FUTILE CIA MOVES TO CUT OUTLAYS TO PRIVATE GROUPS REPORTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700130016-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: February 22, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON
Feb. 22-The I set by the CIA. This is an o r
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C e n t r a I Intelligence Agency i orating agency, operating under er
aouaht to curtail its financing the instructions and policies of )
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says Senator Milton R. I the entire security and nte
Young (Rep.), North Dakota. Bence operation of the govern.-,
Young said every would not necessaril
ry investment y;i
the CIA made in an organization know the details of the CIAi
outside the Government was uri- subsidies to private g r o u p s,
id
dertaken on'written instructions S
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Russell confirmed
{{ apparently from the National '
Security Council, that he had known and nap-
proved of the CIA subsidies to
He said the spy agency's ;1 NSA.
checks were 'Subject to scru- ! ,I have not been able to see
tiny in the Bureau of the Budg- where the CIA subverted th e''
et, like the Security Council, ai White House agency. I ynutii of this land,"' said.
Young said in some instances has Not a single bit of evidence
CIA financial support original- j as been brought forward to .r
ly was promoted by the State t` how this. }
Department. Sources close to President":
Young, 'senior Republican on 1! Johnson said he would. make no the Senate panel that oversees! statement about CIA subsidies,`:
CIA financing and operation until a panel of three
, li govern-:1
said the intelligence agency1r ment officials completed its re-.;~
,r was trying to get some of its 11jew of the situation.
instructions ,changed ,prior tnj The sources said Mr. Johnson
f the did not want to g
public storm that broke' p
a the
acts
last week with disclosure that' -case, wants solid Facts .before'
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been subsidizing the Na-(
tional Student Association, the benefit of judigment and
Young said secrecy restric- ~, recommendations Ofthe .itrvestij
tions barred his giving a more, gating panel of Helms, Under:,
detailed description. He talked /'Secretary of State N d c h o I a S"
.
after CIA director Richard; Katzenbach and Secretary of' I
Helms briefed the Senate panel 0 Health, Education and Welfare.,
I for three hours yesterday. t .John W. Gardner,
i- Helms met also with the House The National C o u n c i i of
Foreign Affairs Committee, Churches announced that it had::
Senator Richard B. Russell ;-received minor financial aid in
(Dem.), Georgia, chairman of i three instances from founds-:;
the Senate subcommittee, said' tions linked to the CIA. A
Helms reported the. agency was .1 The council is the co-operant-;1.
1 withdrawing financial support ing agency for 34 Protestant
of some private organizations. and Eastern Orthodox denomi-.s
Fie would not quote Helms nations. j further. ' Russell did not make w ,'
{ clear whether the Helms report. ,Yorr , kk', general nsecretary Espycretary of of Ne thew'
involved a halt in aid to groups council, said it "had no knowl-
still secretly receiving CIA ege at any time that any of
funds. Helms wo%ttld not answeri these gifts may have had any
reporters' questions after' the;
hearing. with CIA i~~~~i~ ^TM~rM~i
FOIAB3B.
--o,- saia senator Stuart
Symington .Missouri, ,