Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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SENSITIVESECRET-2-returns for specified years and in most cases the Form 1023Application for Tax Exempt Status. *Ramparts* asked the IRSto make these materials available for inspection at a mutu-ally convenient time.4.  A review of available CIA data on the listed organi-    zations has shown that 89 of them were at one time or another    somehow associated with CIA. Only two of these (*Institute    for International Youth Affairs* (CA/B3 Project QRTROW) and    *African-American Labor Center, Inc.* (CA/B4 Project QRSTUMP)7    are of current operational interest. These two activities    and 45 organizations formerly of interest to CIA were men-    tioned in the American press during MHDOWEL. Forty-two    other listed organizations which were in fact associated    with CIA were not exposed during MHDOWEL. We have found no    evidence that 55 organizations on the list were ever directly    or indirectly associated with CIA. (Because two of the names    on the list are successive names for the same organization,    the actual total number of organizations listed is 144 rather    than 145.) Three additional project organizations, not    included in the *Ramparts* list, may be vulnerable because    they were covertly funded by hitherto unexposed foundation    funding instruments included in the list. Only one of these,    *World Veterans Federation* (CA/B3 Project TPGLARE) is of cur-    rent operational interest.5. The CA Staff was furnished a copy of the *Ramparts*   letter and list and has checked out the organizations of   possible previous CA Staff interest. All organizations not   readily identifiable with known project organizations or as   CCS funding instruments have been traced with RID, with CS   area divisions that might logically have had an interest in   them and against CCS Registry files. Through arrangements   with the IRS, representatives of CCS and OGC also examined   available IRS data (990-A's and Forms 1023) on the listed   organizations. This was done before the IRS documents were   made available to *Ramparts*, in order to be sure that restricted   990-A, Part I data would not be furnished to *Ramparts* and to   try to establish the reasons for *Ramparts'* interest in the   organizations. Our current findings are the results of these   various file reviews.6. Attached hereto are annexes listing and discussing   the several categories of organizations on the *Ramparts* list.   Annex A deals with the two organizations on the list which   are still of active operational interest. Both receivedSENSITIVESECRET418R
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SENSITIVESECRET-3-press mention during MHDOWEL. Annex B lists and discusses under several sub-categories the 42 organizations with which the Agency has had some direct or indirect operational ties in the past which were not cited in the press during MH- DOWEL. Annex C lists the 45 organizations included in the April 1968 list which had former Agency operational ties which were subject to press allegations during MHDOWEL. Annex D lists and briefly discusses the 55 organizations included in the *Ramparts* list that had no known operational connection with CIA. Annex E lists and discusses three hitherto unexposed operational activities that are not included in the April 1968 *Ramparts* list but which are vulnerable because they were covertly funded by hitherto unexposed funding instruments included in the *Ramparts* list. Annex F shows a copy of the full April 1968 *Ramparts* list.7. The 42 former project organizations listed and described at Annex B which have not previously been charged with CIA association in American press comment fall into five general categories:a. Foundations and other organizations used as witting funding conduits for covert subsidies to project organizations and other operational activities. Sixteen organizations fall into this category. Eleven of them are multipurpose legitimate foundations which were recuited by CCS. Four were created or recruited for exclusive use in funding one project each and one was used for a one-time travel grant.b. Witting legitimate foundations and organizations used exclusively to provide funding and status cover for singleton agents. Six organizations were used in this way and provided cover for seven agents in various parts of the world. Some of these organizations also provided one-time support for unwitting individuals of operational interest.c. Proprietary or subsidy project organizations. There are six of these: Projects CAMANTILLA, WUHUSTLERFOOLPROOF, HTNAMABLE, SGPANFISH, and AESTRIKERd. Three organizations with which there were witting operational contacts to obtain information and leads but which were not actively involved operationally.
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SENSITIVESECRETe. Eleven unwitting organizations which received grants from project organizations for operational or cover reasons or which cooperated with project organizations.8. We cannot say with complete assurance that all 55 of the apparently innocent organizations on the *Ramparts* list in fact never had any Agency ties. Our researches have shown that RID indices are often incomplete. We have found operational use data in CCS files on organizations with no record in RID. The same is true in other cases where information was available in CA Staff or area division files on organizations which drew a blank in RID. It seems likely, however, that any undetected operational interest in the organizations was in the period of the early 1950's and of a marginal nature.9. In reviewing available information on the listed organizations we attempted to determine whether there was a logical external basis for *Ramparts'* interest in the organizations or whether some form of internal Agency leak might be involved. Our reviews and analysis show fairly conclusively that *Ramparts* has been proceeding on the basis of overtly available information, supplemented by interviews with project personnel:a. All but three of the 42 terminated but hitherto unexposed project organizations and 24 of the 55 organizations which actually had no Agency ties are somehow related to project organizations or funding instruments previously exposed. Some of the organizations made legitimate or covert grants to previously exposed organizations, others received covert or legitimate grants from previously exposed funding instruments or from innocent foundations that had made legitimate grants to exposed organizations, and still others had officers who were associated with exposed CIA organizations.b. Thirty-one innocent organizations on the *Ramparts* list and three of the hitherto unexposed organizations of former interest to the Agency have no such known ties to exposed Agency organizations. In most of these cases, however, the names of the organizations are similar to those of exposed organizations or are of a nature that makes them suspect.
