COUNCIL OF CHURCHES ADMITS AID FROM PROBED GROUPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000101700003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2014
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 21, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By CASPAR NANNES
Star Staff Writer
CHIC AG 0?The National
Council of Churches has .ack-
nowledged that ? ?it received
financial help in three instances
from foundations identified as
conduits for funds fro the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency. .
But the general secretary of
the interdenominational church
body, Dr. R. H. Edwin Espy,
emphasized while making the
report yesterday "the National
Council had no knowledge at
any time that any of these gifts
may have had any... links. with
CIA involvement."
Dr: Espy said the Foundation
for Youth and Student Affairs
had. contributed between $200
and $2,000 in 1965 toward ex-
penses of a conference of the
council-related National Student
Christian Federation.
Last year and this year $2,000
was received from the Katlin
Foundation to assist the .council
in its poverty rights program,
he said. ?
And prior to 1965, the David
and Winfield Baird Foundation
contributed for. several years
'between $3,000 and $4,000 an-
nually for -"direct relief"' pro-
grams ? in the United States and
overseas to the council's Depart-
ment of Church World Service,
and to Migrant and Indian work
of the council. The Baird Foun-
dation was abolished two years
ago.
? Dr. Espy said the 'council
would be "only too . glad to
cooperate to the fullest in any
and all federal efforts to investi-
gate the matter."
The 250-member general
board of the council.; its top
policy making body ,between
triennial general assemblies,
opened a five-day meeting
yesterday in the Pick-Congress
Hotel. Dr. Arthur S. Flemming,
president .of the, University of
Oregon wno was elected head of
the c.thren.boci) last December,
is presiding at the sessions. -
A statement *declaring that
economic boycotts arc justified
under certain circumstances to
fight injustice was scheduled to
be acted on today by the board.
?A . crowded agenda confronts
the board. Among the issues to
be discussed are church and
state relations, religious dis-
crimination . and a possible.
motion calling on Congress to
establish a:- basic code of ethics.
A statement setting forth the
council's position on world peace
will also be: presenzel to the
delegates. . .
1 in -addition, the board will act
on a proposed plz.n fol. a colic)-
, quirn. on higher education to be.
held later this year under coun-
cil auspices, approve a budget,
and program for 1957, . and
install as members of the hody
representatives of four denomi-
nations voted into the National.
Council of Churches at ? the
December meeting.
These denor--,inations are he
Antiochian ? Orthodox Catholic:
'Archdiocese of Toledo, Ohio and
dependencies; the Church of the
New Jerusalem, the Progressive
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National Baptist Convention,
and the Exarchate of The Rus-
sian Orthodox Church in North
and South . America. -? Their
addition brings the council to 34
Protestant, Anglican. and East-
ern Orthodox church bodies
having a constitutent member-
ship of over 24 million.
? The policy statement on with-
holding Consumer patronage
in order to secure justice as
sorts that "when there is ? evi-
dence of discrimination or ex-
ploitation, substantiated by an
i an par tial investigation" the
Christian "should make his pur-
chasing decisions with .due 're-
gard to the facts that are lmown .
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014103112:
IA-RDP73-00475R000101700003-6