ANOTHER CROSS TO CIA INVOLVEMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201090017-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2010
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: May 4, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/12 :CIA-RDP90-008068000201090017-1
PHILADELPHIA BULLETIN
4 May 1981
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For more than 150 "yeas; U.S`.~mis-- ~ But oa-3an: 19, Bitterman was-tak-
sionaries-Siblein hand--have.tra - en hostage..by a group of-left_wing-
veled the world to spread God's word:. guerillas, arid. six weeks Iater~ vvas; ~_ _
But today's missionary. ventures forth -.murdered. The group :charged that', lic: sainthood,. Dooley-' who' died of
with' a diferenE mandate inmind, and the institute was a CIA front, The in-- cancer in 1961 at 34, served as an un-
often fir}- the face; of extreme danger.; ~ stitute denied involvement with-any paid informer Lo the the CIA in the
-~ ~ ?~?--~ -; 1950s when he was a doctor in Laos
This is the second in a~seiies:~:;~;?~a7` - government intelligence agency- in ,
- ~ ~ -~ -`''?'~*t''-z~:a.~.'= ?*~ '~ - #act,it forbids it, it said. Bitterman's ~: ~ and Vietnam. He~ reportedly passed
BY,PAUI.A HERSt1T ".`:F',~ `:?:';"~~~,? - father said that his son, a fundamen-- information about villagers' senti..
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Of The Bulletin Staff~~~ T+~=-~^- ~ talisi Christian, felt-he was "led bye ,menu' and troop movemen s near
:God" into missionary work:: ` ~ ~~ ~;: ~ the Laos hospital where he`treated
'-The Summer Institute of Linguis-~- ~ _,. ,:-fie ~uitute has been a target for>: the starving and wounded.
tics _ might seem.. to . be::an: unlikel}~, more than a decade of rumors that it ? ?~ "He {Dooley) was a doctor and hu-
larget of suspicions of Centra.TIntel--' 'has spied, set up missile bases.and' manitarian. He thought this would
Tigence Agency (CU) involvement. ,, ;even. mined precious minerals or run help those people and help prevent
,. A- branch o e 'Bible- ~?dtug' operations in Latin American communism taking.over those coun-
Translators,? the institute-works ?in - - COUrltr'Ie3; r The rumors have never .fries;' ?'~ said the }Zev. Maynard
remote areas of ~ the world; its. finis=. been confirmed. ~ .. ~ '=- Kegler, a priest working for Dooley,'s
sionary-linguists living:?for-l5~to 20; ;; Bitterman's murder. comesin the ;sainthood. . -. -
years with remote villages of people.. ,midst of widespread controversy in Church groups now solidly oppose
yrho have no written language:. " `' -' `missionary circles over .the -role of use' of missionaries by the CIA, cit-
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