CIANTICS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700660004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 14, 1967
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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I! ;; O we us ds Or treat ? " Take this one among $11,000 Ior just one year's travel expenses on labors
con-e late Fifties a CIA undercover
ncctcd with the Center and the associated Parvin Founda-
agent named Sacha Volman gets together with Everyone s tion
of both of which he was a director.) But there was..*:.,
,
Favorite Socialist, Norman Thomas, as eloquent an orator also a regular faculty, on which the best-known name was
as you can find in a month of Sundays on Morality, Con-
science, the End Never Justifying the Means and that that of the noted Freedom Fighter, Juan `Bosch-yes, the
same Juan Bosch. The incidental detail that in Senor
sort of tick. Volman is a Marxistical ex=Rumanian, once . Bosch's conception the main enemy in the Freedom Fight
assigned to Radio Free Europe. Seems CIA- happens to be the United States was naturally not men-
has agreat idea for saving Latin America from il:oscow tinned in the friendly atmosphere. After all, the CIA as a
by revolutionizing it before the Communists can. So he god American organization is all-out for free speech, what?;
o:Eers Mr. Thomas the chairmanship of an "Institute of g So, carried over an awkward period of his career by .
international Labor Research," which is to found a politi- regular checks from you-know-who, and profiting by what .
cal school for training Latin Americans in the latest he had learned as well as taught in that invigorating in-:
wrinkles of non-Communist leftism. Mr. Thomas, never. tellectual environment, Juan Bosch was ready to take
a man to look a chairmanship in.the mouth, enthusiastically his stand when the Dominican crisis arrived. How proud
climbs aboard.
CIA must be of'-,the, performance of its pensioners) No
This sort of thing takes a bit of dough, natch. Lo and
one can charge
behold, cash gushed instanter at the tap of Volman's rod, that CIA corrupts people into becoming
even the least bit pro-American 1
The J. M. Kaplan Fund couldn't have been more pleased Came the blowup,.'and what was Mr. Thomas, now on
than to cough up a million or two Yankee dollars for so public exhibition as a CIA patsy, to say then, poor thing?
philanthropic an enterprise. A school, linked to umpteen Either he knew what it Was all about and is a hypocritical
Icft-wing Latin American, political parties, began in Costa truth-twister like the rest.. of the boys, or he didn't and
Rica. This setup running into a bit of trouble, it was
transferred to the Dominican Republic and re-christened
"Inter-American Center of Economic and Social Studies."
There was a publishing auxiliary in Mexico City, a film
production outfit, the works..;
A good many lucky 'people'.fron- this country-con-
,
gressmen, educators, intellectuals-showed up to instruct : complex last year. "We still had a little money," a little
the assembled scholars and spend'. a few days in the sur- of dat li'l ole CIA mazoola, Foxy Grandpa Thomas con-
cluded, "so we used it to publish a strong attack on the
-I? merican government's intervention in thc?.Dominican Re-
public." ("Strong" is something of an understatement,
you will learn from reading Dominican Republic-A Study
an Bosch,
in the New Imperialism, by Theodore Drapcr, Y*'
Jose Figueres, Robert J. Alexander and , Norman':Thomas.
A CIA Classic.) ''The CIA didn't'get very much for that
money "p 4 .
Not much, perhaps, Brother Thomas,) but just about
is a booby.
"I am not ashamed," affirmed Mr. Thomas, who is not
recorded as ever having been,'.to a telephone interviewer.
"We' were teaching people ho~v, to run a country." Yes
indeedy: Sacha Volman, Juan Bosch and I.'
as it must' to all fronts, to this Institute.
Death came
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