[ ] REVOCATION OF PERSONAL ENMITY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: May 17, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN

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:nformation
17 'ay 1966
I-age: 2
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t C, r r,voc,at i(.71 or
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%ring, the Ihcuisiticr, fl ie skiteful imople nad an ftway way tc
FreSsqhstr enemies. An accusation of association with the devil was usually enough
,
The ,Inquisition tribunals d tr.e rest.
a4k14.* t;Mea the methods ha,;e become More subtle, but not less effective for
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.'You accuse your enemies of being Connected with thic.04,, an accusation,
is more difficult to refutei thoLtp?makev,and.
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the, rest ,
distinguished newspapers, the AmeriCan '4few York Times. and,thelkanish IpsgEmA7
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tioniyhage lthin the past two weeks published accusations against the international
artist co4e*atims The Gcl."1-11-44 Cultural Freedoms -But Iiilleras the accu-.
eat-ions in the New York Times were anonymous and clearly written by a ferson cf very
lIttle knowledge of the oongresbl sc+ivity? then the accuser in Information has a
name, Frank Osvald, and a 1:n.n.f1edge of several years of the congress) having contri-
buted to several of its p..v-,t;:.ations.
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And*Oereas The New York Times never he/ iodiosted, ,that there should be any di-
rect and unequivocal connection between the congress and the CIA then .Frank Osvald
founda his?isnOusations; :net on such an iniinua
;faatsaiq?es to the American paper.
, .itaforPmticMor
ect that ,the
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geabla it
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without :a airier in the
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nal. The New York Times wrote ...nmelyt
"Throtigh ?iailar channels (ftundations), the CIA has au, perted grours'Ofexiles
from CubS.and rofugeec from :.:ozmunism In,ftropm or antiomirmist but liberal. -rga-
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nizatiO ellectuals such as the Congress for Cultural Freedom and sdms of
the Spero and magazines.
Communist, intellectual r.thly, with edi
Or a it
Pak: ,Ligkt
d unequivocal connection.
m9Fe t411,441444;I cr:$. cavald'kaccoastion
pltc*taa a deliberate- and accepted connection between the congress and the American
intellig,noe organ, whereas The Now York Times formuletion leaves the ymseibility
open,v that the congress unknowingly has been used by the CIA via other organizatio s
wells General rtcretary, Composer Nicolas Nabokov, pointo at this in a
York Times: We have with Bv2'prlse and ariAlety read the retort
s of 27 April, in whidh it is Maintained, that an American Go-
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ontributtd Secretly td 'i lot of -various cultural actiVitias all
port suggests, that there among the nany independent patrons
who in course of time have contributed financially to
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C.0111, ooflferencej and publicatione, fosSibly are Aker/Can
s,for
edam has never
consciously
9r any other
our
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brfth aPittoir of public record. We have been 'completely conv1nce4A.thst.prAvate
Areridan'end rutorean.phi4nthrop7 wasS.
nonittsverthentiLl--;
Je
wi1l4..hOwever, 'in.the light of the iiipliOstiOhs; whiOh have been raisod in
The-$04ctik Time: ii.IT,TepOrt$:: ask' individuals and organizations, which have supported
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:05Xclain the private ,charecter, of their snpport. It is
he 4
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congress
V
4;444,4,
ths Congresio general se Id additian for *'Int Altericitris
vote of confidence without any reserve on, st, a1 in a
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S.
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0* Thnee. Two of .these were athass*Crs Under President
presidrit'alolitical adviser, namely the Profeascrs
E4nrialip and'Arkbur Schlesinger and the fourth
'prOfessar? atomic Physicist J. Robert ,,)fienheimer
Offers in the linsited ;;tatefiqt.rrl au follows'
istoes ,with the congress durint.ths ,pikst 16 yeara?
:,,
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itt Can
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itr;' .doubt ktiputASAudepend.enes ?of it eta-
fr'" ' ; ? ? ?
rz
at, of fts wolf*. To dar,experience, the :congress under
ah1p at cretary Nioolas Nabokov has be a 00sT2ote1f free or-
?ditg
rs' aLd doafrai wishes and its aitteeks deol-
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nbi?I becaua,- all four of thnm, -_, wn know are among the Eq h ar re, st critior of thestr
countrVik paicy inoutheact, it -i i a.
' At-
And presant Fhoouxt- ': ditorem the aritioh poet Stephen pc+ilder
,. ..
vr,iters, Melvin ,#','C4k. and rriApg Arietolt ..prapiptect to 2'"0
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All this wc!: available f,r- Olivald, whet he wrote n is artiOla in
'Lion. The sente!%ce alone t ne continues. what .,1eviciAly bar 16.114n
Lp,
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6 hrme this . Pe wr Ltes nazo : y : '' After vehement prate ts from i rominent 'Amer icanb
,...
......;00ahrsith and krttur H. Sobleainget 'tbS editors had to-lffer SA apol,.:
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d-rrsok Gsvald thus feel entitled 44.1.nolUde alreadI deriteamiamie-..-..
hin-neteriel er accnaatin tbeffitrthermor Nes hitlrivatt oni-
: , . ....--, . .
engthene again on his cws? ' .; _accusations'.drewly odified bY
z-- .... '!:7,..,,. .-'.., . , ? 0.,,.'-''''' ' C.1 '-. ' - , .
The New Yoxk Tp by 4.
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i " k Tinsse* Yea- no toutte
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9,1., Vhio4-sight:11,1* bMed on the'.taAt that tbe congress, which for
114,APOO-Pl la and
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-.%(40 olOA, tii'.' Al to*Olot... I
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sor#tion
It is namely no fact at ail thp.t the congre4 'followed "a &Teets). e.
anti-Communist line". The conaess is no political grganisation and tree has -lc, r ' ?
ti 14 line. Any one knows that who iihOWS anything about the congress'
,
at 1421, Including the former contributor to the eoNtressi publications, frank Csv
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" rough and unt Corn description, ntipwever, the de6cript4?..,n fits on the
ese% 40ftridirtevien eseretay, i.e. y perSonal political opinion and publicitv
7 4ert' from .the fact that it if a 1,14i.artiart how close ta,y, vterws are to thr,c,..
States. Others have during the course itt'' time infilosted ac tubing q Lit
tott, - late r
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ether beei
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and the:,-.
r and its sister, publication*
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took uP Lb intransigent att4tud
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The fact alone that two of the periodicals mentioned namely rboounter and
:bride 'no editorials or editorial CoMmenta? makes it difficult to see how they
re been for or against states or persona, and Frank Osvald probably founds hie
fact, that all throe periO40a1s--- s m4uty- others--once
analyses of t
tical devel t in Ouba under Castro,
men-
regime, after
is` hers had go into
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of thetrrt to the resistance 00116111 nt against the Alatista dicta-
At that ti he became
Castro's first rerresentative in the
tee 'a vice vieseildent Was Castro's pre mat Foreign.
I can add, that the committee again is forbidden in Cuba because
work for cultural freedom--thua forbidden by the Castro regime this
the volumes of the three feriodioals t is totally impoaElbLe
personal
teas,
to
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