MAN UNAFRAID

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400100091-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 91
• Publication Date: February 11, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Date: FEB 11 1964
'.IIAYDEN IN WASHINGTON
u., TAV r r1AVr,rWr The surest thing in light of
Man' Unafraid
- ?ur waamON, nrwn uur Feb. raa 11.
WASHINGT to be that, so long as he lives,,,
A top-of-column, front pa - ge he will not budge an inch,
headline in the New York, First public notice of, him,
Times last Sunday-"Donovan; Peculiarly opprobrious, w a s
Guarded at Mail on Schools when he appeared as counsel
Threatens His Life"-referred for the defense in the trial of
to a new chapter in the career 1Rudolph Ivanovich Abel, 59,.4.
of a man long since famed for charged with - heading the
total, disregard equally of phy. whole Soviet Russian spy
?sical danger and public opin?'system throughout Nof th;
ion at home or abroad. America.
The current crisis for James J Abel was 'convicted of es..
B. Donovan, chairman of the pionage and sentenced, Nov.
New York city board of edu- 1 15, 1957, to three y e a r s in
cation, was a multitude Of. 1 1 prison.
letters threatening assassina-
tion because of his. virtually He was next heard of when,
one-man official stand against very suddenly in February,
a Negro boycott of the city's 11962, it was announced that.
public schools. On that ac.- I Abel had been released 'in ex.
count, the Times said, a city 1 change for Francis Gary Pow-
police unit was guarding Dono- ers, pilot of the United States
van around the clock. U-2 spy plane shot down over
Before the school demon- Russia in May, 1060.
Powers, a reserve captain in
stration which kept 360,000
pupils and teachers at homed the U.S. Air Force, admittedly
{ Feb. 3, chairman Donovan was serving as a civilian cm-
had publicly declared- that ? Ploye of the Central Inte'lli.
.,any teachers off the job not gence Agency, e- the United
only 'would suffer salary do-- States spy system: I
duction but a black mark as While the Kennedy admini
'to record relating to promo. stration kept as far out of the
tion. And after the event, he transaction as possible, it was
called the walkout a "fizzle." not long in development that
For Compromise
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Donovan, who as school Powers and won from atty.'
board chairman was appointed Gen. `It aberC F. Kennedy an~
by neither Gov. Rockefeller, agreement for exchange 'of the'
prisoners
Republican, nor Mayor Wag .
Possibly due to this spy ex
ner, Democrat, is backing a change, but more as it' ap-' ICennedy administration, al-;
compromise plan for. gradual pears on account of great though supported very little'
shifting of students racially unwillingness of any other; if at all by American arms.!
toward desegregation, rather I New York Democrat to as= On Dec. 21, some six weeks
than doing the job all at once. sume the job, Donovan was: rftpr he had been soundly
Specifically he declared: nominated for U.S. senator, to, trounced in the senatorial con-;
"To order a child to attend oppose the incumbent Repub- test, with no sign of presiden-'
a school far from his home lican, Jacob K. Javits. tial support, Donavan actually,
solely on the grounds of race,' accomplished landing in the;
creed or color, is alien to our:' Prisoners United States of 1,113 of the,
way of life." A .few days earlier it had' Fay of Pigs captives. In ex
Notably New York City's become known that Donovan, change Donovan has arranged
school population still is pre. was negotiating with Fidel' to pay Castro $53 million in!
dominantly white, 57 percent Castro for release of prisoners. U.S. goods. Again Robert F:1
as compared with 43 percent.. captured during the abortivei Kennedy had-acted as' go-be-.
non-white, the latter mainly invasion of the Cuban BY of 1 tween, although it was denied i
,Negroes .and Puerto Ricans.` ".Pigs by. forces admittedly or-; that U.S. taxpayer cash,, con+
ganiza4 and Nrained, by the tt_ibuted to thd deal.
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