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,ruler, 'in" Nixon's ncvr.approach toward the mainlan F
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in in his side that-would land hill, in the hospital for an
spar, tactical lurches and even unforeseen vecrings
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emergency, appendeetonly the next day.
Before leaving New York, Reston had received a letter
from Dr. Oliver McCoy, President of the China Mifcdical
I3oard, an institution John D.. Rockefeller had created fo
rule the medical college he had built there in 1916 and
which Was nationalized by the Communist government
thirty-five years later. Dr. McCoy told Reston that if he
should happen to notice a "large group of buildings with
green tiled roofs not far from the southeast corner to inquire
what those Were."'ihe old medical college had now become
the Anti-Imperialist hospital, and it was in this unlikely
setting that Reston had the consolation of at least being the
first member of the American establishment to receive tell-
-puncture treatments in the new China.
If such ironies dogged Reston's trip, they were also pres-
ent in the larger drama that had been played out two days
earlier amidst sumptuous 17-course dinners. For Henry'
Kiss ingCr--tlle man who masterminded Nixon's new diplo-
macy in China and scooped James Reston-had once been
the foreign policy advisor of the President's arch-rival for
control of the Republican Party, Nelson Rockefeller. Ile,
was a strange alter ego to bear the tidings of American
"friendship" which was being offered after twenty years of
unrelenting official hostility by Pres}dent Richard Nixon.
And Richard Nixon was l)im ,elf an unlikely president to be
Lion to the revolutionary, government than that for w11reh
Kissinger's secret mission had no:.v set the stage.
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These unexpected juxtapositions and ironic turns a
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off course, there arc few areas where the signi icant patterns
of policy and personnel have been more stable in their- way
than in the field of China affairs. Nixon 's. new gesture,
which looks almost impulsive and' shrewdly tied to Such
political events as the 1972 election, has in fact been a
bipartisan strategic planning assumption for a long time
now among those who have always determined America's
posture toward China. The Times itself pinpoints 1966 as
the moment when Nixon realized that "no future American
policy in Asia could succeed unless it Caine `urgently to
grips with. the reality of China.'" All that. was left to the
White 1-louse quarterback was to choose the right political
moment: "And just as his popularity at home dipped to a
new low, with the Vietnam controversy swirling anew all
around him and the North Vietnamese pressing for a quick
and final deal to chive him out of Saigon before the end
of 1971, Mr. Nixon lobbed the long one."
[CIIINA AN)) TILE AMERICAN EMPIRE]
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It used to be generally thought that the leading
institutions of American society had separate proper
spheres of activity. The tradition of separation of church
and state and the conflict between town aihd go-,in v'erc
aspects of this institutional "sep :ration of powers."
But with increased fusion of governmental activity
.with industrial activity during be Progressive era and Use
Now Deal and the rise of the military-industrial complex
after the Second V/odd War, the actions of the major
'.!goes of American society came to be .jo:iteci and
?:dinated at the top levels of their hierarchical
structures.
This new iitstittutiona)configuration found itsapologists
in academia, who found the modem Leviathan to be an
inevitable fact of life and considered it at the same time to
be the best of all possible worlds.
Nonetheless, the inh,:bitants of the Multiversity, or in
Clark Kerr's phrase, "the federal grant university,
continued to have certain antiquated self-conceptions of
their activities.
In 1966 when the news ,media broke stories which
detailed the cooperation between the CIA and ,Michigan
State University, panic broke out in academia.
Stanford Agitation
Stanford was no exception. The lead story in the
Sta nfort Daily of May 3, 1966, began: "Armed with
pickets declaring `The Winds of Freedom Get Hotter All
the Time,' 'The University end the CIA Have No Common
1 .-:mess,' and `Conk to the Inner City--Find the CIA,'
.roximately 35 students and faculty members gathered
oti'ls:de the office of Associate Provost for Research
Hubert I:ieefiter shortly after. 1 1)511. yesterday. The group
'disi:ibtitcc. staten-xnts
Engineering Department's
ge^
Intelligence Agency."
