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SECRETSecurity InformationEYES ONLY11 December 1952MEMORANDUM FOR: DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCESUBJECT: Crusade for Freedom3-53081. Admiral Miller will call upon the DDCI soon to request more funds for the Crusade for Freedom. At the present rate of expenditure, funds will run out on 31 December.2. $488,991 was budgeted for the Crusade this year. We have told Admiral Miller that since the Crusado was unable to live within this budget, we were certain that the Agency would appropriate more money to wind it up, although we have explained that his request was embarrassing because the PRC had expressly approved $456,991 instead of a larger amount in the belief that less money should be expended this year. We have asked Admiral Miller to provide us with a financial statement of the Crusade cost to date as well as a breakdown of the further amount needed.3. The Crusade this year has so far cost only a quarter of last year's expenditure and half of the amount exponded in 1950. Receipts are up, 140% over last year at this date. On the whole, a much better job has been done to date than we anticipated -- and purely in terms of the amount raised the performance has been superior.4. There is a good deal of gossip about the use of Crusade funds and I think you should be acquainted with it. Because the Crusade is a rather public enterprise, the gossip has occasionally been sounded not only within NCFE and this Agency but also among "semi-witting" private citizens who have been enlisted for short-term fund-raising on an unpaid basis. The gossip is that a good deal of money has found its way into the private hands of local Crusade chairmen and workers. In one instance, it is said, involving a local chairman in Minnesota, the amount which reached private hands was enough to build a new home. Another story I have heard repeated by different people on different occasions is that in the state of Nevada and certain other locales no money received by fund-raising chairmen last year was ever türned in to Headquarters, and no report ever made. Another item which someSECRETSecurity InformationEYES ONLY
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-2-EYES CHLYof the people in the New York office talk about is the payment of $37,500 to Fred C. Smith, who worked for approximately one month in drawing up a Dimes for Freedom campaign which, as you recall, was rejected as a basis for this year's campaign.5. No accounting of Crusade funds expended in the field has ever been made, and in a fund-raising campaign it is perhaps impossible to do so. Nevertheless, recorde involving payments for expense money to private citizens ongaged for the duration of the campaign are chaotic. You will recall that Spencer Phenix, Treasurer of NCFE, refuses to have anything to do with expenditures for the Crusade.6. Since we are winding up the Crusade this year and will attempt to place it on a more reliable basis through the Heritage Foundation, I suggest that you assure Admiral Miller that funds sufficient to wind up the Crusade will be forthcoming and that you instruct the 10 Division to expedite a project granting these funds. I further suggest that in view of the allegations above, which I repeat for your private background information, you keep the position of the Agency faultless by requesting from Admiral Miller a budget in as much detail as possible for the amount necessary to liquidate the Crusade.Thomas BradenTHOMAS W. BRADENChiefInternational Organizations Division
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SECRETSecurity Information17 July 1952MEMORANDUM TO: Acting Deputy Director (Administration)FROM: Acting Chief, Administrative Staff (Special)SUBJECT: Conference with TPTONIC Management re TPTONIC/CIA Agreement1. On 9 July 1952 Mr. Echols and I conferred with the President and the Treasurer of the TPTONIC organization regarding the fiscal portion of the proposed Agreement to be reached between CIA and TFTONIC.2. The purpose of the conference was to extend to the TPTONIC management an offer of aid in the interpretation and implementation of the fiscal phase of the Agreement in response to TOIMC's request for assistance in this connection.3. Our statement of the Agency's position may be summarized briefly as follows:a. The Agency is insistent upon obtaining the detailed information regarding TONIC's activities which is essential in order to fulfill the Agency's fundamental policy, fiscal, and security responsibilities. The great size to which TONIC has grown makes it necessary for the Agency to take a closer interest in, TONIC's activities than it has in the past.b. Although final concurrence in an