Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the C.I.A.

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CIA themselves told the public that they will INJECT COMPLETE
DISINFORMATION into every amrikkan brain UNTIL everything amrikkans
believe is "FALSE"

The following German Journalist TOLD THE PUBLIC that he was on CIA Payroll.



UDO ULFKOTTE - German Journalist
German Media controlled by CIA
UDO ULFKOTTE
https://twitter.com/messages/media/1502890729839874052



This German Journalist died of HEART ATTACK "right AFTER" he DISCLOSED
that CIA paid him to write columns.



BUT, CIA had a HEART ATTACK GUN which MURDERS PEOPLE with "artificial
heart attack" and makes it look like "natural death".



The CIA's Secret Heart Attack Gun
https://www.military.com/video/guns/pistols/cias-secret-heart-attack-gun/2555371072001



ALL OF YOU, "NEED" to INTROSPECT and REMOVE the DISINFORMATION injected
into your brains by the sadistic perverted blood thirsty EVIL Amrikkan
Govt CIA NSA Psychopaths that amrikka and the west are "angelic
democracies overflowing with FREEDOMS"


DECEPTION is to DEMOCRACY, what VIOLENCE is to DICTATORSHIP.


SO, how does it matter to the VICTIM, whether he is directly put in jail
by dictators OR put in jail with a "RIGGED DECEPTIVE democratic PROCESS"
by the FILTHY EVIL Western countries like they are PERSECUTING Julian
Assange, Snowden, and persecuted Chelsea Manning, Steve Donziger, Gerald
Sosbi, William Binney, Thomas Drake, Karen Melton Stewart, Russ Tice etc.


WHY DO YOU ALL "think" the DECEPTIVE western PROCESSES/SYSTEM are
"SUPERIOR" to dictatorships?

Because ALL OF YOU were "BRAINWASHED" by the INFINITELY CUNNING WASP
PSYCHOPATHS in your GOVTs "TO THINK SO".


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Worldwide Propaganda Network Built by the C.I.A.

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/26/archives/worldwide-propaganda-network-built-by-the-cia-a-worldwide-network.html

Dec. 26, 1977

Not long after :Cohn Kenneth Galbraith, the Harvard economist', arrived
in India in 1961 to take up his new post as American Ambassador, he
became aware of a curious political journal called Quest that was
floating around the Asian subcontinent.

The following oracle is bused on rcporting by John M. Crewdson and
Joseph B.Treaster. It was written by Mr. Crewd son.

“It had a level of intellectual and political competence that was
sub‐zero,” Mr. Galbraith recalled in an interview. “It would make.you
yearn for the political sophistication of The National Enquirer.”

Though an English‐language publicaI ion, “it was only in some
approximation to English,” he said. ‘The political damage it did was
nothing compared to the literary damage.”

Then the new Ambassador discovered that Quest was being published with
money from the Central Intelligence Agency. At his direction the C.I.A.
closed it clown.

Though perhaps less distinguished than most, Quest was one of dozens of
English and foreign language publications around the world that have
been owned, subsidized or influenced in some way by the C.I.A. over the
past three decades.

Although the C.I.A. has employed, dozens of American journalists working
abroad, a three‐month inquiry by a team of reporters and researchers for
The New York Times has determined that, with a few notable exceptions,
they were not used by the agency to further its worldwide propaganda
campaign,

In its persistent efforts to snape world opinion, the C.I.A. has been
able to call upon a separate and far more extensive network of
newspapers, news services, magazines, publishing houses, broadcasting
stations and other entities over which it has at various limes had some
control.

A decade ago, when the agency's corn

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munications empire was at its peak, embraced more than SOO news and
public information organizations and individuals, According to one
C.I.A. official, they ranged in importance “from Radio Free Europe to a
third‐string guy in Quito who could get something in the local paper.”

Although the network was known officially as the “Propaganda Assets
Inventory,” to those inside the C.I.A. it was “Wisner's Wurlitzer.”
Frank G. Wisner, who is now dead, was the first chief of the agency's
covert action staff.

Like the Mighty Wurlitzer

Almost at the push of a button, or so Mr. Wisner liked to think, the
“Wur‐1 litzer” became the means for orches‐1 tracing, in almost any
language anywhere in the world, whatever tune the C.I.A.; was in a mood
to hear.