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protesting the Electrical
contract with the Central
Professor William Rambo's CIA contract came with
-him when the moved from Harvard to Stanford. He. was
working on electromagnetic propagation, one of whose
uses is rivet-`ihe-horizon radar. In. order to conceal from
the. University community the subject rratter and the
'funding agency for Rambo's contract, in the words of
Professor Pierre Noyes of SLAC, "the. President of the
University, and one or two others in the Administration
who had appropriate security clearance had been
informed of the CIA sponsorship, and had arranged a
dummy entry on the [University] budget to cover the
contract; whose significance could not be traced outside
of this closed circle."
Second Contract
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a CIA front. Sterling told the Daily that the con tract
from, a cover which we had no reason at the time
to think was a cover for the CIA." More precise
infoiniation as to the nature of this research project and
the names of the researchers has not yet been uncovered.
At that time, according to what CIA employee
Iii+aiicoy Lent "hen" Vdilson told his fellow Stanford
students in ersual conversations, there wen a total of five
or six persons working for the CIA and going to school at
Stanford, with a similar contiilge:it at UC Bcr'kca?.v.
Independent confirmation that CIA employees attend
Stanford Comes from a student contemporary of Wilson's,
Carry Quinn, nwho was on employee of the De.partmeiU of
Defense In terna tion l Security Agency while attending
St nfoid, and who told fellow students about. a CIA
employee who was studying at Stanford financed jointly
by grants from the government and the FOR Foundation.
In recent years, Vice Provost Robert Roscinzvieig has told
me on two separate occasions that there are CIA
employees a', Stanford.
Wilson, electrical engineering, major and CIA employee,
worked separately from Professor William Ranhbo, who
hold the CIA contract the students and professors were
protesting on Inner Quad. Olson took courses in
engineering and economic systems a ind in radio science.
lie obtained an M.S. from the University in 1966, but
stayed on through academic years 1966-67 and 196718.
While he was here 11c lived Off Campus at 2439 Burnham
in Palo Alto, and pursued academic subjects which aided
his regular CIA work of reviewing foreign technical
journals. Wilson now lives in Falls Church, Virginia (a
suburb of Waslnngton, D.C.), at 7415 Venice Street.
Teaching Stint
During academic year 1966-67, Wilson was for a short
while a teaching assistant for Engineering 235, taught by
Professor' Bruce Lusignan. As a - result, the
e'Acknowiedgernents" page in the find] report of the
Advanced System for Comittunication and Education in
National . Development project, issued in June 1967,
states: "Tic members of Engineering 235 wish to thank
Dr. Bruce Lusigna n, Dr. William Bollay, Dr. Jean Meyers,
Hunt Small, Al I lorley, and Ken Wilson for their interest,'
guidance, and tactful direction throughout the ASCEND
project."
Wilson was Originally teaching the section on "Political
J In an interview with the Daily in the spring of 1966, _ 235 35 __ whi _ch is _ t _ ?t _ c _ regular "p: o;ect course" of the Sabo l
,
President Wallace. Sterling said In h there wen two CIA
of lnginecring. That year, the course topic was
contracts at Stanford. TAp roved G>j1 a bo~6?!;!~iQi~iel A- P~1 ~At1c ~~ ~k~0 2A>))1Q~-fir
.The second was bibliography research. It was financed by .,
Brazil, India, and II1dOtiCS1a. `1 IiSO;I, however, was section
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Customers and stockhold- engage in black marketing
ers today : have the assur- deliberately."
antes of A.W. Clausen, presi- Others among tiie young
dent, and Louis B. Lundborg, c r i t i c s questioned , philanthropic
orr:anization, said this week that it had
received money indirectly from the Ccn-
tra 1 Intel ligenco Agency.
The foundation's trustees issqed a press
release that said:
"Tire trustees wish to state that in the
past they have . . knowingly received
contributions from private foundations
and trusts which have been recently
named as having transmuted Central In-
telligence Agency funds to private Amer-
ican organizations."
The foundation's assistant public af-
fairs officer,fr oho t hat the signers of the release-the irus-
lces-petit all known that the foundation
was accepting money from the federal
government.
