THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY AND ITS PROGRAM OF SUBSIDIZING STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

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• Publication Date: February 20, 1967
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l'ebruary .20, 1907 CONGR PRIONAL 'RECORD -
tive, or an associate which touch directly Madison and other members of the the administration would press for in-
upon governmental-Federal, State, or Constitutional Convention stated em- creased funding for support of U.S. rep-
local-financial transactions. In keep- phatically first, that the specified three resentation' at international meetings,
ing with the recognition that these re- qualifications were to be the only one,, and the Congress would meet its respon-
lationships are not necessarily unethical second, that the reason for this was that sibility by providing the funds.
and indeed might be correct and bene-_ disagreement with the political or moral Until the public disclosure of the Cen-
ficial to everyone, including the public, views of a Member by his colleagues tral Intelligence Agency's activities in
such financial relationships are not pro- ? should not entitle them to refuse to ac- subsidizing student organizations, and
hibited. On the other hand, this gray cept that Member into the House, and arrangements known to both the State
d has does-cover third that such a power would be a dan- Department and the White House, re-
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many activities which have the same net gerous one. They also decisively de- sponsible officials were seemingly content
result as those specifically prohibited by feated attempts in the Constitutional to allow this contemptible covert rela-
ethic 2; therefore, all transactions in Convention either to allow the Congress tionship to continue. As long as the pub-
this gray area are required to be reported to add additional qualifications or to di- lic was unaware of these covert subsidies,
under the procedure set forth in ethic rectly specify such qualifications-for ex= it was easier to "let CIA do It" than fight-
7, A specific example of a transaction ample, property ownership. ing for open appropriations. The trag-
coming within this ethic would be the Right 3 in effect specifies that the fifth edy is that the "easy way" has been as
retaining of a Member's law firm to rep- amendment's guarantee of procedural. corrupting to the integrity of American
resent a municipality or other entity of due process of law shall obtain in any education as it has been unnecessary.
local government in negotiationg a con- process or action taken against a Mem- Mr. Speaker, when turmoil over this
tract with a Federal agency. ber by any committee or other agent of des turn eg Agency's over the Central tIn-
Rights: Right 1 is a somewhat ex- the House.
panded statement of the principle behind Right 4 states that-provided first such National Students Association has died
the language in article 1, section 6 of the activity is consistent with the Member's down, let us all examine our legislative
Constitution stating that- duty to his constituents and to his col- consciences. Have we perhaps inad-
For any Speech or Debate In either House, leagues-the Member retains the right to ver n l to provide the means problem fund
by
they [the Senators and Representatives] continue to pursue his usual business,
shall not be questioned in any other place. trade, or profession. It should be noted these student organizations for travel to
Clearly the constitutional , language that this, too, is in keeping with the con- international conferences? I am simply
does not contain explicit wording pro- cept of a national legislature composed suggesting breaking the relationship be-
tecting a Member from being brought to of 'men of viable roots in the economic tween the Central Intelligence Agency
task for his political views; yet this se= as well as the social soil of their nation. and the academic world is not enough.
We must
curity is the clearly implied corollar also see to it that alternate, and
pen, funds are available to ensure that
of the constitutional provision. In other HE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE S. academic and scientific oruaniza-
words, the ethic is written to prevent AGENCY AND ITS PROGRAM OF lions have adequate means to participate
disciplinary action being taken against - SUBSIDIZING STUDENT ORGANI- in international meetings. The legis-
a Member for holding, expressing, or vot- : ZATIONS lative authority is there to provide the
ing views that other Members may feel (Mr. HAYS asked and was given per- means. What is required is for the exec-
to be di a essupportive eover er, a s the sal or 'Supreme religious e mission to address the House for 1 min- utive to make a vigorous case for sub-More Court has . recently pointed ute and to revise and extend his re- stantially larger appropriations, and the
Bond hcase (Julian rBond v. out "Stlooppythe" marks.) Congress to grant the funds.
