FORT WORTH'S REP. JIM WRIGHT JOINS CRITICS OF CIA'S FINANCIAL BACKING OF NSA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800110003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 28, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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joined the growing chorus on Wright said.
Capitol Hill in protesting the The Texas congressman
~.Centr,ri.~h~;btir ~encv's explained "It is not that our
financial backing of the a- government was helping to fi-
tional Student Association. nance these student t r i p s.
"The elaborate back-stage It is that we engaged in a
maneuvering - funneling the deliberate, diabolic decep-
ents and various
through. them caughtat it fact is that
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;to ,the students - makes us inevitable ' by-product of th
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t meetings f'r'o m American
Wright said that the U.S. campuses," Wright said. '
State Department and United "Why not just admit frank-
States, Information Agency ly 'what we were doing in
have openly-TpM's e-d-V y ' the first place? And why in
cultural visits, by American
student groups and others, the CIA? he:
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throualtout the world. . students weren't spies! .%p- ,,
"We've never- tried to hide ; parently they operated as
it. Why should we?," he completely free agents rnd
asked. II spoke their own honest opin-
IIe pointed, out that other, ions at these international
governments, including the .r gatherings, in the very best
Soviet, had been 'sending offi- , American tradition of f r e e
cial delegations to interna- speech," Wright continued.
tional s t u dent meetings The Texas congressman said
under no camouflage. These ti he thought the episode had
governments "were making I damaged the student group's
ideological inroads a m P n g credibility.
young people, particularly in "The CIA has a legitimateAfrica. Obviously,, America'- place and- does a thorougnnly
needs to counter the damage creditable. iob-in,_ its field.
;byrepresetationat t e s e] But its field is not propag