RADIO FREE EUROPE'S COST

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• Publication Date: February 18, 1971
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LONG BEACH, CAL.
INDEPENDENT .
M - 49,632
FED18i
tries a fide job of getting the truth
,to the people of the. Soviet-donlinat-
countries of Eastern-Europe.
one bit of truth it doesn't tell.
~l erll, however, is that it. is fill, .nced
::by the U.S. govevnment. Radio Free.
.2:u.rope has ,lNvays insisted it is pri.-
iyately financed; and it stages &aho-
uietc fund-raising campaigns in the
iJni.ted States.
A`Iladi? Free Europe undoubtedly
rinds to operate Radio Free Europe
BUT WHEN Sen. Clifford P.
ase,' 11-N.J., complained that the
4.4-,A iiC uulthOut Sj C1f1C Coli-
g lion 1 autl of?izaiio.~, Radio Free
re.-
Europe's reply was silence. The
t has been published before by
newsmen. If it were not
-
w-true, Iladio Free: Europe would sure
ly not refuse to comment on it.
Case proposes that Congress ap
;i'ropriate $30 million for this year's
zpperation of Radio Free Europe and
come mostly from the Central Intel-
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its comllpaniotl orgi..Ilizatiou, ~vac1.`l
Liberty, which broadcasts to the So- ;
viet. Union: 'I'llat amount matches the
money Case said the operations cost"
last year.
RADIO FItl. ploa .
for public support. -=- which report-
edly cost $12 million to $20 million
in free media time and space last
year ---- apparently brought in les:y
than. $100,00 0; Case said.
We' see no reason the United:
States should be ash anted to fine lice
a broadcast system that gets undis-
torted news to the Soviet Union and
the Communist captive nations of
Poland, Czechoslovakia,. Hungary,
Bulgaria and , Rtionlania. We agree
with Senator Case that, for the
sake of the reputation of Radio Free
Europe and of the United States 'it
self, financing for the operation
should be open and public.
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it ought to sue for peace, In fact, if the e
South VletQalnesc reverses Coi2tinue, Ila- record of all Committe (subCO11111 'tee) PC- Committee) or any report of the proceedings
It rd
tion' Stich records shall contain the veto , of such an executive hearing shall be made
1101 may well end up hate jig ` they are cast by each member of the Committee (sub- public, either in whole or 1n part or by way
pluck closer. to a military ViC~lh'y than committee) on any _question which a "yea of summary, unless authorized by a.major-
(sub-
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s of the comm
they themselves had thought. In any and nay" vote is demanded. ity of the Member
rnlttee, or his as- : conhnhittee) ? public or
case, nothing about this operation Would The Clerk of the Cocn 'to a P
SeClll to serve the cause of a negotiated sistalht, shall act :ts'recording secretary of g. Any
executive Bearing ng may summoned to STATI NT
accorrpatiied by
SettlemePub and final peace. all proceedings before the Committee sub-
Plainly we should now be on a Very committee). counsel of his own choosing who shall be
Rule 7. The Coilunittee (subcommittee) permitted while the witness is testifying to ex- diffeling course We trying d not be shall so far as practicable, require all wit- advise him of his legal rights,
panding the war, but trying to find ways ays noses heard before It, to file written state- Rule 15. Subject to statutory requirements.
to deescalate it. We should not be taking insists of their proposed testimony at least Imposed on the Committee with respect toSTATI NTL
actions in Indochina which seem to as- seventy-two hours before a hearing and to procedure, the rules of the Co11111"ittee may
sure our further and deeper entangle- limit their oral presentation to brief sum- be changed, modified, amended or suspended
Thn nresidinS + nnv time. provided, howevef, that not less
a date on which to end our involvement'
We should not be seeking a military solu-
tion in southern Laos; we should be seek-
ing a political solution in Paris to end the
war in Vietnam.
ADOPTION OF RULES PY CO\r1TiIT-
TEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC
WELFARE
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Rule P. No subcommittee may sche
e a important ini iative
organizational meeting on February 10, i
a to and the Nation certain facts
or hearing at a time designated for
n Labor and Public
tin
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the Con uu
the
19i 1, .Welfare readopted its existing rules goV- a hearing or meeting of the full Committee. Concerning the funding and operation of -
erliing the committee's procedures. Rule. 10. It shall be the duty of the Chair-)e. Senator I Send a Copy Of the Colllnhittec'S Miles Senate, anY omeasuretor reCOri reported
ap- ativve has atttracted
to the desk and ask unanimous consent cons adorable' atten-
.that .they as re- proved by the Corunittee and to take or cause tion in the press. I ask ui2an;.mous con-
s they by be seotioil printed 133B t in of h? the Lcdative to be taken, necessary steps to bring the mat- sent that a selection of press articles on
ter to a vote. this subject be printed in the RECORD.
