(Classified)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100650006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 2, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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u3l~ Zenit-4 'IFirm
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Of- 'Unk' to CIA
By T)ON IIOTININ(i
Herald Staff Writer
If the Central Intelligence
Agency is operating under the
guise of rut electronics research
firm on the University of,Miami
South Campus, school officials
said Monday they are unaware
An article appearing In he
current issue of Look Magazine,
claims the Zenith Technic M
i titerprisrs on the UM ',oti!Ii
Campus is a "cover" for thou
CIA.
"Ac fur aof we're r"n-
versed," 4a id itnlveisity Vice
President and Tre.asiirer (;cnn
Cohen, "Ihe university Is Irae?
ing space to all organizal.ion
it o consider a good tenant,
which pays its rent promptly.
PYR H.?.
claimed that the relat.ionshir
between the CIA -and some i ni-
I versil.ic.s is two-way ---- "The
agency secretly finnnces re-
scarch programs at some uni-
versities; In turn, the universi-
ties help to recruit CIA person.
"0."
"I know of no such activity at
this University," Cohen declar-
ed,
In adriitlon In Zenith, I,"ok
chainetil "t.he ('I,\ has also
operated unnler at least three
o 1; li e r commercial cover
nature in Alinnil."
They were listed as the Dou-
ble-Check Corp., the Gibraltar
Steamship Corp and the Van?
guard Service Corp.
Miami Springs Attorney Alex
"There's nothing to indica le 1 Carlson, president of Double-
they have any connection with~;t'licck, said he "has no knowl-
the CIA."
Zenith Manager H. Robert
Graham also denied any deal-
ings with the CIA.
"We have an electronics re-
search job that we do here that
is highly classified and we work
with the Department of De.
fens"," Graham said: "We know
absolutely nothing about the
CIA."
Graham said Zenith had,
opened its pffice on the South
Campus in Septeniher 1901,
The firth, he said, i'i n, pnl)?
cnntrarinr for it flrfrii n Do-
partrne it prime contractor.
Cohen, who handled the !e ie
arrangements for tlhN univcrr?i.;
ty, said there is nothing tunrsu,?~1
about it- "We have leased space
to quite a few different enter.
prises where we appeared to.
have space available for what;;
they wanted,"
been inactive since the spring of
1961 and Its purpose at the tints
"ivas as a procurement. agency
for aviation pcrsoimcl."
l)oulrlc-Check had recruit;-,
4,41 four U.S. filers killed dur-
lug the 1961 Bay of I'igs,in-
vnsien of Cuba. .
Offices for ho','h Gibraltar
Steamship and Vanguard Serv-
ice are listed in the Langford
Building under the same phone
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Gibraltar Steamship' moved
to Miami from New York in
September 1961 to operate Rn
dio Swan, a 50-kilowatt station
on Swan Island off the coast of
Honduras, It, beams anti'Castro
news to Latin America.
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