Mr. Young
2,619 CIA Sources: The Crowley Files
Sun Oct 21 18:33:51 2001



The Crowley List

Robert Trumbull Crowley, former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency’s
Clandestine Operations Division, died in October of 2000. Before he died, Crowley, who had been
with the CIA since its beginning in 1948, gave important portions of his large files to several journalists.
Among these valuable papers is an alphabetical listing of persons considered to be sources for the CIA.
These are individuals, most of whom who are generally former members of the American intelligence
community and very often not actual members of the CIA.
Frank G. Wisner, Sr., one of the senior officials of the CIA, once boasted that his agency had
so many friendly contacts in the American media that he could, upon demand, call on their assistance in
supporting any CIA position that agency desired.
This was called “The Mighty Wurlitzer” after the organ often found in old movie housesand
could always be counted on to make whatever loud music the CIA wanted. In this list, valid as of
1996, are the names of many members of the American and foreign media and although Wisner is dead
and gone, the music lingers on. Also found here are the names of the international banking community
as well as members of Congress and other worthies. The list originally appeared on Cryptome.org. a
website set up by John Young. This site is the source of fascinating historical material that is well-worth
visiting. The email address is jya@pipeline.com  and Mr. Young can also be contacted at: (212)
873-8700. His mailing address is: 251 W. 89th St., New York, NY 10024. It was Mr. Young’s
suggestion that led to the creation of this site and he should receive full credit for his encouragement to
publish all of the Crowley files on the Internet.
This CIA source list was on his website but in a very abbreviated form and is reproduced here
exactly as it appears in the Crowley data base printout of 1996.
http://www.crow96.20m.com/
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To: JLeusner@OrlandoSentinel.com
From: jya@pipeline.com
Subject: crowley list
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001

Jim,

I appreciate your concern for your reputation and physical safey,
and that's not meant to be a cliche.

Here's the rub: The Crowley list, a/k/a the AFIO list, is available
from several sources, so I'm told, thus your name is out there in
a variety of places. One is the Name Base site run by Daniel
Brandt. Brandt and AFIO were in a dispute about his publishing
the list (without addresses) long before Douglas sent it to us,
and, though threatened by AFIO, Brandt did not remove the list
from his site. See correspondence on this:

http://cryptome.org/cia-afio-names.htm

I do not know if your name is in the Name Base version, but it
may be there and/or in other AFIO lists floating around. Name
Base has a look-up feature, so if your name is there it will
pop up as well as the sources.

One of the reason we publish names is to alert those who
are on them that the information is public, as with the Crowley
list. We do not get privileged or secret information, or at least
not often, as reputable reporters such as you do. Most of what
we get is already out there, although it may be available only
in closed circles, those circles, being the journalists, intelligence
agencies, their contractors, their suppliers and their ex-members
-- and some of these folks are not always respectful of the names
they distribute, as with AFIO. Your name has been out in
public probably from the first year you joined AFIO and I
wonder if AFIO told you about it.

We've had angry mail from several AFIO members who
claim outrage not at being on the list but at the list being
made public, as if nobody had told them of the information
being out there. That is AFIO's doing, we are just publicizing
AFIO's negligence -- not that that seems to bother
AFIO very much, for we have had no complaint from
AFIO, not a single request to remove the list or denial of its
accuracy. I suspect AFIO appreciates the list being published
as a recruiting measure -- as do several persons named.

In any event, I will publish all your notes, but will not
remove your name from the list for I do not believe your
association with AFIO places you in danger solely
because of the list we have published. It is your reporting
which places you in danger, and perhaps associating with
AFIO members who use you for camouflage, and I
congratulate you for that courage.

Regards,

John
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