Agreement has not bean reached by TONIC, it is necessary that revision of the financial budget be commenced immediately if PRC budget approval is to be obtained as soon as possible after a final Agreement has been reached. The budget document must be expanded in order to provide reasonably detailed information not only as to proposed changes from the previous year's activities but also regarding the continuing activities as well. Without this additional information there is lacking sufficient data on which to base the approval of any allotment of funds.4. The President assured us that a revision of the budget would be undertaken immediately to provide not only the information the Agency requires but also to eliminate incompletely planned, vaguely foreseen requirements. He assured us that the revision would be completed in time to permit a review, prior to its presentation to the PRC, for the purpose of determining that the document attains the standards set forth in the Agreement. The Treasurer concluded that he was sufficiently familiar with the terms of the fiscal portion of the Agreement to be able to satisfy its requirements, but promised to call upon us if he should desire further clarification.SECRETSecurity Information
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-2-SECRET5. In orior to avoid later casunderstandings wo set forth briefly the concept of financial control contemplated in the budot soction of the Agrooment. Wo noted that the Agency must have confidence that the programs of the various TOMIC divisions are carried out to the approximato axtont proposed in the Agency approved budget since other Agency plans must be synchronized harmoniously with TOMC's approved program. Accordingly, the principle of establishing an expenditure coiling for each of the TOUIC divisions is regarded by the Agency as fundamental with which intor-division transfers without Agency approval would be incompatible. We assured the Prosicent it positivoly was not the intent of the Agency to lift managerial responsibility from TONIC's own hands, and that the controls contemplated by the Agreement are almod not at stifling managerial activity but rather to the attainment of the minimum chocks which the Agency fools it must insiot upon in view of the scope and importance of the TOEIC program in the fulfilment of the Agency's own responsibilities and mission.6. The President expressed hie appreciation of the Agency's viowpoint in the mattor of financial control although he did not expressly commit TONIC to its adoption. He did, however, promise to undertake a point by point review of the terms of the Agreement immediately so that the specific areas of doubt or disagreement may be localized and disposed of in further negotiations.7. This Staff feels that thore is in reality no misunclorotankiing of the Agreement on the part of TONIC nor any lack of technical confidence to carry out its tems. The problem of attaining and understanding, thoro- fore, comes to nothing more than a determination by TONIC management to accept the minimum of control upon which the Agency is insistent.Frederick W. RichardsActing Chief, AdministrativeStaff (Special)Distribution:Acting DD/A - Orig.CCC - 1IO Division - 1AS/S Chrono - 1SECRETSecurity Info قرار
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# SECRETSecurity InformationER 3-091715 July 1952MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD:SUBJECT:National Committee for Free Europe; proposed employment of Mr. Leland Stowe.REFERENCE:Hemo from Security Officer to DCI dated 12 January, and attachments.1.  As the result of an extensive consideration of the problem created by the NCFE offer of employment to Leland Stowe, and in light of the adverse information concerning Mr.Stowe's past connections and affiliations with certain organizations, it was decided by the Director upon the recommendations of Massrs. Dulles, Hedden and the undersigned that Mr. Stowe should not be employed by NCFE as Chief of the RFE information collection program.2.  When Admiral Miller was informed today of this decision, together with the reasons upon which it was based, he and his staff immediately proceeded to re-examine the entire problem and within an hour-and-one-half communicated to the undersigned an entirely new proposition concerning Mr. Stowe, of which the following were the principal elements:a. In line with the Director's decision, Mr. Stowe would not be employed by NCFE as Chief of the information collection activity of RFE.b. In lieu thereof he would be offered a contract as a "consultant and contributor of information" for a six-months term.c. He would not be offered a salary but would be placed on a fee basis, and paid according to the amount of work and material which he contributes.d. Thus he will not become an official of RFI or NCPE, and will not be in such a position as to enable anyone to maintain that he guides the policy of or controls the flow of information to Radio Free Europe.SECRETSecurity Information
