CIA HASSLE A TOUR BOON?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000200950002-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2013
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 21, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000200950002-0
FEB 21 1967
HA SSL
TOUR lOON.
By WALTER
The current controversy
over the National Student.
:,Association's acceptance of
:funds from the Central. In-:.
:* telligence Agency may result
: in an increased number of .
American students traveling
. abroad this year ?under the'
.1 association's auspices.
Some 900 students are ex-
pected to take arranged trips
abroad and another ' 40,000
are expected 1,0 obtain Inter-
national Student Identity
Cards, for travel mainly in
Europe, an official of Educa-
tional Travel Inc., the stu-
dent association's travel de-
partment, said yesterday.
In 1966, a total of 800 stu-
dents. took organized. tours,
according to Barbara Gillam,
director of Public Relations
for Educational Travel Inc..
Also last year., 35,000 students
obi,ained the internationalindentity cards, Miss Gillam'
. said.
?
In an interview at Educa-
tional Travel Inc.'s offices at
265 Madison Ave., Miss Gil-
lam explained why she be-
lieved that recent disclosures,
of C.I.4. funds secretly fun-7
neled ? by 'way of real pri
"dummy" philanthropic,
? foundations ? into the Na- ;
tional Student Association
would not affect tour sales'..z.1
.and might . even improve
them. ? .? ? ,
STOVALL
. r.t A
Miss Gillanyalio said Edu-
cational ' Travel :Inc. will
stand by all information.
published in its annual hand-
book "Work, Study, Travel?
Abroad." A section of the
current edition, which sells''
for $1.95, contains a list of.:
organizations' which provide:
services such as introductions..
? and information to Ameri%
cans going abroad. Among:
those listed are several organ-
izationa named recently as:.
conduits for C.I.A. funds into..
the National Student AssoF1.-:.
atlon.
valuable sources of informe.2%
tion, Miss Gillain said. For.
example, 'she said that Am-L-
erican Friends of the Middle
-East, one of the organiza-.
tions, "is still one of the best,
places to go for material on'
the Middle.East." '
?
None of Educational Travel.'
Inc.'s current _policies has':
-been affected.by the publicity..
arising from the
tional Student Association,
controversy, ' Miss ? Gillam
? added. 'T
' , ? :I
These organization's remain
Educational Travel Inc.,
affiliated with the Nationar;
? Student Association and in-.f
chides the association's namai.
on all .'its paMP111047',.' ;
i??
? . .
' "We've always been con- ?
sidered sort of leftisN' Miss
Gillarn said, "and now, that
people have heard the C.I.A. ?
Is involved they might think
something else. It will cer-
tainly reassure the; parents
who don't want their dill:
? dren traveling with a bunch
. of Communists. ?
?
'
: %. , '? - ?
-**** . . . 6 ..
brochures. But it opera S?"fl, A
on a non-profit basis?inde-.1 ? . ,I. - ?'
? ;.?1.4 .. ,?;.
pendently and actually
1, 1 ?-?? V;I., ,;
sldizes the association. . '?_
? 4#
% "I don't even know Many A;1 ?
;of the people down there,":?A ,.;
;Miss Gillam said. The Na-
Atonal Student Association 4!
, headquarters in
'.1,Vashington. D. C.. . ; ? *.
In operation since 'the
I:: founding of the National:!!
- Student Association in 1947,
E
'ducational Travel Inc. was
chartered In 1953. Not sub-
sidized 'by anyone, Educa-,'?
tional 'Travel depends on its:,
. avel proceeds for . funds. ? ?
'
1. ?
Principal Sources of Educal.-
tional .Travel l Inc.'s' revenue.
re tour. sales, and': Interna-,.
tional. ? Student ? Identity'
Cords.
.
Cards... ? .?
? The tours, which range 'in..,
_cost from around $300
. nearly $2,000 and in length
.from three weeks to all sum-..
mer,'take_students to Europe,,.,
England or Israel, eithei? in
;'groups or singly. The tourci
may be wide-ranging, sucn.'0,
'Ets the College Car Tour,
:.localized, such as the Italian!::i
? 'Art Seminar. . : .
?
The International Student'.
Identity Card, which entitles
holders to discounts in lodg-
ings, .restaurants, transport- 'J
ation, museums, ? galleries,;,1 ,
Vtheaters and stores in Europe
t, and North America, is
: able for. $2 to students whose '
schools are National Sttiden$A
';Association? ? inembers. ? ? For:
-students', of ??? non-mernbettl
1.10ukols,',the'Coit is $4; ? ? .%;:"74.goi
? ? .
, ?
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000200950002-0