FULTON LEWIS, JR., AT 7:00PM OVER WGMS (WASHINGTON) AND THE MBS NETWORK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000900070010-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2013
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 21, 1957
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WES AUGUST 21, 1957
(EXCERPT)
Fulton Lewis, Jr. at 7:00 P.M. over WGMS (Washington) and
the Mutual Network:
Mr. Levis discussed the current crisis in Syria, and the following
was heard, in part:
."Mr. Eisenhower said that he and' the State Department do not have
as much information as they would like to have, because of the siege on
the American Embassy, which brings up the question again as to where has
the CIA been all they time--THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.
"They are supposed to be the international eyes and ears of this
nation, and they have fabulous hundreds of millions of dollars a year to
support their cloak and dagger operations all over the world--none of
the money accounted for, by the way--and yet they were asleep at the switch
a year ago when the Suez Canal crisis occurred. Apparently they are not
up on the facts in this one. The President in effect said so.
"The events of today do throw some new light on the expulsion from
Syria of the top three American diplomats there about a week ago. Rather
obviously, the purpose was to get them out of the way so that that line
of information to the outside world, as to what is transpiring inside of
Syria, would at least be severed. Of course, that's the reason for the
CIA, to get the intelligence that the embassies cannot get, particularly
in such circumstances as exist at present, but no good, the little man
is not there.
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- MUTUAL NETWORK APR 27 1956
(EXCERPT).
Fulton Lewis at 7:00 P.M. Over WWDC (Washington) and the Mutual
Network:
"Four of the Russian sailors--the four who still remain in this
country--were called today before federal immigration officers for a
routine examination, and the Russian ambassador to the United States
here in Washington, Ambassador Zarubin, personally accompanied them, in
the role, he said to reporters, of an observer. They were asked by the
Immigration Commissioners whether they wistr,t to return to Russia and they
said--Mr. Zarubin in person present--that they never want to return to
Russia until Russia is free. When Russia becomes free, they said,
when that happens, we will go back.
"Zarubin stayed at the meeting for about half an hour, then alone
he left and climbed into the sleek black cadillac limousine, mit e chauffeur
yet, and drove back to the Russian EMbassy. The four boys stayed about
a half hour longer.
"In the meantime, Russia officially notified the United States
that Alexander Gurinov, the Third Secretary of the Russian Delegation
to the United Nations, who was one ef the strong-arm men in the kidnapping
of the five sailors in New York and who was declared persona non grata by
the United States government day before yesterday, has been recalled to
Moscow, will leave the United States soil on May.,9. The other of the two
strong-arm men went along with the five sailors as a bludgeoning escort.
"Still very much of a cloud i? all of this sailor business is the
CIA, Mr. Allen Dulles t5CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY,-WhiCh is so hush-hush,
you know, that it can not even be under the surveillance of a watch-dog
committee of the Congress on a confidential basis. And the Immigration
Service, which now admits that its officers, who cleared the kidnap opera-
tion at Idlewild Airport in New York, could have stopped those five
sailors there for two weeks in spite of the Russian escort, which would
have been more than evough time for a thorough investigation into the
whole business. They failed to ?do so, however.
"Just another indication of how unhealthy it is to have these
sacrosanct agencies scattered around the government with no check of ank
kind upon their activities or their operations. Try and get to the
bottom of the CIO (Sic) failure in this case--the result will be
another horrified insistence by them that nobody must be permitted to
see inside the doidgs of the sacred CIA. Here is outward evidence,
however, of how ineffective and bungling these doings can be."
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