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# SECRETSecurity Information- 2 -e. Subject to prior aproval from our security office, Admiral Miller and Mr. Lang will endeavor to securo the services of either Mr. Cy Burgin of the Time-life organization, or Mr. Russell Hill of the New York !lerald Tribune as Chief of the information collection activity of Radio Free Europe. They are both regarded as co potent and experienced individuals, and Mr. Hurgin has already indicated his interest in this position if it were open.3. The proponal described in the preceding paragraph was submitted to Mr. Dulles and to Mr. Braden by the undersigned, and they both exprossed their approval. Mr. Dulles sald that, on the basis of aur discussion with the Director, he folt cortain that this arrangemont would be acceptable from the standpoint of CIA. The Admiral was so advised by the undersigned and expressed himself as being entirely satisfied and very pleased. He undertook to check through Mr. Eraden on the acceptability from a security standpoint of Messrs. Burgin and H111.4. One other aspect of this matter is worth recording for future reference: Mr. Hedden has stated that he has been woll acquainted with Mr. Stowo for many years, having known him in college and having followed his carcer rather closely. On the basis of everything ho. knowa about Mr. Stowe, Mr. Hedden is convinced that Mr. Stowe 18 a loyal American citizen and that there would be no real risk in his case on the issue of loyalty as such. In the opinion of Mr. Hedden, Mr. Stove's past proclivity for becoming involved with left-wing move-mente (some of them presently regarded as subversive) is not a commentary on his loyalty but rather on his judement. At times bofore and during the war he was prone to hop onto popular bandwagons and to take a line in his writinge and broadcasts that seemed to be popular at the time. In other words, he is an opportuntat by nature and prone to take up causer which appeal to him as having wide popular interest and support as of any given moment. This propensity on the part of Mr. Stowo is not without its professional and commercial aspects.EnclsReferences.DD/P-FO/Jm![signature of Frank C. Wisner]FRANK C. WISNERDistributionsOrig. DCI, DDCI, IG with enclosures.cc -C/IO-1Security Officer-1ER-1DD/P chrono-1SECRETSecurity Inforination
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SECRETSECURITY INFORMATION14 July 1952MEMORANDUM FOR: DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCESUBJECT: Transmittal of Papers on NCFE Views on Yugoslavia1. Here are NOPE's views on Yugoslavia which you asked for.2.  I am worried about item d) in particular. The other items may be justifiable on the grounds that we have to take care of people in this country, but item d) may seem to be taking unnecessary forward steps.3. As you suggested, we have asked the State Department for a review of the entire national council policy, and I am sure we will get State's views on Yugoslavia at this time.THOMAS W. BRADENChiefInternational Organizations Division2 Attachments1. Ltr to Allen Dulles from Leonard Siann dtd 7 July 52.2. Memo dtd 2 July 52 to NOPE views on Yugoslavia.CIO:TWB:ehOrig - Addressee (thru DD/P)1 cc - CIO2 cc - IO/DD/C2 cc - RISECRET
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MEMORANDUM FOR: DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCESUBJECT: Briefing of Secretary of the Army on 17 December on NCFZ and CFA1. On 17 December, I briefed Secretary of the Army Pace on the subjects of the National Committee for a Free Europe and the Committee for a free Asia.2. The briefing covered both physical assets and concepts. Secretary Pace asked many questions, for example:a. How did NCFZ handle the problem of Yugoslav exiles and at the same time use the Yugoslavian defection as an argument in its broadcasts to Iron Curtain countries?b. How much did the State Department have to say about the day-to-day operations?.c. The duties of the President?In addition, he expressed great enthusiasm over the concept of the two Committees and in general for the concept of covert psychological warfare. He interrupted at one point to talk at some length about his belief that while it was essential to continue to draft boys as soldiers and produce rifles, it was just as essential, and in the long run more conducive to ultimate peace, to wage the argument for democracy to a questioning world in a covert manner. He indicated that he thought very little of the government's overt propaganda program and that from what he knew about the government's covert program as conducted by CIA, it was the effective means to the end.THOMAS W. BRADENChiefInternational Organizations Division![signature]
