CIA FUNDING CHALLENGED; PRESS SUPPRESSES STORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100010019-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: August 1, 1972
• Content Type: NSPR

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A virtual news blackout has
1$een declared by' the nation's
press concerning the major, legal
Challenges that have been
.launche.d against the Central In
Telligence Agency.
.The August 10 filing of a
suit in Washington against CIA
Director Richard Helms and othe
.government officials was a
.matter of,court record and eas-
ily accessible to the news ?
media. In addition, a news re-,
lease containing essential fact
about; the story was hand deli -
?vered' to the Washington Post,
the Evening Star, the Associate
Press and United Press Inter-
national.
A week later, not one 'line
concerning it had appeared any-
where in the country.
It was.'confixmed by THE VOIC
that editors were-well aware of
the story and its importance.
A call to one of Washington*'
two dailies by a source access-
ible'to THE VOICE produced this
continent' from a leading reporter
"You can call it' a 'press con-
spiracy' if you like, but we're
not going to print it and I'm
sure no one else is either."
Earlier this 'year on July 20
an important decision in.the
U.S. Third Circuit Court of
Appeals guaranteed that the CI
would be brought to court on a
challenge that had been in pro
cess.since 1968. America's
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carried the story as a small,,
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greatest newspaper "of record",
the New York Times, ignored the
story, as did the Washington
Evening Star and most other
papers. The Washington Post
item on page ten.
The Washington Post,,The.
Evening Star, the news ser-
vices and'the local radio
stations have seen fit to
suppress one of/'the major news
stories of the-year--the legal
challenges to. the nerve cen-
ter of American imperialism,
the.Central Intelligence
Agency.
For.this reason THE VOICE
felt obligated to fill the;
void by bringing out the ;~
first "special edition" in
its young life.
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Yet iri 1964. in a court case
involving .two Estonian emigres
the CIA presented to the court
a secret document authorizing
it' to engage in certain domestic
activities.
This authorization was in the
form of an executive order which
seems to be in direct viola-
tion of the' act"creating the
CIA.
As.a matter of fact the do-
mestic operations of the CIA.''
were so large by 1964 that it
set up a Domestic Operations.
Division with headquarters at
1750 Pennsylvania Ave., about
a block and a half from the.
MMMlajox breaks in CIA'secrecy
in. . 1966 and 1967 resulted in
disclosures that the CIA was
very heavily involved in financ
ing all types of programs at
such major. Lmiversities as
Michigan State and the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technol-?.
The National Security'Act
which created the CIA states
that it shall not have "police,
subpoena,'law-enforcing powers
or internal security functions,
The CIA has been operating in
violation of this law for at
least fifteen years and prob-
ably longer.
In- early 1966 Richard
Helms, the Director of the CIA',
in testimony to the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
stated flatly that.the?CIA does
not operate in the United
States. '
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. In-addition, it was revealed
that the CI?A'had subsidized'
many domestic organizations in-
cluding the major American
student organization, The Na-
tional Student Association. CIt
money also found its way into
at'least twenty foundations,
as well as Radio Free Europe, a
large publishing house, and
various other organizations.
Have the CIA's domestic
operations ceased?;', A simple
inspection ,of telephone books . ,
discloses that today the CIA ha
offices. in, at least twenty
American cities.
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