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# SECRET25 April 1960MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATIONSUBJECT: CPC Liaison with the Department of StatePARTICIPANTS: CP1, ES-II, Chief ARB, Chief PFB, and FAD1. Mr. Frank stated that recent cables from the CPC representative in Germany concerning the Berlin rally in May and the Congress in June had raised policy questions which required State Department coordination. He stated that as a result of these cables he had requested Mr. Harrison to discuss these policy questions with Mr. Joyce and had requested Mr. Joyce to arrange for the necessary liaison with the Office of German Affairs.2. Mr. Harrison stated that Mr. Joyce had arranged a meeting in his office where Mr. Fairbo and Mr. Peter of CPC had discussed these problems with Mr. Kellerman and Mr. Strauss of the Office of German Affairs, together with Mr. Petviak. As a result of this meeting, the Office of German Affairs dispatched a State Department telegram to Nicos indicating that the Department was coordinating with CIA on a program designed to combat the effectiveness of the Berlin rally in May. This telegram received a wide distribution in Washington as well as in the headquarters of Nicop in Frankfurt.3. Mr. Frank said that although he recognized the insecurity of the Office of German Affairs as evidenced by this telegram, he felt that it was essential for OPC to maintain liaison with the Office of German Affairs on policy matters. He proposed to recommend to Mr. Joyce that either Col. Pyrode or Mr. Geoffrey Lewis be designated as the liaison officer for the Office of German Affairs to deal with OPC on policy matters and subject to clearance in each instance with Mr. Joyce.4. The undersigned agreed with Mr. Frank's proposal subject to the understanding that such liaison would be exercised under the existing policy laid down by ADEC, namely: that OPC liaison with the Department of State will be conducted only by ADEC, SADO, or CPP, and that if this authority is delegated it will only be done so when the individual authorized is satisfied that it is essential and can be controlled, and subject to the further understanding that such liaison will not involve operational details of OPC plans and operations.C. V. H.CVR/abfcc: SADOCPPES-IIChief, PFBChief, ARBSECRET
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# SECRET# ROUTING AND RECORD SHEETINSTRUCTIONS: Officer designations should be used in the "To" column. Under each comment a line should be drawn across sheet and each comment numbered to correspond with the number in the "To" column. Each officer should initial.Check mark insufficient before further routing. This Record and Routing Sheet should be returned to Registry.FROM:CRDS| TO  | ROOM NO. | DATE  | OFFICER'S INITIALS | COMMENTS || --- | -------- | ----- | ------------------ | -------- || 1.  |          | REC'D | FRD'D              |          || FB- |          |       |                    |          || 2.  |          |       |                    |          || 3.  |          |       |                    |          || 4.  |          |       |                    |          || 5.  |          |       |                    |          || 6.  |          |       |                    |          || 7.  |          |       |                    |          || 8.  |          |       |                    |          || 9.  |          |       |                    |          || 10. |          |       |                    |          || 11. |          |       |                    |          || 12. |          |       |                    |          || 13. |          |       |                    |          || 14. |          |       |                    |          || 15. |          |       |                    | File PD  |FORM NO. 81.10APR 19484563 SECRET
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SECRET28 April 1950MEMORANDUM FOR: MT. THOMAS K. STRATON, FOD/ESESUBJECT: Slow-burning Fuse1. It is requested that one crate of fifty units of slow-burning fuse be procured for OFC. This fuse is a Barium-selenium Oxide mixture, made up in a quarter-inch lead tube, with a burning time of 279 seconds per unit.2. It is further requested that Dr. John H. Jeffries, Consultant, PIC/OPC, be authorised to purchase this fuse, for which he will be reimbursed. (The estimated cost of one crate will be $46.86.) Charges for this procurement should be made against Project SCHOUND.3. The above-mentioned fuse is to be delivered to CRDS on 27 April 1950 by Mr. Jeffries. After sufficient testing and formulation of instructions, CRDS will turn the fuse over to Mr. John Baker, FB-III, Operations Division, OFC.L. R. DAILEYActing ChiefResearch and DevelopmentAPPROVED:John L. BakerChief of Operationscc: FB-IIICOSLRD/drSECRET
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TRANSMITTALTO: Th. Jefon BakerBUILDING ROOM NO.REMARKS:Let's discuss.![drawing of some flowers]FROM: C.O.BUILDING ROOM NO. EXTENSIONFORM NO. 36-8