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SENSITIVESECRET-5-10. It seems likely that Ramparts' interest in a number of the 42 unexposed project organizations is based on factors unrelated to the actual CIA dealings with them.11. The Headquarters elements that are or were responsible for the projects and activities that could be implicated by new Ramparts allegations have been notified of the foregoing findings. No further action is required at this time.Attachments(Annexes)cc: C/CAC/CIC/CIOP/DOC/FI/OPSCharles Batch 03CHARLES KATEKChief, Central Cover Staff03DDP/OPSER/CCS/PRG/WMPillsbury: fl (5071/9328)SENSITIVE2/BR
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NOTE:The numbers in parentheses following listed or named organizations in Annexes A through E are the item numbers or organizations included in the 5 April 1968 Ramparts list (Annex F).
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ANNEX AORGANIZATIONS ON 5 APRIL 1968 RAMPARTS LISTTHAT ARE OF CURRENT OPERATIONAL INTEREST1.  [African-American Labor Center, Inc., (AALC), Manhattan, New York (2) 08    CA/B4 Project QRSTUMP. Irving Brown (T) continues as AALC Executive Director and uses this relationship as status cover for operational travels in African and Europe. Although covert funding of AALC has been suspended, black-bag payments to Brown and by him to operational contacts may be implicitly attributed to AALC.AALC received press publicity during MHDOWEL. Brown was named as a CIA agent in the Braden Saturday Evening Post article.2.  Institute for International Youth Affairs, Manhattan, New York (IIYA) (79) 08    CA/B3 Project QRTROW. Under Katzenbach guidelines and DDP decisions, IIYA was to be re-established abroad as a condition for continuation of the project. Various possibilities in Europe have been explored and vetoed. Steps are currently being taken to relocate the activity in Belgium.    IIYA received limited press mention during MHDOWEL and only in the context of its Free Europe Committee origins and its former funding by the International Development Foundation (terminated WH Project (COALIBI) (88).    IIYA is vulnerable because of its former funding by the Colt (41) and Ronthelym (129) Foundations, as well as by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation (not on the 5 April 1968 list but of known interest to Ramparts) and by the Florence (58) and W. Alton Jones (99) Foundations (exposed during MHDOWEL).
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ANNEX BFORTY TWO PREVIOUSLY UNEXPOSED ORGANIZATIONSWITH FORMER CIA OPERATIONAL TIESA.Sixteen Witting Conduits Used for Attributed CovertSubsidy Funding1.  Branta Foundation - White Plains, New York (32)CCS-recruited legitimate foundation (LPCORSET/69).Used in 1964 for a covert grant to the unexposed [Freedom Fund, Inc. (61) and in 1965 for a covert grant to the exposed International Development Foundation (88) Branta is the family foundation of Jean and_Harvey Picker Jean Picker was president of the exposed Committee of Correspondence (44) (CA/B3 Project JEFERVENT).2.  Colt Foundation, Inc. - Manhattan, New York (41)CCS-recruited legitimate foundation (LPCORSET/24).Used 1960 - 1966 for covert grants to the following exposed project organizations: AMSAC (24) (TPFOUMART), CCS (QKOPERA), AFFJ (17) (QKFEARFUL), IDF (88) (QKBEND/UOALIBI), AẠI (I) (YQFLUENT), TAF (DTPILLAR), USNSA (WSCHILD), IRS (76) TPPAPNET), and IIYA (79) (QRTROW)Colt was also used for 1962 - 1965 covert grants to the hitherto unexposed project organization SKI (132) (HTNAMA-BLE).3.  Little Foundation, Wiloughby - Providence, Rhode Island (107)CCS-recruited legitimate foundation (LPCORSFT/32).Used 1961 - 1964 for covert grants to exposed AMSAC (24) (TFFOUMART), IDF (88) (QRBEND/UOALIBI) and AAI (1) (YQFLUENT/QRFLUENT).