MI ever source, were accepted on the
cunrlition tdrat the expenditure or sorb I
funds was to be left to the discretion of r,
the trustees withmil any interference and iliat the funds he used solely for the
foundations declared purposes,"
The foundation, according to its stale.'(
moot of purposes, works primarily in
06ucation, It supports Asian schools and
iilu;uiae, student centers, science fairs,
agrirnilnrai extension, social and econom-'
is research, and gives travel grants to
permit Asians to attend international con-'
fereilecs.
ono persons prominent in recent U.S.
diSplomatic history are nrentbers of time-
1>oard of Iruslces of' the foundation,'
.Lnottg Ihose are Edwin 0. Itcischauer,
former ambassador to Japan: Arthur If?
Dean, Who has held many State Dcpartl
nrent assignments, and Ellsworth Bunker,
recently named ambassador to South Viet
nam.
He said lie did not know whether ihcv The present chairman of the board is"
had beer aware that the federal money Russell G. Smith, retired Tice president
had came from the C.I.A. of the Batrk of America. The president.
Bannigan also said in an interview Lh;
the, fou tformer fouassindstantation is secret et Tlaydn Williams,,
foundation would no longer acerb ary of defense.
hidden federal subsidies. Barry Bingham, editor and
or 'A'irs, Courier?Journal and The Lou, Louis.'
According to the trustees' stateme:enr. Ville Times, is also, on. the foundation's`
all contributions to the foundation, from be;aid,
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attached and on the foundation's own terms.
TIIE highly respected Asia Foundation of Sari
Francisco, in a candid and forthright statement,
`,reveals it has received from private organizations
funds which are presumed to have originated with
the Central Intelligence Agency.
Our reaction is "Well?"
The money was given for honorable and nec-
o.Ssary purposes. It was received without conditions
The foundation's aim is to strengthen non-
C o in m u n i s t and neutral Asian people in main-
taining their independent societies. It will, we are
glad to say, continue to solicit private funds and
{`open grants" from appropriate federal depart-
ments concerned with international education and
development.
There is no reason at all why it, should not do
-so; nor is there reason to criticize the foundation
because it was involved in the exaggerated flap
over the CIA. Or to criticize the CIA.
The foundation's work has been in pursuance
of a proper American policy of supporting our
friends in Asia and resisting takeovers of sover-
eign governments through the classic Communist
techniques of force and/or subversion.
The purposes of the foundation and similar
organizations that received CIA funds are national
purposes. As'The Examiner has stated before,
? more overt governmental, money sources should
have been p r o f f e r e d, but it is playing cloak-
`.'attd?dagger to assume that the many private or-
anizations so helped were bought by the CIA and
given explicit instructions. The record belies that.
The A s i a Foundation's voluntary statement
r~ c s further to clear the air. We are confident its
among our Asian friends will continue within
'.t (-IT
It, of mutual trust and respect.
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1 r? ^ ~"1 ~, ~, r ,-, /T'?~ ~t ams. !,Journalists, with which the
N ".a~.a ...+ ti.' 4a 4Y M~ti Gw Iw Gr a "All contributions to the Anleriuan"ewspaper Guild
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r rr ,ts- n r, 0 7 1 sotu"ce, '. rre acci'ided un lhelis affiliated, seen,( the spoltes-
l ' I-, ' ? ~~~ ! ~s. ~( !',l Condition pint (he etpelldli?' Illan.
r 4:r w r &1:+ w ~. v1 w tore of such funds was to be Hie rlclsspaprt ticnrkers'
brit to the discrc(ion of the union has been the recipient
trustees wifhouf, any interfcr-'of CIA funds for work 11 ill,
-'1) e Asia FoUlt(latioll of Sail 1'ranciSCO vulrrlt? ),lice and that Ill(! tuncls he;foreign journalists, bill. has
terrctl yesterday that it has received Central IittclIi- used 'MIT
W131 l11r thc founds-voted to rein-se f it r t It r r
gfeiice Agency it4ads. it would not say 110w much. linos declared pl1rp05e5," contributions Irem fultlllla-
t'ile foundation spell~ls about $5 million a year oral titlut;CL Botts and crusts working with
academic and cultural programs in 11011-Communist witi I' le trusiee~ said they tile, CIA,
1 onld mitinue to sect.
