FOUNDATION MYSTERIES IN THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300430003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 1, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW YORK HERALD TRIBU
Approved For; Release 2000/08/27 : CIA-RDP7
SEPTEMBER 1, 196i.
CPYRGHT
Fou'ndation'.
Mysteries
fin. the,'' CIA.
r .?
By Victor Wilson ,
Of The Herald Tribune -StS~'
WASHINGTON. ".d
Agency contributed money,
to, and presumably used a;l
New York City tax-exempt,"
foundation as a "front," itl,
by Rep.' Wright Patman, D:, h
Tex., because the spy agency;
once hurt his feelings, the;
usefulness of the J. M. Kap- i
Ian . Fund, Inc., apparently
was disclosed here yesterday.,'&
As. a result of the revelation
The fund' has assets of
around $15 millions, and was
created in 1946 by Jacob
Merrill Kaplan, of 53 E. 80th
St., to "strengthen democracy
at home and abroad through
a program of general assist-
ance to 'benevolent, charit-
able, educational, scientific
sand literary activities.
, ."
Mr. Kaplan, 71, is former
president'of the Welch Grape
Juice Co., and Hearn Depart-
ment Stores, Inc., ; of. New
York, a director of 'Freedom
House, and a trustee of the
New York,-;School for social
research. He has homes in
New York City and East
Hampton, L. I.
"How much the CIA poured
into the. Kaplan Ptind, and
how, and for what the money
was expended,. was hidden
behind a CIA tight-lipped
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t.ion could be - locate rd h 1 he money
into Ihe Ka
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ngetnent" existed since t ' Authors, of the volume, do ? ;?> The subcommittee probe of','
voted to CIA o
er
ti
p
a
ons, ' the New York fund began:.
939, and ended this
year, -Late yesterda R
t lear
Fat
h
ep.
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en i
ned the founds
At least one other case of, y`'
man, head of a House Small , flop had been under invests-
upposed CIA use of a "fund" Business subcommittee now''i.gation by the, New York-office
eco
d Thi
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nn the public
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s investigating,
of
oncerned the arrest in foundations for possible law -vice sincev' 1957. That
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f t
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A 7- F
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wo
orce
eterans , touring Russia., ~ doors with membets~ of his . oi13 j office recommended to
he
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ere
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aman group and unnamed repre r?Washington IRS headquarters
fv and Harvey n Bennett
0th of Bath, Me. Afterward, 'he issued a shoe ec>'?nption status bey revoked.
As related iii "The Invisible-. statement saying the sub ' At a subc+lmmittee'hearln9
Ouse best=seller, written by CIA aspect of t.hc Kaplan xevocation was asked because 1
avid Wi
e
d Th
m
s
an
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as B yFund, probe There siniply the fund ri'
Asa the pair putedly engaged
ere charged ? with spying.:: terest to the subcommitcc,iised Yunds to?"take' over
'r Kaminsky wa? sentenced
- I _
m
en went
the state
Russia. . ~,~?cu w ,u+ sue funs S 'ax'
om foundation investigation." ., , ""exemption', it was not known.
On arrival in New York by 'ii This, was quite ',a',ohang' ' ;whethc}' Washington IRS of
r, the pair denied spying, frmo several :hours'. 'earlier.'--ficfals knew of the CIA con.
it] laid they era veled to wh
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en
ep
told
ussia on grants of $2.000
porters ;that because the 0,.T4.-,IRS office didn't, according to