TRANSCRIPT OF BROADCAST BY FULTON LEWIS, JR.

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• Publication Date: February 11, 1958
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TRANSCRIPT OF BROADCAST
By
Fulton Lewis, Jr.
Station WGMS at 7-7:15 P.M.
11 February 1958
Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, I have before me an offi-
cial handout, as we in the world of news call them, on sta-
tionary that is labeled News from the Crusade for Freedom
in support of Radio Free Europe and Free Europe press, with
the New York address and telephone number. This is entitled
"Notes for United Press in response to direct inquiries re-
garding six Radio Free Europe'defectors' named in Fulton
Lewis, Jr.'s article of October 6,1957." This was one of
my columns syndicated by King Features Syndicate. Some
thousands of copies of this handout have been distributed.
How many thousands I have no idea, but I have stacks of
them here that have been sent in. And Mr. Gwilym Price of
Westinghouse, the national head of the Crusade for Freedom,
has been touring the country holding luncheons and banquets
to solicit big corporation contributions for the Crusade,
has been placing this sheet at the places of all luncheon
and dinner guests as a defense against the exposes I have
made.
Also I have some clippings from Boston,Massachusetts,
newspapers, Harvard Historian Blasts Fulton Lewis' Charges,
which tell of a speech by historian Samuel Elliott Morrison,
director of Radio Free Europe in Portugal, and a letter to
the editor signed by him in which he repeats the same ma-
terial contained in the handout. Now,emphatically,I might
state that I only hope that he is more authentic as a his-
torian than he is in this case because, if he is a man of
any standing and dignity, he should be very embarrassed as
the result of this tonight's broadcast.
I don't have time tonight to go into all six of these
statements in the Crusade handout, but we will start with
one of them--a woman by the name of Marie Vvorakov. About
her the handout says,defensively, and this is quoting Cru-
sade for Freedom, "She was employed by Radio Free Europe
as a typist in 1952 and assigned to the typing pool, where
she remained until her voluntarily resignation in the fall
of 1955. She returned to Czechoslovakia sometime in Novem-
ber of 1955 with her mother and illegitimate child. She
was not physically well and distraught because Radio Free
Europe had no means for billeting her old mother who was
living in Austria, in Munich. She had no access at any time
to confidential or policy information of any nature whatsoever."
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That is a verbatim statement which the Radio Free Europe and
Crusade for Freedom and the Harvard historian who worked for
them told the newspaper readers--that Madame Vvorakova had not
had any access to confidential information in her job. I
sent this handout to my investigators in Munich, asked for
a recheck on the woman and on the others. And I have re-
ceived in return some very interesting documents, one of
which I have before me. It is an authentic photostat of a
document in the private files of Radio Free Europe in Munich
which I have doubly authenticated by former top secret em-
ployees of Free Europe and, for the convenience of the Free
Europe people in looking it up, I will give them the exact
identification of it. At the top it says AA Distribution--
meaning Audience Analysis Distribution--item Number 9756-55,
14 November, AA reference number C-85; then comes some rou-
tine titling and then, Statement by Redefector Vvorakova,
Radio Prague, November 8, Radio Brezlaw, November 8, 1955.
In short this is a record in the files of Radio Free Europe,
Munich, about a broadcast which Madame Vvorakova did over
Radio Prague and Radio Brezlaw, in Communist Czechoslovakia,
after she redefected back to the Communists. And I want you
to listen to it and see if it is true, as stated, that "she
had no access at any time to confidential or policy informa-
tion of any nature whatsoever.
Here is the document itself from here on: "Mrs. Marie
Vvorakova, who was employed for several years in Free Eu-
rope Radio station, Munich, recently arrived in Czechoslo-
vakia from West Germany. On arriving in the country, Mrs.
Vvorakova visited the Czechoslovak radio station and made
the following statement."
And now it is the quote of the broadcast that she de-
livered: "A few days back I came to Czechoslovakia with
my mother and daughter.. I've been living abroad for a long
time, since 1948 have been in West Germany. In 1952 onward I
was employed by Radio Free Europe, Munich. I had been
preparing to return home for a long time past, but I re-
alized that I had been guilty of an offense against the
republic by working in such a disgraceful organization.
I had joined Radio Free Europe in the first place purely
to make a living. These reasons kept me there at first,
and up to the time of the amnesty I could see no way out.
To decide' to go back was a pretty simple matter;
to put the decision into effect was more difficult.
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I naturally had to conceal my plan because I was working in
Free Europe in the so-called information section, whose job
it is to conduct espionage against Czechoslovakia and the other
peoples democracies--Poland, Hungary, Rumania, and Bulgaria.
Free Europe pretends, of course, to be a private broadcasting
company in order to be able to ignore the rules of interna-
tional behavior in its activity. But, in fact, it is nothing
but, a huge espionage organization directed, organized, and
financed by Americans. In the so-called information section
where I worked from the start, I had to type out every day
reports based partly on the interrogation of refugees and
partly obtained through secret channels--that is by the usual
espionage method.
"Munich,where I was working, is the headquarters of this
activity. This is where reports are collated from the other
espionage suboffices which are in Vienna, Hamburg, West Berlin,
Frankfurt, Stockholm, Rome, and so forth. All these suboffices
have code numbers under which they pass on their reports--
again by secret channels to the Munich headquarters. The re-
ports coming in to Munich are all of an espionage character,
either military--these are the most appreciated--or else eco-
nomic and political. Each report carries the number of the
agent from whom it originated. Apart from reports from Czech-
oslovakia, I used to have to copy espionage material from Po-
land and Rumania. Reports from Hungary and Bulgaria were
copied by a woman colleague. Twelve of us were engaged in
this work and there was always some typing to do. This espio-
nage is directed by Americans who occupy all position of
authority in Free Europe. The heads of the various espionage
suboffices I have mentioned are also Americans. In Vienna,
for example, a Mr. Hill is in charge, in Stockholm a Mr. Hier,
in Paris a Mr. Dreyfus, in Istanbul a Mr. Coach, and in Munich,
itself, another American of the same name, Mr. Carl Coach and
so on.
"On arrival, these reports were checked and evaluated in
the information section where I worked and then copied for
distribution according to instructions from the head. The
less valuable ones were made available to editors; those of
greater value were given to the Americans in charge. A special
importance was attached to reports on the location of military
formations, the frontier police, and measures taken on frontiers,
war production and so forth. Interestingly enough reports were
also compiled by hospitals and their capability and equipment."
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Now that, I think, is enough of this document from the files
of Radio Free Europe itself; this photostat is to let you decide
for yourself whether the outfit was telling the truth when it
said in this handout,"She had no access at any time to confiden-
tial or policy information of any nature whatsoever." And you
can decide also why Mr. Gwyilm Price would distribute this
statement to the guests who attend his fund-raising luncheons
and dinners where he puts the bite on the big corporations for
contributions. I'm sure that he didn't know that these were
the facts, but he does have a responsibility to check on the
people who were feeding him this misinformation and having
him stand responsible for it. The worst part of it is, this
was in Radio Free Europe's own files at the time this handout
statement was compiled.
And I have plenty more of these photostats from the files
of Radio Free Europe--all photostats, all authentic, all
straight from the files. You'll get them as we go along.
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