STUDENT SUBSIDIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000300210026-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2005
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: December 20, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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The group appointed by the President to rec-
ommend a method of handling the student sub-
sidies hitherto secretly dispensed by the CIA has
quite understandably found itself with a difficult
assignment.
It is one thing to agree that the CIA should
not be covertly subsidizing student groups that
are engaged in foreign student organization ac-
tivities. But.to perfect an alternative method is
not a simple matter. All of the plans which the
commission is studying seem to contemplate the
publicized endowment of student groups either
by state, the foreign aid program or a quasi-public
corporation or commission. The scale of the en-
deavor favored by members seems to run from
$5 million to $25 million a year.
An independent agency or corporation free
from the policy strictures of the State Depart-
ment or other executive departments and op-
erated on a fairly generous scale looks like the
best solution. Its grantees will not be totally
free from the taint of Government sponsorship-
but they will be on' a footing as good as that of
students of other countries who have long been
objects of such benevolence. The public agency
contemplated will not be able to carry on the
covert subversion of international student groups,
opinion of which might be influenced by secret
subventions. This will be a self-imposed disad-
vantage but it may be a lesser disaster than the
periodic embarrassment of having secret help
divulged. The commission ought to hurry up
its report, wind up its work and set on foot a
new systeri operating on a scare ` acceptable to
its members.
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