'FANTASTIC PRESSURES' CHARGED CIA FORCED STUDENTS TO SPY , NSA CLAIMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100520007-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 18, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASJIING'^ON -- Officers of
t?he Nation;,' =,-:; rent Associa +
lion (NSA) k rid_.y night acused
the Central Intelligence Agency
of 'tapping" American college
studrnts into roles as .C;
atirnts and placing. themThnder
"fantastic pressures" not to Os-
close their clandestine missions
overseas.
Tho charge against the CIA
n?r,s made at a hectic news con-
tercnce heric in a hotel lobby
by Sam Brown, a 23-year-old
Harvard university divinity"
student who is chairman of the
10-member national supervisory
policy board of the NSA.
Association Disavowed
'Before a battery of eight We-j
vision cameras, Brown disa-
vowed any furi.her association of
the student organization with,
the CIA.
He said the NSA would assist
"any public investigation" nt
the CIA's rose on American col-
loge campuc-es with the testi:
mony of student officers and"
with rnmplrte disalosune of re;-'
Brown and Gene Groves,
president of the NSA, the largest
student organization in the Unit-
ed States, denied reports 1"a;
the organization would be dis
solved, Both described the 24
hour meetings here ,,inp NSA
officers since last To r d; as a
"purifying experien,?e-? dial
would give the organizaiinn rr4v.
strength and new freer)rcn."
Brown said the wcc??.?~. u;'.on?
live investigation by ASA'
board members had cunfirmec
that, during some year, sincf
1932, as much as 80 per cent
of the student organization's an
nual budget came from the CIA;
passed to the NSA by inter-
mediary foundations and indivi-
duals. He listed them as the
foundation-for youth and studeni
affairs; the Catherwood Foun-
dation; the San Jacinto Founda-
tion.; the Independence Founds;
tion; the Sidney and Esther'
Rabb charitable foundation: a
"1VIr. R. E.- Smith," otherwise
unidentified; and "at least: 15
other foundations and indivi-.
duals" which received CIA funds
and redirected them to the NSA.
Brown also disclosed for the
first time how the CIA was able
to recruit NSA officers and
staff members. "This is the part.
of the whole thing that I found In
be most disgusting and l nr-
rible," Brown said. "People
were duped into this relation-
ship with the CIA - a relation,
ship from which there then was
no way out."
:~?clec.teif Members
The '.NSA staff members and
overseas missions at interna-;
honal student gatherings were
first given "a full security
check, without their knowledge
Brown said. They were
..`'en interviewed either by NSA.
irrrs or staff already recruit-
by the CIA or directly. by
CIA employes.
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