THE BARRY FARBER SHOW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400150001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 2, 1967
• Content Type: TRANS

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PROGRAM The Barry Farber Show
January 2, 1967 7:30 PM
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STATION WMAL Radio
Washington, DC
BARRY FARBER: "Sylvia Press, a lot of people, including Malcolm
Muggeridge, writing in Esquire, claim that the Central Intelligence
Agency suppressed your book when it was first written eight years ago.
"You were a former intelligence officer yourself. As a former
intelligence officer, do you believe that?"
PRESS: "I honestly don't know what to say as an intelligence
officer. Of course, it would be rather satisfying, I suppose, in
way to think that they had, that it was important enough for them
want to do It, but I don't know who the source is, and as a former
intelligence officer, I always put a great deal of stress on the
source."
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FARBER: "I want to know how the Central Intelligence Agency
could suppress a book even if it wanted to."
PRESS: "Well, as I envisioned it, when it was told to me,
apparently they bought up copies that were on the market. I suppose
anyone could do that if they had enough money."
FARBER: "Right, but then isnxt the publisher and the free en-
terprise economy going to say, hot dog, that was a good customer;
let's print a few thousand more?"
PRESS: "Well, I suppose it would depend upon on how enterpris-
ing the publisher was."
FARBER: "Your book i s fiction. If you'd written i t as non-
fiction, you'd probably be i n jail by now."
PRESS: "Well, I don}t know. I haven't given away any secrets
that I should not have or that Mr. Dulles himself has not spoken of
and written on in the public press."
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