Reorganization Act of 1946, as amended. Rule 11. No person other than members of There being no objection, the articles.
The committee will meet again Shortly the Committee (subcommittee) and members were ordered to be printed in the R.E
to consider amendments to these rules of the staff of- the Committee, shall be per- eIIrder
and any amenCrr,ients then adopted will milted to attend the Executive session, Of as s:
Prom the'Philadclphia I;ulietin, Jan. 2i,
also be submitted for publication, in the the Committee (subcommittee), except by [ 1phl
special dispensation of the Committee, (sub- 11
R There ' committee) or the Chairman thereof. RADSO Firs EuaOI'E GETS SECRET AID FRO:S
12Cre Being rintedi0h2, the CORD, Rule 12. The Chairman of the Committee CIA, CASE SATs; AsKCs CONr00L -
were ordered to be printed in the RECORD, (subcommittee) shall be empowered to ad- (By Linda J. IIeliner)
as follows: journ any meeting of the Committee (sub- ViASI1x acroN. -Sen. Clifford P. Case (R-NJ)
RULES AND PROCI;)URES OF TITE. SENATE committee) if a quorum is not present with- charging that millions of dollars se Central
CODI3iI'r'rEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE in fifteen minutes of the time scheduled for Intelligence Agency funds is used to operate
Rule 1. Unless the Senate is meeting at such meeting. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, is
the time, or it . is otherwise ordered, and Rule 13. 'Whenever a bill or joint resolu urgteg Congress to control the fuh~die of the
notice given, the Committee shall meet re u_ tion repealing or amending any statute or two stations.
larly at 10:30 a.m. on the second and fourth part thereof shall be before the Committee Case said he plans to introduce legislation
Thursday of each mouth, The Chairman may, (subcommittee) fort final consideration, the tomorrow calling for the two propaganda.
si bcon hmi tt e) a print of the stations to be operated "under the authoriza-
upon proper notice,, call such additional CClerk shall ommittee place
riheetin;s ^s he may deem necessary. ( tion and appropriation process of Congress."
Rule 2: The CiiaLman of the Committee statute or the part or section thereof to be
(subcommittee), or If' the Chairman Is r_ot amended or repealed shouting by stricken- "During the last 20 years," Case said in a
present, the ranking 'Majority member pros- through type, the part or parts to be omitted, statement yesterday, "several hundred mil-
ent shall preside at all meetings. and in .italics, the platter proposed to be lion dollars In U.S. Government funds have
Rule 3. All hearings conducted by the Com- added. been expended from secret CIA budgets to
mittee (subconinxittee) shall be open to the Rule 14. Investlgatlon Procedures pay almost totally for the costs of these two
1.Ex ? a. An Investigating committee (subcotn- radio stations broadcasting to Eastern
: mittee) may be authorized only by the action Europe.
public ecutiv e sessions for the consideration
of bills o or r resolutions, o or of a majority of the committee. ' "in the last fiscal year alone, over $30 11111-
2. For voting, or b. No Investigating committee (subcom- lion was provided by the CIA as a direct ...
thorized to hold a hearing to government subsidy, yet at no time was Con-
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3. Where the Committee (subconuilitteei?y majority vote of those present orders an hear subpoenaed witnesses or taker sworn grass asked or permitted to carry out its tra-
,Executive session. testimony unless a majority of the 'Members ditional constitutional role of approving the
Rule.4. For the purpose of conducting tat of the committee or subcommittee are Ares- expenditure."
Executive session, , majority of the Commit- cut: Provided, however, that the committee most COSTS LINKED TO CIA
tee (subconttntttee) actually present shall may authorize' the presence of a Majority Case said that although Radio Free Europe '
Constitute a quorum.'No measure or recom- and a Minority Member to constitute a and Radio Liberty both claim to be non=
mendation shall be reported from the Corn- - quorum. governmental organioations sponsored by
mitten (subcom ittee) unless a quorum of C. An investigating committee (subcom- private contributions, high sources indicate.
ct CIA subsidies rib tion hi pay nearly all their
the Committee (subconnnittee) is actually nhittec) may not delegate its authority to that ciirc
present at the time pinch action is taken. issue subpoenas except by a? vote of the costs
Votes b +os shall be pertrlltted, committee (subcommittee)
Rule b For the purpose of conducting pub- d. No hearing shall be initiated unless the According to Internal Revenue Service re-
lic hearings (including the taking of sworn investigatin committee (subcommittee) has turns, he said, the combined operating cost
testimony) a quorum shall be cletermiued specifically authorized such hearing.., of the tv,o stations for fiscal 1909 was almost
of an investigating c0aunit_ $34 n1'.ilien--21.1 million for Radio ee
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as follows: , e.