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TRANSMITTAL SLIPTO:BUILDINGREMARKSsent to n. y. 23 July 1952To Dunke: I thinkthe content ofWiesner memo,aught to be relayed toMiller, Walsh et al.Return to E Hill for fileFROM:BUILDINGROOM NO.EXTENSIONFORM NO. 36-8SECRETSecurity Information14 July 1952 For MillerMEMORANDUMI would certainly be inclined to agree with FOW on the importance of a dignified "worthy cause" sort of campaign. Moreover I would scrupulously avoid any activity which might cast doubt on the good faith of the Crusade (e.g., "We save our money for balloons at Christmas - where are they?")RELFELSECRETSecurity Information
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SECRETSecurity InformationER 3-07329 July 1952MEMORUM FOR: Deputy Director of Central IntelligenceSUBJECT: Proposed Campaign of the Crusade for Freedom (ER 2-0686).1. Please note the attached Inquiry from Tom Braden, in which he raises two questions with respect to balloons. The following are my recommendations on the two questions, respectively:a. I see no objection to reference by the Freedom Crusade campaign to the use of balloons, provided this is handled with care. By this I mean that it would be all right for the Crusade to refer to its former use of balloons and the effectiveness of this use, and also to say that the National Committee for a Free Europe will, on an appropriate occasion and at the right time, make further use of balloons. It would be wrong and unwise for many reasons to make a flat statement as to the exact time and content of further balloon operations. There is no point in thus telegraphing our punch to the opposition, and it would get us into trouble if we were to be too specific about the timing and subject matter of any new messages.b. I would be very much opposed to the stunts such as dropping Christmas leaflets out of balloons over packed football stadiums. This is the kind of flamboyant publicity which we have agreed not to undertake this year, and incidentally which makes us look as though we were in the class with commercial advertisers or irresponsible and playful student *pranksters*, or both. I thought Abbott Washburn had gone to help Ike!![Signature]WRAY G. WISNERDeputy Director (Plans).Encl (1)E: 3-0686, dtd 7 JulyDD/P-rsm/bjmDistribution:Orig - addressee w/att1 cc - ER1 cc - DD/P chronoSECRETSecurity Information
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SECURITY INFORMATIONSECRET7 July 1952MEMORANDUM FOR: DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCESUBJECT: Request for Decision as to whether Crusade for Freedom Campaign Boginning 15 November may use a Dropping of Leaflets Theme in its Propaganda.Executive Registry3-06861. Admiral Miller of NCFE has appointed a new head for Crusado for Freedom, Mr. Richard Walsh, formerly of the State Department. Mr. Walsh has submitted a new plan for the Crusade for Freedom campaign to begin November 15. The campaign will be based upon the idea of sending Christmas message leaflets behind the iron curtain with publicity that the Crusade for Freedom will use balloons among other methods for this purpose. It was originally contemplated that the Crusade would in fact send balloons as it did last year. Bearing in mind, however, the DCI's warning about using any propaganda device which might give the Soviet a weapon in its bactoriological warfare campaign, we have instructed the Crusade that there will be no actual transmission of balloons.2. Will it be permissible for the Crusade to publicize the use of balloons, to employ such stunts as dropping the Christmas leaflets out of balloons over packed football stadiums in the United States and to give the general impression that balloons will be one of tho ways to carry messages from the American people behind the iron curtain, even though they will in fact not be employed?3. You will appreciate that an immediate decision is essential.![signature of Thomas W. Braden]THOMAS W. BRADENChiefInternational Organizations DivisionDistribution:Original - DDCI through DD/Pcc: ADPC - 1CIO - 1IO/TONIC - 2RI - 2.SECRET
