PANEL ON C.I.A. AID HAS STOPGAP PLAN

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000300210032-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2005
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: March 27, 1968
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PANKON CJ~D
HAS STOPGAP PLAN
Intends to Urge Direct Help
to Some Volunteer Groups
. WAS IINGTON, 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-
Mary,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 operation,"
said, Senator J. W. Fulbright,
Democrat of Arkansas, chair-
man of the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Conlniittee.
The l$-member committee
has been sharply divided. The
princippal uestion is whether to
recomine d establishment of a
semi-public independent com-
misson arid, if so, how broad its
authority should be.
Some pnembers, 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-
tee, believe such a commission:
-should take over many of the
overseas academic and cultural
~}w_-under other
z,pIanr the commis-
sion would takeover the State
Department's academic and
ltur 1 exchange - program,
which supervises Fulbright
scholarships and such activities
as, performances abroad of
American orchestras and plays.
it -Would lsc ,ass a control of
tTnlted Statesrmation
Xhe 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 ofLL a few organizations,
such is 't ie --Asia Foundation,
whltizovldes technical assist-
an ueevelope coun-
trigs -,.r..,.~, .._.
Some of the voluntary agent
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- cdritiinue their work.
The study committee also
i comrilrided creation of a
c mnst`sson,.hut. suggested that
Q' not Atake 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-
tiof oot ant financing
would be left it to the new Ad
mitifstra on and-Congress.
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