RFE GOAL IS VAGUE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000900080086-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 28, 2013
• Sequence Number: 86
• Publication Date: February 27, 1958
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release @ 50-Yr 2013/10/28: CIA-RDP74-00297R000900080086-4
CAPITAL REPORT:.
0 RFE Goal
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By FULTON LEWIS, JR.
? .1
NEW YORK, Feb: 26.-4 have
been privileged, at long. last', to.,
sit down in conference. with the I
?;president of the Free Europe .1
Corninittee?Ileut.,G,en, Willis D.
?ktir6d, and I
severai ortris'iadre expe-rienced
-I
advisors from the Free Europe
board of directors and - the
Crusade for Freedom.
It was a continuous 4-hour.'
sand 20-m mute session nil '''' '
%which- the gentleinen Were Very I
Vordial and solicitous, although
am frankly dubious as to what-
vas accomplished; ii Anything. ,1
? I still have no, satisfactory...
understanding of the purpose
and objectives of the Free..i
!. Europe,. project, . beyond the
;. stated apsulism by one of ? the!-I;
directors that "we just.. want- ;
the people . of the captive na-?
lions to know' that we are here
; -and thinking of- them::
? t. They. seemed to' be in. shock, 11
, _still, from the charges made ,
agauist them at the time of the-
Hungarian revolution, that they
O incited the revolution 'through
,Their broadcasts and balloon
leaflets and then failed to come
: lo the assistance of the- freedom
fighters.:
They were most: vehement in
; Their denial of these charges
,- despite the fact that this has
never been an issue between us.
'I have:, iiever, referred ,to Ahose
eliai-geg: or": given them.. Circu--
; latiop, either, in .the. printed or,
spoken- word. -
ON THE SUBJECT of Fleteh:
;er Bartholomew, the Fre.e-i
Europe -meteorologist who was
spirited baek to the ;United
States strapped to a stretcher as
a mental ease, after. he had'
turned in a report that was criti-
cal of one of his superiors, I was
provided with the following
the official, considered analysiS,
'of Free Europe:
"On July 27, 1956, the Ameri-
can Consul General (in Munich)
after discussion with Mr.- Bar-
tholomew and after the request
of Free Europe:Committee, rec-
commended to' the appropriate
military authorities that Mr.
Bartholomew be: given a medi-
cal examination.- This was ar-
ranged through a United States
Army Catholic chaplain known
to Mr. Bartholomew.
"Competent Army medical
authorities diagnosed an illness
Which in their opinion required
evacuation of .Mr. Bartholomew
to the United States. This was ?
done in the interests 'of Mr.
Bartholomew himself, the '
United States Government and
Free Europe .Committee,"
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The fact that MIT-13art-ITOTO4
raew was incarcerated illegally,
against his will and the protests I
a his friends and without the
knowledge of his with, seems I
lanimportant No mention
Inade of it.
?
.;
TIHS is incidental. What I
troubles me Is the lack tif-arri,
*rear pattern. or - plan - of propa.1
--ganda. I wanted to know; propa-1
? ganda for what? Freedom? The
?? possible interpretations of thatj
, word, in the Free Europe ]ex.i
Icon, are broad enough to cover!
almost. anything in actual oper-
ational broadcasting.
. ;
!I was hoping for sonie?speci-:
'nes. -Without them, even 'the'
broadcasters themselves have noi
Smowledge of .what they're try-;
big to-do.
to 198, by King Features Synd., Inc.) -
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