"nChtral r\sian cotultrve,. In
i' , 'c'asing colltt'ibut i n " `front'' The sspokesman uch on'. it Is a 1e
Asia Foundation's l,iit were
A spokesman for the ~rn?ate sources would front "various sp, chic re-
vate, non-profit organization continue to ask for Federal quests," seuch as Ilse I)al'nlell
1,- whose trustees have grants front "departments of of travel expenes ill some
1
included such distinguished , I he Federal Government, con-;Asian newspaperlllen to a
1nten as the late Adlai Ste-d' corned hilh international Col., confercytre of the Federation
venson and San I , aneis,Q ucation and development." or Journ;llists in i?russels.
financier and diplomat, J.D. P'oundat ion 1' r e s i d c n t ORIGIN
,Zellerbach - said the an-I,iJ[a)dti til'illiams, a former T]w Asia h'ourldatlon had
nouncenlent was being made'' lIarvord in'ofessor and one- its origin with a group or
"to clear the air. time' high Ravel Pentagon of d itrotninent: San. P'ranciscan^:
.i Current menlbers of I11e11 ficfal, could riot be reached to "I _1951 as the "CutnIll, Ho,c
Free Asia." Amanth oih-
hoard Qt' Er u s t e cs incltulr;~ explain the S llciileitt. I.
i',I I s w u r t h 13unl:er, i' IVIIIIe the trustees "10109-er activities, it suppottnd laa?
Ambassador-dcsigrl;lte I,,!! in ;l} received contributions.' (llr4 Free Asia. which +'as
shut down in 1951
South Vietnam; Edwin t u..;i t.he~ iii:,I) knoll' that ii
The neiilee for i' rte
It e i s c 11 a u e r. former tits x are funnels for 11).
Ambassador to Japan: CiA I A. designed to fight. cmn.
o r d University Pie ;,lc;c "They knew it was ft?oil, t tnunist 1 beeallle 1'hc Asia
~,J L Wallace Steriill, . ~,;,c,, ",~:; (1or crmnent ,, said rt 11' o it n d a t 1 0 n in 19;,1 .1114
h
Grayson L. Birk, presidei a kt:znl~n. "'they knew it,: ln;ed; its goal to a 111-o- they L
Columbia University. 1' n . i ecioral money. }. ~'.llll of strEVl;liuning tite
And till icve10pnt"ent of lion -
The formal allnounc.cl.n 11 a'`,'elit1- i.t OR their. 01111 l'ulltllltllllat and llelltrit Conn-
of the trustees, after e../ c1 n s. ,' tries in the academic. profes-
merating the goals of l')(f'SOIls
sional and cultural arcase.
foundation, said that it tuts file spokesman refused 0
!
t I One of the activities of 111e
sought and received priv;.I_i , t , ,lt,ii)r the donors, or t.eP r o u n d a t i o n is to support
contributions and gral~c,s I. lwm litany donors there werC. ;,bout 250 Asian students ill
f r o n1 corporalions, f~i l ? "`t'he trustees have not rc-;' studies in A xn e r i c a u uni-
dations and individuals 1E:Ws0d that," said the spokes-,
that it has received donations, man. ' "They stand by tfhe'I ~`ersifaes. e111T
of books from many state statement and that's it," Another purpose of The
and local governments for its He did, however, say that, Asia Foundation is to pro-
13 o o l.'s for Asian Stude;tts, iii", WQtmdatiun has gi1-, tlloto in the United States "a.
Program. r,t ?bll,Cd)0 to ,`70,001) over,
letfc'r uuderst:,rriinh ur'. I e'I.
AID I rile last dozen vulis to the '..:,tQl~lcs. cultt~rc.4, vAlrir~? The announcement CQ'I-I' h\' a ti o n a l Students Assn-; ii tcrri s of Asi;iu countries."
Willed : e,a i 011,
trustees wish to st;iii I he current national furor' -'he re has been crit.icirnl -i
TI; c
from time to Ume in Asia
that in the past they hate over CIA support of private that the foundation was rated -
also k Il 0 w 111 g I y recc+ivc.! o,-J, ulizat ions was set in mu , dlitt In local
political af-
I contributions from private lion h}' the disclosure last fairs, or was an instrument
foundations and trusts v, Mich ! Ill o ti t ii that the Federal l1 of the CIA.
have been recently 11,11110,j .1 `. , lntcilifrncr al;en,:v had fun- "This
t' U in R 1? anti ac.
having transmitted Cerrt.ral, 1ICICO lliiiiions of dollars tutu a It s u t 10 1) has been around
Intelligence Agency funds to! tile s t ii ,i c n t orl;tutization I Asia for yc;irs," said the
private American organ- through private fnunrlatlons. spulcesm;ul. "1'arl: of it is Pe-
Ill A
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tons. I I std
01111 a
on tllso kin and )art of tt I "
"The trustees' independent I has riven $22,000 over ape- - g~4 1
Cow.
