GOLDWATER SAYS CIA IS FINANCING SOCIALISM IN U.S.

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400170011-1
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: February 27, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 26-
3,arry Goldwater demanded to-
I day to know why the Central
.ntelligence Agency had been
financing "left-wing" organiza
Lions but not conservative
groups such as the Young Re-
( publicans,
The Republicans' Presidential
nominee in 1964, appearing on
the Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tem's television program 'Face
the Nation," said. the intelligence'
,agency had been supporting'
'~tiorman? Thomas, the Socialist)
leader; the American News.
paper Guild, and other groups!
that he described as "left
"Why didn't they spread this;
(money around?" he. asked. "In
se o ie m
ucnce o
.
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
He said it would'not have been;
politically possible to finance}
such work through the State;
Department, as some have sug-
gested,
because Senator Mc-
Carthy had "discredited" ' the
department with his charges of
Communist infiltration.
The late Senator and his
friends would have demanded
to know why "Communists"
ng Government money, Sena-
r Jackson said.
Senator Jackson said the in-
rivata a organizations had been
s necessary.
"It's fine to talk of free and
"but this is a bare-knuckled
operation, without kid gloves."
Robert Amory Jr., former
director of intelligence for the
agency, also appearing on
"Meet the Press," described the
present controversy. over the
agency's operation as "a tem-
pest in a teapot" and said it had
not impaired the agency's use=
fulness.
"I think it's too bad that this
Thad to blow," he said, "but I
don't think it's a totally disas-
trous incident
at all."
,
other words, what they have' He said there were other oper-
can see, ,is to finance Socialism!
in America: '
\Vants Work Done Openly
Senator Joseph S. Clark,
Democrat of Pennsylvania, un-;
wittingly replied to Mr. . Gold
water on another television pro.-.
[graan, the National Broadcast-:
Ing Company's "Meet the Press.",
Senator Clark, a critic of the
;intelligence agency's covert
spending, said he thought it was{
as bad for the Government tol
subsidize left-wing groups as tot
subsidize right-wing groups.
All covert support of private
organizations should be stopped
but he thought the press, if it
continued to "unravel" the loose
strands, would damage the na-
tional security of the United
States.
Elsewhere, the disclosures of
the agency's connections with
private groups continued to re-
verberate.-
Jacques Torezyner, president
of the Zionist Organization of
America, charged in a speech
at New York that intelligence
agency money was helping to
finance an anti-Israel campaign
among Arab students in the
United. States
.
He said the American Friends
of the Middle East, which has
i
been l
sted as receiving intelli-
gence money, was "the driving
force behind the subversive
Arab propaganda onslaught on
the campuses."
Mr. Torczyner said that half
of the 8,000 Arab students
studying at 100 American col-'
leges and universities were con-
ducting an anti-Israel cam-
paign, He said that many of
these students were allied with.
land the work done "on the to-~
ble," he said.
A nother .guest of "Meet the,
?ress", Senator Henry M. Jack=
son, Democrat of .Washington,
member of . the intelligence .
,g-ency subcommittee of the.
Senate Armed Forces Commit=
.tie, Ccfended the secrecy of thO
agency's spending.
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