$257,455 CHANNELED TO NSA LOCAL AGENCY TIED TO CIA FUNDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300600012-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 16, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

THE BOSTON HERALD
Feb. 16, 1967, FOIAb3b
CPYRGHT Sanitized -Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149)
257 4. Crean elkd to NSA "?'
CPYRGHT
f lay I1OBERT M, S' 511TII
An inspection o ors filed in the state attorney general's office dis-
closed Wednesday that tie. Independence Foundation contributed a total
*257,455 to the Nation Student Association between '1962 and 1965.
The foundation has been listed
by Ramparts magazine as one
of the channels used by the
Central Intelligence Agency to
provide funds to NSA. Th3
trustees of the fund-could not
be reached for comment.
The reports to the state Divl- =
lion of Public Charities also
show that, from 1961 to 1963,
the foundation spent more
than $127,000 on "expenditures
through foundation agents cov-
ering editing, publishing and
distributing publications in Latin
America dealing with and 'ex--'
plaining the United States "free
enterprise' economic system.:,,
Other recipients: of. tie founda
Johnson Calls.
for Review of
Agency Activities
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CPYRGHT
Iendrick was given a $1400 00 to NSA, accor in,, o
scholarship by the Indepen- records filed with the state..
dence Foundal.ion after his year ,. The only trustee listed for that;,
at NSA, when be came to Har- .foundation is Sidney R. I abb,;
yard. "I had had some contact .165 Commonwealth Ave., who is:
with Mr. Paul Ilelimuth at the : chairman of the board and teas-"~
curer of Slop''& Shop Corp
Bel
Foudalion
he said
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ew
1 was coining up.to law school.lwas reporied'Wednesday?to be'
here." "sailing off the Florida coast.
The Foundatiop's'j reports Contributors to the Indei,end
ion's money in 1965, the .last show that it had .,given several ence Foundation in 1962 inc'>>ded 1.
ear for which a report has been other scholarships to individuals Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades, inc.;'
filed, include: in. earlier years. ,Socony Mobil 'Oil Co.; Soars,
Hendrick said that he had "Roebuck & Co.;.Kerr-McGca Oil:
0 T. Hendrick of Chaff been given a 2-A (occupational) Industries; the F.dsel Fund.
ague, III.,, a former NSA staff From 1961 to 1963. the money'
ember now at Harvard Law deferment while he was working
for NSA. "It was `-ihsed on the Foundation spent on put,iica-
chool; working for NSA," he explained, tions dealing With die Ame -ican
0 The Internat.onal Markel. "and was 'pretty standard, free-enterprise system for ,alin?
119 Institute, a Cambridge or..' . That's what most of us got: America droppei from ? ,bout
anization that does advisory "Its basis was that NSA was z1 000 lisisy no money spent for:
rch
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red resea
work
n~he'devel? an important national student that
-purpose.
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ing countries and conducts association and was, fulfilling I. At the some time, the number:
mmer sessions on marketing . important national functions?of contributing companies and'
Also, if we weren't working, ter,,, , dr? nrd it m ]3 ' 1961
radice
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V. 0 The Independent Research
ervice, a reportedly defunct
ew York corporation;
4 A New York-based organiza
on called Interchange that
ould not be reached for con.
ent Wednesday.
is "It all begins to fall into
I- lace" said Hendrick, 24, of 60
yrtle St., a third-year student
11~: it Harvard Law.
V , Hendrick spent 1963-64 work-
g full-time for NSA as an, as-
istant to the vice-president for
nternational affairs. One of his
ohs was to approach. various
rganizations for contributions.
"There. were some programs
hat' were funtled by the Indc-
)cnonce Foundation," h said
Saniti' e t p?ptpoved -r
bout raising that money than
oney from other sources ...
for NSA, , we would have been' .io five in 19f13. -By 1%3. noiie o
in school and would have got?
teri student deferments."
Ile said it was his impression'
that the number of NSA staffers
the com.pimies listed above was' .
,
as the`Vietnam war heated up, (Strauss'. Trust,', the' John. G,.
Trustees Listed Thornton Trust, and ' Frincis
The trusters of the Foundation Cranes;-No. ad~dressesFare given,'4
are listed as David B. Stone,,
447 Westfield St., Dedham, a}
vice-president of the securities i
firm of Hayden, Stone, Inc., and-il
Paul F. Ifellmuth, 100 Memorial.
P,, Cambridge, a partner in'i
the law firm of Hale and Dorr.
Stone was reported to be out
of the state Wednesday. Hello
muth could not he reached, An
employe of dale and Dotr, Which)
represents the Foundation, said,'
"A trustee said no information,
Is to be given out."
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elation, the, Sidney and Esther:
Rabb Charitable , Foundation,-
still, contributing. .
In -1965, the Foundation re-'
enrddd contributions from the;
7.'ower, . Fund
the Victoria
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