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Floyd, decided October term, 1966), the Mr. HAYS. Mr. Speaker, the country
first amendment's protection of citizens' is shocked and deeply disturbed by the, BALANCED VIEW URGED ON RECENT
free speech certainly applies to the Mem, recent disclosure that the Central Intel- DISCLOSURES CONCERNING THE
bers of the National Legislature-as well ligence Agency has been subsidizing stu- CIA
as to State legislators, as was the case in dent organizations. We have every real RIVERS asked and was given per-
Bond. The speech exception allows for son to be disturbed. These covert rela- (Mr.
address asked House for 1 men-
min-
the free operation of the precedents in tionships corrode the very foundation of mission addrextend his remarks
1 and
Jefferson's manual and the House rules a free society. I commend the President ute, to sand e at d his matter.)
e
dealing with such matters as proper ad- for directing his administration to find include revise Mr. RIVERS. Mr. Speaker, in its lead
dress, impugning of motives, on- way of insuring that these secret isle- Sunday editorial, one of the local news-
reference to personalities, and apiro- tions ips between the Central Intelli- provides the valuable service of
priate speech in regard to the Senate \ or gence Agency and the academic world papers
Senator. are broken, and stay broken, urging a balanced view on the recent dis-
Rights2 establishes that the personal Mr. Katzenbach, the Under Secretary closures concerning the CIA. I urge my
morality of a Member is basically a mat-\of State, has told the press that the Presi- colleagues read this di tthe cur-
not that his constituents pass upon and 'dent has directed the State Department The editorial
rent flap should not reminds uescalated that
a ur-
not the House, unless the morality of a to explore ways by which U.S. student or-
Member becomes such as to actually ef- ganizations will be able to play an active point where we reveal all of CIA's covert
feet the order, dignity, or decorum of the role in international student activities operations and destroy the Nation's in-
House itself. Neither the fact that other ? without resorting to subsidies from the telligence organization. It reminds us
Central Intelligence Agency. I would that the silent battle the CIA has been
Membc ,his not approve or a oral code, like to remind Mr. Katzenbach and my' engaged in is not a tea party and the
nor onduct his moral views, or moral code, colleagues that the Department of State enemy is not a group of sorority girls. It
ing no the he fact more that colleagues Members object to oral moral needs no additional authority to provide reminds us that the CIA was the only
views and conduct Provide whose hos somewhat open, untainted aid to students, scholars, organization that came forward to do theca
wider diversity sts than rovide a present pub- or scientists wishing to attend interna- Job that had to be done. and that theft
lie concept thais one present pub, tional conferences. The Mutual Educa- job, after all, was not done too badly. .
ar for concept of the National Legislature, and Cultural Exchange Act of I urge my colleagues, in the strongest
sue ch vala id Mem ember. Indeed ndeed , any this approach this a against1961-the so-called Fulbright-Hays Act terms, to consider the points raised in,<
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was essentially that of the Constitution: provides full authority for open Govern- this editorial. The editorial follows: h
Qualifications for Members of the House ment support for U.S. representation at, WHAT ARE WE Terris To Do To THE CIA? y
were specifically set by article 1, section international, nongovernmental, educa- It is just possible, if we all manage toy'
tional and scientific meetings. work ourselves into a wild enough lather, ?9
2, clause 2: that the current flap over' the CIA can be
No person shall be a Representative who With this authority for funds avail- escalated to the point where It will destroy
shall not have attained to the Age of twenty- able, why is it necessary for academic the nation's intelligence organization. It 14
five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen groups to accept money from the Central almost seems that this is what some of the
of the United States, and who'shall not, Intelligence Agency? One answer is breast-beaters would like to do.
when elected, be an Inhabitant of that state `that the funds appropriated are woefully. One day we have a disclosure that a stu-
In which he shall be chosen. Inadequate. This could be remedied if dent organization has been receiving covert'
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funds so that young Americans can com- away from CIA support as soon as that be- and the U.S. Information Agency, Sen-
pete with young Communists at world stu- came possible. ator FULBRIGHT said:
dent meetings. Then, suddenly, nothing Nd one, moreover, can possibly defend all
will do but that every traceable operation the details of any one of these operations. If it is going to be, it ought to be open
of the CIA must be laid bare to public view, No doubt there have been messy procedures and above board, that this is a USIA book
commented upon in tones of pious horror, which, when exposed, prove embarrassing. or this is a CIA activity. I don't think it
Investigated, sermonized, deplored and pun- There is, one inevitably recalls, a saying would disturb people and in any case we
-fished, until the terrible guilt of it all has about making omelettes and breaking eggs. should be able to make up our minds for or
been established for all time, for all the What is beyond comprehension In all this, against that kind of activity.