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SENSITIVESECRET-2-4. Magowan Family Foundation - Manhattan, New York (108)CCS-recruited legitimate foundation (LPCORSET/84).Used in 1965 for covert grants to the exposed RFEF (TPTONIC) and the unexposed [SEI (132) (HTNAMABLE)].5. Meek Foundation - Greenwich, Connecticut (110)CCS-recruited legitimate foundation (LPCORSET/45).Used 1961 - 1965 for covert grants to the exposed AAI (1) (YOFLUENT/QRFLUENT), IDF (88) (QRBEND/UOALIBI) and TAF (DTPILLAR). Name was listed as a contributor in an AAI (1) publicity brochure.6. Munson Foundation - Manhattan, New York (112)CCS-recruited legitimate foundation (LPCORSET/42).Used 1961 - 1964 for covert grants to exposed AAI (1) (YOFLUENT/QRFLUENT) and IDF (88) (QRBEND/UOALIBI). Reimbursed by Patman-exposed Edsel and Beacon.7. Olin Foundation, Spencer T. and Ann W. - Alton, Illinois (117)CCS-recruited legitimate foundation (LPCORSET/6).Used 1958 - 1966 for covert grants to exposed (TPTONIC) and (IDF (88) (QRBEND/UOALIBI) and the unexposed [WVF](TPGLARE). "Olin Foundation" appears as contributor as in AAI brochure, but this was the John Olin Foundation (LPCORSET/13) which is not on the Ramparts list. Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin was reimbursed 1958 - 1963 by CCS instruments exposed by Patman in 1964.8. Robison Foundation, James E. - Manhattan, New York (128)CCS-recruited legitimate foundation (LPCORSET/43).Used 1961 - 1964 for covert grants to the exposed AAI (1) (YOFLUENT/QRFLUENT) and IDF (88) (QRBEND/UOALIBI). Listed as contributor in AAI (1) brochure.9. Ronthelym Charitable Trust - Boston, Massachusetts (129)CCS-recruited legitimate foundation (LPCORSET/54).Used 1964 - 1966 for covert grants to the exposed OPR (119) (LPCORSET/75/JMTUBA/IUEXTEND), AFFJ (17) (QKFEARFUL), IDF (88) (QRBEND/UOALIBI), PAF (122) (JMPOPLAR/10), FISEE (65) (QRSENSE/KMOCHROID), IIYA (79) (QRTROW), AMSAC (24)SENSITIVESECRET42/BR
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SENSITIVESECRET-3-29,01(TPFOUMART), and CCF (QKOPERA), and the unexposed Free-dom Fund, Inc. (61) (AEMIRROR/WUHUSTLER).## 10. Sonnabend Foundation - Boston, Massachusetts (133) 29,10.CCS-recruited legitimate foundation (LPCORSET/49).Used 1962 - 1966 for covert grants to the exposed AAI (1) 2929,29,01 (YQFLUENT/QRFLUENT), IDF (88) (QRBEND/COALIBI), AFEJ (17)29,01,01 (QKFEARFUL) and CCF (QKOPERA) and to the unexposed HumanEcology Fund (HEF) (MKCOTTON). 29,01## 11. Sunnen Foundation - Maplewood, Missouri (135) 29,10CCS-recruited legitimate foundation (LPCORSET/29).Used 1961 - 1966 for covert grants to the exposed AAI (1)27,29,01 (YOFLUENT/QRFLUENT), CC (44) (JEFERVENT), IDF (88) (QRBEND/UOALIBI), CCF (QKOPERA), VF (DTLAMPREY) and LISCD (FJGON-29,29,29,01,01,01DANG/ZRCANNY) and to the unexposed SEI (132) (HTNAMABLE)and MSI (ZROCCUR/PASHELL).## 12. Homeland Foundation, Inc. - Manhattan, New York (74)CCS-recruited legitimate foundation (LPCORSET/35) used1962 - 1966 exclusively for covert grants to FICD (64) 29(WSFLUFFER). Its ties to FICD were presumably learned fromIllinois state records.## 13. Institute for International Order, Inc. - Manhattan,New York (78)CCS-recruited legitimate foundation (LPCORSET/5)used once in 1958 for a covert grant to CC (44) (JBFERVENT) 29,01The Institute made legitimate grants to WVF (TPGLARE).Overseas Education Fund of League of Women Voters (120),Institute of International Education (82), and Institutefor Social Science Research (81). 29,29,29## 14. American Heritage Foundation - Manhattan, New York (18)Legitimate foundation recruited by former 10 Divisionas a funding conduit and fund-raising organization forFEC (TPTONIC) and TAF (DTPILLAR), both mentioned duringMHDOWEL. Used in early 1950's General W. Bedell Smith(former DCI) (became president of the Foundation in 1955).SENSITIVESECRET
