FOUNDATION MYSTERIES IN THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300370001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 1, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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SEPTEI++1BER 1, 1964
Fou'ndation'.
X Mysteries
In the-, CIA
The Central Intelligence
Agency contributed money,
to, and presumably used ar
New York City tax-exempt
i' foundation as a "front," 1t
was disclosed here yesterday:'
Asa result of the revelation
by Rep. Wright Patman, D., A
F` Tex., because the spy agency:f
once hurt his feelings, the:
usefulness of the J. M. Kap-
lan . Fund, Inc., apparently,;;
. has ended for the CIA.
u. The fund has assets ' of
created in 1946 by Jacob
Merrill Kaplan, of 53 E. 80th
St., to "strengthen democracy
at home and abroad through
a program of general assist-
ance to benevolent, charit?
!'able, educational, scientific
and literary activities. , ."
Mr. Kaplan, 71, is former
president of the Welch Grape
Juice Co.' and Hearn Depart-
ment Stores, Inc., ' of New
York, a :director of Freedom
House, and a 'trustee of the
New York,-School for social
research. He has homes in
,c New York City and East
Hampton, L. I.
How much the CIA poured
into the. Kaplan Fund, and
how, and for what the money
was expended, was hidden
behind a CIA tight-lipped
.
.no comment:" It was un- ! Educational Fund ? of Phila-
derstood; however, thei"ark delphla." No such organiza-
range rent" existed since i
r 1939, and ended this year.
Is on the public record. This
concerned the arrest in
August,"1960, of two Air Force,.,
veterans 1 touring Russia.-,
They were Mark I. Kaniin
sky. and Harvey' C. Bennett,
both of Bathr Me.
As related In "The Invisible"
ouse best=seller, written by
to seven years. Later, how-
ever, both men were expelled
from Russia. ; +
On arrival in New York by ?'
Russia on grants of ' $2,000 ,
each from the ."Northcraft?
FOIAb3b
CPYRGHT
ion could be- loCatrd b; the moneyIinto the Kaplan Fund'
uthors, of the volume, The subcommittee'probe of oted to CIA operstions. ,'the New York fund began:,
'
-Late yesterday.,
Rep. Pat when it Icained the founds-,
usiness subcommittee now' ; ga'tion by the, New York.office
oundations.,for possible law vice since-'?X957. That year,,.
oors with members of. his 'Yolk'. office recommended'to
roue and unnamed repro- 'Washington 1AS headquarters
entatives'of the CIA. "that the `fund's Federal tax-fl
Afterward, lhe issued a shot t e~Cpmptinn status be revoked.
tatcment saying the sub- , Ai 'g .subcommittee'hearing
ommittee'was 'dropping any '.Aug; 10, Rep. Patman said the
'
IA aspect' of the Kaplan
. revocation was asked because
and probe:- There simply' the ?fiind reputedly engaged
onchided,p,v saying,that?'~the , in any event; IRS here
de -
unaation Investigation." " -exemption. It was not known:
This, was quite a ?? chanfre : `;whethgr Washington IRS of
rmo several :hours' 'earlieficials knew of the CIA con-
orters that because the CIA: ' IRS office didn't, according to
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trifled with" him, he felt MitchelI?.Regovin, assistant to
o obligation to conceal the,,,, IRS'' acting '. commissioner:'
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