world to see. ` however, is the monumental naivete involved And, Mr. Speaker, today's New York
And what, precisely, are we guilty of? In the apparent shock reaction to these dis- Times lead editorial discusses the dis-
Why, of using our wits and available means closures on the part of otherwise knowledge-
Curbing implications of the disclosures
to compete In a battle just as real, dirty able people. After all, what have the out=
and deadly serious as any shoting war in raged gentlemen supposed was going on all about the CIA. As the Times says:
which we could engage. this time on the sprawling acres out at Lang- The health of a democratic society depends
Confronted by adversaries who threw the ley? Of all the endeavors of the CIA, the on the certainty that its free institutions-
full power and wealth of the state into the effort to create outlets abroad for the ex- its press, its educational and scientific bodies,
effort to mold and control world opinion, pression of American opinion must surely its publishing houses and television net-
we did not abandon the field to them. In- rank as one of the milder. This is not, be it works, its unions and business organiza-
stead, we devoted some public funds to noted, a tea party that we have been engaged toons-are truly free. That does not mean
seeing to it that Americans could confront in. This is a viciously contested undercover government is barred from underwriting in-
the totalitarians in the intellectual lists war against shrewd, dedicated enemies who ternational exchanges or research study; it
abroad, speaking their minds in ;represent- happen to be quite unhampered by nice- means that, where such support is appropri-
ing the views of a relatively free society. Nellie scruples. The need to press this fight ate, it must be given openly through its own
It worked, incidentally. A wide variety has all along been recognized by the top public agencies.
of Americans, most of whom never knew leadership of the country. The procedures
the source of the funds backing them, that suddenly evoke such outraged reactions I Include here the full text of the
proved more than able over the years to hold were not dreamed up privately by the CIA. Times editorial:
their own in confrontation with disciplined, They were directed from the top, and prop- SUBVE:asroN By CIA
professional Communist agents. They pre- erly so.
vented the takeover of numerous interns- The idea that an organization like the CiA The disastrous effects of the systematic
which have contributed substantially to the by a sort of daisy-chain of clergymen, den rural and labor organizations by the Central
Intelligence Agency daily become more ap-
global cause of freedom, mothers and liberal politicians-such a no.
Consider, for example, the experience of tion is simply absurd. For our part, we hope l' parent. The strength of these organizations,
Gloria Steinem, as interestingly reported in that the present hysteria will be calmed with both in the structure of American society
yesterday's Washington Post. A New York a rational inquiry conducted by responsible and in their relations with their opposite
writer, Miss Steinem was director of some- and realistic men who have some knowledge numbers in other nations, always has been
thing called "The Independent Research of the very serious problems involved. We their freedom from government domination.
Service," which took CIA money to send are inclined to suspect that they, and the Now, through the deviousness of C.I.A. op-
several hundred young Americans to World . public, will end up concluding that the world erations, thousands of scholars, students,
Youth festivals in Vienna and Helsinki in has not, after all, ended-and that, In doing unionists and professional leaders discover
1959 and 1962. a job which had to be done, our intelligence long after the fact that they have performed
Miss Steinem said she worked closely with organization has not done too badly. unwitting and undesired duty as secret
CIA agents on the program, but that few of agents.
the students who took those trips knew that The integrity of pro-American positions,
the CIA was picking up the tab. CIA'S FUNDING OPERATIONS honestly taken by groups and individuals in
"I-never felt I was being dictated to at the worldwide battle of ideas, has been un-
all," she said. "I found them (the CIA men - (Mr. McCARTHY asked and was given dermined. The Independence of America's
with whom she worked) liberal and far- permission to address the House for 1 private foundations has been brought into
sighted and open to an exchange of ideas. minute, to revise and extend his -re question. In short, faith in American insti-
They wanted to do what we wanted to marks, and to include extraneous mat- woulds has been besmirched in a way that
do-present a healthy, diverse view of the ter.) would have eluded the reach of any foreign
United States." 'Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speakers as enemy. say that the C.I.A.