. (a) For the full ComniIytee--five members tee (subcommittee) shall b scheduled out- Europe and $12.8 million for radio Li
actually firesent, side of the District of Colanibia. except by . Although Radio Free Europe co}hducts a
subee n nitteo- the majority vote of the committed (sub- fund-raising campaign each year, Case'said,
(b) For seven-ii
three members actually pre'Sent. - corninittee). he has been informed that only about $12
(c) For five-nsanibcr su..conlmittc~ -trio f. No confideni.lal teslinrony'taken or con- to $ 0 million in free advertising spptca is do-
M0111Iens actually present. , ' ' ? fidential material presented in an executive hated, less than $100,000 Is contributed by
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officer at any neari,ig is auov,.,c.. "'-'- due
the time of each witness appearing learing before so determine at a regular meeting with the Committee (subcomuittee). notice, or at a meeting specifically called for
The Corunrittc3 (subconinhittee) shall, as that purpose. - -
far as practicable, utilize testimony previous
ly taken on bills and measures similar t
those before it for consideration. PRESS REACTION TO S,ATOR
Rule 8. Should a subcommittee fail to r C CASE'S RADIO FREE EUROPE INI-
port back to the full Committee on any meas- TIATIVE
ure within a reasonable time, the Chairman
play withdraw the measure from such Sub- Mr. JAVITS. Mr. President, recently
committee and report that fact to the full Illy Close colleague, the Senior Senator
took all
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I say that the Senator from Michigan could not be more ivrong than in the iu-
terpret.ation in the statonlent which he
has made., -
We recognize the fact that the Presi-
dent is trying to withdraw, that he has
mrtide considerable progress in that re-
spect, and we anticipate without ques-
tion that, in keeping with his word, by
the first of May there will be left in Viet-
nani a total of 284,000 American person-
nel, compared to the almost 550,000 who
were there when he took oiTice.
It is too bad that, in our scheme of
things, when one party or the other takes
a stand on a particular issue such as
this, the cry of politics is raised. May I
assure the distinguished acting' minority
leader that. nothing vas further from
the thoughts of the Senator from Mon-
tana, the majority leader, or the mei11-
hers 6f the policy committee or, in my
judgment, the members of -the confer-
ence. .1
There is a distinct difference of opin-
ion but what we were trying to do was
to be constructive. What we want to
do is to help the President. We know
that his burdens are heavy. We know
that he has the ultimate responsibility,
but, by the saute token, we know that
as individual Senators we have a respon-
sibility, and as a party and as a Senate
we have responsibilities as well.
? There was no thought, I repeat, of
politics in taking, this action, but I am
not surprised that the cry has been
raised. That appears to be inevitable no
hatter what is attem.ptecl. The cry of
' politics,_ if it does not meet with the ap-
proval of the other side, is raised im-
-lnediately.
i thin',: I can say without fear of con-
tradiction that I have been one of the
least partisan Senators and one of the
least partisan majority leaders that this
body has ever seen. Moreover, I - would
point out that in the final resolving
clause, the majority resolution states:
That in, pursuit of these objectives--
That means all of them-
the committee 'urges full support wherever
possible by both Senate Democrats and Re-
publicans of the Initiatives of the Presi-
dent, the Senate Committees and Members,
and the House, wlhtcti may be pertinent to
these ends.
So I want the record clear. I want
it clearly understood that we are coil-
corned, that we understand the concern
of the 'President and our colleagues
across the aisle, and that as far as the
.charge of politics is concerned, there is
absolutely-absolutely-no foundation
for such all allegation or charge what-
soever. The record should be clear.
Mr. GRID P'IN. D,Ir. president, I ap-
preciate the statement made by the dis-
tin,uished Majority leader. Ile is the
fairest and most nonpartisan majority
leader that the Senate has ever had, so
far as the junior Senator from Michigan
knows, and I commend him upon the
statement lie has just made. Perhaps it
will be helpful as the American people
and the press seek to interpret the action
taken at the Democratic caucus yester-
day, and the motives behind it.
APPOIil'1,'i`.:IENTS BY, Till'.: VICE.
PRESIDENT
The PRESIDENT pro tenhpore. The
Chair, on behalf of the Vice President,
in accordance with Public Law 90-264,
appoints the Senator from Missouri (Mr.
EAGLETON) to' the National Visitor Fa-
cilities Advisory Commission.
The Chair, on behalf of the Vice Presi-
dent, in accordance with Public Law 81-
372, appoints the Senator from Illinois
(Mr. STEVENSON) to the Franklin Delano
Rooscl;clt Memorial Commission.
The Chair, on behalf of the Vice Presi-
dent, in accordance with Public Law 83-
420, appoints the Senator from MiIh-
nesot.a (Mr. IIu ..i>1.11LY) to the Board of
Directors of Gallaudet College.
