3 ADMINISTRATIONS BACKED CIA ON NSA, KENNEDY SAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400120027-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: February 21, 1987
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Isy," the senator said in a
interview:
"These basic decisions wei
not made unilaterally by t
CIA but by the executive brans
-in the Eisenhower, Kennel
and Johnson 'administration .
All relevant government age
ties are contacted for?the'
approval. That includes th
White House.
'Not in a Dream World'
"If the policy was wrong, i
was not the product of the CI
but of each administration." .V
"We must not forget that'w
are not dealing with a drea
world, but with a very toug'
dversary," he continued.
"I think it is unfair that the
IA. should take the rap on this
y.,of.:?these decisions made b
wvuaL a1:61V AL.Le . "??, ...... Y. iL ills sum
With a rueful grin abo t [10 most able, dedicated pu
buffeted in a wave of prate It by others."
;reaction to the disclosure that t Kennedy called the CIA
had channeled money throu h "invaluable organization."
Various foundations to stude t "It performs many us
and other. organizations wi n functions to protect the secu
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voiced sympathy for the CI L,' CIA had to have been appro
o er Kennedy, N.Y., whose familiarity with e
Central Intelligence Agcn y
goes back to the Bay of Pi s
(fiasco, said today it was unf it
to make the CIA "take the ra "
for secretly subsidizing privr e
organizations.
The former attorney goner I,
brother of the late Preside t
tid sold he did not wis
iscuss specific cases of
nvolvment, and had no re
nswcr as to how- finan
ctivitics helpful to the an
hould best be handled.
While Kennedy voiced sym
by for the CIA, Vice Presid
abort H. Humphrey said
as "not at all happy" with
IA's covert support of
'ational ' Student Associat
ad other groups.
Humphrey told students
Stanford University that
IA's infiltration into the co
late group. was "one of
addest times our governn:
as had in terms ? of pub
"
1 olicy.
"I'm not all happy'about wi
I if,voived in this. I think vwe en
t keep our democratic insL!
ens free of government cc
cion."
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He said the CIA needs "closer
supervision" and should be
I "conffined to its intelligence-
gat hering activities."
Humphrey's comment fol-
lowed similar criticism in a
statement issued by John W.
Gardner, ' Secretary of Health
Education and Welfare, who is a
member of a panel president!
Johnson appointed last week to`
I review CI
a
ti
iti
c
v
es such as
A
Z i the NSA program
n Gardner said it was "a mis-i
31'take for the CIA ever to catan-I
close to the field of education or
Scholarship or the university."
But he stressed that he felt the
error should not weigh against
recognizing the nation's reed for
an intelligence-gathering agen-
cy.
G rdner said he has "little
respect for critics who give I
themselves airs of moral super-
l iority in attacking an activity'
they know to be necessary."
CIA director Richard Helms,
another member of the review
panel, -briefs members, of a
Serrate Armed Services subcom-
mittee today.
Mansfield Urges Probe
One member of the subcom
mittee, - Senate Democratic
Leader Mike Mansfield, has said
the CIA link to the collegiate
group smacked of "big broth-
erism" and should be fully in.,
vestigated by the group.
Sen. Milton R. Young, R-N.D.,
ranking Republican of the,
special watchdog subcommittee
on the CIA, defended the agen-
cy. He told the Senate "we need
the CIA. and badly" to compete
with Russian espionage.
Rep. Wayne Hays, D-Ohio;
charged in a House speech that
the White ' House and State
Department knowingly allowed.
the CIA subsidies to the NSA,`
which amounted in some years
to $400,000.
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