NORMAN THOMAS, CIA AGENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700660007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 14, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 27, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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and able? In short, it is a defense of organized an ..ambitious propaganda',. ,.he has the wisdom and power- to':
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dent dent Mr. Thomas six times aspired to' mulo Betancourt gang Jose Fig- critics' in this kind of, foreign policy.
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No notice need be taken here-,of ".and Sacha Volman, When. Trujillo, 'a carefully prepared pamphlet which-"
these sentiments. 'However, it is cer-, was assassma e , e shop moved to:' gives a very different' statement of~. ?ri
tainly curious Mr. Thomas is so VC-,,,: Santo Domingo. facts. In this letter I have to content `7 -hemently opposed to U. S. interven-} Rumors -abound that when Juan?I myself with saying that the not
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election was bought and !:` as I had expected, a very substantial,.:;,:;
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sends with his introduction is pub- paid for by the CIA, using well-estab 'in
fished in New York by the Institute lished techniques of buying- and in
for International Labor Research, an timidating an ignorant and Illiterate, Imbert,. whom we supported unt t ,
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organization of which he happens to, populace. At any rate, the,first thing we found him impossible, has a recard.,..`;~~
of playing with Communists as Boscli ?v.*}
be chairman. The secretary-treasurer', that Juan Bosch did was to turn the. '' never,,did. We are weaker in opposiu' '
is one Sacha Volman, a Romanian:' direction of state-planning activities, '.both cgmmunism. ? and the milItartiVT.a,;j ."
refugee now a citizen of this countryr{~ over to the American, Sacha Volman.. oligarchy type of government which
f'.The Institute is a tax-exempt "educa- ,' To do the job,?Volman set up a private, ? curses so much of Latin American by.,
tional" organization. organization, Inter-American Center our policy' in the Dominican Republic,
Slightly more than one year ago,',' , .fox Social Studies., Like magic, funds, 'rho .constitutionalists' would probably;;l.;,
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this socialist outfit came .under fire :...;materialized, from the Ford Founda-. have'won and had better order "than-,w
in tax hearings before a committee of tion and the Parvin Foundation of now exists except for our int.e'rvention:.;.;~,i
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the House of Representatives. To- =;; California, According' to The New
New York City.,
gether with unspecified grants from'; York Times, funds also came from the .Editorial comment at left ;..: `?;:I
Harvard and Brandeis Universities, ?;Agency for International Develop- i' EDITOR
the Institute received in 1963 $395,- -ment-the foreign aid branch of the ?I ;; 4 + ?;;
000 from the J. M. Kaplan Fund of U. S:' State Department. Although the #'II,eYiii .liinll.l , . NIII,aIN71al1. Il m rI in 11119 ml w, ,.,,,
New York, also a tax-exempt fund. story had been given out by the Bosch T 1:l RXCT'10ND NEWS LL11Dl; `: ` '`
A story in The New York Times on. government that the socialization . of - ?'?
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$395,000 was by far the largest grant .,,.trusted to Sacha Volman because no 1. -, ?
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year, according to~its tax report. At Sacha??Volman was the-first person s,,
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dence of an' in-and-out transaction? secretary-treasurer of the Norman I,
Al- a stormy T- ouse hearing chaired'.. Thomas group which received !>;30 ! ..
by Representative Wright _ Patman, 000 from the CIA, and on the other he
representatives of the IRS testified': is -director of the Bosch regime outfit,
that Kaplan Fund had not had its tax- which was supported in part, by.
exemption revoked because. the foun U. S. foreign aid, In both cases, the,,
dation was being used as a "conduit" ;`.'intention was the same: 'to impose an:,1
for CIA funds. The inescapable con--.' anti-capitalist -ideology on a defense-,,
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elusion is that the CIA funnelled :, less nation by U. S. government Inter
.$395,000 into Norman Thomas's social vention. The explanation, 'of course,31
Research. Moreover, indications were filled With contending'factions, inter-N
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that similar financial arrangements'
had been in effect for a number'?_of. ??'. prefer' to have,all.,the intervention on';;
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