[ ] LEWIS JR. AT 7:OO PM. OVER WOL (WASHINGTON) AND THE MBS NETWORK:

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100900003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 28, 1959
• Content Type: TRANS

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.ewis Jr. at 7:00 P.M. over WOL (Washington) and the
MB8 Network:
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Mr. Levis' discussed the suicide of'Mr. Bang-Jensen, and the following'-
-xE hear i,. in part :
"Tne FBI has information in detail; and has had for many months, abou~
L'*p+1 evidence which'Bs4g-Jensen tried to'turn over to the United States
K.,vernment, only to be double-crossed by State Department bureaucracy.
T,ar.g,=Jensen had been picked by mom people in top anti-communist circles in
New York and Washington as the one person in the top comland of the UN who
uot.ld be trusted with this so called vital evidence, the firm conviction
that if anybody else in the LI top cosneand got hold of the information,
A.7. Would go directly and instantly to the -Soviets. So Bang-Jensen was
contacted and told the story. Be was requested to find sone,watiy in-which the
information, could be transmitted to President Eisenhower direct.
"& actually tried to get an appointment- with the President,'but when
that failed, decided that the next best thing was to get the information
personally to Allen Dulles, bead of the CENTRAL THTELI,I20 7E AC NCY the CIA
vt i ch proved to be no less difficult. He made sight efforts in the course
or' seven months. to get in touch with Allen Dulles personally, but?was
frustrated on every occasion and finally decided to take a State Department
into his confid?nee, one who. be thought be could trust, in hope of
getting through to Dulles that way. He came to iiashin46n, vent to see the
State Department aide under a promise of complete confiden'oe, and the aide
e?tld that he would get the information to Allen Dulles. Instead, however,
be aide put the whole thing in the form of a routine report'to his superiors,
d3 the entire information was cocmon information throughout the topside of
UN In New York in just about the time it took to Set 'it there. }+reN,s{_i;r
.ui:ie s eventually did get the story, but by that time it was too late, the fact that it had become general information destroyed the usefulness
it and tipped off. the Soviets, and the disclosure of the part that herig-