PANEL ON C.I.A. AID HAS STOPGAP PLAN INTENDS TO URGE DIRECT HELP TO SOME VOLUNTEER GROUPS

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• Publication Date: May 27, 1968
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Approved For Release 2005/0
Intends to Urge Direct Help
to Some Volunteer Groups
Yi-10 B00338 R000300210003-9
2 7 MAY 38
PANEL ON C.I.A. AID
-HAS STOPGAP PLAN
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, May 26-A
Presidential study group has,
tentatively decided to recom-
mend a stopgap plan for aiding.
a small number of voluntary
agencies once secretly financed
by the Central Intelligence
Agency.
The panel, headed by Secre-'
tary of State Dean Rusk, has
thus concluded, after more than;
a year's study, that the ques-
tion of -permanent financing;
.ought to be left to the new
Administration taking office
next January.
It's a holding o eration,"
said Senator J. W. Fulbright,
Democrat of Arkansas, chair-i
man of the Senate Foreign Rela-1
tions Committee.
The 18-member committee
has been sharply divided. The
principal question is whether to
recommend establishment of ai
semi-public independent com-1"
misson and, if so, how broad its}
authority should be. i
Some members of the study;
committee, principally those in'
'Congress, believe that the need
for governmental economy
shoud limit such a' new com-
mission, at least at first, to mak-.
ing grants to "C.I.A. orphans",
--the voluntary groups formerly,
subsidized in secret.
Second View
Others, including most of the
public members of the commit-i
tee, believe such a commission,
should take over many of the,
overseas academic and cultural,
activities now under other
agencies. i
Under this plan, the commis-
sion would take over the State
Department's academic and
cultural exchange program,
which supervises Fulbright
scholarships and such activities
as performances abroad of
American orchestras and plays.
It would also assume control of
0
Agency Ebraries.
The study committee, bowing
to the demand for economy,
decided at a meeting earlier
this month to recommend that
a few million dollars be appro-
priated for direct support this
year of a few organizations,
such as the Asia Foundation,
ante to underdeveloped coun-
tries.
Some of the voluntary agen-
cies still have some C.I.A.
funds left from grants made
before they were cut off at the
end of last year. The new ap-
propriation would allow them
to continue their work.
The study committee also
recommended creation of a
commission, but suggested that
it not take over any of the
existing cultural programs. The
panel has agreed that this pro-
posal not be sent to Congress
until next year. Thus the ques-
tion of permanent financing
would be left to the new Ad-
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