UNTRUE , CIA SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600160105-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 105
• Publication Date: February 8, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

Sanitized - Approved For Rel s : CIA-R
1964
i:i:NO, NEVADA
GAZETTE
e. 21,829
Frone Ed Other
P,ge Pa a Page
Date: FE B 8 1964
Untrue, CIA Says
rd in the Gazette of Jan.
titled "Bow to the Image" as
sections are made that YJS
"with' old for several days iii "
information that President Ken
nedy's accused assassin was
Communist sympathizer" an
that the agency deleted picture.
of a rabbi from a film "t
avoid offending Arabs over,
seas."
Both these allegations are un
true.
The very first VOA referent
to Oswald on the day of his ca
wn e refers to him as follows :
elite say Oswald- a pr
'.;,tro Marxist who went to th
Sov:r t. Union in 1959 ~ denie
h iad anything to do with th
~.Fassination." Indeed, through
out the period you refer to fol
lowing Oswald's capture, con
tinued reference to Oswald's'p
litical and personal backgroun
?-c broadcast by us to the en
lire world. Attached herewit
are copies of the actual refer
ences of this type.
In connection with the in
cident of the alleged deletion o
film footage of a rabbi, I en
close an exchange of letters be
tween the acting head of USI
and the heads of nine nationa
Jewish religious and civic organ
izations which is self-explana
HERB McGUSHIN
Deputy Director
Office of Public Information
United States Information{
Agency,,
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