DEAN'S FUND GOT CONDUIT'S MONEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000402440001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 20, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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DEAN'S FUND GOT
CONDUIT'S MONEY
Harvard Dean's Fund Aided
? By NEIL SIKEEHAN
specie to rite New York Times ?
WASINGTON, Feb. 19?An
Organization headed by Richard
M. Hunt, an assistant dean of
the Harvard University Gradu-,
ate School of Arts and Sciences,
has received money from a
foundation identified as a chan-
nel for Central Intelligence
Agency funds.
FEB 20 1967
Ithe nature of the work carried
,out with funds received from.
the 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 of that specific
project." He said, however, that
the project was "parellel" to
work that his group has been
doing in. Latin America for
some time. ?
"I feel 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 late
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 his own funds. ?
for Harvard, said .the
Tlnl-
versity did not accept cohtracts
for "research projects that can-
not be published." '
"But an individual member of
the faculty," he said, "can take
his own decision about the use
of his own time." He said the
university itself might have ac-
cepted money from the intelli-
gence agency in the past for
publishable research projects,
but he did not know of any.
The Srown? foundation has
In 1965, according to records been named by officers of the Mr. Hunt's organization re-
on file at the Massachusetts At.; National Student Association ceiYed $75,000 from himself and
.
torney General's office, Mr.as one of their , sources of $12,000 from four others sources
In-apga?eunlcirioiln
funudIstn.anad,i ointse otfrusteoier, ?FotnheciaPtaippas ftrust, the Hobby
Hunt's.group, the Fund for
ternational Social and Economic contacts with the C.I.A.-- Franz oo uHn doautsitoonn , of tslit...e
n Lioner o Fo
Education of Philadelphia, ?re- Mr., Hunt's organization lists Paul Park, Minn., and George
l
,ceived p5,600 from the J. Fred-among its board of ,bircetors H. Capps of St. Louis. Tax e-
:wick Brown Foundation of Bos-'George C. Lodge, associate di. turns for 1965 and 1966 were
rector of the division of inter- not available.
. .
national affairs of the Harvard Mr. Hunt also refused to leen-
tify the officers of the Brown
foundation with whom he and
the other directors of his organ-
ization had discussed the ur.dis-
ton. ?
I The fund, according to its
brochure, finances workers' ed-
ucation 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 undL? sed work in
Graduate ?School of Business
Administration. He is the son
of Henry Cabot Lodge, the Am-
assador to Sooth"
Besides .the money.. obtained closed project before receiving
from ? the Brown 'foundation, the funds. He denied knowing
Mr. Hunt's group has received Mr. Hellmuth, who has been
named by student -association
large sums from another foun-
dation, the Pappas Charitable
Trust of Boston. The Pappas
Trust has given money to other
groups that have been regular-
are: .Arlon E. Lyon, a laoor
ly obtaining 'money from agen-
leaderand member of the Rail-
cy conduit foundations.
road Retirement Board in Chi-
T
hese organizations are the cago, and David L. Cole, a
Pan-American Foundation, con-
member of the law firm of Cole,
fleeted with the University of '
Morrill and Berman of Pater-
son, N. J. '
Miami, the International De- ?
The executive ? director is
velopment Foundation of New
York and the American Society Howard C. Thomas Jr., for-
of African Culture.
merly the representative in Sai-
??
In 1963, according to tax rec- ,gon, South Vietnam, of the Asia.
(aids, the Pappas Trust gave Foundation ? of San Francisco,:
$50,000 to Mr. Hunt's group which is Widely involved in edu-
and the following year granted cational work in the Far/East.
? another $50,000. . , Tax records show that the
Mr. Hunt aclenowledg?ed in a Fund foi International Social
telephone. interview the receipt and Economic Education made
of the funds from the? Brown grants of $17,000 in 1063 and.
and Pappas foundations, but $5,000 in 1961 to the Univer-
said he had no knowledge that
the money was from the intelli-
gence agency.
He said that as -far as. he
knew the money was from "pri-
vate sources." ?
According to records at': the
State Attorney ? General's 'of-
fice, the Brown foundation de-
rives the bulk of its income
from what are, believed to be
agency-front foundations. These
include the Appalachian Fund,
the Tower' Fund .and ?the Vic-
toria Strauss Fund: ? , ?
? Mr.. Hunt would not' disclose
Latin?
' The disclosure that a Harv
dean heads an organization that
,has received money from an
'intelligence agency , conduit
foundation was the latest de-
eielopment in a series of revelal
:ions about -the channeling of
Ventral Intelligence Agency
.iunds to %private organizations.
Riniserton, 8; 'spokes-
officers as a C.I.A. contact.
The .other members of the
organization's board of trustees
sity of Southern California for
the publication of its Middle
Eastern and North African re-
view, the Maghreb Digest.
The records also show a grant
of $10,000 in 1964 to the Kenya
?Federation of Labor for support
of an educational centek, and a
number of scholarships and re-.
search grants for study in the.
United States and abroad to
Korean, Japanese, Turkish,
Kenyan,. Colombian and Tang-
anyikan trade unionists, cooper-
ative .specialists,. students and
scholars.':. ? .
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