this cartoon a
rope from which hung a Negro.
The leaflet was passed on to the Nicaraguan am-
bassador by the outraged visitor from his homeland.
The ambassador was horrified.
The state department and Central Intelligence
must have known
were criminally nnegligent. Yet no
condo, or they
contact was made with the Nicaraguan ambassador.
But he is a friend of ours-and we have scircu-
With just one cable he could have stopped
lation few.
lof this brutal attack on us in a land which
may some day have to supply a second path across
Central America if the Panama Canal is sabotaged
or bombed. But he knew nothing of it-and back
In his home country they heard nothing of any re-
sentment in Wasl ngton.
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