HARVARD REAPS CIA FUNDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000201980010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2013
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 15, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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'Some 13 programs and activities at .Harvard University have been financed in part with
Contributions from organizations which were "cOnduits" for the Central Intelligence Agency, it
was learned Friday. However, the director of one of the affected programs said the CIA made')
no attempt to influence th
Lcontent, policies or person-
Nei of the program.
The extent of the CIA sup-
port research activities and the
like at Harvard was -disclosed
byVDean Franklin L. Ford .of
of the Faculty of Arts and Sci-
ences in an oral report earlier ?
this , week.
:One published account of the
-report, in the Harvard Crim-
son, listed the sum involved a.S.
$456,000 botween 1960 and 1966
and said that, since 1953, the.
International Seminar of - the,
Summer School had' received
$243,000.
NO INFLUENCE TRY
The Seminar brings foreign1
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government leaders- to Harvard i ?
each summer./
Henry A. Kissinger executive !:
director of the Seminar, said i
it did not start until .1960, andt
since then has received $135,-
000. He said he was unaware
that the CIA had given partial
support to the Seminar throught
the private foundations which!,
served as conduits, but he said i
the spy agency had made no-11,
efforts to influence any of the /.
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Seminar' S work.
None of the money, Kissinger i
said, hall unusual restrictions
or strings tied to it, although 1
some was designated for. spe-
cific programs. This, he said,
was routine. ? - N
ALL 3 CIA CONDUITS . i
According to Kissinger, the
Seminar got $49,000 in three e.
years from the Asia Founda-
tion, and in the last two years,14,
received $7282 from the Ameri-
can Friends of the Middle East.
A third organization, the Fund.
Economic Education, awarded
.a grant of $15,000 to the Center 1
for Middle Eastern Studies in
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1964.
All three organizations were i
?eailicr reported to be condnits /
,for the CIA. . 4
Kissinger said that even or-
ganizations .which do serve as ,
conduits do not necessarily gct i-
all their money from the CIA i
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but. areable ,to draw from va, 1
-riot's sources. Or
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