DULLES BACKS CIA SUBSIDIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100060044-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: February 16, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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catty was a wat`? Those early:
ost-war years.
"'That's when President Tru-
man, and President Eisenhower`!
i realized hew serious was the So-,
rn \torld. `C'hat's when we had
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Says Cold War. Made Aid To ne Truman program to.. save;
Students Necessary, rcece and Turkey and' the,
farshall Plan to. rehabilitate
By PHILIP POTTER nd sale Europe.
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Washington, Feb. 15-"That' "If we had sat down' and done
when the cold war really was . othing in those days, where
14ould we he today. I think what
war" Thus Allen W. Dulles, the 74 vc did was worth every penny:
year-old man who served to - "If we turned back. the Com?
gest as director of the Centr? 1 nunists and made them milder
Intelligence Agency, tonight ju - he easier to live with, it was
Because we stopped them in
tified use of CIA funds to cou ertain ,areas and the 'student
ter Soviet activity `among t area was one of them."
world's student groups. Dulles entered the.CIA as do.
Interviewed in the book-clu - uty director in 1951, serving in
tered? study of his Georgetow hat capacity under W. Bedell
home, Dulles, who resign mith, a Truman appointee.. In
from the CIA in 1961 after ser, - 1953, after Eisenhower's elec
ing there under three Pre -,
idents =- Truman, Eisenhow r1 ion, Dulles was made director
and served -in that post until
and Kennedy-refused to get u ate in the firer year of the Ken
'set over congressional how s
about the disclosure that i sl nedy Administration, resignin
funds once financed 'activiti si after the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
abroad of the nation's large tl Although President Kenned
college student organizations, acknowledged full responsibiliC
Soviet Festivals : for that affair, . some of hi
White House lieutenants freel
He. recalled that in the car ` bandied about Dulles's name i
post-war era the Soviet Uni n
the Pres
effort to absolve
.
an
was spending large sums n ident and themselves of blame,
student front ? organizatio s - The Two Dulleses
which organized in Eastern ' Dulles is a brother of the tat `
rope many world youth fe51- John Foster Dulles, who wa
vats, Eisenhower's Secretary of Stat
Such festivals, attended. y and was noted for the very fir
large delegations from the 110- line he took against,internatio
vier Union, drew youngsters of al Communist activity,
only from Western Europe , ut Senator McCarthy (D., Minn.
From the a. ng nations of Suggested tody, as he propose,
Asia and Africfripa. In many ea..s a special Senate inquiry rot
{'? the Kremlin picked rip the a
,..for such travel. CIA involvement with stude
It was a costly proposition o and other domestic. groups, th
the role of the big, intelligent
,,American college youth to.cr s.. agency had "become'confused'
`the ocean and attend affair, o when,. the two Dulleses; wet.
;this kind, and American vi w serving in their respectiv
points often were unrepresen.e posts.
or represented only, by Am ri ? There has long been a scho 1
cans with a Russian travel tb of thought -in Congress and'els -'
side. where that the. CIA'role,shoul 11
Private Financing have been confined.solely to co
Private foundations, it a lection;of
said, were chary about fin nc ? ,.a .w ?.. ?<
ing trips abroad and related ac
tivities by American, youth, be..
; lieving it , was ."political" n
that it might put in jeop dyi 4,
other work by the foundation ? '
"Are we to leave the w ole~
field entirely to the Russia ?".
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