BLOODY HANDS AT CORNELL

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CIA-RDP75-00001R000100040049-0
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November 16, 2016
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May 10, 2000
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49
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May 9, 1969
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0 New Yorlc Daily World CPYR Troved Epi R 9se 2000 0 1'24496A-RDP% lo?dy huffids at Cor Brn,F nrnT The Cornell University board of trustees ssued a statement recently urging univer- ity president James A. Perkins to be ,Eirm' ' and to make an. "appropriate re. ponse" to the black students there. The statement was occasioned by the eizure of Willard Straight Hall at Cornell y a group of armed black students on April 9and20. There is one problem with' the state- lent. The trustees, come into 'court with irty hands or, without stretching it too ar, with bloody hands. The trustees affirm, as among the gov- erning standards of Cornell University,'". that "all students and faculty are guaran- teed the right of free speech"; that "the university is not a sanctuary from the law." That is less than true. Cornell Univer- ity is a sanctuary in at least twc respects. First: Arthur Dean, chairman of Cornell' University's board of 'trustees, is a trustee of Asia Foundation. And Asia Foundation was the recipient of CIA funds which were passed to it through the Benjamin Rosen- thal Foundation, a CIA conduit. Arthur Dean has been. associated with' the CIA on another level also. Dean has !been a partner since 1929 in Sullivan and Cromwell, one of the biggest Big Business law firms. When ' he got to Sullivan and Cromwell, he found there Allen Dulles who had joined I the firm In 1926. '>i hey"were both part of the firm from 1929 to 1951, for 22 yea long enough to get acquainted. That ye lles left to become deputy director D u the CIA. Dulles stayed with the CIA I A' 71-1 years. In. 1961 he left to go back to Sulliv _-__.__-I H Lin f- Artbur Dean there once more, as a trus of the CIA-financed Asia Foundation Second: Cornell University is the sanc- of the School;of Industrial Relations. 'I r t y ua Between 1961' and 1963 SIR received $2119,500 from the CIA. The money ? was the Marshall Foundation to SIR, to finance its "international labor training program." The five conduits were the Beacon Foun ti { m_..... .h price Founda- e tion, the Edsel Foundation, and the Tower Foundation. The advisory council of the school in- cluded four AFL-CIO leaders: Joseph A. .Beirne, president of the Communication ' Workers of America; George Harrison, president emeritus, Railway Clerks Union; Lee W. Minton, president, Glass Bottle Blowers 'Association; and the late Michael Ross, then director of the AFL-CIO's for- eign relations. This being the cast of characters, let us return to the Cornell University trustees' statement of principles. Thev.declared that "duress, intimidation. 1 violence and the threat of violence are unacceptable as expressions of dissent.' T- . - JJ from a grout whose -chairman has helped to operate th CIA web. - ' It was from another part of that we a - .. that _ - ed in 1961, an operation which makes th Willard Straight Nall incident look like smorgasbord. Who, indeed, are they to cr tion violence!"? ti~~ .. ------ .?.:..,id a - They decry "disruption and the tacti '1 about the military intervention in Guat D u ?a -Dean's partner and friend, running the show. h n e g a They call out for : ordeiljt c orde --.. rs -r_ ?.ana... They hold high the banner of "fr the CIA intervention in Bolivia was 1 about? ? They avow the "principle of freed with responsibility." Is that really w the CIA has been trying to assure in sector of the Vietnam depredation? Whatever the verdict on the Willa Approved' For Release 0001002 ;at "R '- 'f the trustees a o a pate in the discussion. ' Corn