DRAMA ON 40TH FLOOR OF WALDORF

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200040006-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 4, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 3, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2009/02/04: CIA-RDP75-00149R000200040006-3
,Hvw `r to rai Dii lm s' weaned Roger Le ++~s Ytray t &n f ii
About .three months ago} a tr(11, atl t-
}etic m'an of'.rt o'irit `' A p+.islr(ul the
1-u rrca beside, the ,Mt t-acid-gold
double doors (,f sefte 4f1-11 of New
Yorks \ `aldorf Ast(-rfaTower. Wait-
ing for Itirli aside ,'meet Henry
(`rt1W 1, r I4it~f StotikiiQ1Jer of (Anieral
i)yn.L ales. Corp. :'and foitr otht'r
ntentliors,of CD's no\v.legc'ndai v ex-
ecutiit. c?ntrunittee.
Crown had set up tln? (?(44n411ittet?
to dr, ,ontc'thing about ,the fantastic
tctsscs that Cvneral T)vnaniles was
,uffc~rirrg in p~rvclucin n melcial
lr t pianos f(8157 . For
moat.. ~s, the _ irottin xttee had been
utaking day?.to day tr tittig d('ci-
sions and rcthumit%* b tiutnage-
ment. Nov., it wa' gettiolg around to
finding a replat'eira tit for. Frank
rites'
, Jr., chairman ali(I thief
, fr
rthvc!oic.e wba'was to,
S:D+c "got
'Flit' buf-r(er pusli(ir was lto
Lewis, executive vic(- Oresident
for
(l:nuIstr,jt in at. Rot Arrterfcan
World ,% ii ways utlcl a leading candi.
date to snccrecd Pacc. Meet 's how
Cross n, still occlt niris; the ,antic
sttite dt'criI>r?s this first nr(?eting
with the 111,441 who wa, to get the
fol).
"He sat in a chair in this room,"
Crown related, "and we told him wvi
l'4 C didn't want Tim to say arryl-n
at ell,, We didn't ask him if he
"interested, 'either, We wanted him to
chink. And we .vinitc-d to check lnityt:'.
At the time, I knew who he was, but.
STAT
J
had never ntet tdrn; and we wanted.
to be sure."
News leaks out. Crown says that
I was neucrineutioned the meetir(g,(;
even at Pan American where he sv is'
regard(xl as heir: apparent to Pres."
Juan T. Tripp , the founder. But the :
news. got out---Crown says Tr1 p ,
heard abouttit,from f'aoe hires( ifpe
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