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= © _ NY 97-1792 | yee a : "Truman Capote (who explained that ‘my stepfather is Cuban'), and pritish-born 'New Yorker’ Drama Critic Kenneth Tynan (‘aaericans tend to judge a regime on the extent to which it likes smerica'), In a seven-colum, $4,725 ad in the New Yor: "Times", the Fair Players charged that the U.S, press is deliberately distorting the news from Cuba. Item: press reports of Comnunism in the Castro governnent are ; tconsistently used to create a smoke screen pehind which the social objectives of the Cuban revolution can be D ‘attacked and sabotaged.' ~~ "The nominal head,of the committee was Author _-"Waldo ("American Hispana" grant, put the real organizer was Robert4faber, a Columbia Broadcasting System newsman, Lut and one of a group of U.S, journalists who won gold medals ~~ from Castro for getting through to interview him in his OL Sierra Maestra days. Frank has been a guest of Castro, and Taber of a Cuban publisher. Taber drew up the ad, and Frani: mailed it out to his many friends among the intellectual set. They got enough names and money to pay the bill, but a more impressive list could be made from those who ignored the plea or pointedly turnéd it down. This group ranged \) from Ernest Hemingway, Carl Sandburg and Jacques Maritain to Eleanor Roosevelt and Luis Munoz Marin." It will be noted that the article carries photo- graphs of KENNETH TYNAN, SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, ROBERT TABOR, VU TRUMAN CAPOTE and JA PAAR who is not listed as a member of the FPCC, but the c ents indicate that he is favorable i \" the present government of Cuba. : oa @ available a e meeting held by the FPCC VD detailed memorandum concerning at the Community Church, New York City, on April 24, 1960. WALDO FRANK, one of the sponsors of the committee,” . ° . ° - - 18 -