ANTI-RFE CZECH BROCHURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700390034-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2005
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: October 4, 1965
• Content Type: MEMO

pprove Fur: Release. 2005/01/27: CIA-RDP75-00149B 70p390. g
Free, Europe Committee, Inc.
MEMORANDUM
Date: October 4, 1965
To: Mr. Richard C. RoWson
From: Jan Stransky,1:
Reference:
OCT - 7'65
Pras1 jt' Otfiea
Subject: Anti-RFE` Czech brochure,.
The title of the brochure reads 'Sybil's Forecasts are False".'.
It was published by the Army Publishing House "Nase Vojsko." in 1965.
The author, Karel A. Krejci, is a comparatively unknown journalist.
Unlike the "October" articleSof June 1965 which recognized
the FEC 'as a formidable adversary, this brochure simply attempts to
ridicule and to slander RFE and its Czechoslovak staffinembers.. RFE
1.s depicted as a cold war creation, sponsored and maintained by US
guthorities -- a "gray" operation which, primarily, serves the pur-
poses of US intelligence'. To prove this point.-the author uses out
of context numerous quotes by US personalities -- e.g. John Foster
and Allan Dulles, Presidents Truman and Eisenhower, General Clay,
Senator Kersten, etc. -- as well as such "documentary" material as
papers, allegedly found on the persons of spies and agents dispatched
into Czechoslovakia by RFE. One of the chapters concentrates do
personal attacks upon members of the Czechoslovak BD in Munich who
are accused of all kinds of moral turpitudes and depravities. The
"dolce vita" pictures are meant to confirm the image-of RFE as a den
of depravity -- yet hardly any RFE staffmembers appear in these .
pictures, taken during the Munich "Fasching" period.
Information contained in the text is considerably outdated
leaflets of the Crusade for Freedom, reproduced in the brochure,
have not been used for many years; scandal-mongering rumors con-
cerning RFE staffmembers are but a rehash of statements made in the
mid-fifties by some redefectors; data on positions, held by some
individuals, are quite obsolete. Thus the-text-gives the impression
that it has-been prepared several years ago, and that. only now the
authorities decided to publish the,broclure.
JS: sk