The Chair, on behalf of the Vice Presi-
dent, in accordance with Public Law 79-
565, appojnts the Senator from Texas
(Mr. BENTSEN) to the U.S. National Com-
mission for the United Nations Educa-
tional, Scientific, and Cultural Orga-
nization.
The Chair, on behalf of the Vice Presi-
dent, in accordance with Public Law 84-
944, appoints the Senator from Georgia
(Mr. Gn aaR ? 1,) to the Senate Office
Building Co:uinission.
- The -Chair, on behalf of the Vice Presi-
dent, in accordance with Public Law 86-
380, appoin s the following Senators to
the Advisory Commission on Interov-
ernmental Relations: (Mr. ERVIN, blr.
Musiers,-al1Cl IvIr. Mi.UNIST,
The Chair, on behalf of tike Vice Presi-
dent, in accordance v: ith Public Law 90-
259, appoints the follow ill.- Senators to
be advisory members to the National
Cotnnlis#ion on Fire Prevention anti Con-
trol: R-_rr. M'.G.iusoN and 7\$r. BooGs.
The PRESIDENT pro iempore. Under
a previous order, the Senator from.
Iowa (i;tr. Huck s) is recognized for 15
minutes.
HIDDEN CIA FINANCING
Mr. HUGHES. her. President, every
clay we seem to discover more examples
of the misuse of Government funds.
Senator Cass has now performed a
valuable- public service by drawing at-
tentioii to secret financing of Radio Free
Europe and Radio Liberty by the Central
Intelligence, A-ency..
Since such covert funding weakens the
effectiveness of these organizations, I
agree that no further financing should
come from the CIA.
These points have been well expressed
in an editorial from the Des Moines
Register of February 3. I ask unanimous
consent that this editorial be printed in
the RECORD.
There being no objection, the editorial
was ordered to be printed-in the Ra_coRD,
as follows:
HIDDEN CIA F1N:1NCtNG
Senator Cli Tord P. Case (Rep., N.J.) says
that Radio Frce Europe and Radio Liberty
got from the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) morn than $30 million of the mil-
lion they spent in 10,33. IIi 20 years, Case says,
the U.S. government has given these broad-
edge.
Case isn't necessarily for cutting off gov
ernment support, but he does v; ant it br ought
Into the open where it can be ciebatecl on a-,STATI NT
merits. It is time.
Radio Liberty broadcasts to the Soviet
Union in a number of. Soviet languages. Ra-
dio Frce Europe broatcasts to the other Past
European Communist states, in their lan-
guages. Both use anti-Communist exiles from
the target countries for stair, and broadcast
news, culture and political points of view.
Both were founded'by American citizens,
and Americans have been prominent in their
top management and fund-raising. The two
broadcasting systems pose as being privately
supported, but their spending is way out of
proportion to their private fund-raising.
' It has been widely suspected for years that
they depended heavily on CIA mcuey and
that perhaps they were CIA operations from
the ground up. But it wasn't polite to S,^.y so.
Didn't Radio Liberty have Herbert Hoover,
Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower for
honorary chairmen? Radio Free Europe's
American fund-raising chairmen began with
Lucius D. Clay and Henry 'Ford II, and the
drive von endorsement of successive Presi-
dents and govcr'lors.
There was criticism of `Radio Free Europe
at the time of the Hungarian revolt of 1936,
for fear its "freedom" talk lured Hungarians
Into fighting and dying. Other exile radios -
did call fo'r armed revolt (perhaps also with
CIA money), but Radio Free Europe was too
big and too established for that.
In 196'T the CIA was caught subsidizing
the private National ?Stude3it Association so
it could go to International meetings and
stand uli to Connnnunist-subsidized student
organizations. A now group of student lead-
ers denounced the arrangement, and the gev-'
ernnent'anno'uiced that thereafter it v.ould
not provide secret funds, directly or indirect-
ly, to "educational or private volunteer.orga-
nizations."
Asked Senator Case- In 1971: Doesn't that -
rule apply to radio Free Europe and Radio .
Liberty?
The government diet 'not directly dcuy
or confirm Case's figures on their funds or
answer directly his question. But it did say
that Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
"are. not educational or private voluntary
organizations" and that it Intends to con-
tinue finallciugthem--if it Is financing there,
What it is.
Dean Rusk when he was secretary of state
used to call covert operations "dirty tricks"
and once facetiously decribed the CIA as
"Department of Dirty Tricks." But lie eunpha-
si zed that only a, sma ll part of its work con-
sisted of covert operations. (as distinguished
from fact= idling) and that not all these
operations were "dirty."
Radio Free Europe and Radio Ltherty are
not "dirty." While their fund-raising has
been mostly covert, their activities have been
broadcast for anyone to hear. ?
