DEAN'S FUND GOT CONDUIT'S MONEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000102020007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2014
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 20, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ithe nature of the. work caris:,.
;out with funds rc.,ceNed -rrord.
ithe Brown and Pappas founda-
tions. He said the money from
the Brown organization was
used to support work by his
group in Latin 'America, but
"I'm not at liberty to disclose
the nature cf that specific.
? project." He said, however, that
the project was "parellel" to.
work that his group has ? been
doing in Latin America ler
some time.
?eel that I'm in control of
the projects and the other trus-
tees feel the same way," he
said. "We are responsible to no
one but ourselves."
Mr. Hunt; the son of the 3-ate
Roy A. Hunt, president of the
Aluminum Company of Ameri-
ca for many years, said that
his organization received about
three-quarters of its support
from ins own funds.
Mr. Hunt's organization re-
ceived S75,000 from himself and
1$12,000 from four others sources
1?the Pappas trust, the Hooby
IFoundation of Houston,
1Franz Lieber Foundation of S.:.
IPaul Park, Minn., and George
H. .Capps of St. Louis. Tax
!turns for 1965 and 1966 were
inot available.
Mr. Hunt also refused to ieen-.
!tify the officers of the Bro.vri
foundation with whom he and
the other directors of his organ-
ization had discussed the
closed project before receiving
the funds. He denied knowing
Mr. Hunt's group has Mr. Helimuth, who has been
large sums from another fcun- narhe4 by student, assocA.tion
dation, the Pappas' Charitable officers as a C.I.A. contact.
:
Trust of Boston. The. Pappas The other members of the
Trust has given money to other organisations board of trustees
groups that have been regular-
are: Arlon E. Lyon, a labor
ly obtaining money from agen-
leader and member of the Rail-
cy . conduit foundations.
road Retirement Board in Chi-
?
These organizations are the cago, and David L. Cole, a
Pan-American FoUndation,?con-
member of the law firm of Cole,
neeted with thd University of AI:orrrn . and. Berman of Pater-
-Miami, the international De- s?11, Je.
i
The executive ? director is
velopment Foundation of New
?York and the American Society Howard C. Thomas Jr., for-
of African Culture.
mercy the representative. in Sai- ?
In 1963, according .to tax rect gen, South Vietnam, of the Asia.
ords, the Pappas Trust gave Foundation of San Francisco,
$50,000 to Mr.. Hunt's group which is widely involved in edu-.
. ',nail for Harvard, said the Uni-
.
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Harvard Dean's Fund Aided' versify did not accept cOlatracts
for "research projects that car.-
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Special to Mc NC1,7 York 7.1mcs - "But an individual member of
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faculty," he said, "can take
Organization headed by Richard.
nis own decision about- file use
M. Hunt, an assistant dean of
- of his own time." He said the
the Harvard. University C-radu- ?
.university itself might have ac-
ate School of Arts and Soiences'cepted money from the intc_%11i-
has received money from ogence .agency in the past for
foundation identified as a chaza-publishable research projects,
nel for. Central Lntelligeneq
but he did not know of any.
Agency funds. ; The '.3-rown foundation has
In 1.565, according to recordsbeen named by officers of the
on file at the Massachusetts At.:National Student Association
e of their . sources of
torney General's office, as on
agency funds ? and its trustee,
Hunt's group, the Fund for Ill-Paul Hannah, as one of their
ternational Social and Economic contacts with the C.I.A,e
-Education of Philadelphia,--re-:. Mr, Hunt's organization lists
.ceived *25,000 from the J. Fred-among. its. board of jiircctors
crick Brown Foundation of Bos-.George C. Lodge, associate di-
ton rector of. the division ,of inter-
i. ? . - -
' national affairs of the Harvard
I The fund, 'according to Its Graduate School of Business
brochure, finances workers' cd-'Administration. Fie- is the son
.of Henry Cabot Lodge, the Am-
bassador to South: Vietnam.
. . .
ueation . projects, scholarships
and research work for trade un-
ionists, and. social study schol-
ars from Africa, Asia and Latin
America. The money received
from the Brown foundation was
used for undisclosed work in
Latin America.
The disclosure that a 'Harvard
;dean heads an organization that
,has received money from an
telhg;ence agency conduit
foundation was the latest de-
velopment in a seriE.,s of reve.lar.
:ions .bout -the channeling of
f..,entral Intelligence Agency
!unds to \private organizations.
snok,s-'
Besides ;the money.. obtained
?
? and the following year ;granted cationa.1 work in the Far/East.
another $50,000. ? Tax records Show that the
Mr. Hunt a.cknowledged in a Fund' for, international SOCiP1
telephone interview the receipt and Economic Education made
of the funds from the. Brown grants of,,$17.000 in 1963 and
and Pappas foundations, but $5,000 in 1964 to the Univer-
said' he had .no knowledge that sity of Southern California for
the money was frorn the the publication of 'its :Middle
gence agency. ? Eastern and North African re-
? He said that as ?far as. he view, the'lja.gbreb Digest.
- knew the money was from "pri- The records also show a grant
vate sources." ? . ?-? of $10,000 in 1964 to the Kenya'.
?: According to records at. the Federation of Labor for support
State Attorney General's 'of- of an educational ceritc,4., and a
; flee, the Brown foundation de- number of scholarships 'and re-.
rives the bulk of its income search grants for study in the:
? from what are believed to be United States ? and abroad to-
agency-front foundations. These Korean, Japanese, Turkish,
include the Appala. e'nian Fund, Kenya/v. Colon?Ibian and Tang-
the Tower' Fund and -the Vie- anyikan trade Unionists, cooper-
toria Strauss Fund: ? ? ? ? alive ,speCialists,. students and
would' not''d:Isclose.
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