LOWENSTEIN DATA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000403820004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 27, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
27 April 1985
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Lowenstein Dab
Myra MacPhersm's article I"Al
Lowenstein's Tangled Legacy," Style,
March 41 about try book on Allard
Lowenstein, "The died Piper," omits
significant facts.
Using Mr. Lovenstein's Selective
Service records, vhich I obtained via
the Freedom of Information Act, 1
show that he lied ;bout his draft status
to Newsday reporter Ed Hershey
when he told hin he had to' fight his
way into the arny in 1956 because of
bad eves. In fact according to his Se-
lective Service records, he passed his
physical and w2s declared 1-A while
the Korean War was going on.
Mr. Lowenstein received an occupa-
tional defermert which he was presi-
dent of the National. Student Associa-
tion. It has been documented in Ram-
parts magazine that NSA officers who :
knew of the CIA/NSA link routinely re-
ceived occupational', deferments to :
avoid combat and then student defer-
ments for graduate school. Mr, Lowen-
stein also received a student deferment
to go to law school after his term as
president of NSA from 1950 to 1951.
In 1979, while traveling in South
Africa, Mr. Lowenstein reported to
Frank Carlucci , then ideputy director of ?
the CIA. Mr. Lownstein was paid
$7,000 for this expedition through the
Anglo-American Corp. Of South Africa. :
Frank Carlucci acknowledges that Mr. .
' Lowenstein aided him in installing Mario
Soares as prime minister of Portugal to
stop the communists while Carlucci was
ambassador to PortugaL
Through confidential State Depart-
ment cables I obtained through the
! Freedom of Information Act, I docu-
ment that Mr. Lowenstein offered
money to Spanish student groups to
keep them liberal is ,opposed to com-
munist. At various times, Mr. Lowen-
stein offered money to anti-commu-
nist, anti-apartheid groups in South
Africa and money!to various African
national liberation groups.
I told Miss MacPherson that one of
my sources is a former U.S. Army in-
telligence officer. I must respect confi-
dentiality. The Pest often relies on,
confidential sources, but I relied on
vast documentation that Miss Mac-
Pherson does not mention.
RICHARD CUMMINGS
Bridgehampton, N.Y.
STAT
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