DEAN'S FUND GOT CONDUIT'S MONEY

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
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• Publication Date: February 20, 1967
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/04/24 : CIA-RDP73-00475R000201630001-5
Fz3 20 1957 .
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DEAN'S FUND GOT
GO.NDUIT'S MONEY
I the nature of the work carried
:out with funds received from
the Brown and Pappas founda-
lions. He said the money from
the Brown organization was'.
used to support work by his
group in Latin America,. but
"I'm not at liberty to disclose
..ne nature of that specifie,-I
� . � . . project." He said, however, that .,
� z � . :man for Harvard, said the Uni- the project was �"parellel" to �
Harvard Dean's Fund'Aided.versity did not accept contracts
, 'for '"research projects that can-
! � , By, NEIL SIELL'ITAN V not be published.", ' �
Speelal The New York Times � � "But an individual member of
I � WASLNGTON, Feb. 9
--Ar the faculty," he said, "can take
Organization headed by Richardhis own decision about the use
j/Vf. Hunt, an assistant dean oaof his own time." He said the
the Harvard University 'Gradu-:
�university itself might have ac-
ate School of Arts and �Sciences,cepted money from the latch-
has received money from a gcnce agency . in the Past for
� foundation identified as a dharapublishable research projects,
nel for Central Intelligence,but he did not know of any.
'Agency funds. j The larown foundation has
In 1965, according to records been named by officers of the Mr. Hunt's organization. re-:
National Student Association ceiVed $75,000 from himself and;
On fi M
le at the assachusetts At.:
one of their . sources of $12,000 from four others sources. -
'torney General's office, an` a-eney funos and 'its trustee,;�the Pappas trust, the Hobby': ,
Hunt's group, the Fund for In-arAta arearoa...a, t� � I
a,: one o,e Lieu. Founclation of Houston, � tha
�ternational Social and Economic contacts with the C.T.A.� Franz Lieber Foundation of SLa
vEducation of Philadelphia, -re-. otrar,z,ition 11.4ts
:Paul Park, Minn. and George
work that his group has been.
doing in: Latin America for
some time. .� . 5,
"I feel that I'm in control of s,
the projects-and the other trus-
tees feel the same way," he
said. "We are responsible to no "z
one but ourselves.'
� Mr. Hunt, the son of the late.
Roy A. Hunt, president of the /
Aluminum Company of Ameri-
ca for many years, said that .
his organization received about �
three-quarters of its support
from his own funds. � . . ,
eeived $25,000 from the J. Fred-'among its. heard 'of atarectorsial. Capps of St. Louis. Tax re-
'crick Brown Foundatioa of Bos-Genrge C. laalee, as:tociate al- turns for 1965 and 1966 were.
iton. � � - rector of the division ,of inter- not available.
national affairs of the Harvard; Mr. Hunt also refused to in-.
I The fund, 'according to its;Graduate atelteol of 'Business tify the officers of the Brown.; �
.brochure, finances workers' cd-Administration. He' is the son foundation with whom he. and i
ucation . projects, scholarshipsef Henry Cabot Lodge. the Am- the other directors of his organ...
and research work for trade un laa.ssador to faaitlf Vietnam: ization had discussed the undisa � : :
-
Besides . the mc.ney obtained closed p� H d
s e era rojeot before receiving; . , . .
ionists, and sooial study schol- f1 r, . . ed knowing
�om � the r. r0 W r1 . foun e tuna
datinti,
ars from Africa, Asia and Latin.Mr: Hunt's group has received Mr. Hellmuth, who has been.
america. The money received large sums front' another foun-
from the Brown foundation was dation, the Pappas Charitable
used for 'undisclosed work in Trust of Bosron. rhe pappas
� � to other organization's board of trustees.,
- � '' Trust has
Latin America. are: Argiven are: Anon E. Lyon, a labor �
'groups that have been regular-
named by students � association,'
officers as a C.I.A. contact.,
� The other members of � the
The disclosure that a �Iarvaa�dobtaining �hooey ham ag,� road Retirement Board in Chi-
leader and member of the Balla
;dean heads an organization that cy conduit foandi-aions.
: - has received Money from an These organizations 'are the cago, and David L. Cole, a
� Pan-American Foundation, �con- Member of the law firm of Cole,
g
.ritelhgence agency , conduit Morrill d' B � f 's
neeted with the University of � and' Berman o '
Pater-
foundation. was the latest 'de- Miami, . the International De- 500. N. J. ' . . . .
jelopment in a series of revelaivelopment Foandation ef. Nev., - The executive � director Is '
:ions about -the channeling of; York and the American Society Howard C. Thomas Jr., for.
;nerdy the representative in Sal-,to
a ,:of African Culture.. -
"entral Intellieence � Az e
a" b - -e" '1 In 196:3, aecarding to tax rec, �.�:�on, South Vietna.m, of the Asia,
;'unds , �private organ' 4.at.ions� ords, the a':tppas Trost gaaa. Vouildation � of San Franciscoa
1;aVilliardi.Rinkerton, �i?.. a k $50 000. 'to � Mr. Hunt's
......,.., ...� . �,.P.9.�" ' ' aloaa � -p whch is widely involved in edit-i,
and the following year granted cational work in the Far /East. '
another f350,000. Tax records show that alio'
Mr. Hunt acknow]edged, in a Fund for - International Social.
telephone, interview the 'receipt and Economic Education made
of the funds from the' � Brown grants of .,$17.000 in 1963 'and:
and Pappas foundations, but $o,000 ill 1064 to the Univer�
aledge that say of Southern California for',
thehe had on kilo-
'
the money was from the intelli- the publication of Its Middle'
gence agency. � �� a � � T.:astern and North African rea! �
He said that 'as far, a.c., he view, the Maghreb Digest. � ''' .
knew the money was from "pri- The records also show a grant'
vate sources." - � ,.. ��� at 610,000 in 1064 to the Kenya.
According to records at the Federation of Labor for support
State Attorney - General's 'of- of an educational centek, and a;
fice, the Brown foundation de- number of scholarships and. re-'
rives the bulk of its income search, grants for study in,tho.; �
Itnited States and abroad to',
i