TRANSCRIPT OF BROADCAST BY FULTON LEWIS, JR.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP63T00245R000100220126-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 126
• Publication Date: February 6, 1958
• Content Type: TRANS

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TRANSCRIPT OF BROADCAST
By
Fulton Lewis, Jr.,
Station WGMS at 7-7015 P. M.
6 February 1958
I have here tonight some high pressure material being
distributed by the Crusade for Freedom in its present some-
what lilting National Fund raising drive, including a letter
signed by one Carl Roupe, regional director for the campaign
in Chicago in answer to a letter of inquiry from a past state
commander of the American Legion Auxiliary in Illinois. It's
interesting, because its shows the utter disregard for fact
and the utter disregard for fact and the utter irresponsibili-
ty of the people into whose hands the administration of this
fund raising campaign has been given.
This says: "I will say for the record that my own check-
ing of the fact convinces me that every charge but one made
by Fulton Lewis Jr. is either completely false or a malicious
distortion of the truth to give a totally false impression."
He then cites the incident of the so-called cigarette. black-
market incident, leaving everything else in the category of
falsification.
I have some questions to ask Mr. Roupe: Is it true that
the Crusade is disapproved by the National Information Agency?
Is it true that it makes no financial, no public financial
statement? Is the story of Fletcher Bartholomew true? Is it
true that the Free Europe Committee makes no public financial
statement and has made no public report since 1955? Is it
true that Hubert Ripka and Ferdinand Perutka and Milas Varnek
were on the Free Europe payroll? Perutka still there, par-
ticipating in the broadcasting to the iron curtain countries.
Is it true that they and a lot more were open collaborators
with the Communists before the Communists threw them out?
Is it true that Perutka and Ripka and Varnek said and wrote
the things I quoted them on in my syndicated column and in
these broadcasts? Is it true that General Crittenberger has
refused to answer any of the questions I put to him for the
last two months. Is it true that Mr. Gwilym Price, the head
of the Crusade for Freedom, first agreed to let me tell him
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what material I have for his own protection, then backed out
on the meeting and has never been willing to see or talk to
me since?
There are plenty more that could be asked but those are
enough, and I suggest that Mr. Roupe put up or shut up, and
they can be answered yes or no.
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