The argument for having them In addl-
tiorn to o? racial Voice of America broadcasts
was that, being private, they could be harder-
hitting. Using exiles as writers and broad-
casters, they could say "We Russians," "We
Poles," "We Ukrainians" instead of "We the
United States." This had some real value.
But the phony financing has gone on long
enough. It never really fooled the Commu-
nist governments, and we doubt if it fooled
.many American congressmen. As Case- says,
It ought to be public knowledge.
ORDER OF BUSINESS
The PR:SIDFNT pro tenlporp. Under
the order entered yesterday, th'J,distill-
guished senator from Virginia (Mr.
Si'oeiG) is recognized for 15 minutes.
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PRAGUE (AP) - Fred H. Ei-
V dlin, an American serving a
four-year prison term on
charges of subversion, was tak-
en from his cell by two plain-
clothesmen today and put on a
Hungarian airliner for Amster-
dam.
The U.S. Embassy in Prague
said he had a reservation to con-
tinue to New York later, today.
Eidlin, 28, of Rochester, N.Y.,
.had been in prison since July. A
Pr=ague court -convicted him
Dec. 18, ruling that his employ-
ment in 1968-69 by Radio Free
Europe in West Germany was a
subversive act against Czecho-
Slovakia.
A dented and rusted prison authorities agreed Friday to and Afterward the
car, a Russian Volga, brought anneal that lie he expelled im-f was surmised
plane 10 minutes before takeoff.
Kent Brown, a U.S. consul as-
signed to accompany Eidlin to
Amsterdam, and two dozen oth-
er passengers already were
aboard the airliner when Eidlin
arrived. Brown met Eidlin at the)
top of the ramp and helped car-
ry his suitcase into the plane.
The young inan appeared to be
wearing the same blue blazer he
wore at his trial and had no
topcoat.
Eidlin's sentence called for ex-
pulsion after Eidlin served four,
years, but his lawyer here said!
mediately.
An embassy representative
visited Eidlin every few weeks
during his stay in Prague's Ru-
zyne Prison, and two U.S. diplo-
mats were at his one-day trial.
embassy said it
his sentence was
so severe but did not comment
further because of the pending
appeal.
Eidlin is a student of East
European affairs at Toronto Uni-
versity.
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Soviets 'gain S Y
The Soviet Union last week
renewed complaints that the
United States has usurped a
long-wave radio frequency
that had been reserved for
Radio Moscow.
The issue, which was raised
with American diplomats In
Moscow and 'popped up' at
least twice during the week in
the Soviet press, was seen by
officials here as part of a cam-
paign to deprive Radio Free
Europe and Radio Liberty of
their headquarters in West
Germany.
Radio Moscow, in an Eng-
lish language broadcast
beamed to North America
said: 'The Soviet Foreign Min-
istry ' has again called the
United States' attention to the
illegal use of the 173-kilocycle
frequency by the Voice of
America transmitter in Mu-
nich ... The Soviet Union .. .
has protested about these ille-
gal actions." Tass, meanwhile,
said that VOA was using the
ously financed by American
intelligence."
VOA officials noted that the
Russian campaign against U.S.
use of long-wave frequency
173 had ?been quiescent for.
some time but was revived
after Sen. Clifford P. Case (R-
N.J.) introduced a bill to put
congressional controls on
Radio Free Europe and Radio
Liberty. Case charged that
these operations were secretly
financed over the last 20 years
with "several hundred million
dollars in U.S. government
funds."
U.S. officials also linked the
Soviet campaign against the
American broadcasting organi=
zations to the recently signed
Bonn-Moscow treaty. They be-
lieve Moscow is trying to use
West German desire for de-
tente in Europe as a means to
squeeze these organizations
out of a base.
frequency "in flagrant disre-
gard for accepted interna-
tional norms."
The VO-A resumed use of
frequency 173 in mid-1969 in
an effort to counter Soviet
jamming of voice broadcasts.
The frequency had been allo-1
cated to Radio Moscow by the',
1948 Copenhagen Convention. 1,
VOA 'is a government-run-
operation entirely separate
from Radio Free Europe and,
Radio Liberty. But Tass went
on to draw RFE and Radio
Liberty into its dispatch on
what it called the illegal use
of frequency 173. Tass de-
scribed RFE and Radio Lib-
erty as "so-called `private
radio stations' which are in
fact, and the Americans them-
selves have admitted this,
branches of the CIA, gener-1
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GRAND RAPIDS, DITCH.
PRESS FEB 2 1 19 i
133,419
133,539
Reports that U.S. aircraft mis-
takenly bombed a Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in
northern Laos are likely to revive
congressional demands for a more
thorough accounting of the CIA's
activities and spending.
Theoretically the CIA is an in-
telligence gathering and coordinat-
ingbody, but there have been dis-
Curbing signs that the super-secret
agency determines foreign policy
rather than merely assists with its
formation.