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# -4-15. Council on Race and Caste in World Affairs, Inc. -    Manhattan, New York [48]Proprietary funding conduit established by CA/B3 for covert funding of the exposed AMSAC (24) (TPFOUMART).16. Governmental Affairs Institute (GAI) - Washington, D.C. (68)Legitimate organization recruited by CCS for one-time witting use in 1957 to handle the U.S. travel arrangements for a visiting Indonesian delegation under an FE project. The travel was ostensibly sponsored by a law firm, Dillon & Dillon, which reimbursed the Institute. The Institute was subsequently used on an unwitting working-level basis as a conduit for funds attributed to the State Department to support a Soviet realities breifing center in New York City under SB Project AECOMITAS.GAI is overtly tied to exposed organizations because Kirkpatrick of APSA (23) and OPR (119) (JMTUBA/IUEXTEND) and Gulick of IPA (84) were GAI board members. [GAI] has received legitimate grants from the Carnegie Endowment (35).B.Six Witting Organizations Used as Status and Funding Cover For Singleton Agents Abroad17. Aid Refugee Chinese Intellectuals, Inc. (ARC) -    Manhattan, New York (5)Hong Kong branch of ARCI was used in the early 1950's by Hong Kong Station as a source of leads. ARCI was financed by State Department USER Through arrangements with USKP cover was provided by ARCI in Hong Kong for contract agent William H. POISSANT (P) (201-148106) 1958-1960 under Project STGATE. POISSANT (P) received a legitimate (unreimbursed) ARCI salary supplemented by black-bag. He was terminated in 1960.
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SENSITIVESECRET-5-Mr. Travis L. Fletcher (T), ARCI field representative in Hong Kong, was reportedly a witting U.S. Army intelligence source.18. American Korean Foundation, Inc. (AKF) - Manhattan, New YorkProvided cover in Seoul, Korea, 1957 - 1958 for staff agent Ray H. PECKERMAN (P) under Project INTANGE for spotting and assessing students. PECKERMAN'S (P) salary was reimbursed by attorney James S. McGoldrick of Sheils and McGoldrick. CCS made the arrangements. PECKERMAN (P) resigned from CIA in 1958 to join the Foundation legitimately.Dr. Howard A. Rusk, president of AKF, was actively associated with FI/SIG Project UCOMET. He was also an unwitting consultant to VVF. (TPGLARE) and collaborated in a project to bring Algerian war veterans to the U.S.19. American Political Science Association (APSA), - Washington, D. C.Provided status cover (funding was by N-36, Academic Research Society) for Jonathan M. SMIGELOW (P), a contract employee, in Washington, D.C., April - November 1956, and in Bangkok, Thailand, November - December 1956. SMIGELOW (P) subsequently served with WVF (TPGLARE) in Paris, 1957 - 1959, and with AFME (ZRTINDER) in New York, 1962 - 1967. He was terminated at the end of 1967.APSA served as the ostensible sponsor of travel by Bek Bahadur Thapa (T) from California to D.C. for the July 1959 APSA annual meeting. Funding was via other channels.APSA was used in October 1965 as the point of contact in D.C. for an individual whose travel to the U.S. was sponsored by TAF (DTPILLAR).The Executive Director of APSA has long been Evron Kirkpatrick, who heads the exposed OPR (119) (JMTUBA/IUEXTEND). APSA received a legitimate 1966 grant from J. M. Kaplan Fund. (101).SENSITIVESECRET
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SECRET20. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Manhattan,    New York (35)Used on a negotiated basis in 1956 to provide an ostensible grant to CAZAR for residence in Germany. Actual payments were by black-bag.Made legitimate grants to Foreign Policy Association (59) and Governmental Affairs Institute (68).21. Middle East Institute (MEI) - Washington, D.C. (111)Provided CCS-negotiated cover for Geoffrey D. LEONAR (P) in Baghdad, Iraq, 1959 - 1961, supplementing a cover grant from the Institute of Public Administration (IPA) (84) which was reimbursed by the exposed Marshall Foundation, in turn reimbursed by the Patman exposed Beacon Fund. LEONDAR (P) remained in Baghdad 1961 - 1963 under the cover of the subsequently exposed IPA (84) and the vulnerable notional Academic Research Society (N-36). He was in Beirut and the U.S. 1963 - 1967 under other notional covers. He was denounced as CIA by the UAR press in 1964. He converted to a staff employee under nominal Army civilian cover in June 1967 for Headquarters duty.MEI provided cover in Cairo, 1960 - 1963, for Fred K. NELDIN (P) an Army employee under ACSI Project CRAZY-BONES. MEI was reimbursed by CCS notional Academic Research Society (N-34).22. Phelps-Stokes Fund- Manhattan, New York (LPCORSET/23) (125)Provided cover for Bruce E. DAMASKUS (P), a former USNSA (WSCHILD) official, in Kenya and East Africa 1963 - 1965 under Project HBEPITONE. DAMASKUS (P) received two grants ($6,034 and $4,000) from Phelps-Stokes, which were reimbursed by the MHDOWEL exposed Tower Fund). DAMASKUS (P) resigned from the Agency in 1965.Phelps-Stokes is listed as a cooperating group in an AAT (1) (QRFLUENT) publicity brochure.
