MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000900070008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: December 9, 1957
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR:
1. This memorandum is for information only.
2. Following are abstracts of selected columns and broadcasts
by Fulton Lewis, Jr., since 1950, relating to the Central Intelligence
Agency. Full texts are attached.
3. Column, January 18, 1950: Alleges that CIA has reported
that thirty-two persons working for the UN are engaged in espionage
work for their governments including Soviets.
4. Column. December 17, 1951: Does not mention CIA but says
that all US intelligence agencies (except the Federal Bureau of Investi-
gation) are "cluttered with imcompetents and others more closely aligned
to Communist ideology."
5. Column. January 18. 1952: Attack on Samuel E. Klaus
"described as a legal and intelligence expert of the State Department"
who, among other things was said to have "tried to capture all State
Department intelligence work, including jurisdiction over the Central
Intelligence Agency and even some FBI operations."
6. Column. April 4. 1952: Reference to the allegation that
John P. Davies of the State Department tried to get CIA jobs for Communists.
7. Broadcast. October 16. 1953: Accuses CIA of not being alert
in the matter of alleged theft of documents from the Army Signal Corps
Laboratory at Fort Monmouth. Complains of CIA security which prevents
him from finding out more about the agency.
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8. Broadcast. January 25, 1956: The 'basic set?up of CIA is not
a healthy one for any government such as this one of ours," and there
is as yet no real way to investigate CIA. It "has always been a mystery"
why it is necessary to have a separate agency for foreign intelligence
operations, when we have the FBI.
9. Broadcast. April 9, 1956: In some detail, discusses origin
and development of CIA in connection with Senate discussion of "watchdog
committee." Says that although it is not possible to find out what CIA
does, facts slip out such as that CIA supports likh which sends broad?
casts sympathetic to communism from Munich. In the Far East "CIA was
reportedly involved in all sorts of commercial operations" including
"...a very heavy stake in a commercial airline flying between Formosa
and Japan."
10. Broadcast, April 20, 1956: Follows testimony before Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee about Russian sailors taken back to
Russia from Idlewild Airport, with emphasis on alleged part of CIA
in not preventing departure.
11. Broadcast. April 27, 1956: CIA could have stopped the Russian
sailors who were taken from Idlewild Airport by Soviet Agents but did
not do so. No one can know what goes on in CIA, but this is one
example of its "bungling."
12. Broadcast, August 21. 1957: CIA was "asleep at the switch"
during the coup in Syria.
13. Broadcast, September 10, 1957: US Ambassador to Cuba accused
of favoring Cuban rebels. Lewis says CIA knows that the rebel party is
"tainted with Communism."
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14. Column, October 4, 1957: Regarding RFE, Lewis says (1) it is
CIA?supported, (2) Archduke Otto of Austria Hungary on hearing RFE's
Czech?language broadcasts, thought them to be "propaganda stuff from
Radio Prague," and (3) State Department spinkoss allowed RFE's Munich
staff to be "loaded" with Czech communists. Promises expose of some of
these.
15. Column, October 6, 1957: Names six of ten members of Munich
RIFE who Lewis claims were Communists and escaped to Czechoslovakia
carrying RFE documents with them. The six were: Oldrich Kucera, Ladislav
Zapletal, Karel Folta, Karel Molin, Marie Dvorakova, and Jiri Kalas.
16. Column, October 10. 1957: Quotes what he says to be RFE
policy under which EYE Munich has been directed to build up Tito and
independent Yugoslav communism, even though Truth Dollars finance BYE
for the purpose of spreading the gospel of Western Democracy.
17. Column, October 22, 1957: Levis says that, according to CIA,
"Latin American Bigwigs meeting in Ciudad Trujillo wondered why the US,
which took such a strong stand against Communism in Guatemala, yet
permits the "former Venezuelan Dictator," Romnlo Betancourt, to operate
in Puerto Rico.
18. Broadcast, October 31, 1957: RFE policy of supporting Tito.
(See Column of October 10.)
19. Broadcast, November 12. 1957: At the offices of the Free
Europe Committee in New York, Lewis was told that it was actually the
policy of RYE in Munich to support Titoist communism and that FIFE
considered the policy a wise one.
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20. Column, November 14, 1957: Odd that the Crusade for Freedom
makes no "public financial report." A sizeable part of its money goes
for junkets to Europe by people who could , pay their own way. Every-
one except the American people knows about CIA's connection with CFE.
Through this connection, it is the US taxpayer who supports the junkets.
CIA, meanwhile, is "sacrosanct."
21. Note: gadio Moscow on November 16, made use of Lewis's state-
ments to the effect that CIA grants funds to RFE.
22. Column, November 18, 1957: Regarding contributions to the
Crusade for Freedom, those of government workers are "all but mandatory'.!
The money is spent by "a Rover Boy regime." The Crusades doings cannot
be investigated on account of CIA.
23. November 19. RFE is a waste of money. The
fact that the Russians jam it is no proof that it hurts them. The
Russians must like the pro-Tito line. Only about 1% of the people to
whom the broadcasts are directed, hear them.
24. Column, November 20, 1957: The reason why Samuel S. walker,
Jr., RFE Chief in New York, sent G. A. Trutnovsky, a Czech (a year late)
to liquidate the Munich balloon project was that Howard S. Weaver, normal
European head of the project was being deported for Black Marketing.
Walker and Weaver are "ivy league youths." John Kirk, son of the presi-
dent of Columbia University, rose, in RFE, in three months from a salary
of $5500 to $10,500.
25. Broadcast, November 22. 1957: RFE is naive in supporting
alleged independent Polish communism and is wasting "Truth Dollars" in
this way.
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26. Column, December 2, 1957: Complains of REE operations in
the Far East, not seeing how "all this fits into a pattern of hope and
freedom propaganda to enslaved millions behind the Iron Curtain."
Enclosures
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'STAY J. GVR
Assistant to the Director
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