THREAT OF SUBVERSION BIGGER THAN EVER NEEDS WATCHING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100510015-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: February 14, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES
14 February 1981
jiohn,iCousten Curreyn..
hreeUiofS1ubyersjon Bigger:
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WHEN the ;Marines were-decid-
ing ing howetolltry former prisoner-
of-war Garwood; I noted;;. that this
country hasinever tried those Amer-',
while ou.r people weTO held in?i
Hanoi's prisons,; defying our -laws:
and,-mocking the.fact that this coun-
try: was then at war with North Viet=
nam
Among those who regularly visit-
ed Hanoi and then misrepresented
.Weiss, financed by'-her father's tax-
exempt Samuel 'Rubin Foundation
Cora Weiss is currently active in'
the Cuban government's Center-for
Cuban Studies. in New'-;York.'It is a
logical follow-up for her work on be-
Samuel. Rubin.died-.a~ year or so
ago, but his legacy lives The?Rubin
,foundation.gavea"research" group
called The Institute for Policy Stud-
ies-(IPS) $1..million. a year fro
1972 through --1976, and since has
.granted it $500,000 a year.;.- IPS is
.concerned strongly with informa-
tion it can get from employees of de-
fense and intelligence^tagencies or
contractors:"""
It has. a Countec:Infot nia on. Ser-.
vice which" specializes-in .`.`anti-re-
'ports"- bn major : S Y and :interna~
tional business fir;fl One has'only
ta:Iisten. for. a few minutes; to any
radio ' phone-in'tallcshow toyrealize
that, many people. believe.tthese;. re-
= In fact, like.. many-'purposeful
:propaganda i?fforts; they-`start,with7
facts and -then interpret them with
'invented; motives and "eaplana=
sound to',the uninformed., What_they
''business' firms which supply our
goods and services at the world`s
lowest costs, and growing hatred of
successful,busine5s people/'...; s
""=IPS is only one of. a number, of
well-financed groups which have. 'the McCarthy hearings. Sen. McCar-
won public funding through grants thy was careless--with facts,. and
and.,generous donations J,rom tdh, I
while one result was temporary
businesses they are, trying
tro
y,
s
-- for
,Most. "compete ~ successfully.
government. grants as well. For ex-
ample, IPS has joined the American
Civil Liberties Union and the Center
for National -Security Studies
(CNSS) in efforts7to'destroy the ef-
fectiveness. of the FBI and--the CIA.
There is no doubt. that government
funds have financed some of the so-
called research'involved.'
,The.CNSS is a project of.,the Fund
for ; Peace,. which lists on:its_,letter-
head such - luminaries as Stuart
Mott; the General Motors heir, andl
Peter. Weiss,- ;who happens to be
Cora's son. My recent mail has con-
? tamed fund-raising appeals from
the Fund for. Peace, but after a look
at; that list I was not tempted.
These- negative-charge organiza-
tions have interlocking boards of di-
rectors. Marcus Raskin, as one ex-
ample, is" one of .the. co-directors of
the-IPS,and an advisory board mem-
ber,.for-the outfit which!. published
,Counterspy magazine. That is the
.nnagazine-~,.which,- specialized In.
printing.- the names of alleged CIA
eclipse for -some Marxist million-
aires and writers, .the maid, result
was to discredit the anti-communist
spokesmen for some very good and
useful organizations.- ~ - .;
Today, subversion is a much
greater threat than it was then:.Un-
less'we learn"to keep an eye'on its
authors, without accusing each oth-
er of something called ' McCarthy-
ism, it will again achieve the kind of
success it knew during the Vietnam
War. .
We might start with all those who
cry "peace" but work with the bru-
tal'Marxist empires. Theirs would
be the peace of compliance.
operatives,. and ;undoubtedly cost
.some Americans their.lives. Morton
Halperin .appears on.a.. number of
such boards.
Robert Borosage, a trustee for
IPS, headed the CNSS and led the of
.fort:.to :pass restrictive legislation
which would render the CIA and FBI
oothless. One of the favorite','caus-
es" for all the groups' in this loose--
- i
knit 'but coordinated network is to
prove that former Chilean diplomat
Orlando ? Letelier was' murdered in
Washington'-by '.`anti-freedom"
forces. '-Yet the, documents in his l
briefcase when that bomb exploded
showed clearly. he was an influential
agent for. Fidel Castro ..at th time
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