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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700040048-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 2005
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: August 31, 1964
• Content Type: PREL

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AUGUST 31, 196I1
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WAS HINGTON--REP. 1" RIGHT HT PATMAN, D-TEA., P SLICLY DISCLOSED TODAY
TEAT 'THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY tCIA: CONTRIBUTED MONEY TO A',
FoUNDA T ION UNDO?: I NVE.S T IGAT ION BY THE 0TE,NAL REVENUE :,SERVICE
IRS7.
PATMAN: TOLD A' HEAD WG OF A HOUSE SMALL- SUSINESS -SUBCOMMITTEE HE
HEADS THAT. HE WAS FPEM ING A "CONFIDENC,'r" BECAUSE' HEM FELT HE HAD BEEN
"TRIFLED WITH" BY TH!X CIA.
THE TEXAS DEMOCRAT SAID THE FOUNDATION' RECEIVING ,THE MONEY VAS ,?HZ
J. M. KAP..AN FUND OF NE'? YORK CITY. THE IRS HAS BEEN INVESTIGATING
I HE ,F.UND FOR SEVERAL YE:1RS TO DETERMINE w'H%THER IT SHOULD RETAIN ITS
TAX E'X MPT STATUS.: '
THE PATMAN SUBCOmP"iT' EE HAS BEEN LOOltV4G INTO THE TAX EXEMPT STATUS
OF- FOUNDATIONS' AND SOME FOUNDATI O ; y ARE TAKING : A r ;,1NTAGE O i I t
TUPI-77
ADD 1 CIA, WASHINGTON (UPI-72)
d PATMA'N'S DISCLOSURES PRODUCED SOME EMBARRASSMENT AMONG THE IRS
WITNESSES, ACTING COMMISSIONER BERTRAND M. HARDING AND'MATCHELL
ROGOVIN,:ASSISTANT TO THE COMMISSIONER.
THE TWO MEN REPEATEDLY TOLD'PATMAN THAT IT WOULD BE'BEST IF'THE
CHAIRMAN PUT HIS QUESTIONS TO CIA REPRESENTATIVES AND DID SO IN A
SESSION CLOSEDTO THE PUBLIC. ..
ON AUG. 10-ROGOVIN AND HARDING APPEARED BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE INS
;CONNECTION WITH THE KAPLAN'FUND. PATMAN HAD CHARGED THAT FINANCIER'-
J.M. KAPLAN HAD USED'THE FOUNDATION TO BUILD HIS BUSINESS EMPIRE.
AT ONE POINT DURING THAT SESSION, ROGOVIN, WHEN ASKED A QUESTION',
!WALKED TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE STAND AND SPOKE PRIVATELY WITH PATMAN.
THAT DISCUSSION, IT BECAME APPARNT TODAY,;SERVED TO INFORM PATMAN.OF''
CIA'S INVOLVEMENT WITH THE KAPLAN FUND.
UPI-79
TOUCHING ON "FOREIGN AFFAIRS" OUT INTO THE OPEN BUT THAT HE HAD NOT
BEENAABLE.,TO ;GET ALL THE-INFORMATION-HE HAD REQUESTED FROM CIA.
"I FEEL I HAVE BEEN TRIFLED WITH," HE SAID.
PATMAN. SAID'A CIA OFFICIAL HAD TOLD HIM THAT THE "ARANGEMENT" WITH
THE KAPLAN FUND HAD BEGUN,IN 1959 AND ENDED IN 1964. PATMAN SAID HE
ASKED THE OFFICIAL FOR THE MONTHS IN THOSE YEARS AND AND WHO WERE THE
CIA INDIDIVUDALS WHO SF1-FCTFD T117 W Di .Af runin
ADD 2 CIA, WASHINGTON
PATMAN SAID TODAY THAT HE HAD NOT PLANNED TO BRING A MATTER
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