THE REDS HATED HIM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000201540001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 25, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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The Reds Hated Him
? Except for readers of the Chicago
Tribune who were familia/ with
his byline as a specialist in Latin-
American affairs, the name Jules?
Dubois doesn't mean much to the:
American public at large. Yet Mr.
Dubois, who died unexpectedly at
the/age of 56 in a Bogota, Colom".,
bia, hotel, had.?the distinction of
being he most-hated of ,all Amer- ,
icans by Communist and militarist
Cadres throughout Latin America.
This was because-Jor years he
headed the Freedom of the Press
Committee of the Inter - American '
Press. Assn. and helped to inspire
that committeros razor-shorn at,
taks on.Lthe u tors ,aod
. mies who kept Latin-American na-
tions in turmoil. , 1
Mr. Dubois, after doing some in-? +
vestigitive. reporting in Argentina;
was dubbed "No. 1 gangster of
Yankee journalism" by dictator
Juan Peron' s aides. More recently a
,,,-Communist newspaper in Bogota
came out with a full-page attack on:
the Chicagoan, accusing him ofx
really being a....9.12i.man- disguised ,
I ' as a newspaperman.
Mr. Dubois died much too young";
- but alone he did more for the t
? American image, and more to
spread the American dedication to ?,
freedom, than a whole generation;
of ,diplomats alicLattlysonams,
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/01/06: CIA-RDP73-00475R000201540001-5