RADIO FREE EUROPE

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CIA-RDP74-00297R000900080061-1
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December 23, 2016
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October 28, 2013
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April 12, 1958
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;?:j NAT, Declassified and Approved For Release @50-Yr 2013/10/28 :-CIA-RDP74-00297R000900080061-1 a. -9 To t h e E Radio Free Europe As a member of a national women's organization which has lent the pres- tige of its name to the Crusade for Freedom, may I congratulate you upon the objectiveness of your edi- torial "Mr. Lewis and Radio, Free Europe" [March 29]. 1 have protested ? against circularizing petitions for the organization which purports to send "truth dollars" to free the enslaved peoples behind the Iron Curtain. My tilt with Radio Free Europe is not that it is mismanaged, inefficient and pro-National Communism. The phi- losophy behind the whole operation is a delusion. What right have we Amer- icans to ertcriThe adVantages of de- mocracy -reeCloin.zto 'those Whop.; , ? ? . , necks bear the yoke of the slave, ? , while at the same time our govern- . . < ment subsidizes the same cruel tY- O - . . , ? rants in Power, as in Yoland and Yugoslavia? What. HiiiirgaHii.Wxiiiid believe a word of what comes over Radio Free Europe after we urged them to aspire to freedom and then, I -like Pilate, "washed our hands" of them when they attempted revolt? 4 The only way we can prove our sincerity and deep concern for the 850 million captives behind the Iron Curtain is . . . by withdrawing diplo- matic recognition of Soviet Russia. No other single move would so elec- trify the captive nations to the possi- bility of freedom as our denunciation of their rulers. . . . Until we change our foreign policy, the Crusade for Freedom and Radio Free Europe might as well be written off. Does ..not_se_em ironic to be supporting milica?WOreet?Farn?e1". behind , , an iron-Curtain which spares no cx- ense the'reception, 'and then roll out the carpet for the Drum & Bugle Corps of the 'Red Army in the interests,- of 'exchanging_ _culture"? As Alice put it, things "get curioser and curioser." Pittsburgh, Pa. a full-fledged :congressional inysp.tig.a:7_ 117Ziiirs-b?rfar superib-rIO.TiL.RrypIe.?7?, ly o7Fi1d?inVeafgation. only a'? congressional committee would have enough money to spend and the power to subpoena. You Cannot get the whole story without the sworn testimony of dozens of witnesses, among them top officials, present and former employees who have nothing to fear and no .RFE job to lose. . . . Since I have been interested in RFE for many years and since I have,,, ,v,!_sittdits installations in IV},un.ich.1, I'riell aikra"i'rortli'e'alrii?O's1 ? mountable difficulties any private in- vestigation must encounter. Only ; Congress has the power to force wit- nesses to appear under oath and to be ' heard in. public as well as in execu- tive sessions which latter proved so important in the congressional in- yestigation of the Katyn massacre. City JULIUS EPSTEIN Your lengthy editorial on Lewis vs. RFE was interesting reading. I shall only comment on your recommenda- tions for a survey committee. I have followed the activities of RFE since ? its inception?at which time I recog- nized that a large number of is tfi,- cials and sponsors,xere_also ? ".. ? ' ? :? . c"1-'6&e'd'I` ulus to the analysis of .a problem?how could Socialists sell ',the American Way of Life to foreign nations? My conclusions to date jibe with those of many other individuals, including Lewis. They have' not por- trayed or tried to sell their audience on the principles of ?freedom that cre- ated this nation. They have advertised this nation as a socialist state. ? It does not require a commission to ? confirm this fact. You can't get a zebra by Mating a lion with a tiger. You can't get Americanism from the lips of Socialists: ? Washington, Ind. ? A. C. BLAZEY, M.D. MARY A. SHERMAN I fully endorse your editorial Lewis and Radio Free Europe." How- ever, I still think with Mr. Lewis thatl Declassified and Approved For Release @50-Yr 2013/10/28: CIA-RDP74-00297R000900080061-1