CHANNEL FOR CIA FUND GAVE TO HARVARD DEAN'S PROJECT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000102020006-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2014
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 20, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/12 :
IA-RDP73-00475R000102020006-7
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ut.itcr ti ustees feet
sa.we way. We c.tre responsible to no .one but ourselves." Dean Hunt.
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An organization beaded :said they had ,11? Idge Said about three-quar..-H?'":/..:'
t by a Harvard dean has been edge that the CIA was the.
ters of the Fund's money carne"
receiving money from a source of money the Fund from Hunt himself, and the rest
ource close to the Central !received from the Brown: came from a variety of sources.
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oundation. ,
?Intellie.,ence Agency to edu- . "As far as I knew there was
cate trade unionists in un' "Like a lot .of drganiza-,' ''governinent e y in
,
:dercieveloped countries. tions," said. Hunt, "we have;ovolved," he said. ? ,
? The organization is the received money from fou n- "I knew that the Brown Fenn-
Fund fo International So-
,clations to carry out specifie: dation contributed a s rn a II
l and ''coriornic Educa-
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:programs in our area of amount. I know now that it has
Lon,which has been work- tersest
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CIA. But that is all I :
" We.ceptecl n,?.. from the :'1?111 the
in Latin America ac mo y
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'Yea and Asia since 19574i3r0know.
wn Foundation to etTry out
. ? 3)rogto2ms in Tottin .AmeriCa : NOT A DOUBT
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; ? .Its board chairman is Dr.?. - - , ?
of the Fund's board of trustees
, bridg,e, an assistant d . ean of !'',N'vork.
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? .. , , ''I.- was privy to every expendi-
'! I he . Harvard . Graduate i "We were not aware that we il, ture. I knew exactly what the
.' School. Of Arts and Sciences ) were taking CIA money." i .'. money was used for. There Was .
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ani founder of the organi.,, hunt said i-,c was not at iih.,-., ne shadow of a doubt as to its,
-, zation. . ? erty to disclNe the nature of the
?;.? specific Latin Amcrioan project ! Lodge said he became inter-,.
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ReCo-odS on file .at the ' financed by 'Brown Foundation I este(' in the work of the Fund
,. Slate House show that I he'' _funds but.he, ,d- '?
.t? . , .. aC? ,(1. . while he was an assistant.Under ,
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j..Yund in 196:5 ro ot received,525,-" "I feel t'nat I'm ..in con 1 1 - .
. SecretarY of Labor James P.
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u00 ?rein the J. Fredericiti'l the projects a.iod the other trus- ? Mitchell, who was one .of its
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, riT;rown Foundation of Bos- !, tees feel the same way. We are first trustees.
'ton, which has been identi- responsible'. to no one but our- :' "It was. active in the f'
Richard M. Hunt of t-i ?
n Lodge said that as a member
line,witii Cain_ !men were in
our ow
leo s
? fled as a channel for CIA ?selyes."
that I was close to, cbiefly .the.
'; organization of workers in the
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A spokesman for Harvard said developing countries " said -
iS.110t1;c: trustee of the the university doics not accept ' Lodge.
is George Cabot contracts for "research projects!. .