COUNCIL OF CHURCHES ADMITS AID FROM PROBED GROUPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200580016-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: February 21, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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:~e enure ody last December,
is presiding at the sessions.
A statement declaring that
n
from foundations identified as ' under
ccrtain citcumstaricelsl to
conduits for funds fro the Cen- ~ Fight injustice was scheduted to
tral Intelligence Agency. ~ be weed on today by the board.
But the general secretary of A crowded agenda conft?onts
the interdenominational church I the board. Among bhe issues to
Council of Churches has ack-
?~ nowledged that it received
financial help in three instances
star staff Writer residen '
C'H I C A G O-Tl.e National ~rz~`on svho w -
~y CASPfr:2 RTA\'IVES t/ r,ctol. Dr. Arthur S. Flemming
Foundation to assist the council
in its poverty rights program,
he said.
And prior to 1965, the David
and Winfield Baird Foundation
'contributed for several years
between X3,000 and $4,000 an-
nualIy for "direct relief"~ pro-
grams in the United States and
overseas to the council's Depart-I
ment of Church World Service,
and to migrant and Indian work
of the council. The Baird Foun-1
was received from the Katlin
~ emprastzea white making the
report yesterday "the National
Council had no knowledge at
any time that any of these gifts
'may have had any. links witY~
CiA involvement."
Dr. Espy said the Foundation
for 'l'oath and Student Affairs
had contributed between $200
and $2,000 in 1965 toward e,,x-
penses of a conference of the
ccuncii-related National Student
Christian Federation.
Last year and this year ~2 000
i datton was abolished two years
ago. '
Dr. Espy ,said the council
would be "only too glad to
cooperate to the fullest u~ any
and all federal efforts to investi-
gate the matter."
The 250-member general
board of .the council,' its top
policy . making body .botween,
triennial general assemblies, I
opened a five-day meeting
esterday in the Pick=Congress
crimination and a~' possible.
:rcticn calling on Congress to
establish a basic cede of ethics:
A statement setting forth the
council's position on world peace
will also be presenzd to the
delegates.
Ir, addition, the board will act
on a proposed plan fo`r ~ collo-
~uirr~ on higher educate,,:: to be
held Inter this year under coun-
cil auspices, approve a budget
and program far 1967, and
install as members of the ?body
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National Baptist Convention,
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0 ox urc us north
and South America. Their
addition brings the council to 34
Protestant, .Anglican and East-
ern Orthodox church bodies
shaving a constitutent melYil:,;t-
ship of over 24 million.
The policy statement on with-
holding consumer patronage in
in order to secure justice as-
sorts that "when, .there _ is evi-
dence of discrimination or ex-
ploitation, substantiate3 by an
',impartial investigation" tho
'Christian "should make his pur-
chasing decisions with .due re-
gard to the facts that are known'
to _ lum.'_'_....
representatives of four denomi-~
natioiis voted into the National
Council of Churches at the .
December meeting.
These denominations are he
Antiochian Orthodox Catholic
Arc?'ndiocese of Toledo, Ohio and
dependencies; the Church of the
New Jerusalem, the Progressive
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