ASIA FOUNDATION SAYS IT RECEIVED CIA FUNDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100260029-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: March 25, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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LOiIISVILLE, iCY.
COURIER-JQUEt AI,
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MAR 2 5 188?
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By ~JALLAC:: TURNER /
iG NaYLY&t1tJ mew KQWI serYic.
inn, a private American philanthropic
rc;anization, said this week that it hart
received money indirectly from the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency.
The foundation's trustees issued a press
release that said:
"The trustees wish to state that in the
past, they have . knowingly received
contributions from private foundations
and Irusls which have been recenliy
named as having transmitted Central ln-
eiligcnce Agency funds to private JtnH r-
lean organizations."
Tue foundation's assistant public fairs officer?'74hn_.Banni an,.explairlc,d
that. the .sirndrs of the release---tire lrn.s-
ccs-nod all known that the found.stiou
as arcrpting money from the federal
government.
lie said he did not know whether She'
iad hecu aware that the federal money
had came from the C.I.A.
Bannigan also said in an interview that
he foundation would no longer accel '
idden federal subsidies.
According to the trustees' statemem
,all contributions to the foundation, frog,
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Condition lhal the expenditure of such
funds Was to be left to the discrrlintl ofrc
,iie trustees without any interference anti
fiat the funds be used solely for the
oundatiou's declared purposes."
The foundation, according to its stale
milt of purposes, works primarily in
?riucaiitin. It. supports Asian schools and
ii'r;u'ics, st.unent centers, science fairs,
r.;ricuitnrai extension, F-96.11 and cemmill-,
c research, and gives travel grants to
permit Asians to attend international con
fereuces.
Some persons prominent ill rcecul 11.S,'
i,linmatie history are members of the.
+.min?d of trustees of the foundation.'
,;tunag Iiiese are Edwin 0. Rcischaucr,-
rnraner :uutras:sador to Japan: Arthur 1i.
wiau has held many State 1)epart-'
neut. a;?r,i,;raurlnls; and Ellsworth Bunker,.
eccntly named ambassador to South Vict-
ram.
'1'hc present chairman of the board is
tussell G. Smil.h, retired vice president
of the bank of America. The president
f the founuation is Dr. Haydn Williams?
:crr..aor assistant secretary of defense.
1'.arv;, Bingham, editor and publisher'
of 'iioo Couricr-Journal and The Louis..`,
%',;I Tiraes, is also. on. the foundation's'
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