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SECRETApril 24, 1950Berlin Congress for Cultural Freedom, June 26-30, 1950.Professor Sidney Hook, Head, Department of Philosophy, New York University.Mr. Bruce Buttles, GAI.GKR - Mr. Henry A. ByroadeS/P - Mr. Robert P. JoyceThe undersigned called upon Professor Hook at his home, 696-A Third Street, Brooklyn 15, N. Y., at 3:00 o'clock on April 22, 1950 to discuss domestic arrangements in support of the Congress, for which Professor Hook has been designated American representative. There were no other persons present.Professor Hook opened the conversation by emphasizing the need to minimize the Government's interest in the Congress. He felt that it was essential to retain the appearance of a completely private venture. I assured him this was also the Department's view. Referring to the status of Melvin J. Lasky, secretary of the Congress in Berlin, as an employee of HICOG, Professor Hook then said he thought Mr. Lasky should be given a leave of absence in order to carry through the project in a private capacity. I promised to look into this problem, and commented that it could not be done readily without Mr. Lasky's cooperation. I also suggested that since Mr. Lasky to my knowledge was spending some of his personal funds on preparations for the Congress, it would only be fair to look for some other source of income for Mr. Lasky during such time as he might be on leave from Government service.SECRETOn continuing
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SECRET-3-of the Times. He would like to invite Luce himself, but doubted if it would be politically desirable. At this point, I suggested inviting Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, and Professor Hook thought that might be the answer to his dilemma.To handle the publicity Professor Hook thought he might hire Arnold Beichman (20 East 24th Street, New York), who is editor of a trade union paper in New York. Beichman handled press matters successfully for the anti-Communist demonstration last March. Professor Hook could make the first necessary arrangements himself, but would be glad to have any offer of assistance come to him through the offices of the New Leader, at 7 East 15th Street, New York 3. Telephone: Spring 7-8260.I suggested that there was some indication that the Advertising Council might be able to find some space or other publicity assistance, and Professor Hook said he would be most grateful for that type of help. He hoped that the people concerned would approach him in the near future.GER:GAI:BButtlestesSECRETLuce 101. 85401
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SECRET14 April 1950MEMORANDUM FOR: SALOSUBJECT: Congress for Cultural FreedomOne of the most pressing problems in connection with the proposed Intellectual Freedom Congress to be held in Berlin is the matter of providing funds for transportation of delegates. We have conceived the possibility of two or three organizations overtly financing trips for cultural and intellectual leaders from various countries. The money thus provided will be deposited with the American Express Company with instructions to honor transportation requests from persons holding bona fide invitations to the Congress endorsed by one of the sponsoring organizations.It is expected that there will be a total of approximately 60 delegates. At this date, the following persons have been invited:EnglandBertrand Russell, PhilosopherJulian Huxley, BiologistR.H.S. Crossman, M.P. and AuthorVictor Gollancz, PublisherStephen Spender, EditorFranceAndré Gide, AuthorArthur Koestler, AuthorDavid Rousset, EditorGermanyKarl Jaspers, PhilosopherAlfred Weber, SociologistCarlo Schmid, PoliticianEugen Kogon, EditorItalyBenedetto Croce, Author and PoliticianIgnazio Silone, NovelistCarlo Levi, AuthorSECRETFile: PDJuick
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SECRET- 2 -United StatesJohn Dewey, philosopherReinhold Niebuhr, theologian and publicistSidney Hook, philosopher and writerAlso the following:Herbert ReadRaymond AronHarry HoureHendrik BrugmansFrode JakobsenDavid WilliamsIrving BrownFrancois BondyEduard HolitiNorbert MuhlenAlexander MitscherlichDolf SternbergerWilliam PhillipsFrans BorkenauPeter de MendelssohnDavid RoussetJ.E.R.FEIII/10/tacc: CI/C lag (2)FEIII ChronoFEIII FileSECRET
