FREEDOM OF ENCOUNTER MAGAZINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68B00432R000500020014-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: May 10, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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'Approved' For Release 2003/03/25 YC A-R13K8B00432R000500020014-4
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Freedom of Encounter I -obvious factual error (and In'..
Times series on the i,C.Y.A has :any German- or Spanis
which begins with "the James language editions. Moreover, the:
Bonds and Mata Harls" and version of the article published.
.goes on to "Frankenstein's in The Tlmes'a, Internationa'''
monster," there-is somewhere edition (April 28) contained '94
fln`b~t V66 ? a mention of Fn- ra.rblinf of two senarate seines
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n e long third article stated, that Encounter had 4r'
rAprff. 27y"!n.-The:.Ncvii;,York
Magazine the international edition one.
". serious typographical error) ? It.
To the Editor: is not .the case, as, The Times,
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>Oppenheimer, J. K. Galbraith knew of any "Indirect" beneface
and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. tions or that its contributors,
ognized foundations all of them. tors, beholden to no one, are
!(from, such institutions as the., publishing , what and whom
Ford and Rockefeller Founda- th 'By Please
tions to the smaller ones) i ( STEPHEN SPENDF
publicly listed In the official MELViN J. LASxY
,directories, with theft- officers" IRVING KRIST0L
duly named, their activities New York, May 9, 1966
described. Surely nobody could (The New York Times, in
fail to be impressed---as the mentioning Encounter, did hot;,
letter to you published May 9 say or Intend to 'suggest that
Ceorge Kerman Robert the editors of the magazine;
.from
zlett srrrI dismayed-.o ,it. ; sound even more suggestive
`Encounte depends--primarily than It was. ' i.
on circuiation and advertising Two years ago Encounter
income, and its small annual ! became associated with Cecil
pub]ish[ng ;deficit'was,'until two Harinsworth King's Mirror
years ago, met ,by .the Congress group of newspapers In Britain,,
for Cultural ree-WrW-In-P ,ris. , which has assumed financial re..
The Congress's fund, in turn," sponsibility for the magazine.,`
were derived from various tee- Now, as then. Encounter's edi-,
present editors-are both puz matters that makes your repot
'including that of the United.,"
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? meanors of all governments '',i Times) ' G
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