CIA MONEY SUPPORTED GROUP HEADED BY SOCIALIST
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CREST [1]
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CIA-RDP75-00149R000700510009-3
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December 16, 2016
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December 27, 2004
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9
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Publication Date:
February 22, 1967
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NSPR
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SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
CFIR3 ICLE.
U! - 47S,OQo
New Yorii
A n international and
economic research organ!-
7 a t i o ri hea ded by former
;Socialist Party leader Nor-
man Thomas has received
over $1. in i l l i o n dollars
from a foundation identi-
fied as a conduit for C(Zh.,
t r a I Intelligence Agency
fua.nds.
Activities of the organiza-
rion, fie Tnstitute for Interna-
;onai i.iibor Elescarch, were
financed almost totally from
.til last year, officials of the
research group said.
The money was used to es-
tablish and operate the Insti-
tute of Political Education in
C o s t a Rica, which has
Thomas's organization re-
ce.ived $1,048,940 from the
Kaplan Fund from January,
1961, to September, 1963. This
sum represented all b ii t
about $25,000 of the total:
trained many Latin. Ameri- funds receivea in that period.
can leaders in "Democratic ~ Thomas pointed out that
leftism"; a research institu- his New York group had of-
tion in the, Dominican Re- ten opposed U.S. government
public under the regime of a policy. After the U.S. mill -
r e f o r in i s t President Juan I tary, intervention in the Do-
Dosch, who was ousted in a minican Republic in 1965, it
rightist coup in 1963; and a distributed a publication se-1
publiching firm in Mexico _ I
1961 to 1963 by the J. M. Kap-Thomas, who was cliair-
lan Fund of New York, whic}i. man of the now-defunct New
eon ressi.anal. investigators
described in 1964 as a chan-
i j for agency\nloney. The
,
1
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York research group, said he
had been unaware of the
CIA's role in financing these
won., .
"No foundations," he sal
"and certainly not ' the CT
ever gave any suggestions a
to what-we should do or; n
s were not exhausted un- I operations.
Tunes-post 5ervic
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