'ADULT FARE'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100200001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 16, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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LETTERS TO riin EDITOR
'Adult Fare'
Africa Report is not, as you
stated in your news columns
on Feb. 18, a magazine "for
American schoolchildren." It
' is adult fare, written by and
largely for African specialists
here and abroad. More se-
riously, I note that the wheel
? chart in the Outlook section
on Feb. 26 erroneously places
Africa Report in the circle
identified as "final disbursers"
of CIA funds.
? The president of the Afri-
can-American Institute of New
York, which publishes Africa
? Report, has stated that the In-
stitute received funds from
? CIA- supported foundations
prior to (and not since) 1962..
It is logical to assume that
some of these funds figured in
the modest operating budget
approved by the AAI Board of
Trustees each year for the
production of the magazine. It
? is absolutely incorrect to sug-
gest that the magazine has dis-
bursed funds for intelligence
purposes or fulfilled any intel-
ligence function.
? That is not all. Since I be-
came editor of the magazine
in 1960, I have never been re-
quested, much less pressured,
by any person or group in or
out of the U.S. Government to
publish or not to publish any
author or article, or to cover
' or not to cover any aspect of
African affairs.
The content of the magazine?
from month to month is the
most persuasive evidence of
. its free spirit.
HELEN KITCHEN,
Editor, Africa RePort.
Washington.
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