She
She was backed up by Dennis Shaul, an- It is no excuse to sa's de-
spokesman for the organization, who every James Bond fan knows, the worst cision to use a limitless range of philan-
said: "We had Minnesota schoolteacher, who sin a secret agent can commit is to "blow thropic fronts to funnel its funds into youth
were further right than Bill Buckley as well his cover." The recent disclosures of groups, universities and other private insti-.
as members of Students for a Democratic the Central Intelligence Agency's fu,d- tutions was designed to meet a very real
Society. Nobody told them what to do." ing operations
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by CIA u ds these the heels of previous exposes of heavy an fun h llengedofl du int the youth cone
festivals were completely dominated by Com= handedness and ineptitude, suggest that greases and cultural conferences they were
munists, all financed and controlled by their the CIA -has more in common with the arranging-and subsidizing-on a global
governments. Yet, says Shaul, "The Helsinki Keystone Cops than the well-oiled, secret basis ten and fifteen years ago. That prob-
festival was a disaster from their point of operations of James Bond or "The Man lem should have been met openly-by direct
view, and I think we can take a good deal From UNCLE." Indeed many of the ac- - public subsidy.
of credit for that." tivities of today's CIA operatives remind It should have been clear long ago to the
Well now, why not? Is this really some- one more of Maxwell Smart than of C.I.A.'s overseers in the White House that
thing that has to be apologized for? Who Is James Bond. One can well imagine that the end effect of clandestine subsidies to
corrupted by such an operation? Who would, the most frequently heard statement is; groups representative of the detachment and
have paid the Americans' expenses If the CIA ? diversity of a free society must Inevitably
hadn't? Sorry about that, chief." taint the genuineness of their detachment.
"The CIA," says Miss Steinem, "was the Mr. Speaker, in a more serious vein This would be true even without the charges
only (organization) with enough guts and I should like to identify myself with the - that have now developed of the assignment
foresight to see that youth and student ai- remarks made yesterday by the distin- of C.I.A. operatives to influence the policy
fairs wer., important.- And here, the lady guished chairman of the Senate Foreign statements and choice of officers of the Na-
puta her finger on an Important point Relatiotl,: COII]mittee, the Senator from. tional Student Association-a practice that
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subterfuge. It is too bad that private funds The 'N^nator fi:-,gi1A, That the C1'A -The beanh,cf a democratic adidty t1upanfis
were not available for these purposes. It "should be restricted to the gathering of on the Certainty that its free institutions-
-would have been healthier, lacking such pri- information and not be an operation ae- its press, its educational and scientific bod-
vate sources, for our government to have tivity." The Senator also said, that what lea; its publishing houses and television net-
appropriated openly the necessary monies, he found most disturbing was the covert works, its unions and business organiza-
through the State Department,. U.S., Infor- nature of the CIA's activities In, Sobel- toons-are truly free. That does not mean
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date, for espionage and subversion all over insistent policy as regards China to any future course of relations between our na-
tha world, rules out any thoroughing pub- one administration or any one political tions. This is a chance which rarely comes
llc inquiry into its activities. That means to scholars or statesmen or nations in this
some residue of suspicion is sure to remain- party. time of -constant challenge and swirling
both in this country and abroad-no matter Indeed- change. We could do no better than to
how conscientiously the Cabinet Committee He said- begin that assessment now.
appointed last week by President Johnson We might well begin with an effort to
seeks to formulate policies that will prevent there has been more growth in our awareness recapture history, to remind ourselves of
the C.I.A. or any other Federal bureau from and knowledge in the past year than in the the past roots of present problems: not to
Imperiling the "integrity and independence" past decade. reopen old wounds; not to find in past injus-
of educational institutions. Senator KENNEDY'S address follows: tire to China a present justification for Chi-
When agovernment finds it necessary to nese injustice to others; but simply to under-
fight subversion everywhere, the tragic dan- ADDRESS BY SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY stand, to make informed judgments in the
ger it opens up is that among the people It AT THE CHINA CONFERENCE AT THE UNI- service of policy. Memories of China have
subverts are its own. The defense against VERsrrY OF CHICAGO faded during these fifteen years of isolation;
such weakening of America's institutional "Finality", said Disraeli, "is not the lan- _ and perhaps our understanding was never
fabric must rest with the President and Con- guage of politics". Seldom have we been great. China was the greatest of civiliza-
gross. Even with the recent broadening of more forcefully reminded of this fact than tions before the birth of Christ; yet we of
senator Russell's watchdog committee, Con- 'by the recent course of Chinese history and the West, when we first came into extended
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