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THE highly respected Asia Foundation of San
Francisco, in a Candid and forthright statement,
reveals it has received from private organizations
funds which are presumed to have originated with
the Central Intelligence Agency.
Our reaction is "Well?"
The money was given for honorable and nec-.
essary purposes. It was received without conditions
attached and on the foundation's own terms.-
The foundation's aim is to strengthen non-
C o m m u n i s t and neutral Asian people in main-
taining their independent societies. It will, we are
glad to say, continue to solicit private funds and
``open grants" from appropriate f e d e r a 1 depart-
ments concerned with international education and
development.
There is no reason at all why it should not do
so, nor is there reasi I to criticize the foundation
because it was involved in the exaggerated -flap
over the CIA. Or to criticize the CIA
,
The foundation's work has been in pursuance
of a proper American policy of supporting our
friends in Asia and resisting takeovers of sover-
eign governments through the classic Communist I
techniques of force and/or subversion.
The purposes of the foundation and similar
organizations that received CIA funds are national
p u r p o s e s. As The Examiner has stated, before,
more overt governmental money sources -.should
I have been p r offered, but it is playing cloak-
and-dagger to assume that the many private or-
ganizations so helped were bought by the CIA and
given explicit instructions. The record belies that.
The A s i a Foundation's voluntary statement
serves further to clear the air. We are confident its
k
wor
among our Asian friends will continue within
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the policies and position of the
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More than a month ago,
Ramparts magazine, edited
here, aroused a controversy
about C.I.A. involvement with
'foundations by W report on the
. agency's, relationship- with the
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SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) The
prestigious Asia Foundation, a
private group which spends
more than $4 million annually in
strengthening U.S.-Far East
relations, has acknowledged it
received financial support
through the Central Intelligence
Agency.
But a spokesman for the
foundation yesterday stressed
that the funds "in no way affect-
ed" its policies and programs.
Listed among the foundation
trustees are such dignitaries as
Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. ambas-
sador-designate to Saigon;
Edwin 0. Reischauer, former
U.S. ambassador to Japan, and
Stanford University president J.
E. Wallace Sterling.
The spokesman, a member of
the foundation staff, said he did
not know how much money the
group had received through CIA
channels.
The foundation said it has
received contributions and
grants from corporations,
foundations, individuals, state
,and local governments, colleges
and publishing firms.
It also said, "The trustees
wish to state that in the past
they have also knowingly re-
ceived contributions from
private foundations and trusts
which have been recently named
as having transmitted Central
Intelligence Agency funds to
private American organiza-
tions."
The spokesman said the foun-
dation spends between $4 million
and $5 million a year.
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THE ASIA FOUNDATION
550 Kearny Street
San Francisco, California
TRUSTEES' STATEMENT
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 21, 1967
the recent discussion of relations between the United States
In view of
Government and private American organizations, the Trustees wish to make
n statement to clarify the policies and position of The Asia Foundation,
the follows g
The Asia Foundation, founded in 1954 in San Francisco, by a group of
merican citizens, has been engaged since its inception in encouraging
private A
the educational, social and cultural development of Asian societies
and assisting
herin understanding and cooperation between the peoples of Asia and
and in furt g
the United States.
The Foundation is a non-profit, private philanthropic corporation,
f American citizens. The
governed by an independent Board of Trustees o
Trustees wish to state that the full responsibility for the Foundation's policies,
finances and programs rests exclusively with the members of the Board. In
n to its present members, the Board has included such prominent
additio
Americans as Paul Hoffman, Henry M. Wriston, and the late Adlai Stevenson,
Robert Blum, Eric Johnston, Roger L.apham, A.Crawford
R. Blyth,
Charles
Potter Russell, T. S. Petersen, Brayton Wilbur and
Greene, Mrs. Henry
J. D. Zellerbach.
The purposes of the Foundation are:
1. To support Asian individuals and organizations striving to
strengthen their own societies.
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