PROBE SHOWS CIA HAD N.Y. FUND 'FRONT'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600210044-8
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 1999
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: September 1, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000/08/27 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000600210044-8
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.
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SEP 1 1964
PATJV AN, chairman of a
House Small Business sub-
c:ornmittee now investi4atin(,
tax-exempt foundations for
possible law violations, m et
yesterday b e h i n d closed
doors with members of his
group and unnamed repre-
sertatives of the CIA.
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New York Herald Tribune Service committee tvas dr pnin,- amp
WASHINGTON, D.C. - CTA aspect of thr Kaplan
The C c n t r n I Intelligence Pond. prune. There simply
Agency,,, q1A)) contribttfed wasn't any connection of in-
money to 'ti 14uvr York City tcrest to the subcommittee,
tax csenAnt foundation and the statement said.
presumably used it as a This was in contrast to
"front," it was disclosed Pntrnan's statement several
Monday, hours earlier that the CIA
As a result of the revela- had "trifled with" hits and
tion by Rep. Wright Patm,m, he felt no nbliszation to con-
D-Tex., the usefulness of the real the fact that it had fun
J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc., to neled money into the Kap-
the CIA apparently has lan fund.
ended. TM' PROBE. of the Kap-
THE FUND has assets of lan Pund began when the
about $15 million and 1-as subcommittee learned t h e
created in 1946 by Jacob foundation had been under
Merrill Kaplan to "strcnf;; h- investigation by the New
en democracy at home and York n f f i c C of the In-
abroad through a program of ternal Revenue Service (IRS)
general assistance to hcnevo since 1957. In that year, and'
lent, charitable, educational, again in 1958, the New York:
scientific and literary activi- o f f i c e recommended to
ties ..." . Washington IRS headquar-!
Kaplan, 71, is former pres- tors revocation of the fund's;
idcnt of the Welch Grape tax-exeplr,l: status.
Juice Co. and Hearn Depart- At a subcommittee hear-I
ment Stores, Inc., of New ing Aug. 10, Putnam slid the
York, a director of Frecdnm revocation was asl