LINGUISTS TOLD TO HALT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201050009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: June 7, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE APPEAE
ON PAGE
BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE
7 June 1981
-TIN AMERICA I STEPHEN KINZER
Linguists -told. to.halt
The controversial ? Slimmer Linguistic Institute.` a
missionary organization that evangelizes' native tribes
`
its
in developingk'coiuitrles has been ordered to, halt
operationsq;n1Qn, .~?rrw4 i
titi to hastebeen }' Silver am4n bonging
The . ins
ed the Bible into-their language-as an aid in their mis-.
sionary~wo l B{i t7Yr g!+~rn i b W0j kC rges that
some ofirthe^Institute's-activities-arei incompatible
with th deveIdpment3'of-native peoplcc
A young employee o1 thern stltut Chester. Bttter
man wae.k drlapecf and killed?by`guerrillas:in" neigh-
boring Colombia last~yearw' T_he: guerrillas charged that
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