Much of the Wurlitzer is now dismantled. Disclosures in 1967 of some of
the C.I.A.'s financial ties to academic, cultural and publishing
organizations resulted in some cutbacks, and more recent disclosures of
the agency's employment of American and foreign journalists have led to
a phasing out of relationships with many of the individuals and news
organizations overseas.

A smaller network of foreign journalists remains, and some undercover
C.I.A. men may still roam the world, disguised as correspondents for
obscure trade journals or business newsletters.

The C.I.A.'s propaganda operation was first headed by Tom Braden, who is
now a syndicated columnist, and was run for many years by Cord Meyer
Jr., a popular campus leader at Yale before he joined. the C.I.A.

Mr. Braden said in an interview that he had never really been sure that
“there was anybody in charge” of the operation and that “Frank Wisner
kind of handled it off the top of his head.” Mr. Meyer declined to talk
about the operation.

However, several other former C.I.A. officers said that, while the
agency was wary of telling its American journalistagents what to write,
it never hesitated to manipulate the output of its foreignbased
“assets.” Among those were number of English‐language publications read
regularly by American correspondents abroad and by reporters and editors
in the United States.

Most of the former officers said they had been concerned about but
helpless to avoid the potential “blow‐back'—the possibility that the
C.I.A. propaganda filtered through these assets, some of it purposely
misleading or downright false,’ might be picked up by American reporters
overseas and included in their dispatches to their publications at home.

The thread that linked the C.I.A. and its propaganda assets was money,
and the money frequently bought a measure of editorial control, often
complete control. In some instances the C.I.A. simply created a
newspaper or news service and paid the bills through a bogus
corporation. In other instances, directly or indirectly, the agency
supplied capital to an entrepreneur or appeared at the right moment to
bail out a financially troubled organization.

It gave them something to do,” one C.I.A. man said. “It's the old
business of Parkinson's Law, a question of people having too much idle
time and too much idle money. There were a whole lot of people who were
underemployed.”

According to an agency official, the C.I.A. preferred where possible to
put its money into an existing organization rather than found one of its
own. “If a concern is a going concern,” the official said, “it's a
better cover, The important thing is to have an editor or someone else
who's receptive to your copy.”

Postwar Aid for Journals

The C.I.A., which evolved from the Office of Strategic Services of World
War II, became involved in the mass communications field in the early
postwar years, when agency officials became conterned that influential
publications in ravaged Europe might succumb to the temptation of
Communist money. Among the organizations subsidized in those early
years, a C.I.A. source said, was the French journal Paris Match.

No one associated with Paris Match in that period could be reached for
comment.

Recalling the concerns of those early clays, one former C.I.A. man said
that :here was “hardly a left‐wing newspaper in Europe that wasn't
financed directly from Moscow.” He went on: “We knew when the courier
was coming, we knew how much money he was bringing.”


One of the C.I.A.'s first major ventures was broadcasting, Although long
suspected, it was reported definitively only a few years ago that until
1971 the agency supported both Radio Free Europe, which continues, with
private financing, to broadcast to the nations of Eastern Europe, and
Radio Liberty, which is beamed at the Soviet Union itself.

The C.I.A.'s participation in those operations was shielded from public
view by two front groups, the Free Europe Committee and the American
Committee for Liberation, both of which also engaged in a variety of
lesser‐known propaganda operations.

The American Committee for Liberation financed a Munich‐based group, the
Institute for the Study of the U.S.S.R., a publishing and research house
that, among other• things, compiles the widely used reference volume
“Who's Who in the U.S.S.R.” The Free Europe Committee published the
magazine East Europe, distributed in this country as well as abroad, and
also operated the Free Europe Press Service.


Far more obscure were two other C.I.A. broadcasting ventures, Radio Free
Asia and a rather tenuous operation known as Free Cuba Radio. Free Cuba
Radio, established in the early 1960's, did not broadcast from its own
transmitters but purchased air time from a number of commercial radio
stations in Florida and Louisiana.

