HISTORY PROF. REVEALS PAST CIA MEMBERSHIP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400320009-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 1999
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• Publication Date: February 22, 1967
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A professor emeritus of history
here disclosed yesterday that he
had been a member of the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) from
1951 to 1953.
Raymond J. Sontag,
to the Ice Box in today's Daily
Californian, wrote that when he
learned some years ago about the"
CIA's subsidization of the Nation-
al Student Association (NSA) his
letter "initial reaction was strongly neg-
ative."
"But, I became slowly convinced
that the necessary international
activities of the NSA could not be
carried out except by subsidy
from the CIA," he said.
Sontag, a member of the Cam-
pus Rules Committee last year,
also argued that the "CIA was
the only government agency
which could subsidize organiza-
tions such as the NSA without
restricting or even ending their
independence."
"Only CIA can subsidize with-
out controlling, because only CIA
has a budget which is not scruti-
nized, line by line, by Congress,"
he explained in the letter.
Sontag mentioned that if any
other agency subsidized an organ-
ization which has members sup-
porting student strikes or civil
rights activities such as the NSA
does-their budgets would be sub-
ject to extreme supervision by
Congress. This could result in the
restrictions on the freedom of
organizations.
He also blasted Dan McIntosh,
ASUC President, for stating that
"the CIA duped students and
used them as spies."
Sontag felt McIntosh was a bit
hard on his colleagues as Sontag
has known "many men in the
CIA whose intelligence and moral
strength was as great as that of4
Mr. McIntosh.
Ile said these men "simply be-
lieved that their country was
worth serving, and that they could
serve their country by working
in the CIA."
"They were not then, and they
are not now either, dupes or mor-
ally depraved. Neither, I suspect,
were the NSA officers," he con-
cluded.
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