Recently, Sen. Clifford Case
charged that Radio Free Europe
and Radio Liberty are financed by
the CIA, and that they cost tax-
payers more than $30 million an-
nually.
This has been going on for more
than 20 years, says Case, without
the same authorization and appro-
priation process with which Con-
gress controls budge :ts of other fed-
eral agencies.
Case says he doesn't want to end
operation of the stations or even
the government subsidy; he just
wants to bring into the open the
cost of the operation, and he feels
that it is Congress' responsibility
to see that taxpayer funds are
-used and accounted for properly.
Both stations beam their broad-
c !sis to Communist - controlled
countries in Eastern I?~t rope, and
they both maintain that they axe.
financed 'through private contribu-
tions.
CIA's possible link to the, radio
operations is especially pertinent
because it follows the 1967 ?uproar
over the agency's role in helping
to finance certain programs of the
National Student Association, a
group supposedly free of govern-
n:.ent inciuence.
That particular CIA funding was
investigated by a presidential com-
missionwhich decided than "no
federal agency shall provide cov-
ert financial assistance or support,
direct or indirect, any of the na-
tion's educational or voluntary or-
ganizations," and that "no pro-
grams currently would justify any
exception to this policy."
Thequestion seems to be simple
enough: Should the CIA, which
properly must conceal huirdreds of
millions of dollars in its budget,
use its privileged position as a
s a n.c t u a r y for administration
spending policies which rightfully
belong with Congress?
Sen. Case thinks not, and we
would tend to agree, for it cripples I
the system of checks and balances
upon which this democracy-thrives.
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1. The exact location of the radio studios of the slanderers and
provocateurs.
2. Torrents of lies and slanders to socialist countries spill out
in . the broadcasts of radio stations "Liberty" and "Free Europe"
which are entrenched in West Germany. Both stations are in the
keep of the CIA which last year alone paid out $33,977,336
to the poisoners of the ether.
3. CIA
ti.. Radio Free Europe
5.. Radio Liberty
fOTOH`t n}HH H HneOi=Tr' n
-/p' p aq HOCTa H4;4B Itingarian ttpis:ng, when it
are about "to lose their fig Soviet Union, Poland, IIungaiy,Iwithout visas, was widely accused of arousing:
leaves through worldwide pub Czechoslovakia, Romania and' When at last the situation set- false hopes' of We help,
Deity. Bulgaria, the two stations have tied down and Western corre- caused an agonizing reappraisal.
paraphrased Senator Case's~aganda target for years: pies like Gdansk and Gdynia, Pol-
comments about reduced inter- Until Mr. Brandt took office, ish officials bitterly complained
national tension and said it is, they were depicted as instru- at what they called Radio Free
time to . liquidate operationsI meats both of United States im-Europe's exaggerated accounts
"
December events."
Nhich "do not not presently helpI cerialism and West German re-of the
Polish-West German relations."
Officially', Chancellor Willy
Brandt's government has taken' change in Bonn fifteen months given all Western news media a
ago, the' Communist line has a1- basis for sounder reporting was
tered. Now, Radio Free Europe; an aspect of the question only
steadily more respected in aea-
centic and journalistic circles.
Controversy Assured.
Nevertheless, the very nature
of the organization, with its
working force of hundreds of ex-
silence as a part of his efforts
silence E The Polish information,appa- lies from Eastern Europe, guar-
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output.
The result was a gradual in-.
crease in the objectivity of its
news dispatches, and in the bal-
ance - of . its .-commentaries...
by
But since the government. information policy would have) search department
became
'treated strictly as American op- Communist authorities.
orations that Mr. Brandt should More Benign View
or uropean
etente. 'rants lashed out at Radio Free antcecl that it would remain con-
The Hungarian newspaper, Europe dining the early days of troversial.
Magyar Hi-r?lop, said: "While the worker protests, saying it To date, the Brandt govern-
West Germany's , government was inciting `.`rowdiness . . . I meat has Shown no eagerness to
proclaims a policy opening. to vandalism slid banditry." Only strain its already awkward rcla-
the East, it admits organizations 'after Edward Giercic replaced tionship with Washington by
operating with large apparatus- Wladyslaw Gomulka as Commit- forcin" the Munich stations to
,es, hindering the development of
.a favorable atmosphere neces-
sary to the expansion of this'
nisi party chief 'was a more move from West German soil,
benign view of ? the protesters But there is a feeling within
presented, a development which I the Rtidio Free Europe organi-
caused a momentary slackening zation that the pressures on
Bulgarian Reaction [in the attacks -on. Radio Free Bonn are bound to incrcase,.es-
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etl to last summer's Lonn an ings in prospect, the Poles again b
nouncement that the yearly
inapt s,?niiiri hn rn on ? }n,,, - -e Ian-e stepping, Lip the tempo.