Its propaganda broadcasts against the Government of Prime Minister Fidel
Castro were carried over radio stations WMIE and WGBS in Miami, WKWF in
Key West and WWL in New Orleans. They supplemented other C.I.A.
broadcasts over a short‐wave station, WRUL, with offices in New York
City, and Radio Swan, on a tiny island in the Caribbean.

The managements of those stations are largely changed, and it was not
possible to establish whether any of them were aware of the source of
the funds that paid for the programs. But sources in the Cuban community
in Miami said it was known generally at the time that funds from some
Federal agency were involved.

One motive for establishing the Free Cuba radio network, a former C.I.A.
official said he recalled, was to have periods of air time available in
advance in case Radio Swan, meant to be the main communications link for
the Bay of Pigs invasion, was destroyed by saboteurs.

Radio Swan's cover was thin enough to warrant such concern. The powerful
station, whose broadcasts could be heard over much of the Western
Hemisphere, was operated by a steamship company in New York that had not
owned a steamship for some time.

Radio Swan was also besieged by potential advertisers eager to take
advantage of its strong, clear signal. After months of turning customers
away, the C.I.A. was finally forced to begin accepting some business to
preserve what cover Radio Swan had left.

Radio Free Asia began broadcasting to mainland China in 1951 from an
elaborate set of transmitters in Manila. It was an arm of the Committee
for Free Asia, and the C.I.A. thought of it as the beginning of an
operation in the Far East that would rival Radio Free Europe and Radio
Liberty.

The Committee for Free Asia, according to former C.I.A. officials, was
founded as the Eastern counterpart of the Free Europe Committee. It
later changed its name to the Asia Foundation. It still exists, though
its ties to the C.I.A. were severed a decade ago.

The Asia Foundation was headed for years by the ‘ late Robert Blum, who,
several sources said, resigned from the C.I.A. to take it over. The
foundation provided cover for at least one C.I.A. operative and carried
out a variety of media‐related ventures, including a program, begun in
1955, of selecting and paying the expenses of Asian journalists for a
year of study in Harvard's prestigious Neiman Fellowship program.

Emergency Airlift Fails

It was only after Radio Free Asia's transmitters were operating,
according to sources familiar with the case, that the C.I.A. realized
that there were almost no radio receivers in private hands in mainland
China. An emergency plan was drawn up.

Balloons, holding small radios tuned to Radio Free Asia's frequency,
were lofted toward the mainland from the island of Taiwan, where the
Chinese Nationalists had fled after the Communist takeover of the
mainland in 1949. The plan was abandoned when the balloons were blown
back to Taiwan across the Formosa Strait.

Radio Free Asia went off the air in 1955.

The C.I.A.'s involvement in the field of publishing extended around the
world and embraced a wide variety of periodicals, some of them obscure
and many of them now defunct. In some instances, sources said, there was
no effort to mold editorial policy despite sizable subsidies, but in
others policy was virtually dictated.

One of the C.I.A.'s ventures in this country involved the subsidization
of several publications whose editors and publishers had fled from
Havana to Miami after the Castro Government came to power in 1959. The
subsidies — in some cases they amounted to several million dollars —
were passed to the publica Lions through a C.I.A. front in New York
called Foreign Publications Inc.

The dozen recipients of these subsidies reportedly included Avance, El
Mundo, El Prensa Libre, Bohemia and El Diario de las Americas. In
addition, the C.I.A. is said to have financed AIP, a radio news agency
in Miami that produced programs sent free of charge to more than 100
small stations in Central and Latin America.

The C.I.A. intially intended to clandestinely distribute copies of the
subsidized publications into Cuba, but that plan was dropped after the
Cuban exiles who had agreed to take them by boat refused in the last
minutes to approach the Cuban shore.

The subsidies continued anyway, and the publications were widely read in
the Cuban community in Miami and, in the case of Bohemia,‐a weekly
magazine that reecived more than $3 million altogether, throughout Latin
America as well.

The intelligence agency's onetime support of Encounter, the British
journal, has been reported, but agency sources said that the Congress of
Cultural Freedom, the Paris‐based group through which the C.I.A.
channeled the funds, also supported a number of other publications, many
of them now out of business.

