HOW PATMAN EXPOSE DIED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600210004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 1999
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 26, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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:;y DON VINCENT J. BURKE Independence Foundation, Boston, (held mortg
NSA headquarters) :
world Journal Tribune spcclal National Student Assn. ($256,483-1060-1965).
W ^ =,:::NOTON. Feb. 25-"The J. M. Kaplan Fund international Student Conference, Leyden, Holla
World Assembly of Youth, Brussels.
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Youth and Students Council, New. York.
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Pa,traan, D-Tex., told hearing conducted
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:acre th a two years ago by his House e committee on small tion, New York ($145,000-1962-63).
bus a::.. s. International. Marketing Institute, Boston ($101,000-
.. Z: hen Patn.an uttered these words on Aug, 3I, 1964, i9G3-19G4).
he was trying to evoke public testimony from security- American Friends of the Middle East ($35,000-1964)
cc:, cioas officials of the Internal Revenue Service. They Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs, New Yor
refused to colLitzn his information about a tie-up between reported $1,527,488?in 1965 donations to 26 groups; roes STATI NTL
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i.:;c Central Icly aknee Agency and the Kaplan Fund or
o unlisted. A partial list of 1965 recipients follows):
Acsi:fy Ztubiiclboi:t eight mystcmious foundations that National Student Assn, ($405,791).
had contributed to it. World Assembly of_Youth ($314'517).
Pa (man's stator .cats created. a short-lived sensation International Student Conference ($273,2481.
that used ;.: a cic_ -door .I.ceting between the committee U.S. Youth Council ($151,478).
arc; W .. -as c.f::.cials The topic was dropped in subse- International Union of Socialist Youth ($09,533):
?r]acnt ;.a..e ings; sovornment sources clammed up. Nothing Oficina Replacionadara Movimientos Estudiantlles
rcn:a;:.. but Patu.an's charge and the names of eight Universitarias ($72,718). -~
000 private foundations in the United States. , i. Ameliean Newspaper Guild, Washington (r avod
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Those eight organizations remain mysterious, two $200,000 in 1960-1963 from the Granary Fund; $00000 in
nd a half year:; after Patman first opened the public 1964 from Andrew Hamilton Fund; $704,000 in 1965-1966
records on CIA's use of private foundations as camouflaged from Chesapeake and Broad-Iiigh Foundations and Warren
conveyor belts for funds that have helped at least 50 prl- Trust).
v.ato orranizatlc.ns that work in the foreign field. Into;?-American Federation of Working Newspapermen,
The crack Patman in:lieted in CIA's cover has broken Papama. and International Federation of Journalists,
\ride open in t'I.e past two weeks. Following disclosure Brussels (shared $1,004,000-1960-1964).
that CIA had passed about $4' million over a 15-year Sidney and Esther Rabb Foundation Boston:
to the Na"ioua'. Student Assn., It has come to light National Students Assn. ($6,000-1964).
:.t CIA money has 17elped pay for programs sponsored by International Development Fund ($25,000-1964).
sudc:.ts, educators and scholars, journalists, labor unions' David Hosephone and Winfield Baird Foundation.
e.ncl apparently by a few church groups. 'Now York (received $465,800 from Kentfield Fund, Borden
Trust, Price Fund, Edsel Fund .1961-1964) :
o:ae;ibic to estimate accurately the total amount American Friends of the Middle East ($150,000-
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CIA 11%; )novel through foundation channels to support
selected ventures. Estimates are that $4 million has been I9G3.19G4964).
African American Institute ($150,000-1961-1964).
moved In a decade and a half NSA, that $ International Development Foundation ($50,000
' :;allion was s conveyed through the American n Newspaper r
Guild L->, two years. Union of Bishops of the Orthodox Church Outside
Only fragrne._ts o the puzzle appear In the discreetly- Russia ($38,000--1962).
r.ordcd reports which foundations are supposed to file Al. D. Anderson Foundation; Houston (received $655,000
year;:' an IRS ern 900-A. The portion of these forms from seven of the irIA "fronts" 1958-1964).
ticna p, id out, but not of funds received. In some case, J. M. Kaplan Fund, New York (received $1,169,950 It
Some 990-A forms have been unavailable for a variety -- Congress for Cultural Freedom, London ($103,000-
'fens" r.:.d ?trust&' which have no apparent reason for. Congres Pour ]a Liberte do Is Culture, Paris ($54,000
.:ccat as CIA fronts. -1964) :
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On the other side of the paper curtain at IRS, the I-Ioblitzelle Foundation, Dallas (reported $275,000 In
disillusioned offices of the ,National Student Assn. told "anonymous donations"=1961-1963, $10,000 from Price
tirh t i?1:.~ knew: that NSA had been substantially helped Fund-1961, $63,700 from Borden Trust and Tower Fund
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;.d tide I:.c - ncienco Foundation, both of Boston, and the
Fo ;:.cr.t:?-:1 for Youth and Student Affairs of New York.
Fund for International Social and Economio Educa- ?;{
(ion ($160,000-1963-65).'
.n's fthat opened new doors to more and more groups. Radio Free Europe ($40,000-1064).
to :v fu r: a believed to be prime dispensers of CIA funds., Benibmin Rosenthal Foundation, New York (received
monies were so comingled that positive ' $205,000 from Price, Edse1, Tower and Ban Miguel Funds
;:eatibn was impossible. 1960-63):
T.1ST OF TILE rOUNI)ATIONS Asia Foundation ($35,000-1063-64).
partial listing of the foundations, . Vernon Fund, Washington, D, C. ($66,000-1961-63).
a c_aa.cc o. uads where available, each followed by Veil on Fund, Washingtort (no reportrs from this fund
ccnifscant,acne ciarles whos am es show',in available available sin i formation in 1958? it is reported
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