HARVARD DEAN LINKED TO CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400120005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 20, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Foundation Used by
Agency. Said to Have
Provided Him Money,
(6'i 1967, New York Times News Service)
Washington-An organi-
zation headed by Richard
M. Hunt, an assistant dean
of the Harvard university
graduate school of arts and
sciences, has received
money from a foundation
identified as a channel for
Central Intelligence agency
funds.
In 1965, according to records
on file at the Massachusetts it-
torney general's office, Hunt's
organization, the Fund for Inter-.
national Social and Economic
Education of Philadelphia, re-
ceived $25,000 from the J. Fred-
crick Brown Foundation of Bos-
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I on. The fund, according to its
rochurc, finances workers' edu-
ation projects, scholarships and
esearch work for trade union-
sts, and social studies scholars
rom Africa, Asia and Latin
merioa. The money received
?om the Brown Foundation was
ed for undisclosed work in
atin America.
The disclosure that a Harvard
can heads an organization that
as s received money froma CI,A,
conduit foundation was the lates
development in what has been!
burgeoning series revelation
since last week of the channelin
of Central Intelligence agene
funds to private organizations.
A spokesman for Harvard sai
the university does not. accep
contracts for "research project
that cannot be published."
"But an individual member o
the faculty," he said, "can tak
his own decision about the use o {
his own time,"
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