DEAN'S FUND GOT CONDUIT'S MONEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000201630003-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2014
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 20, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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DEAN'S FUND GOT
IrYDIFT'S
I MONEY . .
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Ithe nature of the work cao
,out with funds received from
the Brown and Pappas founda-
tions. 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
the nature of that specific.
.
project." he said, however, that
� !inan for Harvard, sadi .the Uni- the. project was "Parellel" to
Harvard Dedn's Fund Aided versity did not accept -contracts work that his group has - been
for "research projects that can- doing . in Latin America for
� By NEIL SHEEHAN not be published." '
Special to Tee New York Times � fr�u�
. /6 t an individual member of
WASINGTON, Feb. I9�An the faculty," he said, "can take
'organization headed by Richardhis own decision about the use
M. Hunt, an assistant dean 0,1 01 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 intelli-
has received money from a gence agency in the past for
foundation identified as a cha.n-publishable research projects,
nel for Central Intern' .1eCbut he did not know of any.
Agency funds. ' The B-rown foundation has
,
In 1965, according to records been nameti, by officers
fficAssociationers of the
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.n file at the Massachusetts At�:\i,..a-tiaoonnel� _'Ilen
of ctheir, sources of
'torney General's office, Mr.u:. f nd � � d its trustee
�Hunt's. group, the Fund for In aul ilellnitith, as one of their' Foundation of Houston, tha
-p's
ternational Social and Economic contacts with the C.I.A.-- Franz Lieber Foundation of S.
Education of Philadelphia, re-;. Mr., Hunt's organization lists Paul Park, Minn., and George
'ceivecl $25,600 from the J. Fred-among its board 'of iiiirectors H. Capps of St. Louis. Tax ,1e-
trick Brown Foundation of Bos-.George C. Lodge, associate di. turns for 1965 and 1966 were
ton. . rector of the division ,of inter- not available.
I national affairs of the Harvard Mr. Hunt also refused to id.-in-,
I The fund, according to its.Graduaee School of Business tify the officers of the Brown
brochure, finances workers' ed-'Administration. He' is the son foundation with whom he and
ucation projects, scholarshipsof Henry Cabot Lodge, the Am- the other directors of his organ-
and research work for trade
bassador to South Vietnam. ization had discussed the urdis-
un-. � "
Besides the money-obtained closed projeot before receiving
ionists, and social sjtudy schol-the funds. He denied knowin
from - the e�- ' Brown foundation, e.
ars from ,Africa, Asia and Latin Air. Hunt's group has received Mr. Hellmuth, who has been
America. The money received large sums from another fean. named by student �-assoaation
some time. �
"I ice). that I'm in control of
the projects and the other trus-
tees feel the same way," he
said. "We are responsible to no
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.
Mr. Hunt's organization re-
ceived $75,000 from himself and
$12,000 from four others sources
--the Pappas trust, t'ne Hobby
from the Brown foundation was
used for undisclosed work in
Latin America.
The disclosure that a �larvard
;dean heads an organization that
,has received money from an
4i-ntellizence agency conduit
:.o�andation was the latest de-
!..relopment in a series of revelari
:ions but -the channeling of
: Ventral Intelligence Agency
'unds to \private organizations.
;
Spokes-'
dation, the Pappas Charitable
Trust of Boston. The Pappas
Trust has given money to other
groups that .have been regular-
ly obtaining 'money from agen-
cy conduit foundations,
officers as a C.I.A. contact.
The other members of the
organization's board of trustees
are: , Arlon E. Lyon, a labor
leader and member of the Rail-
road Retirement Board in Chi-
These organizations are the ong,o. and David L. Cole, a
Pan-American Foundation, eon-
member of the law firm of Cole,
meted with the University '
of Morrill', and' Berman of Pater-
Miami, the International De- son, N. J. ' . �
velopment Foundation of New ' The executive � director is
'
York and the American Society Howard C. Thomas Jr., for-
,
of African Culture. .- merly the representative in Sai-
In 1963, according to tax rec-�g,ron, South Vietnam, of the Asia,
ords, the Pappas Trust gave Foundation � of San Francisco,'
$50,000 to Mr. Hunt's group which is widely involved in edu-�
� and the following year granted cational work in the Far/East.
another $50,000. ., Tax records show that the
� Mr. Hunt acknowledged in a Fund fni� International Social
telephone. interview the receipt and Economic Education made
of the funds from the' Brown grants of $17,000 in 1063 and
and Pappas foundations, but $5,000 in 1964 to the Univer-
said- he had no knowledge that sity of Southern California for
the publication of its Middle
Eastern and North African re-
view, the Maghreb Digest. '
The records also show a mrant
� the money was from the intelli-
gence agency.
He said that 'as far as. he
knew the money was from "pri-
I
STAT
vate sources." �of $10,000 in 1961 to the Kenya
According to records at the Federation of Labor for support
State Attorney � General's 'of- of an educational centezL, and a
flee, the Brown foundation de- number of scholarships land re-.
search grants for study in the.
United States and abroad to.
Korean, � Japanese, Turkish,
Kenyan,. Colombian and Tang-
anyikan trade unionists, cooper-
ative .speCialists,. students and
� .
rives the bulk of its income
from what are, believed to be
agency-front foundations. These
include the Appalachian Fund,
the Tower Fund and 'the Vic-
toria Strauss Fund: � � � , �
Mr. Hunt would not disclose
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