Ties to Agency Were Cut


Ties to Agency Were Cut

The congress, which was founded in 1950 as a response to a conference of
Soviet writers that year in Berlin, has since cut its ties to the
American agency, reconstituted itself and changed its name. But during
the years when was a C.I.A. conduit, it provided financial support to
the French magazine Preuves, Forum in Austria, Der Monat in West
Germany, El Mundo Nuevo in Latin America and, in India, the publications
Thought and Quest.

In the United States, Atlas magazine, digest of the world press,
occasionally used translators employed by the C.I.A.

African Forum and Africa Report were published with C.I.A. money passed
to the American Society of African Culture and the African‐American
Institute. In Stockholm the publication Argumenten received C.I.A. funds
through a channel so complex that even its editor was unaware of the
source of the money. So did Combate, a Latin American bimonthly.

In Nairobi, Kenya, the C.I.A. set up The East African Legal Digest, less
as a propaganda organ than as a cover for one of its operatives. In the
United States, the Asia Foundation published newspaper, The Asian
Student, that was distributed to students from the Far East who were
attending American universities.

In Saigon, the Vietnam Council on Foreign Relations, modeled after the
American version and financed entirely by the C.I.A., published a slick,
expensively produced magazine that was distributed during the Vietnam
War to the offices of all senators and representatives in Washington.

Among the more unusual of the C.I.A.'s relationships was the one it
shared with a Princeton, N.J., concern called the Research Council. The
council, founded by Hadley Cantril, the late chairman of the Princeton
University psychology department, and his associate, Lloyd Free, derived
nearly all its income from the C.I.A. in the decade in which it was active.

“They were considered an asset because we paid them so much money,” a
former C.I.A. man said. Mr. Free confirmed that he 2nd Dr. Cantril, an
acknowledged pioneer in public opinion polling, had “just sort of run”
the council for the C.I.A.

The council's activities, Mr. Free said, consisted of extensive public
opinion surveys conducted in other countries on questions of interest to
the C.I.A. Some, he said, were conducted inside Eastern Europe, the
Soviet bloc.

The governments of the countries, Mr. Free said, “didn't know anything
about the C.I.A.” Nor, apparently, did Rutgers University Press, which
published some of the results in a 1967 volume called “Pattern of Human
Concerns.”

Book Publishing Ventures

The C.I.A.'s relationship with Frederick Praeger, the book publisher,
has been reported in the past. But Praeger was only one of a number of
publishing concerns, including some of the most prominent in the
industry, that printed or distributed more than 1,000 volumes produced
or subsidized in some way by the agency over the last three decades.

Some of the publishing houses were nothing more than C.I.A.
“proprietaries.” Among these were Allied Pacific Printing, of Bombay,
India, and the Asia Researcn Centre, one of several agency publishing
ventures in Hong Kong, which was described by an agency source as
“nothing but a couple of translators.”

Other, legitimate publishers that received C.I.A. subsidies according to
former and current agency officials, were Franklin Books, a New
York‐based house that specializes in translations of academic works, and
Walker & Co., jointly owned by Samuel Sloan Walker Jr., a onetime vice
president of the Free Europe Committee, and Samuel W. Meek, a retired
executive of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency and a man with
close ties to the C.I.A.

A spokesman at Franklin confirmed that the publisher had received grants
from the Asia Foundation and “from another small foundation for an
African project, both of which were exposed in 1967 as being supported
by C.I.A.” The spokesman added, “Franklin was unaware of that support then.”

Mr. Walker said through a secretary that his concern had never “printed
books on behalf of the C.I.A. nor published any book from any source
which was not worthy of publication on its merits.”

Other publishing houses that brought out books to which the C.I.A. had
made editorial contributions included Charles Scribner's Sons, which in
1951 published “The Yenan Way,” by Eudocio Ravines, from a translation
supplied by William F. Buckley Jr., who was a C.I.A. agent for several
years in the early 1950's. Also in 1951, G. P. Putnam's Sons published
“Life and Death in Soviet Russia,” by Valentin Gonzalez, the famous “El
Campesino” of the Spanish Civil War.

According to executives of both houses, Putnam and Scribner's were
unaware of any agency involvement in those books, as was Doubleday &
Company, which in 1965 brought out, under the title “The Penkovskiy
Papers,” what purported to be a diary kept by Col. Oleg Penkovsky, the
Soviet double agent. The book even used C.I.A. style in the
transliteration of the colonel's name.