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Agency
Congressional .
Radio funding: Sen. Case, R-N.J.,
introduced legislation (S 18) Jan. 25
to make public the appropriation of
government funds for Radio Free
Europe and ' Radio Liberty. He said
the two radio stations which broad=
.cast to Eastern Europe, including the
Soviet Union, received in fiscal 1970
$30 million or nearly all their income
in direct CIA subsidies and hundreds
of millions from the agency in the
last 20 years.
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Conspiratorial government is not and pure propaganda to listeners in
America's dish. The country was Eastern Europe.
properly shocked when it learned, The question must. now be raised
four years ago, that the. Central as to whether the CIA actually
Intelligence Agency was pouring stopped paying a number of other
money into student associations,' and organizations to serve . as secret
subsidizing a broad range of private fronts for international snooping and
agencies in education, law, religion, trouble-making.
journalism, and labor. If the funding of Radio Free
President Johnson and the top Europe was never halted - as we
members of his, administration pro- were told it would be - what about
the CIA's 'reported funding of the
fessed to be shocked, too. They
ogroups listed' in the scandal of
issued a solemn promise to stop such other th
p.??actices. Are we still giving CIA money to
But - in at least the case of "research" projects at Stanford? Or
Radio Free Europe -the promise to the International Federation of,
wasn't kept. Petroleum and Chemical Workers?
IT WAS DISCLOSED the other Or the National Council of'Churches,
day that, over the past few years, the National Educational Associa-
millions of dollars have been given to tiap, the American N6Fspaper Guild,
Radio Free Europe by the CIA. Once or the African American Institute?
again we are made to wonder how IIAS ' T.TIE CIA, indeed, continued
much faith to put in the promises of its policy of using the very agencies
our government. that bespeak the openness of
Radio Free Europe has been sold American society to carry out the
to the American people as a com-' kind of missions one might expect in
pletel.y private agency, speaking in the tightest of police states?
no way for our government. It has In the last round, the orders'
always solicited funds'on this basis. from' the President were evidently
And - on that basis - it has used ignored. The full report promised to
its powerful broadcast facilities to the White Ilouse was, too.
beam a powerful mixture . of en- This time Congress hafl better
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apply.
The Nixon. administration
ruled yestclyday that Radio
1 -e.e Europe and Radio ut
berty "are not educational or
private voluntary organiza-
tions" and an established P01-
of denying CIA financing
to them therefore does not
At the same time the acl-
ministration--through a State
Department spokesman-
---,,If-'firmed its intention to coil'
tinue the policy that was
worked out under the lea der-
ship of Nicholas DeD'. 1- atzen-
bach, then Under secrctary of
State, after a national blov;ut,
over CL\ financial payJ11eiltS
to student organizations and
other groups... -
Sen. Clifford l'. Case (1,-
N.J.), said 'Saturday that Radio
Free RU].ope and Radio li-
berty, which beans programs
into Communist Eastern l:u-
rope, had spent $34 million in
1969 and that more than $30
million of that. lead come from
the Central Intelligence Agen=
CY-
Case called for an end to
the secret subsidy and for
.direct, open financing of the
stations through congressional
action.
. Stage Department press of.-
ficer Robert J. McCloskey
said the Katzenbach policy
covers "the whole question of
funding for domestic educa-
tional and private voluntary
organizations."
As to how the stations have
actually been funded or what
their money supply might be
in the future, McCloskey, said
No comment." -
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Bob, Senator Case over. the weekend said
CXA from bankrolling Radi,p . Pree Europe and Radio
to that?
vr. tct~alr7 "'reo x;uroT?e ana are RFE personnel free to use
the State ' Dopartrlent regularly briefinc7 staffers '
the diplomatic pouches of the .State Department to
ccflIu tu~~cate wi.tn tr eLr offices in N,6W York and.
question. I myself am not familiar with that.
NOW, wi th respect to the relationship of the
radios. and the Xatzenbach policy which 'exam;ned
the whole gUostian of 'fundinq - far' datxo t .c educational.
an d ' pr1vato voluntary organ .x ,tions , tIhi. Administration
,.vndozs? the XZatzenbach ..policy "and.all U.- s. agenoies
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quostion of RFF and %T. -- 'Radio Liberty -- closely and
concluded that. there are not, quote, "educatic nal or
private voluntari organizatioris, " and honcG the
Katzenbach policy does not a ly to'. then.
Now, my answer i-, "No comment" on questions
involvinq funding.' 1\;nd T will take the first part of
policy does not apply, is ,it- then permissib1.a for
Government agencies to cooperate ,with Radio Free ruropo
the ! ra some wort 'of a.? semi?-public or se.m.-official
-organization.