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C.## Six Project Organizations23. American Friends of Refugees, Inc. (AFR) - Manhattan, New York (13)Instrumentality of Project ARMANTILLA/CAMANTILLA which provided resettlement support of Defector Reception Center in Germany.The P/A, Augustus G. Elmendorf (T), was also an officer of the Tolstoy Foundation (138) and International Research on Communist Techniques (95) (AESTRIKER). AFR was funded by the exposed San Jacinto Fund.23ª American Friends of Russian Freedom - Manhattan, New York (14)Former name of American Friends of Refugees, Inc. (23). (See above.)24. International Research on Communist Techniquest (IRCT) - Manhattan, New York (95)Successor organization to Committee to Combat Soviet Kidnapping (CCSK) (AEPROCESS) which was established in 1954 at the initiative of Vladimir Rudin, head of the American branch of the Russian emigre organization NTS following the Khokhlov affair. (NTS was and is subsidized under SB/CA Project AEGIDEON. CCSK changed its name to IRCT The two organizations successively received sterile grants under Project AESTRIKER, FY 1954 - 1956, at $14,585 a year. IRCT published a magazine, *Behind the Soviet Lines*, which was distributed in the U.S. and the U.K. to generate opposition to Soviet acts of violence.In addition to Rudin, IRCT officers included Augustus G. Elmendorf (T) (who was also associated with AFR) (12) Project CAMANTILLA) and the Tolstoy Foundation (138) and Eugene Lyons (T) (former president of American Committee for Liberation of the Peoples of the USSR) (Project QKACTIVE) Its attorney was John F. B. Mitchell, Jr. (T), former OGC staffer and currently the backstop for Victoria Projects, an entity under DO Project WUPSYCHE.
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25. Freedom Fund, Inc. - Manhattan, New YorkEstablished under SB Project AEMIRROR and transferred around 1962 to DO as Project WUHUSTLER, CIA support terminated in 1967. Headed from its Inception by Carl T. Chadsey, Jr. (T), it was used until 1961 as a funding channel for the NTS (Project AEGIDEON), as well as a propaganda outlet.Freedom Fund, Inc. was covertly funded by the Branta (32) Renthelym (129), J. Frederick Brown (34), and Pappas Foundations. The latter two were exposed during MHDOWEL.26. International Research Institute, Inc. - Princeton, New Jersey (94)This is probably a new name for the International Institute for Social Research (IISR) in Princeton, New Jersey, which was cited in the New York Times on 26 October 1958 as receiving funds from the subsequently exposed Dearborn Foundation (49). Dearborn provided substantial covert funds, 1955 - 1962, to the Research Council, Inc. (as affiliate of the Princeton University Office of Public Opinion Research) for IISR under RQM/OIS Project FOOLPROOF for in-depth opinion studies carried out by Lloyd Free (T) and Hadley Cantril (T) in selected countries throughout the world.In 1961, through a clerical error, Dearborn (49) checks for FOOLPROOF and HTHAMABLE (see below) were reversed, making these organizations mutually witting.27. Scientific Engineering Institute, Inc. (SEI) - Cambridge, Massachusetts (132)DD/S&T proprietary Project HTNAMABLE. Ramparte has recently sought to interview some of the project principals. SEI has special sensitivity because of its prestigious and well-connected principals. It was covertly funded through the Colt (41), Magowan (108), Sunnen (135), W. Alton Jones (99), Dearborn (49), and Ridgefield Foundations. Its own 1966 990-A will show grants of $1,245,000 to Dearborn (49), Jones (99), Magowan (10g), Sunner (135), and Ridgefield Foundations.