CIA AND ASIA FOUNDATION ARE LINKED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600430021-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 26, 1999
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: March 22, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

+~. ,R 2 2 1967
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CIIA U% d c
prestigious Asia Foundation, ;
private group which spend
more than $4 million annually i
strengthening U.S.-Far Eas
relations,, has acknowledged i
received'' financial suppor
through the Central Intelligent
Agency.
But a spokesman for th
foundation yesterday stresse
that the funds "in no way affect
ed" its policies and programs.
Listed among the foundation
trustees are such dignitaries a
Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. ambas-
sador-designate to Saigon:
Edwin 0. Reischauer, forme
U.S. ambassador to Japan, an
Stanford University president J.
E. Wallace Sterling.
The spokesman, a member o
the foundation staff, said he di
not know how much money the
e ` , k o d
group had received through CIA
channels.
The foundation said it has
received contributions and
grants from corporations,
foundations, individuals, state
,and local governments, colleges
.and publishing firms..
It also said, "The trustees
wish to state that in the past
they have also knowingly re-
ceived contributions from
private foundations and trusts
which have been recently name
as having transmitted Central
Intelligence Agency funds to
private American organiza.
tions."
The spokesman said the foun.
dation spends between $4 millio
and $5 million a year.
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