STUDENTS OPPOSING U.S.-AIDED REGIMES GOT C.I.A. SUBSIDIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700030019-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: February 21, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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done anyway if w -e had othi a C.I.A. funds also helped fi-
Stu ents ?pd'tong sources of fund- ' said a former, nance the international nicet-
mternaticiissl. aim's vice presi'',jogs of the exile groups, the
U~"" dent who novr coachcs govern-, former officials said.
?$+n'~n~~~~~~ ment. "But no one else was` In addition, the money was
interested in helping these stu-used to care for the personal
~~ ~~~~ ~ > ~ Jies dents." needs of individual students in
The former officials noted that1lthe United States. Many of
since the United Status Gov-(these had fled "with nothing'
By STEVEN V. ItOBEI~IS i crrmeni. had strone t tolbut the clothes on their backs,"-
l+ r auc t F) _ t u' al, Souti. Africaa., said one former official, who
Former officials of the Na-;and otlIer regimes opposed by"had been a vice president for
tional Student Association saidi the exiles, the Departineaat of international affairs in theearly
State was Powerless to offer: nineteen-sixties.
yesterday that the Central In- ssistance. On one occasion, he recalled,
teiligen.ce Agency had helped "nfivate foundations wouldn't a leader of the Algerian union
subsidize students who had been touch a thing like this,"? one of students escaped from pris-
exiled from their homelands for;for,u+s student officer observed on in F.ance and was suffering
fighting colonial regimes sup-{ Th.' money, the o from severe ear and skin
ffic;als said,,.
ported by official United States !was usually transferred to the?anfeciions~.. The associatiten
association from a brQught him to the United
policy, s and provided needed
State
used as a cover by the C.L A,.
The students, who did not and then given to the exiles. medical care for the leader..
know they were receiving C.I.A. The ;ormer officials said that
Occasionally the exiles had di-
,funds, included refugees frorn'rect dealings with the cover ;most Algerian students te-
Algeria, Angola, Mozambique,, foundLtiOns. including , the turncd to their homeland alter
independence in 1962 and many
South Africa, South-West Af-IAoundation for Youth and Stu-",!took top jobs in their govern-
Ider,t Affairs, identified by pres-,Ilnent,
offs and Rhodesia, the form er ant :tudent leaders as a major] The other students remained:
officials said. conduit for C.I.A.. funds.
The C.I.A. funds were used to The amount of money given exile, e, here South and Africans in Europe., e.
Several . are
finance scholarships, travel and;to the re:fugecs since the mid- teaching in Canada because the'
other expenses for student ex-+ineteen-f' Zties is impossible to United States would not let
etc mine, the former officials them stay after their passports
files in the United States and said. expired, the former student
Europe, the officials said. The bulk of the funds were leaders said.
Present leaders of the assn-',used in the United. States. In "Looking back on it I suppose,
ciation have acknowledged j aad;tion to the scholarships pro we did the wrong thing,", said
b vzd^.;1 for about 20 Algerians a
using C.I.A. funds to provide Iyear from 1955 to'-1062 some one former officer. "The inter
scholarships for Algerians, butjscholars}hips were obtained for national program has been sc-.
vercly hurt. But it was a-choice
the other links had not re students from Angola, . Mozam-
P between using C.I.A. funds or
viously been disclosed. q bi ue and South Africa. not having a
. _. . o program
The latter were all white
'Real Tragedy' Is Cited 1' youths who opposed the policies
The former officials, who di-11' of apartheid.
rected the 'association's interna-,'I Aid Vital for Students
tonal program at various pe-1, Many of the students had left
nods between 1955 and 1962,traeir countries without money
or , former
maintained that the C.I.A. had1 f c 13 credentialsnoted, a nld they would
,not influenced the association'SNthavefound it impossible to on-)
,policies toward the exiled stu-''ter or pay for college without
,dents. 'the associations help.
In some cases the former of- f l he r association also used
C.I.J. funds to enable the Al-
ficials said they themselves didigen'ians and Portuguese Afri
not know the precise source ' can"; --scattered throughout the
of the funds and had only country--to meet several times
learned of their origin when year and discuss mutual prob
lem-, The two groups-each
Ramparts magazine disclosed l,~vitli about 20 students in any'
last week that the association year-were the largest national'
has been receiving money from contingents in this country.
the C.I.A. since 1952. Tne former officers said that'
money was also provided to
"The Teal -tragedy of the di S- send several representatives of
closure that the N.S.A. took the two groups to international
C.I.A. money is that we were meetings of student exiles , in
doing things we would have Europe.
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