BLOODY HANDS AT CORNELL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100040049-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2000
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: May 9, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

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New Yorlc Daily World
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The Cornell University board of trustees
ssued a statement recently urging univer-
ity president James A. Perkins to be
,Eirm' ' and to make an. "appropriate re.
ponse" to the black students there.
The statement was occasioned by the
eizure of Willard Straight Hall at Cornell
y a group of armed black students on April
9and20.
There is one problem with' the state-
lent. The trustees, come into 'court with
irty hands or, without stretching it too
ar, with bloody hands.
The trustees affirm, as among the gov-
erning standards of Cornell University,'".
that "all students and faculty are guaran-
teed the right of free speech"; that "the
university is not a sanctuary from the law."
That is less than true. Cornell Univer-
ity is a sanctuary in at least twc respects.
First: Arthur Dean, chairman of Cornell'
University's board of 'trustees, is a trustee
of Asia Foundation. And Asia Foundation
was the recipient of CIA funds which were
passed to it through the Benjamin Rosen-
thal Foundation, a CIA conduit.
Arthur Dean has been. associated with'
the CIA on another level also. Dean has
!been a partner since 1929 in Sullivan and
Cromwell, one of the biggest Big Business
law firms.
When ' he got to Sullivan and Cromwell,
he found there Allen Dulles who had joined
I the firm In 1926. '>i hey"were both part
of the firm from 1929 to 1951, for 22 yea
long enough to get acquainted. That ye
lles left to become deputy director
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the CIA. Dulles stayed with the CIA I
A' 71-1
years. In. 1961 he left to go back to Sulliv
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Artbur Dean there once more, as a trus
of the CIA-financed Asia Foundation
Second: Cornell University is the sanc-
of the School;of Industrial Relations. 'I
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Between 1961' and 1963 SIR received
$2119,500 from the CIA. The money ? was
the Marshall Foundation to SIR, to finance
its "international labor training program."
The five conduits were the Beacon Foun ti {
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price Founda-
e
tion, the Edsel Foundation, and the Tower
Foundation.
The advisory council of the school in-
cluded four AFL-CIO leaders: Joseph A.
.Beirne, president of the Communication '
Workers of America; George Harrison,
president emeritus, Railway Clerks Union;
Lee W. Minton, president, Glass Bottle
Blowers 'Association; and the late Michael
Ross, then director of the AFL-CIO's for-
eign relations.
This being the cast of characters, let us
return to the Cornell University trustees'
statement of principles.
Thev.declared that "duress, intimidation.
1 violence and the threat of violence are
unacceptable as expressions of dissent.'
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whose -chairman has helped to operate th
CIA web. -
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It was from another part of that we
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ed in 1961, an operation which makes th
Willard Straight Nall incident look like
smorgasbord. Who, indeed, are they to cr
tion violence!"?
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- They decry "disruption and the tacti
'1 about the military intervention in Guat
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running the show.
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They hold high the banner of "fr
the CIA intervention in Bolivia was
1 about?
? They avow the "principle of freed
with responsibility." Is that really w
the CIA has been trying to assure in
sector of the Vietnam depredation?
Whatever the verdict on the Willa
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the trustees a o a
pate in the discussion. '
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