MUNICH INSTITUTE FUNDED BY CIA, PAPER REVEALS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R001000090001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 16, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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Munich institute funded by CIA, paper reveals '
1?RANKFURT - The West German bourgeois newspaper, Frank-
furter Allegmeine Zeitung, said on Tuesday that the Institute for the
Study of the USSR in Munich is being financed from the same sources
as the Munich-based Radio Liberty and Radio Free Europe, both of
which were set up by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The Institute
was established in July, 1950, in Munich; its members are people who
left the USSR with the Nazi forces in World War II. The Institute puts
)ut "scholarly" studies on the USSR in Russian, German, English and
Turkish.
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Munich, Jan. 2 (Reciter)-The
Institute for the Study of the
USSR, a subsidiary of U.S. gov-
ernment-backed Radio Liberty,
closed this weekend following a
cutoff in funds by Congress, a
spokesman for Radio Liberty said
today.
The institute, founded 20 years
ago, had about 40 employes. A
large number of them were Rus-
'sian emigre scholars. Its pub-
lications included "Who's Who in
the Soviet- Union," an English
newsletter about Russia, numer-
ous publications in languages of
the third world and other re-
search material.
Had CIA Help
Its budget, estimated at $750,-
000 annually, was provided by the
Radio Liberty Committee in New
York. It was one of a group of
beneficiaries previously financed'
in secret by the Central Intelli-
gence Agency.
Radio Liberty, which broad-
casts news to the Soviet Union,
will not be directly affected, the
spokesman said.
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Rills Unit for
Soviet Study
Munich, Jan. 2 (Reuter)-The
Institute for the Study: of the
USSR, a subsidiary of U.S. gov-
ernment-backed Radio Liberty,
closed this weekend following a
cutoff in funds by Congress, a
spokesman for Radio Liberty said
The institute, founded 20 years
ago, had about 40 employes. A
large number of them were Rus-
sian emigre scholars. Its pub-
lications included "Who's Who in
the Soviet- Union," an English
newsletter about Russia, numer-
ous publications in languages of
the third world and other re-
search material.
Had CIA Help
Its budget, estimated at $750,-
000 annually, was provided by the
Radio Liberty Committee in New
York. It was one of a group of
beneficiaries previously financed'
in secret by the Central Intelli-
gence Agency.
Radio Liberty, which broad-
casts news to the Soviet Union,
will not be directly affected, the
spokesman said.
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