CHANNEL FOR CIA FUND GAVE TO HARVARD DEAN'S PROJECT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400120004-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 20, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

TIE BOSTON HERALD
Feb.
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"I 'feel that I'm in control of the projects an
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.the same way. We are responsible to no one but ourselves." Dean Hunt.
An organization headed
by, a Harvard dean has been
receiving money from a
source close to the Central
Intelligence Agency to edu-
cate trade unionists in un-
derdeveloped countries.
~~?v -?w~ ""~ l'V "`C; ters of he Fund's money came
source of money the Fundl
?? -.-.Y V1 .]vul Gtl3.
Foundation. ?.f
"
As r as I knew there was,<
"Like a lot of organiza no go rnment m on e y ip.
"
Lions,
said Hunt, "we have;: volved, he said.
received money fa;?om foun-
A "I l in that the Brown Foun-
t
The organization is the
and for International So-
ial and Economic Educa-.
'on, which has been work
ng in Latin - America,'
i Africa and Asia since 1957;
a
rons to carry out specific; dat.ion contributed a small
programs in our area,of in-! amount I knownow that it has
terest.. ;.been li cd as receiving money
-"We,accepLoci money from'1hn from t CIA. But that is all I
Brown Foundation to c2rry out , Knoat. II
CPYRGHT
abor leader and member of the
ailroad Retirement Board in.:
hicago; and David L. Cole, a
aterson, N.J., lawyer.
PROJECTS CITED
The Fund's brochure describes
is 'worlt as financing worker.
riucation projects, scholarships
nd research work for trade , ,
ionists a n d social studies
cholars . in Asia,. Africa and,,
atin America.
Lod e ,, ed t 'f'
m
Its board chairman ?, vuur
is Dr. which were ,in liirc,with our ownJ Lodg said that as a member
Richard M. Hunt of. Cam- of the und's board of trustees
r,
bridge, an assistant dean of "uric'
I was r,vy to every expendi-
the Harvard . Graduate ~ We were 'not aware..that We ti tune. I mew exactly what the
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School of Arts and Sciences were taking CIA money."
money as used for. There vas
and founder of the organi hunt said be was not at no sha of a. doubt as to its
zation. erty' to disclose the nature of the utility.'
specific Lathi American ptoject?' Lodg said he b
Records on file at 1,110 financed by 'Browir h'oundation gcame inter.
State House show that: the unds, but he added: ested i the work of the Fund
while h was an assistant under
-, -,r f
Fund in 1965 received X25
'
,
eel that I
m in control of Secreta of Labor James P.
000 .from the J. Frederick' the projects and the other trus- ?- Mitchel who was one -of its
rown Foundation of Bos-
on, which has been identi-
ied as a channel for CIA''
unds.
Another trustee of the
and is George Cabot
odge 'of Beverly, son of
Ienry' ? Cabot Lodge, am-
assador to South Vietnam,
nd Republican candidate
4 or U.S. senator in 1962.
Both` Hunt and Lodge
g
wo sped is pror-,
tees feel the same way. We are'; first tr tees. , . is as worker education centers'.
responsible to no one but our. "It is active in the fields Nairobi, Kenya, and Lima,
selves." that I as close to, chicily the. eru.' The Fund-also brought:.
organiz ion of workers in the bor leaders to to the United States.,,
A spokesman for Harvard said d e v e I training. he said.
p i n g countries
11 said
,
the university does not accept Lodge,
contracts for "research projects,
that cannot be published, but an" ' Whe Mitchell died, I was in-''
vited, to become a member of
individual member of the facul- the boa . I did so gladly."
ty can make his own decision,'.
Other embers of the board of
about the use of his own time." ' trustees e Arlon. E.
"hygn. a"
He said he did not know of
any money Harvard itself might
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