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# SECRET## ROUTING AND RECORD SHEETINSTRUCTIONS: Officer designations should be used in the "to" column. Under each comment a line should be drawn across sheet and each comment numbered to correspond with the number in the "To"coluan. Each officer should initial Check mark insufficient before further routing. This Recard and Houting Sheet should be returned to Registry.FROM:| TO  | ROOM NO. | DATE REC'D | DATE FWD'D | OFFICER'S INITIALS | NO. | DATE | COMMENTS   || --- | -------- | ---------- | ---------- | ------------------ | --- | ---- | ---------- || 1.  |          |            |            |                    |     |      | J. Finmett || 2.  |          |            |            |                    |     |      |            || 3.  |          |            |            |                    |     |      |            || 4.  |          |            |            |                    |     |      |            || 5.  |          |            |            |                    |     |      |            || 6.  |          |            |            |                    |     |      |            || 7.  |          |            |            |                    |     |      |            || 8.  |          |            |            |                    |     |      |            || 9.  |          |            |            |                    |     |      |            || 10. |          |            |            |                    |     |      |            || 11. |          |            |            |                    |     |      |            || 12. |          |            |            |                    |     |      |            || 13. |          |            |            |                    |     |      |            || 14. |          |            |            |                    |     |      |            || 15. |          |            |            |                    |     |      |            |FORM NO. 31.10APR 1949SECRET
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# SECRET12 April 1950MEMORANDUM FOR: Kenneth H. HambleySUBJECT: Letter of Instructions1. Departure and ArrivalYou will proceed on or about 13 April 1950 to Frankfurt, Germany, reporting upon your arrival there to the Chief of the VIkiva Mission through arrangements of which you have been advised orally. From Frankfurt you will proceed to Berlin in accordance with further arrangements of which the Chief of VIkiva German Mission will apprise you. En route to Frankfurt you are authorized to stop over, for a period not to exceed 4 days, in Paris if you deem such a step advisable in the furtherance of your mission. You will leave Berlin, Germany, on or about 7 May 1950 and return to the home station. En route to the home station you will be authorized to stop over at such other European cities, and for such amounts of time, as may subsequently be approved by the home office upon your recommendation. You will be responsible for procuring all of your own travel facilities and hotel accommodations at the cities in which you stay.2. CoverYour cover is that of a free-lance writer and lecturer visiting Europe to procure material for future publications. Your general appearance and conduct at all times must be in keeping with this cover. You will not carry any classified material with you while traveling. You are not to recognize other employees of this agency unless arrangements have been made in advance or unless you can do so in full keeping with your cover. You will not attract attention to yourself either by acts uncharacteristic of your cover or by the absence of actions consistent with your cover. While in Germany you may be asked to act for a period as a special consultant to the Office of the High Commissioner. Acceptance of such an appointment by you is considered to be in keeping with your cover. Within your cover you are authorized also to accept invitations to lecture on subjects not directly related to your primary mission.SECRET
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SECRET-2-3. Duties and Responsibilitiesa. OperationalYou have been thoroughly briefed on projects SGHound and PDQuick, and you will undertake such operational activities in connection with these projects as fall within the instructions you receive from the Chief of the VLkiva Mission and his authorized representative. In carrying out these operational activities, you will avoid drawing public attention to yourself to the maximum possible extent, and you will in particular avoid, for the purposes of this trip, publicly associating yourself with project PDQuick. This injunction, however, will not prevent your meeting privately with any other individuals concerned with either the overt or covert phases of the project. You will, in addition, act as consultant to the Chief of the VIkiva Mission and his authorized representatives on such other matters as they may wish to bring to your attention.4. SecurityYou are specifically charged with both physical and operational security in connection with matters which you handle and for which you are given responsibility.![signature]
