'GIFTS' NEAR HALF MILLION HARVARD REAPS CIA FUNDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400390003-6
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 23, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 15, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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'GIFTS' NEAR HALE;M1 Ol
Some 13 programs and activities at4Harvard University have been financed in part with
contributions from organizations which were "conduits" for-the Central Intelligence' Agency, it
was learned Friday. However.,. the director of o e of the affected programs said the CIA made
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no attempt to influence the
content, policies or person
el of the program.
The extent of the CIA sup-
port research actieiti6s and the
like at Harvard was disclosed
by 6can Franklin L. Foi;d of
of the Faculty of Arts and Sci-
ences in an oral report earlier
this week.
One published account of the
-report, in the Harvard Crinr-
that the CIA had given partial,
support to the Seminar through $
the private foundations which I,
served as conduits, but lie said %
the spy agency had made nok
efforts to influence any of the
$456,000 botwecn 1960 and 19667
and said that, since 1953, the!
International Seminar of the l
Summer School had' reccivedi
$243,000.
NO ]INFLUENCE' TRY
The Seminar brings foreign i
government leaders to Harvard
each summer.
Henry A. Kissinge/executive',,
director of the Seminar, said,
it did not start until 1960, andt
since then has received $135,-'
000. He said he was unawarek
None of the money, Kissinger 'j
said, h.rtl unusual restrictions
or strings tied to it, although
some was designated for spe-
programs. This, he said,
cific
was routine.
ALL 3 CIA CONDUITS According to Kissinger, the
Seminar got $49,000 1j' three
years from the Asia Founda-
tion, and in the last two years,y
received $7282 from the Ameri- +?
.can Friends of the Middle East.
A third organization, the Fund
Economic Education, awarded
a grant of $15,000 to the Center
for Middle Eastern Studies In ti
1964.
All three organizations were
earlier reported to be conduits
f
e
h
C
o
t
e
IA
.
Kissinger said that even or-
conduits do not necessarily get.
all their money from the CIA
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