Also unaware of the C.I.A. connection was Ballantine Books, which
published a modest volume on Finland, “Study in Sisu,” written by Austin
Goodrich, an undercover C.I.A. man who posed for years in Scandinavia as
a freelance author researching a book about Finland.

Authorship Used as Cover

Another C.I.A. operative who employed the cover of a freelance author in
search of a book was Edward S. Hunter, who roamed Central Asia for years
collecting material for a work on Afghanistan that eventually was
published by the prestigious house of Hodder & Stoughton of London.

Other C.I.A. men worked abroad while writing books, including Lee White,
an employee of the Middle Eastern Division who wrote a biography of
General Mohammed Neguib of Egypt, and Peter Matthiessen, the writer and
naturalist who began work on a novel, “Partisans,” while with the C.I.A.
in Paris from 1951 until 1953, where he also helped George Plimpton
found The Paris Review.

As with Mr. Hunter, Mr. White and Mr. Matthiessen used their careers as
authors only as covers for their intelligence activities. There is no
evidence that the C.I.A. attempted to control what they wrote or that it
atempted through Mr. Matthiessen to influence the Paris Review.

Several C.I.A. efforts in book publishing were well received by critics,
and a few were commercial successes. “At least once,” according to a
report by the Senate intelligence committee, “a book review for an
agency book which appeared in The New York Times was written by a C.I.A.
writer under contract” to the agency.

The report did not identify the volume or the reviewer, but the book is
said to have been “Escape from Red China,” the story of a defector from
China published by Coward, McCann and Geoghegan. Jack Geoghegan,
president of the company, said he never knew that the book had been
prepared for publication by the C.I.A.

The book was reviewed by The Times on Sunday, Nov. 11, 1962, by Richard
L. Walker, who is now director of the Institute of International Studies
at the University of South Carolina and is a frequent book reviewer for
the newspaper. Professor Walker said in a telephone interview that he
had been under contract to the C.I.A. as a consultant and lecturer
before and after the review appeared, but not at the time he wrote it.
Nor, he said, did he know that the book had been produced by the C.I.A.

Another successful book that intelligence sources said was published in
1962 with the assistance of the C.I.A. is “On the Tiger's Back” by
Aderogba Ajao, Nigerian who had studied at an East German University and
returned home to write about his disillusionment.

A Yugoslavian Connection

The Praeger organization, which was purchased by Encyclopaedia
Brittanica in 1966, first became involved with the C.I.A. in 1957 when
it published “The New Class,” a landmark work by Milovan Djilas, a
disillusioned official of the Yugoslav Government who wrote extensively
about his personal rejection of Communism.

Mr. Djilas, who had become a source of embarrassment to his Government
before the work was published, had difficulty getting the last portion
of the manuscript out of Yugoslavia.

Mr. Praeger said that he had appealed to II friend in the American
Government (though not in the C.I.A.) for assistance in obtaining the
final pages. The manuscript was eventually carried from Belgrade to
Vienna by Edgar Clark, then a correspondent for Time magazine, and his
wife, Katherine.

Mr. Clark said that neither he nor his wife had ever had anything to do
with the C.I.A. But the manuscript ultimately reached the hands of’ a
C.I.A. officer named Arthur Macy Cox. Mr. Cox, who later worked under
Praeger cover in Geneva, set in motion an effort by the agency to have
the book translated into variety of languages and distributed around the
world.

“It was my first contact with the 1 C.I.A.,” Mr. Praeger said, but he
added that at the time he had “no idea there even was a C.I.A.”

Mr. Praeger said that he later published 20 to 25 volumes in which the
C.I.A. had had an interest, either in the writing, the publication
itself or the postpublication distribution.

The agency's involvement, he said, might have been manifested in a
variety of ways—reimbursing him directly for the expenses of publication
or guaranteeing, perhaps through a foundation of some sort, the purchase
of enough copies to make publication worthwhile.

Among the Praeger books in which the C.I.A. had a hand were “The
Anthill,” a work about China by the French writer Suzanne Labin, and two
books on the Soviet Union by Giinther Nollau, a member of the West
German security service and later its chief. Mr. Nollau was identified
in a New York Times review only as “a West German lawyer who fled some
years ago from East Germany.”

