JOINT HISTORY SET ON U.S. AND SOVIET

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500210018-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2004
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: January 5, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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id Jll'1! nib] UKI 69r Con . ""C.
1UN U.S. AND SOY IE .. MIKg
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+`~laurois and Aragon Will Do
Parallel Books Marking
Trend to Coexistence
rt! TIII:Of)oRE S11ARAD
.\r,drti Maurols, the French
toriart and biographer, and
?:s Ar igon, France's leading
munlst writer, are eollab-
' :'rrg 'In a "uaralliei history"
ne united States and the So-
Union from 1917 to 1960.
The joint work, to be pull-
ill st vente'en countries in
Is, design(" I as a Major
rid trend of peaceful
tense, accorein Louis Aragon xenrnne
g to Grovr Andre \Iaurnig
I >, the United States pub., Irt a is enl triter to Allen 1h',
for the history. The two Dulles, director of the CentrAi
a 'rs have agreed to avoid Intelligence Agency, M. Maurols
Grove said. "It seems to me that this
ws of the work might, von- in its modest wa%
nra'ie public last month In In' create ate a climate of peace
rh and Soviet newspaperti? I'Y Showing
ontirrned Yesterday by.Profounpltb of th.~
between
I ney Ross` t, head of Grove the two civilizations they have
which is at 64 University 'ntuch in common ,
, are pursuifi
idenucat research and mightt
Maurols, who is a stanch ; well find a common ground of
%inerican, will write the'understanding."
1 "i1' of theFUnit d States and The idea for a Maurols-1
Aragon collaboration was con.
- Each of the two volumes seised by Cristobal de Acevedo,'
have ehntrt 400 Pages, Ecuadorian delegate to the
('Ind volume tentative thus United Nations Educational,
'"ItY +'sntain Interviews Sdentiffe and Cultural Or ani
!, i1r `t:':rrnents by Soviet zatton in Paris and a bibliophile
,united States leaden In who believes in the power of
.meat, economics, science books.-
The arts. Les Presses de la Cit6, a.
I'rror Approval glated Paris publisher, will put out the'
,Frepch edition. World rightsi
two authors have agreed
write independently but toll ----
t` a Parallel structure in have been acquIred by George
treatments. In addition,aWeidenfeld & Nicolson, Ltd., of
" is expected to approve the London, which in turn has made
of the other before pub- , '
arrangements with ether for-
'n. ~eirn publishers, Publication is
:'i,rrr general approach will planned more or less simultane-l
Paint panoramas of th 1ously in each country. I
' ? '?'I States and the Sovieti M. Aragon has promised that
n in three key yeaea--1917i~' Russian edition will be ,, ear of the Bolshevik Rev-,lashed. It would probably be the
n r, 1L 10 (the last p first non-Communist view of
Cr 'before the twoeoue_irecent United Staten history to
rr "l`14! world War II) an+1 ppear in the Soviet Union.
'?r" \'e.u World
?ted to (nark M. Maurols, 74 years old, Is
!urn in wurI.I affairs). a member of the Academic
"n. who appears to Franr aise, lie has written biog.
ruis'd ttw rollabo_ "P11'" of Disraeli and Proust,
f n'it t aulftorides in M. others.
!,pier t will go to the So- M. Aragon, 62? is It novelist,
pion this ygar to collect Poet and essayist. In the Twen-
r'.:'; .rl He expects Premier ties he was a leader of the Da-
I~'t t hchev to write a preface p?iR,1ea ment, which later in
. t"r 're Soviet history. as succeeded by our.
url:rrly, M Maurols Is ex- r' lis,tr.
rn rnue in the Unil:,1
,iii: \..ri r
:r,.. ~ 1?r_r nV- t, Ina\' b!.
I. tI' ( it,c?c the history of
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 By RAROLD KENNEDY
41lizator Stall SYrj ,.
'Caribbean was named by the Tam-
-1%ilgus organized?rhe Coif6renc6?-
in 1951, soon after he accepted
the post of Director of the Sell-
001 For Latin American Studies.
This was near the time CIA
b
egan Subsidizing private
organi- zations but McAllister, who sue-
~" ., W4 of the ~ name the Center for Latin?Amer-
~'` OF professor, who is direc- Pan American Foundation,
foundation
for of a rotes or listed as CIA foundation was listed b The lean Studies in 10G3, feels there,
supported, also directs the an- York Times on by the New is no connection between the Col.-
of several g Feb. 19 as one ference and the CIA.
Waal UF-sponsored Conference on groups financed by' the
tae Caribbean the Alligator lear-' Central Intelligence Agency. The The Foundation, which was ip {
Wed Tuesday. Times corporated in rater bye "group
a But University of- dation wasclaimed tat the UF. of leaders in iter-Amri.Latin
'vials deny any CIA affi,iation located at the UF
wit? either UF group. School officials denied the UF Aairs from the mon and, Latin
Dr
. A. Curtis Wilgus, was connected with the Founda- s travel lists among its activi-
sear UF re- tion at all. Thd 'foundation head-ties travel, and research,
professor of history and, quarters were
located in the
director of the Conference on the Gainesville Securit Building bare Inter-American
imprint of tile Studies" UF which
Gabl i moved to Coral
-
es, said Dr. Lyle ool of Latin American Studies un-
.i director of the Center Mcfor L Al stein.. t" 1963, when the school became
4 American Studies Tuesday the center and McAllister sac-
g~s was ~~ , Wil
operating as a private_ ceded Wilgus.
Individual" as director That year, the journal moved
Foundation, he added, and not tas its offices to Coral Gables and
an official of the university, the University of Miami. It is'
Wilgus is also director of they . still published in Gainesville. For
;.`Conference on the Caribbean a while the'
a.
annual journal was circula-
conference which discuss' . ted by the foundation without char-
and Political social,. educational, ge,
economic problems in the The journal is highly respec
Caribbean area. Representatives table in academic circles, said
from all over the United States ?~McAllister$ who thought it might
and many Latin American
l tries attend annually. Nearly coup 400 e n wedited now because of the
I People attended the 1065 confer-, ,t tie-Iin with CIA.
ante,
Until 1065 the conference was President of Academic Af-
~? financed b li
Y su h- ~ ~ fairs 'R
c private organi- , . "him ? art Mautz agreed with
I zations as' the Unit
d
t
1 - --'`'"???? was in payingspea- day, accor his secretary., ?
tars
e
thought to r'xpenses,n r,.. The money was din
and would not be back until m-'.-:- yI
r.._ .
..r11z's contingent r- ??L- -- - --louse reported that '
Each s Y fund. he was enroute for here from.
New
speaker for the conference .} ' York
via Wa
s
h
'
,
s
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expert ington.
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in one aspect of the
Political. snetrl
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Pan y and Fruit Com. a
s the trouble with CIA
Alcoa, mane
Since .then, accordini fn Td.. A , y'r, he said, "Something
which
/bean. -'Vi1Ler1 or tho Carib - --- reportedly been 'plan
area. Man - 'ning to r i
e
s gn from OF for over
.Y. 01 cans have Worked in the Ameri- i
State and a Year.. Once source reports be.
?De.ense Depart intondR to .
graphical sketch?s~? ~111 to vie- 0
In the UF's
ational Services.
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