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SECRET14 July 1952MEMORANDUM FOR: MR. WALTER FORZHETHEROffice of the General CounselSUBJECT: Follow-up on your report of 26 June 1952 re: Captain Stanislaw Vakiorka.1. The following report of 2 July 1952, is a reply to our presentation to the Admiral of the subject report:"I have questioned Tom about the matter cited in your letter of 30 June 1952, File Number-3039. Tom states that the facts are as follows:1. By letter dated March 20, 1952, Congressman Robert Tripp Rose requested consideration for the employment of Captain Uskierka. The latter was interviewed on several occasions, and prospects of his employment were fully examined. After careful consideration, it developed that Oskierka was not useful in any division of our operation, and there was no job for him. He was personally informed by Tom in a subsequent interview on May 6, 1952, in which Oskierka expressed his understanding of the situation.2. Under date of May 23, 1952, Congressman Ross again wrote us stating that Oskierka had contacted him again about the possibilities of a job with us. I wrote the Congressman under date of June 5, 1952, telling him that, although we had made every effort to place him, we were unable to offer Vakiorka a position.3. On or about June 25, 1952, Congressman Ross' local secretary telephoned my office inquiring about Oskierka. My secretary referred her to Tom who then talked at some length with Congressman Ross' secretary. He told the latter that we had no position for Uskierka and that we had so informed the Congressman by letter above cited. In the course of the conversation, the secretary inquired as to what suggestions we could offer relative to such a position for Vakierka as would be useful in procuring an extension of his visitor's visa. Tom stated that he might suggest to the Congressman that he might make inquiry in Uskierka's behalf in various government agencies in Washington, stating that Vakierka seemed to have various useful talents which might interest someone other than us.
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-2-SECRETSECURITY INFORMATION4. Tom has never talked with Congressman Ross. Tom did not state to his secretary or to anyone else that Congress an itors' candidate might be able to get a position with you. Ton states that he knows better for obvious reasons than to make any such suggestion to anyone.For your wore complete information in this matter, a copy of an internal memorandum is enclosed.Sincerely/s/ H. B. Willer "2. We should like to know if the information you obtained from CIA porsonnel agrees with this report.THOMAS W. BRADENChiefInternational Organizations DivisionEncls-1.copyIO/TUNIC: NBV/hkaDistributions:Orig:- Addresseo2 co- C/102 cc- IO/TORIC2 cc RI
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SECRL.SECURITY INFORMATIONMay 27, 1952MemorandumTO:FROM:SUBJECT: Captain Stanislaw UskiorkaThere are no prospects for utilizingCaptain Uskierka's services by the Fund.I must say that I do not like the behavior of Oskiorka in again trying to pressure us via Congressman Ross. As the attached file shows, he has been most courteously treated here; every effort has been made to place him; and he has expressed himself as being pleased with the treatment and attention accorded him. I personally informed him and explained in great detail that his background made it impossible for us to use him here. He stated to me that he thoroughly understood this and that he was quite satisfied that we had examined the proposition throughly.I don't suppose that it can be told to Congressman Ross, but Bernie Yarrow has taken his whole story to certain of our friends to explore the possibilities of their possible interest in him since he stated to me that he is single and willing to go anywhere in the world to get into the fight.SECRET
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# SECRETSECURITY INFORMATION7 July 1952MEMORANDUM FOR: CHIEF, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS DIVISION/OPCFROM: AC/RDD/OTSSUBJECT: Evaluation of New Type of Air LeafletREFERENCE: (a) Memorandum for RDD/TES Subj: Request for Appraisal of Weiss proposal to RCPE of new type of air leaflet dtd 21 June 1952(b) Telephone discussion between C/IOD/OPC and AC/RDD/OTS on 3 July 19521. Subject proposal has been received and will be established as RDD Ad Hoc Project No. 23.2. This project will be carried out along the lines discussed in Reference (b), which will require a number of field experiments; therefore, some additional time will be needed for the complete evaluation. Information will be forwarded to you on these trials as it becomes available.3. It is noted that the samples attached to Reference (a) are approximately 1¼" by 8". It is requested that you advise whether or not this leaflet is large enough for applications you have in mind. In the event that it is not, trials will be conducted with larger size leaflets of the same pattern.L. R. DAILEYActing ChiefResearch & DevelopmentLRD:hmg# SECRETSECURITY INFORMATION
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