Dozens of foreign- language newspapers, news services and other
organizations were financed and operated by the C.I.A.—two of the most
prominent were said to have been DENA, the West German news agency, and
Agenda Orbe Latino American, the Latin American feature service.

The C.I.A.'s Newspapers

In addition, the C.I.A. had heavy investments in a variety of
English-language news organizations. Asked why the agency had had a
preference for these, a former senior official of the agency explained
that it was less difficult to conceal the ownership of publications that
had ostensible reasons for belonging to an American and easier to place
American agents in those publications as reporters and editors.

The Rome Daily American, which the C.I.A. partly owned from 1956 to
1964, when it was purchased by Samuel W. Meek, a J. Walter Thompson
executive, was only one of the agency's “'proprietary” English‐language
newspapers.

There were, it was said, such “proprietaries” in other capitals,
including Athens and Rangoon. They usually served a dual role—providing
cover fur intelligence operatives and at the same time publishing agency
propaganda.

But the C.I.A.'s ownership of newspapers was generally viewed as costly
and difficult to conceal, and all such relationships are now said to
have been ended.

The Rome Daily American was taken over by the C.I.A., it was said, to
keep it from failing into the hands of Italian Communists. But the
agency eventually tired of trying to maintain the fiction that the
newspaper was privately owned and, as soon as the perceived threat from
the Communists had passed, sold it to Mr. Meek.

Even after the agency sold the newspaper, however, it was managed for
several years by Robert H. Cunningham, a C.I.A. officer who had resigned
from the agency and had been rehired as a contract employee.

A former C.I.A. official said that the agency passed up an opportunity
to purchase another English‐language newspaper, The Brussels Times,
which was being run by a C.I.A. man but had no other ties to the agency.
The official said the agency responded to the offer by saying that it
was “easier to buy a reporter, which we've done, than to buy a newspaper.”

In addition to the C.I.A.'s “proprietary” newspapers in Athens, Rangoon
and Rome, agency sources said it had also had investments in The Okinawa
Morning Star, used more for cover purposes than for propaganda; The
Manila Times and The Bangkok World, now both defunct, and The Tokyo
Evening News in the days before it was purchased by Asahi, the
publishing organization.

“We ‘had’ at least one newspaper in every foreign capital at any given
time,” one C.I.A. man said, and those that the agency did not own
outright or subsidize heavily it infiltrated with paid agents or staff
officers who could have stories printed that were useful to the agency
and not print those it found detrimental.

Agents Placed on Staffs

In Santiago, Chile, The South Pacific Mail, though apparently never
owned by the C.I.A, provided cover for two operatives: David A.
Phillips, who eventually rose to become chief of the C.I.A.'s Western
Hemisphere Division, and David C. Hellyer, who resigned as Latin
American editor for the Copley newspaper organization to join the C.I.A.

Other newspapers on whose staffs the C.I.A. is said to have placed
agents over the years included The Guyana Chronicle, The Haiti Sun, The
Japan Times, The Nation of Rangoon, The Caracas Daily Journal and The
Bangkok Post.

And before the 1959 revolution The Times of Havana, owned by a former
C.I.A. man, contributed to the “cover” of Mr. Phillips by signing him on
as columnist.

The C.I.A. reportedly had agents within a number of foreign news
services, including LATIN, a Catin American agency operated by the
British news agency, Reuters, and the Ritzhaus organization in Scandanavia.

Although there were C.I.A agents in the overeas bureaus of The
Associated Press and United Press International, the C.I.A. is said to
have had none in Reuters because that agency is British and thus a
potential target of the British Secret Intelligence Service.

But sources familiar with the situation said that the C.I.A occasionally
“borrowed” British “assets” inside Reuters for the purpose of planting
news articles. Asked about the much‐publicized assertion by William E.
Colby, the former Di‘ rector of Central Intelligence, that the agency
never “manipulated” Reuters, one official replied that “it wasn't
manipulation because Reuters knew” that the stories were being planted
by the C.I.A. and that some were bogus.

