NO PROSECUTION FOR DISCLOSING CIA FINANCING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200120005-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 20, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
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PROSECUTION
DISCLOSING
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:,tom Post-S match wire Services
:'WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-The
i ecute students who told of their
relationship with the Central
Lteiligence Agency, says the
gneral counsel for the spy or-
oanfzation.
Lawrence R. Houston said
that "these boys were pushed
into -a corner" by disclosure
that: the CIA had financed in-
ternational activities of the Na-
tional Student Association.
He said intent to breach na-
tional security must be shown
before a prosecution can be
achieved.
I1Iowover, Houston said in a
te,; phone interview last night
.ii-t--the students did not have
carte. blanche to tell everything
about their dealings with the
CIA.
"But I can't conceive the
:Government would prosecute
any-of them for what they have
said:so far," he said.
Threats Reported
Some NSA board members
said last week after the link
was revealed that they had
ocen threatened with jail sen-
tences for breach of security
otitis if they disclosed the CIA
dealings.
Apother allegation in the far-
Teaching case was made yester-
day. by The Nation magazine,
which said grants from CIA-
backed foundations went to op-
erations and Policy Research,
?Inc.,'a subsidiary of the United
States Information Service.
Along list of foundations and
organizations, ranging from the
World Assembly of Youth in
Brussels, Belgium, to the Amer.
dean Newspaper Guild AFL-CIo
In Washington, have been named
as involved with the CIA.
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
Some, such as the newspaper
union, have denied any knw!-,
edge of the link.
The New York Times said an
organization headed
M H by Richard
i
unt, an assistant dean of
the Harvard University gradu-
ate s
h
c
ool oftd
ars an sciences,
had 'received mone
f
y
rom
a
foundation identified as a chan-
nellfor CL4 funds,
'" Received $25 nnn
on
, rec
d
`ile at the
Massach
usetts attorne
-
eral's office in y gen
dicate, Hunt's or-~
ganization, the Fund for Inte
r-
e national Social and Economic
Education of Philadelphia, re-
ceived $25,000 from the J. Fred-
I. erick Brown Foundation of Bos-
on. The fund, its brochure
i says, finances workers' educa-
tion projects, scholarships and
research work for trade union-
ists, and social studies scholars
from Africa, Asia and Latin
America. The money received
from the Brawn Foundation was
used for undisclosed work in
Latin America.
Hunt's organization has also
received money from the pap_
C
Pas
haritable Trust of Boston,
which has given funds to other
groups that have been regularly
obtaining money from CIA con-
duit foundations.
Hunt acknowledged receipt of
the funds from the Brown, and
Pappas foundations but said he
had no knowledge that . the
money was -from the .intelli-
rar as he know the money was
from "private sources." he said
his organization had no rela-
tionship with the CIA. ......... .... ...
FOIAb3b
Harvard's Position'
A?' spokesman for Harvard
said the university did not ac-
cept contracts for "research
Projects that cannot be pub-
lished. But an individual rnem-
ber of the faculty can.make his
own decision about the use of
his own time."
Hd
e sai the university might
have accepted money from.the
CIA for publishable research
projects, but he did not know
of any such incident.
The: International Market In-
stitUte, a private organization
Harvard Business School for
seminars, has been accepting
grants from the Independence
Foundation of Boston, another
CIA,conduit.
A;j; b u t 500 middle-ranking
business executives from So'
countries have attended the
summer seminars on market-
ing"-techniques.
Twii more Senators said yes-
terda1 that Congress should
keep : closer
h
k
c
ee
on the CIA
.
Some' congressmen have called
or "an investigation
.
; $i'nator Jacob K. Javits
(Rep.), New York, said that
"things that should have been
open Were Clandestine. You've
put 'the public in the kind of
doubt that should never arise
"
.
He said President Lyndon B.
Johnson should have supervised
,,the agency more closely and
"legislative oversight."
.viA should be required to re-
port on its activities more reg-
ularly to an overseer such as a
congressional committee.
He, too, said Government
',support to organizations such
as NSA should be open.
Senator Gale McGee (Dem.),
iWyonving, said, however, that
the CIA's action in subsidizing
~ student groups was an "ugly
necessity for the realities of the
times."
He said deception was "par
(or the course" in intelligence
gathering and said there prob.
ably still was a need for such
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