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BNCP-304 April 1960SUBJECT:Congress for Cultural FreedomTO:Jonathan S. Gearing1. Berlin newspapers have recently carried a dpa announce- ment of a Congress for Cultural Freedom to be held during the last week of June 1950. The notices in DER TAGESSPIEGEL and DER TAG of 2 April and in DIE NEUE ZEITUNG and TELEGRAF of 4 April were all similar and brief - about one inch in length. DAS BERLINER STADTBLATT (Social Democrat) of 2 April, however, carried a large(2"x 7"), front-page article.2. The dpa text of the former newspapers was generally as follows:A Congress for Cultural Freedom will be held in Berlin during the last week of June. The Berlin Committee which is preparing the Congress consists of Ernst Reuter, Lord Mayor of Berlin, Professor Edwin Redslob, Rector of the Berlin Free University, and Dr. Otto Suhr, Director of the Berlin Hochschule fuer Politik. Melvin J. Lasky, Editor of the international review DER MONAT, will act as General Secretary to the congress.3. The article in the Berliner Stadblatt contains the infor- mation of the dpa release and adds the following:It is believed that a large number of prominent writers and men of learning will attend the Congress. Among others, the following men are expected to parti- cipate: Author Ignazio SILONE (Italy), Professors Julian HUXLEY (England) and Sidney HOOK (USA), Poet Arnulf OVERLAND (Norway) and Ture NERMAN (Sweden) as well as David ROUSSET and Arthur KOESTLER.MATTHEW T. CHRISTIEDist:cc: H.O. (3)Bingham (1)
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SECRET# ROUTING AND RECORD SHEETINSTRUCTIONS: Officer designetes in the "To" column. Under each comment a line should be drawn across sheet and each comment relates to correspond with the number in the "To" column. Each officer should initial(Check mark insufficient before further routing. This Record and Routing Sheet should be returned to Registry.FROM:Staff II, ASB/III| TO          | ROOM NO. | DATE        | OFFICER'S INITIALS | COMMENTS || ----------- | -------- | ----------- | ------------------ | -------- || 1. Wm Baker | 2202     | REC'D FEC'D |                    | Kile     || 2.          |          |             |                    |          || 3.          |          |             |                    |          || 4.          |          |             |                    |          || 5.          |          |             |                    |          || 6.          |          |             |                    |          || 7.          |          |             |                    |          || 8.          |          |             |                    |          || 9.          |          |             |                    |          || 10.         |          |             |                    |          || 11.         |          |             |                    |          || 12.         |          |             |                    |          || 13.         |          |             |                    |          || 14.         |          |             |                    |          || 15.         |          |             |                    |          |SECRETFORM NO. $1.10APR 1949
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SECRET11 April 1950LEORANDUM FOR: MR. BABERSUBJECT: PDQUICK and TFPIKER1.  I refer to the attached memorandum of 7 April 1950 addressed to you by Mr. Glaser.2.  I refer particularly to paragraph 4 sentence 2 of the above memorandum and to FRAN 117 paragraph 1, B.3.  My suggestion in this regard is as follows:I suggest that we do not desire for FDQUICK a Rhino Circular to Embassies similar to the circular supporting QKIVORY, because a circular of that sort is not essential and would unnecessarily invite attention to the U. S. interest in FDQUICK.4.  A copy of the QKIVORY circular is attached for your information.J. C. DENBYJCD/aafSECRET
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COPYCONFIDENTIALCIRCULAR AIRGRAM21 June 1949TO: Certain American Diplomatic OfficersThe Formation of National Committee for Free Europe, Inc., with headquarters in New York, was announced on June 1, 1949. This Committee is a private organization concerning itself with democratic leaders and scholars who are exiled from the following countries: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria. The Committee will be financed by private contributions.The following is quoted from a statement issued by Joseph C. Grew, Chairman of the Committee in announcing its formation:"Our program begins with the tangible fact of the presence here of these exiles and refugees. There is an American tradition of hospitality to political refugees. The promise which we gave at Yalta remains unredeemed. More than that we have a definite self-interest in helping to keep alive, and in full vigor political leaders who share our view of life--leaders who have refused to knuckle under, men who have not hesitated to risk their lives for their democratic faith. As item No. 1 in our immediate program we propose--have in fact already begun--to find suitable occupations for these democratic