RFE SUPPORT IS URGED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700400013-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 3, 2005
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: October 26, 1953
• Content Type: NSPR

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rday' that this c o u n t r y the president of the Free Z.
intends to support the exten- rope Committee, Inc:;, JohnI
sion of freedom to Eastern Richard. Jr
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Europe "by all the peaceful Radio Free Europe, Mr.J
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s. Kennedy said, provides East-I
He made the remarks in a ern Europe with the kind of i
1 statement appealing to citi- national radio service the in-j
?zens to contribute generously habitants would have if they'
to Radio Free Europe. were free to make their own
Mr. Kennedy also enter-;choice. RFE, he said, attempts)
'tained 67 representatives ofjo -overcome the Imbalance!
the Radio Free Europe Fund, (between a free world with no;
mostly executives of big busi-{fear of engaging in a battle of.
ness, at a White House lunch-. ideas and a Communist world
eon. The guests also Included largely closed to informalion.
the president of the Fund, and Western thought.
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