$289,500 CIA FUNDS RECEIVED BY CORNELL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000200200014-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 23, 2014
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: February 26, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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($209,50 Funds.
Received by Cornell
New York Timei Service , The money,.he explained, was
-�rused to finance a project called
I, WASHINGTON From 1961
;"The International Labor Train-
through 63, the School of Indus- ling Program." Under this pro-
;trial and Labor Relations at. ;gram, union officials or mem-,
tfLCornell � University received a . hers who were deemed able to,
;total of $289,500 that was chan- carry college work a: -I v,
neled through foundations pre-
! ho
viously identified as conduits for were interested in the :nterna-,
ye Central Intelligence Agency,_ tional activities of their nions
Returns filed with the Internal were subsidized for tr
Revenue Service by the Mar. semesters at a rate e';ual to
shall Foundation of Houston, that for graduate students with�
Texas, show that the foundation
contr.Ontcd, $04,500 to the School Over the three years, Jensen
for Industrial and Labor Rela- said, there were about
.tions in 1961; $120,500 in 1962
; and $75,000 in 1963.
The same returns also show
-that the money for these contri-
butions came to the Marshall
Foundation from the Beacon
, Fula, the Borden Trust, the
Price Fund, the Edsel Fund and
tile' Tower Fund.
All but the Tower Fund were
identified as involved in "for-
eign relations of the C.I.A." at
the 1964 hearings of the founda-
tions subcommittee- o f the
House Select Committee ; on
; Small Business, of which Rep.
Wright Patman of Texas is
chairman.
The Tower fund has been,
mentioned in revelations last
week of C.I.A. subsidies to
educational and research organ-
izations. Informed officials have -
said it. too, was a "front'
foundation.
who was their director of in-
ternational affairs for the AFL-
CIO.
� Beirne, Harrison and Minton,
attending the AFL-CIO conven-
tion in Bal Harbour, Fla., all
said they wre unaware of any
CIA connection with the pro-
gram and thought the money
saine from the university itself.
Harrison said he remembered
only one meeting of the advi-
sory council to talk about the
curriculum.
"I'm not disturbed about it at
all," he said upon learning of
the C.I.A. connection. "This is a
STAT
persons in each of two groups� hell of a lot to do about
that formed the program cacti nothing."
year. Many of the unionists, he Harrison Is chairman of the
said, supplemented courses in:. international affairs committee
the industrial and labor school', of the AFL-CIO. Jay Lovestone,
with. language courses A Cor-!' now director of the .AFL-CIO
nell.
: international aff airs depart- about the Cornell operation or
The project had an. advisory ment, said he knew nothing its financing.
council, Jensen said, composed - -
of four. union leaders and- four
faculty members.
.The: four pion leaders .were
Joseph A. Beirne, president of
the Communications Workers of
America;. George Harrison,
president emeritus of the Rail-
way Clerks; Lee W. Minton,
president of the Glass Bottle.
Blowers Associatien; and
Michael-Ross, now- 'deceased;
The trustees of the Marshall
F,pundation, which made the
,Iitributions to Cornell's School
of Industrial and Labor Rela-
tions, are Douglas B. Marshall,
W. Oscar Neuhaus and Corbin
-J. Robertson. Efforts to reach
these � trustees for � comment
' yesterday were not successful.
But Vernon Jensen, associate
� dean of the school, which is a
part of the State University of
',New York and supported by the
state, said he was not aware the
; money had come through C.I.A.
conduit foundations to the Mar-
sail Foundation.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release
@ 50-Yr 2014/04/23: CIA-RDP73-00475R000200200014-9