exiles... we are setting out to find suitable positions for them in colleges and universities. We are proposing to ask others of them to prepare studies on topics for which they are especially equipped... At the same time we are encouraging each national group of exiles to draw together politically--all democratic elements, that is, these other than Fascists or Communists--in order to form in their temporary American haven National Committees which can stand as symbols of democratic hope for their countrymen in Eastern Europe.... We look forward to the day when there will no longer be an Iron Curtain....and these six nations which we helped liberate from the Nazi oppression will be free from the Communist oppression and once more can organize their existence in their own way. When that time comes there will be something close to social chaos and political vacuum, for the first effort of totalitarian regimes is to destroy all constructive elements which might build anything different from themselves. Looking forward to that historic and critical time we have in mind that, if meanwhile democratic leaders have been helped to keep alive and in vigor in the democratic havens to which they have been driven we can hope that, returning, they will have parts in a democratic reconstruction. Our second purpose will be to put the voices of these exiled political leaders on the air, addressed to their own peoples back in Europe, in their own languages, in familiar tones. We shall help them also if we can to get their messages back by the printed word... If course we are not going to compete with the Voice of America. We shall en-"CONFIDENTIAL
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CONFIDENTIALdeavor to supplement the Voice of America, for the Voice isunder restrictions by reason of its official character. It isour American habit not to leave everything to government. Inthe field of the contest of ideas there is much which privateinitiative can accomplish best. The third and final point inour immediate program is to set out at once to bring the exiledleaders into a broad contact with American life. Our ideais to enable these proven champions of democracy to see withtheir own eyes how freedom and democracy are working out in theUnited States ...I have no doubt that as we go along otheractivities will be added to our program..."Members of the Committee, as of 1 June 1942 were: Frank Altochul(Treasurer), Hamilton Fish Armstrong, A. A. Berle, Frances Biddle,...Robert Woods Bliss, Hugh A. Drum, Allen W. Dulles, Dwight D.Eisenhower, Mark Ethridge, James A. Farley, William Green, JosephC. Grew (Chairman), Charles R. Hook, Arthur Bliss Lane, Henry R.Luce, Arthur W. Page, DeWitt C. Poole (Executive Secretary),Charles H. Spofford, Charles T. Tart, DeWitt Wallace, Matthew Woll.For your information, the Department has been continually in-formed of the process of formation of the Committee, although theDepartment has no active concern with the Committee's activities;it has given its unofficial approval to the Committee's objectives.Because of the implicitly political nature of the Committee's work,there will be coordination between it and the Department. We expectthat the Committee will cooperate in every way toward the accomplish-ment of our objectives in Eastern Europe and of the general aims ofour foreign policy.CONFIDENTIAL
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# SECRETMINUTES OF MEETINGDATE: 9 April 150SUBJECT: PROJECT and PPIALAPRESENT: Boers, Glaser, Denty, Chester, Drollor, Smith.1. Discussion of arrangements made for departure and cover for James Turnham. Mr. Smith will handle details.2. It was agreed that a recommendation be made to CO that two members of this committee, representing CO and CPI, respectively, be given authority to take emergency action on cables received out of normal hours of sort requiring emergency handling; it being anti-cipated that such emergencies may arise in connection with projects POWER and PDQUICK over any of the weekends between the present date and 1 June.3. FRAN 113 (IN 21595) was considered in detail and all items in paragraph 1 and 2 were approved. With reference to item F of paragraph 2, project LONATH PLAN 111 (IN 21715), Mr. Denby assumed the responsibility for clearing this matter with the State Department through Mr. Offis, and if a favorable response is received, a cable of concurrence will be sent to the field.With reference to paragraph 3, it was proposed by Mr. Droller that items A and I to combined. That is, that no scare be created with reference to lutonic plaque or other serious diseases but that a campaign be instituted to the effect that the water of East Berlin in seriously contaminated and is causing dysentery, that warnings to issued and published in the press sympathetically urging the pop lace of East Berlin, including the FTJ participants, not to drink the water.