NSA OFFICIAL RESIGNS CHARGES CIA COVERUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700090021-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 10, 2006
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: March 9, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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the press.
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Georgetown home ofCIA
employe with whom NSA oiii
cials had dealt over a period o.,
years, Stearns said. He decliners ?.
to name the individual involved...
Calls Statements False
Rubin charged that the state
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the wcehs immediate) 7i eced- grams. had provided any
in disclosure of the link be- intelligence- I
y ' Rubin said the first of the gathering service to the CIA and';
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al affairs director, said the
student group's officers met on
four occasions with CIA repre-
sentatives in late January and
.early February before Ram-
parts magazine released the text
of an article saying the CIA
tween the two orgonizations.
financial support to NSA over a! account, and said that at the
hy V101-1 s 1VaLional Sulpcrvisory
Board. He cited earlier newspa-
per accounts quoting officers as
saying essentially the same
thing Rubin announced today.
series of meetings between NSA
and CIA officials occurred in
mid-January at a Marriott
Motor Hotel in Arlington, and
was attended by all three cur-
rent NSA officers as well as two
representatives of the CIA.
Stearns Confirms Account
Stearns confirmed Rubin's
time there was considerable
discussion of how to react to the
Ramparts ' allegation. He said
Richard Stearns, international I CIA representatives proposed
affairs vice president for NSA,! four different approaches to
told reporters that virtually all denying the magazine article,
details of the link betwcn the but that Philip Sherburne, last
,two groups had been disclosed in: year's NSA president, who was
statements by the officers and ialso present, advocated public
Rubin's press conference was Rubin and Stearns said the
hold on the sidewalk outside last of the CIA-NSA meetings
:NSA's building at 2115 S St. NW, occurred the day. before Ram-
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Meets Press on Sidewalk
because the organization
s parts placed .advertisements in
officers refused to allow him to I newspapers announcing its
use their office space on grounds article. Stearns said that at that
he was not speaking for the time an NSA statement acknowl-
organization and had not asked edging much of the relationship
their approval, of the press was drawn up and both the CIA
conference. and the State Department were
"I. am convinced that the staff informed of the.student opgani?
It was Sherburne who last
year made the break with the
CIA, hut details of that event
were not publicly known until
a se y state
t
at the agcnc.) s
financial support of NSA ended
in 1966.
NSA officers said most of the
money from 'the CIA-totaling ~
more than $3?million since 11:,,;
-was halted in 1966, but that a ,
small amount was received late I'
last year and spent early this
year rather than abruptlyI
halting ongoing programs.
No additional funds have been
received from the CIA this yeas';
they said.
Rubin said the officers lied to
the staff at several points. Ile
charged that the NSA officers
had given assurances that a full!
explanation would be offered.
However, when the statement
as finally issued, it contained i
several inaccuracies and failed
to mention a number of areas in
which the CIA exercised control,.
The association's press secre-?
tary, Greg Movscsyan, said'
later the student group "will
accept any openly received
funds from government sources
for specified programs in which
the association has complete
independence in policy formula-
tion and a desire to participate.".