CIA NEVER LINKED TO PEACE CORPS SHRIVER SAYS STEPS WERE TAKEN TO PREVENT TIE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700250013-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 11, 2006
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: March 27, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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the commitment was "very
simple." I
"We' felt that if we were to
attract the kind of volunteers
Peas says Steps I''derelireedhintrorder to beosuccessfull
Taken To Prevent Tie we had to be able to assure them
that they were not being used
By ALBC?.ItT SE?.I{hSTT?.DT, Jr. for ulterior purposes," the said.
(Washington Bureau of rho Sun] " We tried to,'play it exactly
Washington, March 26- The'square and on the level and hon-
estly with everybody who joined)
(Peace Corps took great pains.or thought about joining. We
when it was organized to avoid thought that was the only Way
involvement with the Central to deal with the American peo-
'Intelligence Agency, it was ' re- I ple."
ported today... '1"ne CIA was the object of con,
The statement was made byI siderable criticism last month
Sargent Shriver, now director of
the Office of Economic Oppor-
tunity and the first director of
the Peace Corps when it was es-
i tablished in 1961.
Shriver discussed.- (the (Matter
briefly on the NBC'"radio and
television program, "Meet The
!Press," which was broadcast
'today. , .
Why "Extreme Pains"':
He was asked near the end
of the broadcast why the Peace
Corps had apparently gone to
,i"extreme pains" to assure its
separat.ion from the CIA.
a "First of all, I'd like to say
that is correct," Shriver replied.
We did take extreme pains.
"We got a commitment from
the director of the Centt"al Intel.
ligence Agency at that " time-
first Mr. Dulles and then Mr.
McCone-that under no circum.
stances would the CIA attempt
to use Peace Corps volunteers
or the organization for any of,
their purposes." ,
Allen W. Dulles was director
of.the'CIA from 1953 to 1961, and
Bohn -A. McCone headed the or~
ganizatign-frorrl 196filtd 1 65,
following reports of secret sub-
sidies to the National Students
Association to counter Soviet-
controlled'- student groups at in-
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