Well, Bob, is it tho Katzenbach
you'vo just ztated have on the honey--raising activities
of at least. one of, the.ge orgaiAz ,tian6 ,, or_ possibly both
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about an hour,^
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organizatiozis, would tho Department then be opposed
to Senator CaSe's proposal that 'Rac1i . i rea Europe
and Radio' Liberty, bo funded directly throucTh the
Congressional . annronxiation r3rocess?
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k? tho UN.., or to; couxt< L?. division, with
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Could you-briefly outline it as you understand it?
Well V#ould' prefer to ci t(-
relevant briefings on tl1is,; ` which were --- and 1 r 11 got
speoi:Cic dates hack .in my o!Cice,.but March of 1967
and Decoribor of 1967. 7#hirt'was ordered by the last
,.:Administration following dioclosures :.4: zat certain
.,. organizations, includinc the National student 6soaiation
in the united states, wore bei.ncs covertly funded. And
the ?Katzanhaci 'Committee put forward certain recamx enda-
ti.ono which wore. accepted by the thon President Johnson,
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policy are reverberating through Congress.
Sen. Clifford P. Case charges that Radio
-Free Europe grad Radio Liberty actually are
financed Clandestinely -by the CIA, to the
tune of more than $30 million annually. -
The New Jersey Republican alleges "sev-
er t1 hundred million dollars in United States
Government funds" have been given these
stations over the past 20 years without con-
gressional approval or even know, ledge. -
~7In New Yoi-k, Bernard Yarow, senior vice-
president of Radio Free Europe, says his or-.
ganizalion's reaction, to the charges is: "No
comment."
.Sup;lor't st?p p Oset?ly private.
Both stations beam information to Coln-
niunist-coritrollcd nations in Eastern Eu-
rope. They have stoutly. maintained for
years that they were f nanced through pri-
vate contributions. -
-Senator Case, the New Jersey Republi-
can, thinks it is high time all this was
brought out into the open. He has intro-
duced legislation to have the finances of
both stations provided, openly, through the
same authorization-and appropriation pro-
'cess through which Congress controls the
budgets of most governmental agencies.
These -changes strengthen one present
trend -- the. increasing insistence of Con-
gress---partiCUlarly the Senate-on exert-
ing influence upon the direction of United
States foreign policy. -
But all this also seems like a page out
of the recent past. In INN it was disclosed
that the CIA was funding what had been
presumed to be an organization of stu-
dents without government links, the Na-
tional Student Association. The uproar at
that time was thunderous over clandestine
government penetration of student organi-
zations, with all the implications of poten-
'tial infringement on academic freedom.
Ec '1u v- rep ;v'i '."Jtecl -
Senator Case now quotes, with co`lsider-
able irony, a recommendation made by a
presidential committee v:hich investigated
that CIA furuiing. -
nation's educational'or voluntary organiza-
tions," and that "no -programs currently
would justify any exception to tl- , is policy."
Sources close to. Senator Case say he is
not trying to close down Radio Free Europe,
but merely to bring into the open the gov-
ernment's relationship to it. - -
The view here is that the CIA for 20 years
has remained the financier of Radio. Free
Europe, in the Case charge, due to bureau-
cr?atic inertia. "It's the whole question of
11U`, does the government change," in the
words of one source. No one here suggests
there is any Machiavellian plot. behind the
CIA financing, at least, not at present.
The Case bill is expected to be referred to
the senate >?' c:-eh 1 i~F'lations Committee,
chaired by .Sen. J. I'ulbright (D) of A kan-
sas, where it is assured a sympathetic hear-
ing. Senator Case is a member of that com-
mittee. -
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Senator -Case to Introduce Legislation To Bring Radio Free
Europe, Radio Liberty Under Congressional Scrutiny
Senator Case will introduce legislation on Monday to bring
Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty under the authorization of the
Congress. Senator Case said during the last twenty years several
hundred million. of U. S. Government funds. have been expended .from/secret
CIA budget to pay almost totally for the cost of these two radio stations
broadcasting to eastern Europe. In the last fiscal year alone over
30 million was provided by the CIA as a direct Government subsidy
yet at no time was Congress asked or permitted to carry out its
constitutional role of approving the expenditures.
.for release 24 January 1971
My bill would amend the U. S. Information and Educational
Exchange Act of 1948 to authorize funds to Radio Free Europe and
Radio. Liberty in Fiscal Year 1972. It would also provide that no other
U. S. Government funds could be made available to either radio station
except under the provisions of the Information and Educational Act."
Senator Case stated he would ask both Administration officials concerned
with overseas policy be called to testify before the Congress on the
financial needs of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. Without
committing himself to a particular level of funding his proposal tentatively
calls for an authorization of $30 million. This figure would of course
be subject to change as.more information becomes available.
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