SDS, YAF JOINT EFFORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700200020-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: October 27, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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University Park, Pa.
27 October
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~ai:a, r i 1 Joint Effor ve that many apparently apathetic student: would
ne the opportunity to learn about current problems
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in accord with. its ideology. In the same re-' I am by no means in favor of facist dictatorships.,
;- t, the YAF has shown ' Ipvisible success in involvinn Howeve th
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At the recent teach-in, sponsored by the SDS, mem- by the SDS concerning the activities of the CIA; in con- ";
hers voiced the awareness that the vast majority of stu-' spiracy,with United Fruit,. Gulf Oil, and other U.S. busi; i;
k- CA, L3 . awnding were already-members of the eroun or to nose fi m~
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po ideal organizations seem .~ arify views which they can support.
'o ba failing in their-efforts to involve large numbers of Joanna Finebor
.rcudents in g, grad student
political issues. Participants in SDS meetings oLeitar Cut Christopher Schonwalder, grad student
;~.ve expressed concern with the political apathy of many';
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State students and sought means of involving more Giv,nc, the CIA 1$S flu
btudi!nts in fl- ..,..:,:.,- _c A~_ ....,-.
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of students"' its activities. Functions which mere] an It
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':~'r.'irg info;nation.o attract the;o ptudotlt;f a differ. Hess ventures such as the Chicago and Northwestern Rail
PA u ~a Ii aaodotlt s?ad, Wore made n' 131 b
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merican interests, I would say to United Fruit
11. 1* .1 Ll_ ...:e '111a opinion;; .t i tj students should dovolop' . i:nd Gulf, "Get out, but before you leave, dismantle your
?. ,si of political Issues .;pj philosophies, We also feel oil walls, abandon your plantations, and ? cut up your. re-
-y students who rya I?, norant of Issues or undecided , fineries for scrap. Then we'll see what these ingrates can
'heir opinion. . rV Reluctant to attend indiv:du~i. . ? -do without us."
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? A , e o influence as yet poll- So, if the people of these countries are r ;~'
-r undecided students - bacauso eally suffering
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rti stterded almost exclusirel` by members of the s on-' excuse or an ungrateful country to seize other
y Y p ,people's property without paying for it.
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~i'lie eiore, we suggest that political groups su h a ,fapanes~ firm r*centiY opened a iattt 1 ff i ,
vice elementary background information about issues con- If those countries mentioned above did not have our ;
sorting us and elucidate the, organizations' respective market, to whom could they sell? To Russia? Perhaps, but
.positions. the Egyptians have little to show for it area t 4.6
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DS Q;' 1A `~A.F ' ointl Organize programs which would
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.:a r.im o such a program would be one shared by all , common Egyptian
the
iai laborer.
olcti1 groups--_thaf of informing students, Interesting The activities of United Fruit have provided the na.
'?.drn !n a:zzai:; t ue;, and encouraging political involve.--',-,-. tions of Central America with an important industry which ' j
could not have been built without the use of American.'
r Conti :wing cooperative pro . gra Z ca
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h pital, In return for this, Is a profit too much to ask?
r.?.gt be established to accomplish this common aim. We oLetter CuE
Donald E. Shults, 71
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