FULBRIGHT: WIDEN CIA PROBE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200870021-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: February 20, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Special Congress Inquiry Asked
Sen. J. William Fulbright has' from the New York-based Foun- Meanwhile, Sen. Gale' AicGeo
called for a special congression- dation for Youth and Student , (D.,Wyo.) said in Otbo%'a.:Oan-
al investigation into the Central Affairs. ada, yesterday that infiltration
Intelligence Agency's operations The Foundation for Youth by the CIA into student groups
among student and other was necesspry and probably
and Student Agairs has been still is. groups. idoabified as one of the contvih-'
The Arkansas Democrat said. utors to the U. S. National Stu- "Lis one of those ugly necos-,
yesterday the extent of the., dent Association, which admit- Shies - intelligence is never a
CIA's activities "is much great- ted last week it had boon re- ? pleasant business," he said.
er than' I ever imagined it. ceiv'ing CIA money for the past . _ He appeared on a nationally
would be. I knew it engaged in 15 years. televised program. Also on' the
some of those activities, but I . The National Student Associa show was Michael Wood, a for-
had no idea it was extensive tion said during the weekend mer NSA official and oo-au-or
as it is at this late date." that it was -turning ever all tbs of a Ramparts magazine arbi- y
Sen. Fulbright said that Pres- records to the Senate Foreign . cle which revealed CIA aide to.
ident Johnson's action in nam- Relations Committee, which Sen. the NSA.
ring a three-man panel to "re- Fulbmight heads, for any possi- Mr. Woods, a former director .~_
view" CIA policy "doesn't seem ble future" investigation of CIA.. of NSA development, said "the
to be quite an adequate re- sties with private organizations. normal course was that the
sponse to.'this." Meantime, officials of the NSA president was made an
He noted that one of the mom- Aanerican Newspaper Guild operative of the CIA."
of the President's panel is CIA AFL-CIO were still invastigat- He said the CIA had chocked
Director Richard M. Helms. ing - whether their union had his background and found that
"Well, I must say, to ask. Mr. ever received CIA money for "I was politically jnrellable and
Helms to investigate .the . CIA its international a f f a i r s they were not ready. to make
seems a little odd," Sen. Ful~ program, me an operative: (UPD
'.bright added. "Ile is the head -~??~._.
.of .that. It is like asking- Mr.'
Joe Fowler (Treasury Secretary
Henry H. Fowler) to investigate
?the,Treasury."
Sen.. Fulbright's call for a
oar inquiry into CIA
activ i s,. --ade during a TV
interview, Issues and Answers",
ABC, came amid reports than
a Canadian student group may.
also have' received money from.
i'th?..agency.
Canadian Braodcasting Corp.
said,. yesterday. that the Cana--.
dian' Union of Students had re-,!
received $1500 in 1965 and $1500:,'
in ' 4966 for + studentsemmans4
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