CHANNAL FOR CIA FUND GAVE TO HARVARD DEAN'S PROJECT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000201630002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2014
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 20, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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� "I* feel that :I'm in cOntrol of the pi ujoc,i,. anti, Lae ()tiler trustees feet
the same way.V7 e are responsible to no one but ourselveS." Dean Hunt.
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- I --4n org-anliation headed said they had' no knOwl-''''' - � �
� , � Lodge - said about three-quk�-��
' t by a Harvard dean has been " edge that the CIA Was the; , ters of the Fund's Money came.,
t
:. source of money the Funcl receiving money from a
-source close to the Central !received from , the Brown L came
from Hunt himself, and the rest �
from a variety of sources.::.
. Foundation. . , , � :1
'Intelligence Agency to edu- ! "As far as I knew there was I
!cat� trade unionists in un- : "Like a lot of cirganiza-: no 'government rn (in ey in--,
:derekevcioped countries. . tions," said Hunt, "we haye!;yolved," he said.
K The organization is the
received money from foun- "I knew that the Brown nun-
l'i
Fund for International So-
, clations to carry out specifiC daticn confribuied a s m all
cial and Economic Educa-
l'
: programs in our area,of in. amount. I know now that it has
'
-s ,tionwhich has been work-
' r terest.. . . :,been listed as receiving money �
ing
in Latin America.,.
We�accepied money from m t `the ': : o .he CIA. But .that is all I
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. . � ' � fr �
wn Foundation to qrry out ' , l'I"r'''
Africa and L sia since "1957.Bro
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4. ;::. � iprograms in Lalin. .Amerjea ,_.: NOT A DOUBT �
� ' :Its board chairman is Dr.� Lodge 'said that as a member...
wi--Tdc werr-c; --in ------------------------- ow-n- .
I, Richard M. Hunt of. Cam- � � � ' ' of the Fund's board of trustees . .
:bridge, an assistant dean of ,syork..
: � . . : 'I was privy to every expendi-
'! tho � Harvard . Graduate ( "We were not aware. that we .11 iure. I knew exactly what the
ii School of Arts and Sciences L Were taking _cIAmopey." L money was used for. There Was .'
;
i no shadow :and founder of the organi-,; 4unt said he was not at lib-% a a doubt as to it
� i zation. '. . : .. s erty to disclose the nature of the I utility." � �
, � ,,
' � specific Lata American project],
Lodge said he becarne inter-
.
.: Records on file at the financed by 'Brov.th 'Foundation 1 ested in the work of the Fund, ,,
!., State House show that: 1 li_j_Prids, bui he _added:: ... . _, while he was an assistant:under .
:Fund in 1965 received "I "I feel that I'm .in control ot : Secretary; of Labor James P. -
. ' 000 from the J. Frederick' the projects and the other trus- IVIitehell, who was one �of its .
- - - .
,Brown Foundation of Bos I: tees feel the same way. We are ' � first trustees. , -
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� ton, which has been idcnti- ; responsible- to no one but our- ,� "It was active in the fields :
lied as a channel for CIA;. selves. that I was close to, chiefly .the.
'funds. - � organization of workers in the �
! � � , A spokesman for Harvard said' : d e v eloping countries," said:-
' Another trustee of the the university clop not accept ', Lodge. :
!..Fund is, George Cabot 1 contracts for "research projects!. , .,Vv'hen Mitchell Led, I was in
. 'Lodge .,of Beverly, son of � that cannot be published, but an ' vited. to become a mentor of.
:. Henry . Cabot Lodge, arn7 individual member of the facul- the board. I did so gladly." :�
� bassador to South Vietham, ty can .make . his own decision: � Other members of the Board of.
and Republican candidate ; about the use of his own time." ' trustees ,�,-e. 4.4911�...i.e5.79a,. a.
.'.i for U.S. senator in 1962. � � . . --,
labor leader and member of the
Railroad Retirement Board in -.
Chicago; and David L. Cole, a ;
Paterson, N.J., lawyer.
PROJECTS CITED ,
�The Fund's brochure describes � ;
its 'work as financing worker.,
etucation projects, scholarships.!
and research work for trade ,
-unionists an d social studies'
scholars in Asia,. Africa and ;
Latin America.
Lodge named.two specific proj-'.
ects as worker education center's'i
.in' Nairobi, Nenya, and Lima, .;
Peru.' The Fund, also brought.
labor leaders to the United States '
for training, he said.L,', , , � ����
.. � .. �-�.���,� � �
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Both Hunt and Lodge He said he did not l'now. of
� I 't
any money Harvard itself might :
have received from the CIA for ,
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