TRANSCRIPT OF BROADCAST BY FULTON LEWIS, JR.
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January 27, 1958
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TRANSCRIPT OF BROADCAST c='~
By
Fulton Lewis, Jr.
Station WGMS at 7-7:15 P.M.
27 January 1958
Tomorrow night I shall be ready, ladies and gentlemen, as
promised, to begin presenting to you the Radio Free Europe, Cru-
sade for Freedom story--which I mentioned last Thursday and Fri-
day--a very special story. It will take several days to complete
because it is a story of considerable ramifications, involves
many, many people, some of them overseas, others of them scat-
tered far and wide over the United States. It has been neces-
sary to check every one of them individually, which has con-
sumed a great deal of time over many weeks past.
It is the story of what happened to a brilliant and very
sincere young scientist who was with one of the Free Europe
operations in Munich, Germany, after he made a report with some
comments and disclosures about what he had observed within the
Munich operations. When this story was first called to my at-
tention, it seemed so incredible that I refused to believe it,
and it was only after many, many hours of preliminary checking
that I decided that it was worth going into in an exhaustive
reportorial way. That I have done, the loose ends are now all
tied up, and tomorrow afternoon at this time, I shall begin
presenting it to you.
In the meantime, I'm interested in some literature which
the Free Europe Committee and the Crusade for Freedom is dis-
tributing, which has come to may attention and which seems sig-
nificant, because it seems to illustrate the irresponsibility,
the wild exaggerations that these people make in their efforts
to delude their various prominent sponsors. And this came from
a document which Crusade for Freedom distributed to its sponsors,
trying to answer the facts that I have presented to you over this
microphone about their operation.
I think these letters are self-explanatory, so that all
that's necessary is for me to read the two of them. It's an ex-
change. The first is one which I wrote to Mr. J. Edgar Hoover,
the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, last week.
It is as follows: "Dear Mr. Hoover, I have a printed statement
of the Crusade for Freedom on the date of November 26, 1957,
which purports to answer certain statements and charges I have
made regarding Radio Free Europe. Among the Crusade answers is
the following: "The chief security officer of Radio Free Europe
was one of the founders, with Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, of the modern
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FBI, and accepted FBI procedures of screening are used. Back to
the letter. I was interested to learn that you had a cofounder
of the bureau, because I had not known that this was the case,.
I wonder if you could give me any details about the gentleman,
Mr. Thomas E. Myers, how he collaborated with you, how you be-
came teammates, and any information that you may have about his
tenure with the bureau. Oddly enough our friend Don Whitehead
seems to have carelessly omitted him from the proper credits
in the FBI Story. Sincerely yours, Fulton Lewis, Jr."
In return I have the following reply from Mr. Hoover on
the usual FBI stationary on the date of January 24th, that was
last Friday. "Dear Fulton, I received your letter of January
20 regarding the former employment of Mr. Thomas E. Myers with
this bureau. Mr. Myers began his association with this bureau
as a temporary typist in our New York office on November 23,
1933. He was subsequently appointed to the position of special
agent and completed a course of training at FBI headquarters,
Washington, D.C., on June 23rd 1934. His first office of as-
signment as a special agent was at El Paso, Texas. Following
his assignment to a number of other FBI offices, including our
Washington, D.C., field office, where he performed investiga-
tive duties, he was transferred to FBI headquarters as a member
of our training and inspection division staff on November 13th,
1940. He served in this capacity until May 28, 1941, when he
again was assigned to investigative duties in the Los Angeles
area. His voluntary resignation, which became effective on
August 13th, 1943, was submitted while Mr. Myers was assigned
at Sioux Falls, South Dakota. His services with this bureau
were satisfactory. With respect to the claim that Mr. Myers
was one of the founders with Mr. J. Edgar Hoover of the modern
FBI, it should be noted that my administration of the FBI be-
gan in 1924 and that Mr. Myers entered the service of the bu-
reau some ten years later and that during his tenure of service
he was employed in subordinate capacities. It would appear
that the claim that Mr. Myers was one of the founders of the
modern FBI might be placed in the category of 'literary light.'
Sincerely, Edgar."
Now in the light of this, what do you suppose possessed
the people who are running the Crusade for Freedom to put out
to their big name sponsors any such fiction as this--one of the
founders was Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, of the modern FBI. Is this
the sort of thing that the founders have a right to expect, the
sponsors have a right to expect under the guise of factual in-
formation to keep them posted? Is this statement true or is it
false or misrepresentation of of the whole cloth? And if it's
false, what has been done by way of disciplinary action against
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the individual responsible for it? And one final question.
If the brain-washing of the sponsors and volunteer officials
is as flagrant as it is in this case, why do not these sponsors
and voluntary officials step up and examine into the things
that they have been told by these same hirelings who made this
statement? The other things, if they do, they'll find that
this is typical of most of the rest of what they have been
told and are being told. If they don't, it would seem that
they are delinquent in their responsibility to the public
with which they are using their names and their prestige to
beguile the public into financial support of the Crusade.
Once again I'll begin presenting this special story
about the Free Europe operation in Munich' to you tomorrow
night at this same time. It'll require part of two and
possibly three broadcasts.
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