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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200320007-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: April 8, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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rec~>nuncndc:. ban na all cnvcrt fineacial support
of student ..; ri other private *^ -~ .m~.-
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>,ct up to open'-: disburse sue:.
:10 Composed of Under Sec-
nary of State' Nicholas dc3.
,,atzcnhach, CIA Director
hard Helms and Secretary
o IiCatth, cucation and We!-
fare John Gardner, the com-
mission was set up after the +
exposure of the CIA's secret KATZEP;::CH
financing of the National Student Association and
other groups.
A number of Washingtonians, however, believe
that if Congress establishes any ptiblic-private organi-
zation to help carry out cold war activities it must
thoroughly investigate who is in charge of dispensing
funds.
It has now been confirmed,' for example, that
Cord Meyer Jr., the founder of the fuzzy-headed
and super-liberal United World F,:dcralists, was the
CIA man in charge of covertly subsidizing the NSA,
youth, labor, business, professional and ch,uitable
groups. It was Meyer who was responsible for the
fact that taxpayer funds were not only channelird to
the left-leaning NSA, but to the National C'nuucil
of Churches, Norman Thomas, lefiist revolutionnlres
and a host of other liberal groups. Anyone who
looked at Meyer's background before he was ap-
pointed wot,ld, of course, have realized that he
would favor subsidizing such or 'an nations.
in 1947 of the U W , which pre aches
surrenr:e::ng U.S. sovereignty to the United Na-
tions, tv:eyer permitted his organization to be-
come a haven for super-liberals.
The UWF has boasted of such presidents as Meyer
and Alan Cranston, the former Comptroller of Calif-
ornia and a founder of the ultra-liberal California
Democratic Council (CDC). Some of the key men
during the late 1940s art early 1950s when Meyer's
influence In the UWF was sill strong: United Auto
Workers President Walter P. Reuther and Supreme
Court Justice William 0. Dorn;;es.
The New York Times reccrnty referred to Meyer,
who jumped from the Wor c ?ea.cralists to the CIA
1951, in this fashion:
"In the. late 1940's and 950's many liberals
who wished to serve their cc sound in the CIA
not only a personal haven, the onslaughts
cCarthyism, but alp;; ;turn y to bring
,c:ar on the problems a realistir
liberal understanding c ,1r rgirlg
,entries. Mr. Meyer ;ffir_:ais in
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