MCALISTER DENIES CIA HELP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000201280001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 2, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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. Dr. Lyle N. McAlister, direc-
tor of the University of Florida's
.. I Center fgr' Latin American
Studies, said today he knows
nothing official about a report.
;
that .the UF may have been the .
r beneficiary of CIA funds.
State .newspapers in Tampa
. and St. Peters-41-g 41.aVe been
. trying for several days to pin
?-. down 4 report originating in the
? New ;York Times 'that: the UP'-
bad American 'Founda-
? ? tion ? finakce.d - activities with
- ?.funds from ti7a Central
Intelli-
gence 'Agency.
: CIA subsidies of. student af-
. ? fairs were revealed lag week by
0 :the federal governments in-
.. ? _ .ternational spy agency.
Reportuily, Dr. A. Curtis .
Wilgus, director of the' Urs an-
=al Conference on the. Carib-
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bean and a research professor of
Latin American Studies, is
director of the Pan American
Foundation, which was based'
here until 1964,
Wilgus, who is slated to retire
from the university in June, was
? reported out of town and not
available for comment.
McAlister said he had no of-
ficial information on the Pan
? American Foundation, a a d
knows of no connection between
it and the university.
"Dr. Wilguewas operating as
a private individual in con-,
nection with the foundation and
not as an official of the universi-
ty," he said. ?;
McAlister said the Pa n
American .Foundation moved
from here :46 Coral Gables in,
,1964.
?__
" He said he had heard the bun-
?? dation gave money to support a
student exchange program, but
didn't personally know. of finy
student from here %Om ever
. benefited from such a fund. The
foundation also subs isd ised
publications, on Latin America, ,
he said.
Alcoa were among the sponsors. "
, The conference Vobght pro-..'1
minent speakers to the campus !
. to discuss social and economic
problems of the area.
The U.S. State Department
. was generally represented by ? .
; high officials.
? ,Wilgus was director, of the.;
School of Inter-American Stu- * ?
dies at the university until 1963
when .,the Center for Latin
lAmerioan Studies' headed by:',':
Dr. McAlister ,replaced his de'.?
partment. . ? ? . ? ?
Wilgus continued to direct the,'
' annual Conference' on t h e ?
? Caribbean which, until 1965;was
financed by private companies.'"
. 'and organizations having
terests in Latin America..,,,.
,United Fruit ' J
According to McAlister, the ;
University of Florida began ,
picking up the tab ? estimated',
at between $3,500 and $4,500 ?
for the conference in 1965. He ;
'said he believed the money
came from the president's con-
tingency fund. ?
The Pan American Foundation I
was incorporated in 1930 by
leaders from Latin America and
? the United States who were in-
lerested in inter-AmetiCan af-
fairs. Ita- activities included ?
'travel and research in-f
formation. z
: It publishes the Journal of
: Inter-American Studies, al
'scholarly journal described by ft
McAlister. as being 'highly 4
in: a_catiomici
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/20: CIA-RDP73-00475R006201280001-4