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Exhibit 852

I'm Glad the CIA Is 'Immoral' (Thomas W. Braden), Saturday Evening Post, pp. 10, 12, 14

Exhibit 852 ยท Magazine article

I'm Glad the CIA Is 'Immoral' (Thomas W. Braden), Saturday Evening Post, pp. 10, 12, 14

Money for both the orchestra's tour and the magazine's publication came from the CIA, and few outside the CIA knew about it.

First-person account by a former CIA officer who describes starting the Agency's International Organizations Division and funding labor, student and cultural groups. He says the CIA paid for the Boston Symphony tour and for Encounter, placed one agent in the Congress for Cultural Freedom and another as an editor of Encounter, and suggested raising money from 'American foundations.'

Source
The Saturday Evening Post (author Thomas W. Braden)
Date
20 May 1967
Quoted from
Page 12, column 3 (checked against page image)
Grade
Reported
Document
https://archive.org/details/im-glad-the-cia-is-immoral-by-thomas-w.-braden-the-saturday-evening-post-may-20-1967-pp.-10-12-14
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit
Note
Own words of a former Agency officer; a primary Agency document on the Encounter funding is not in this set.

Cited by

Finding POL-7.4
Primary record A 1995 article by Michael Warner, hosted by the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence, states that the Congress for Cultural Freedom, publisher of Encounter, "is widely considered one of the CIA's more daring and effective Cold War covert operations," that the Agency arranged a separation in 1966, and that its CIA sponsorship was exposed in 1967. Former CIA officer Thomas Braden wrote on 20 May 1967 that CIA money paid for Encounter and that "few outside the CIA knew about it."