THE PEACE CORPS' NEW CHIEF AND THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100040065-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: March 24, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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word ca director in Venezuela , Henry, tion, was a well-known conduit
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nuznity development in Caracas.
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.lmcrican siun1 1)a'o]4Ct founded Anc,h(a fou ,Action, the Otfanger) a,tnd,,'0"! corps volunteers work togetaer?
to PI-esident. !Nixon 's a., Jostc ,,', had rnarginally~ implicated in now in conlntunity developTiicni%,
to lxeacl the Peace Corps, Joseptt.I the exposure of C:[A 'cond.uitr~ work in Venezuela. The e 1
H. 131atctti arc, orp bt year
by the Peace Carps two wo years while a; third, the Azn, Rican laa-?I of March, 1967, is ap)nl ?rentl?
sago on the assumption-appau isiitute for Free Lal o,. 4cvetop .over. ,A started tlie;
ment. the AFL .C10'!.-- labor train- fllatch~ord, 34
ently mistaken- .hat it was fi?.,. ,
'pan ed by CIA money. ' ing program ill L,at.in America., ~ program in Venezuela in Sep-?
tcanbcr,1061, with'30 volunteers.
t ;'sate Corp:; volunteers in had afters been accused o?. col-
;Venezuela were insi:uete.d b'y laboration with the CIA.. unsT ran
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ngm.s ccted
the 1'~'ashinr;ion at',`ice ill 17.a,rcb, , CJ'\ Conduit
fall in California. He
(1? 7, that they were to' have' Perhaps. the mc:;E s,sspir.inus ,to gain e:asy confirmation and
. organization t iv,ng; ,'iuccece, Sack Wood Vaughan
r;a further dealings with repre? :appearingg
scntatives of Bh chford's prof ,grants to ACGIUI~ was the 4:' 1? 'becouningy third director of the
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to end.
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represcntatives to the peace , taken action ag
Corps went unheeded. as a consequent.
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lc. . peace corps anx
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. tho 1,N7heatleY denied sable CIA Contamination arose
at the outset of former director
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based, in Venezuela- cYzxttbe as
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A zxtang; the foundations sa.Yppor ~r,i(;ilant. Ho said
log; it rvcre several which rey;u i v;xte y. 'J:un