BRITISH STUDENTS STIRRED BY CIA CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000400050003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2013
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 21, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By Karl. E. Meyer V The sense of the board meet-
1Vashilw,ton Post Foreign Service ing, according to NUS secre-
. LONDON, Feb. 20 ? ? Dis- tary Trevor Fiske, was that the
closures that the U.S. National British organization "naturally
Student Association has re- regretted what had happened
ceived secret subsidies from but now felt it was something
the Central Intelligence in the
past."
:-';.mcy caused a kickback in Nevertheless, the disclosure
.in today.
GeofIrey Martin, 24, presi-
dent of 'Britain's National
Union of Students flew early
today to the headquarters in
Leyden, The Netherlands, of
.the non-Communist Interna-
tonal Student Conference to
see whether his organization
should pull out.
Martin's departure followed
an all-day debate Sunday of
the NUS executive board con-
cerning future British rela-
?tions with the NSA. The board
decided tO 'continue its ties
:with NSA. since the secret sub-
sidy 'reportedly ended in 1965.
that beginning in 1951 NSA
was getting annual sums re-
portedly as high as $400,000
from the CIA has had a power-
ful demoralizing effect here.
NSA took the lead in organ-
izing the non-Communist ISC
at a meeting in Stockholm in
1950. The aim was to counter
the pro-Communist Interna-
tional Union of Students.
Some 50 Western and non-
aligned student organizations
are now affiliated to the ISC.
But what raised doubts about
the ISC were reports that it
had received some funds from
the Foundation of Youth and
?
by CIA Case
Student Affairs, reputedly a
CIA conduit.
'.Britain's NUS represents
366,000 Students in 670 univer-
sities and colleges. It receives
some foundation and govern-
ment grants but. finances, the
bulk of its international activi-
ties from student subscriptions
and profits from a holiday
travel bureau.
The NUS does get direct
government, grants ..from the
British Council, an official
agency set up . in .1934 with
Foreign Office support to as-
sist overseas cultural projects.
The Council has. given the
NUS -a grant of 'some $8400 to
assist a student exchange pro-
gram with the Soviet Union.
Another $2800 Was contributed
for .an exchange program with
Chile.
? Besides this, the NUS has
also sent $2890 to help defend
students in South Africa, who
have run afoul of racialist
apartheid laws. This sum was
contributed by an unnamed in-
dustrial trust with interests in
South Africa.
"But we are certain that it
is private," an NUS spokesman
said of the trust. We verified
its nature before taking a shill-
ing."
Next month, the NUS will
be among 10 Western Euro-
pean student associations par-
ticipating in Edinburgh at a
conference on European edu-
cation. NSA is to send an ob-
server to this meeting, ,which
the ISC organized.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/20: CIA-RDP73-00475R000400050003-6