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In accordance with DCI instructions, an OSO representative
will confer in New York with Mr. Louis Budenz, whose offer
of services to General Eisenhower has been referred to
the Director. On several previous.occasions, pressure of
other business has forces Mr. Budenz to cancel meetings sought
by OSO.
Mr. J. A. Waters, AEC Director of Security, has expressed
appreciation to OSO for its surveillance of the atomic scientist
Sergio de Benedetti during his recent trip to Europe.
OPC
In its program to discourage illegal West German economic aid
to the Soviet bloc, ClA has planted a series of articles in
the Hamburg Sunday newsppper WELT AM SONNTAG, which has a
circulation of 500,000. The articles,,prepared by a CIA agent
in cooperation with British intelligence, were planted through
a Social Democratic Party contact. They exposed-the scope
and results of the illegal East-West traffic and names those
who are profiting from these ventures.- These "balck-market
millionaires", the articles stress, would never be allowed to.
keep their wealth if the Communists whom:they have supplied
were to move into western Germany.
As part of a covert CIA campaign to bring favorable notice of
the Schuman Plan to every level of German life, Gesellachaft
Freies Europa, an affiliate of the Christian Democratic Party
financed by CIA for this operation, has printed a series of
posters designed to be displayed in the schools .of the Federal
Republic. The poster campaign, which stresses the importance
of the European trade area embraced by the Schuman Plan
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