TRANSCRIPT OF BROADCAST BY FULTON LEWIS, JR

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CIA-RDP63T00245R000100220109-6
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October 19, 2004
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February 27, 1958
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Approved For Release 2004/10/27 : CIA-RDP63T00245R000100220109-6 11111`l .if -~ Gv TRANSCRIPT OF BROADCAST By Fulton Lewis, Jr. Station WGMS at 7-7:15 P. M. 27 February 1958 It has come to my attention that in the Radio TV promotion of the Crusade for Freedom--seeking your dollar-contributions to pay for the operations of Radio Free Europe--a TV film is being shown about the Free Europe balloon operations out of Munich, Germany. This is a very interesting film because it shows how these propaganda pamphlets are packaged in boxes, attached to the balloons, and then released under proper wind conditions to drift across the iron curtain and finally to be scattered over important concentrations of population in the Communist-control- led satellite nation. The film discribes how important this work is because it is one of the very most effective means of getting the message of truth to the enslaved people and the pamphlets are printed on such thin paper and in such fine type that the people who pick them up are able to hide them easily and retain the message. So send in your truth dollars to swell the Crusade. I say this is interesting. It is doubly so because the entire balloon propaganda program was abolished on orders from Wash- ington immediately after the Hungarian revolt in late 1956, and not a single propaganda balloon has been sent over the iron curtain since. In fact, to give you intimate details, a man name George Schrugnowsky, from the New York office of Free Europe, was sent to Munich last September to liquidate all properties and possessions of the project, so since. that time there'. hasn't been any equipment. Approved For Release 2004/10/27 : CIA-RDP63T00245R000100220109-6