Desmond Manerly, Reuters's managing editor for North America, has said
that such charges were “old‐hat stuff to us.” He noted that Reuters's
managing director, for Gerald Long, had asked for evidence of such
manipulation but that none had been forthcoming.

A number of news agencies were owned outright or were heavily financed
by the C.I.A. One, the Foreign News Service, produced articles written
by a group of journalists who had been exiled from Eastern European
nations. In the early 1960's the articles were sold to as many as 300
newspapers around the world, including The New York Times, The Christian
Science Monitor and The New York Herald Tribune.

Boleslaw Wierzbianski, a former Polish Minister of Information and the
onetime head of the news service, said that as far as he knew, the
C.I.A.'s only involvement was financial and the agency never tried to
control the service's output or use it as a cover.

Press Credentials Supplied

By contrast, an outright C.I.A. proprietary was the Continental Press
Service, which had headquarters in Washington and was run by a C.I.A.
man named Fred Zusy. One of its principal functions was to supply
official — looking, laminated press credentials to agency operatives in
urgent need of cover.

Editors Press Service was an established feature news service with
clients throughout Latin America when, accordmg to two former C.I.A.
officials and third authoritative source, it became channel of
dissemination for agency-inspired propaganda. One former C.I.A. man said
that the service, owned at the time by Joshua B. Powers Sr„ was an
outlet for what he called “cliché stories, news stories prepared by the
agency or for the agency.”

Mr. Powers acknowledged that for years he was a close friend of the late
Col. J. C. King, longtime chief of the agency's Western Hemisphere
Division; that he had served as an officer of the C.I.A.financed Henry
Clay foundation, and that it was he who had purchased The South Pacific
Mail from David A. Phillips and owned it during the period, in the
mid1960's, when it was being used for cover by David Hellyer.

Mr. Powers could recall only a single connection, however, between
Editors Press and the C.I.A. He said that in the mid‐1960's he had used
C.I.A. funds to finance the Latin American travels of one of his
writers, Guillermo Martinez Marquez, the exiled editor of a Cuban
newspaper. Mr. Marquez said that he had never known that the money he
received from Mr. Powers had come team the C.I.A.

Perhaps the most widely circulated of the C.1.A.‐owned news services was
Forum World Features, founded in 1958 as a Delaware corporation, Forum
Information Service, with offices in London. Forum was ostensibly owned
during much of its life by John Hay Whitney, the publisher of The New
York Herald Tribune, which ceased publication in 1966. According to
several C.I.A. sources, Mr. Whitney was “witting” of the agency's true role.

A secretary to Mr. Whitney said that he was too ill to respond to
questions about his involvement with Forum.

Also aware of a C.I.A. role, according to former and current agency
officials, was Brian Crozier, the conservative British journalist who
the officials said had been a contract employee of the agency, and
Robert G. Gately. Mr. Gately, Forum's executive director in the early
1960's, was a career C.I.A. man who went on to hold cover jobs with
Newsweek, as Far Eastern business manager, and with Asia Magazine in Tokyo.

Newsweek executives, like those of nearly all the major news‐gathering
organizations said to have been involved with the C.I.A., have said that
while they are certain that no one presently employed has any ties to
the agency, there is no way to be certain that no such connections
existed in the past.

U.S. Papers Among Clients

Though the C.I.A. has insisted that never attempted directly to place
its propaganda in the American press, at one time Forum World Features
had 30 domestic newspapers among its clients, including The Washington
Post, and tried, without success, to sell its material to The New York
Times.

The sale of Forum's material to The Washington Post and other American
newspapers, one C.I.A. official said, “put us in a hell of a dilemma,”
The sales, he went on, were considered necessary to preserve the
organization's cover, and they occasioned a continuing and somewhat
frantic effort to insure that the domestic clients were given only
legitimate news stories.

Another major foreign news organization that C.I.A. officials said they
once subsidized was Vision, the weekly news magazine that is distributed
throughout Europe and Latin America. However, none of those associated
with the founding of Vision or its management over the years Said they
had ever had any indication that the C.I.A. had put money intp the magazine.

Next: The C.I.A.'s Network of Correspondents.

Associated Press

Tom Braden, now a columnist, was first to head propaganda unit.

The late Robert Blum, who several sources say resigned from the C.I.A.
to head Asia Foundation.

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