PUBLISHING TIES CUT, CIA TELL EDWARDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300390006-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 5, 1977
• Content Type: NSPR

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I]Piisbing Ties Cut,
CIS 'Cells Edwards
Special to The Mercury
WASHINGTON -= Rep.
Don Edwards (D-San
,Jose) said Monday the
Central Intelligence Agen-
cy had informed him it
was no longer secretly un-
derwriting the publication
of English-language books
as. part of its clandestine
propaganda effort.
Edwards, chairman of a tures, -a now-defunct serv-
subcommittee of the: ice that the Manchester
House Judiciary Commit- Guardian described aas as
'tee, said he had learned "CIA subsidized p p
about the change in policy Banda operation."
after he had complainedE The agency's spokes-
about the publication in men have ' declined to
f comment on this specific
S
t
of John Wiley '& Sons. The
American publishing
house said it had not.been
aware that the book was
alleged to have a CIA con-
nection. 1 -
Its, publication created ?
a stir in Britain because:
of news reports that it
had been commissioned
by Forum WorldFea-r
es o a
ta
the United
book that had been at- p I book, or any ties the
tacked in Britain as hav agency might have had,to,.
ing been commissioned by Forum World Features.
a company with agency
ties.'
The book, "Chile's
Marxist Experiment" by
Robert Moss, was first
:.published in Britain in
1973 by David & Charles
Ltd., of Newton Abbot,
Devon. It was published in
New York. in 1974 by
Halsted Press, a division
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