SENATORS STUDY C.I.A.'S SUBSIDIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000102700001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 7, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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SENATORS STUDY Mike Mansfield, Democrat of
Moilta d ii
na, who i?in today
tint. he sees no ne?xi fo:. a spe-
c:LA:8 sup,RDIEs cial Lion of the subsi-
dies.
Mit". Wood, formerly in
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Ex-Studerit. Aides Heard at
3-Hour Secr,-;:.
WASHINGTON, March 6 (AP)
?The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee held a three-hour se-
cret inquiry today into Central
intelligence Agency subsidies to
the National Student Associa-
tion. , ?
Senator J. W. Fulbright, Dem-
ocrat of Arkansas who is chair-
man of the committee, then told
newsmen "it's none of your bus-
iness" what went on,
There were two witnesses,
both former officers of the stu-
dent association, and they were
questioned separately.
The committee's 'independent
inquiry ran counter to the stand
of the Senate majority leader,
clin ? of student. association
.-raising programs, testified
..-st. He then was dismissed
?while Philip Sherburne, former
president of the association,
was questioned.
Mr. Sherburne said later the
committee had asked him to
appear, but he would not dis-
cuss his testimony.
"We've had an executive
meeting," Mr. Fulbright said,
"and I don't care to comment
on it."
Senator Wayne Morse, Dem-
ocrat of Oregon, said the ses-
sion had left ?him more con-
vinced that the intelligence
agency should be "drastically
limited" in its activities.
? Students Ask Open Help
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,? By BEN A. FRANKLIN ?
specie to The New York Times .
WASHINGTON, March
An , American student group
called on Congress today to
create an independent agency
that would openly continue
Government financial aid to pri-
vate organizations that had re-
ceived secret funds from the
Central Intelligence Agency.
Student directors of the Col-
legiate Council for the United
Nations, an organization with
chapters on 400 American col-
lege campuses, said the "dupli-
city" of the secret funding of
ostensibly independent, nongnv-
ernment student groups had
done "grievous damage to the
international goodwill, close
working relationship and mutu-
al trust that has been pains-
takingly built over the past
years between United States
student groups and their coun-
terparts overseas." ?
In a statement, officials of
the student group, which is af-
filiated with the United Na-
tions 'Association of the United
States, declared that it was vital
that groups that had renounced
assistance from the Antelligence
agency .now be "funded by
means which do not call into
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question their credibility asin-
dependent organizations."
The Collegiate council, founded
in 1946, said it had received no:,b
funds ? from the intelligence
agency and called for the "corn-'4
plete cessation" of secret fund-
ing of private organizations by
that agency,
A statement signed by 12 of
the council's 14 student direc-
tors said it was the responsi-
bility of individuals, private
foundations and corporate don-
ors to support worthwhile inter-
national and cultural exchange
activities of student, labor and
other American. associations.
But the statement said that
the experience of student groups
during the 1950's_when there
was popular'Nuspielon and "Mc-,
Carthyite fear and inistrust of'
liberal groups, pa rticularly of
youth and students," indicated
that private philanthropies prob-
ably' would be slow to fill the
void caused by withdrawal di
intelligence agency funds. ?
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Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000102700001-7