CIA-FINANCED 'FRIENDS' FRIENDLY ONLY TO ARABS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100740011-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2014
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: March 3, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/06/04: CIA-RDP73-00475R000100740011-4
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\,:?.'Itts to Inow why tne
D3:7,artment subsIdH
izc.:s A-cab "student" proa-:
g an c..1sts wner, Egy.;?tian
?resident Nasser has served no-; ;
-Lice. ',hat his country would not! ;
pLiy debts to the Unitc..,d States.
in a recent
anti - American !
' speech in Cairo, i
Nasser con-
States. He made
clear that $150 ?
million in debts
would not be !,
paid.
This assertion came at a time
when -,ne State Department said
it was studying new applications:!
for ;.iid by
iss:asser's remarks also coincided !
die disclosure in WashingH
t-yh that the Central Intelligence
acting under the dh-e.c-!
'a authority of the White:
IILniae a: d the National Security
. d financed the
led "Arne. - Friends of- thq
i.idddle East." . "Friends" were t
friendly only to 7abs. They!',
conducted the mostlis..
ter anti-Israel front in the ...,Mted
States.
piously denied it, C.:A fune.s
for several years were channeled
to the A2:v1E treasury through
various conduits. Most of this, -
money was used to finance
? ,31,'s aid to Arab student's
who attend over ltd American
colleges and universities.
? The AFME student program is
endorsed by the Arab League and
used for a coord.inated propaganda
c.f. A-
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LIthough the hrao studit=nts
are subsidized by Amwrf,can
? tax-
payers, their mai-, dl-ive is not
directed at Co--
Zionism. Many s.
Cong and-con?
can role in Ve,
vorite and me
ference to Cc?
threat that u
States stops
Arabs will go
but at
the Viet
_
, Exploiting he ri!nz. of free!
speeeh, Arab Si cleats have fre-
'`. .judice. A few v:e;:.: heath ICC
posure to American democracy,
to wim them away from the ex-
tremist and pro-Communist ten-
dencies of the Arab world. Per-
haps it was viewed as good for
? Israel, in the long run. That
would coincide with the thinking I
of the State Department's Near
Eastern division. ;
In any event, hundreds of loud-
mouthed bigots were imported at
the expense of the American peo-
ple?without the public's know-
are u-alned zr,:opaga.:1,1.6;_5
in their 30's and 40's rather than
naive youths seeking .knowledge
and truth.
? Members of Congress have in-
dicated that it was a waste of
public funds to finance the Arab
League propaganda apparatus in
the United States. A number of
Congressmen have demanded a
review of this and other under-
takings recently exposed. .
In preserving the interests of a I,
free people, as their agents, the
' CIA may have to engage in legi-
timate counter-espionage. Mil-
que;ltly voiced p?..- ?
- ? -
mong sponsors of c.....1-11i)us inv
tations to thc .speaker':
George Rockwe.:I.
The CIA a rational-
ized its unc'.er.viing of such
students by hopiag, through ex-
lions of Americans, however, can-
'not understand how the national t
security interests of the United
States. are served by subsidizing
t" hundreds of anti-Israel agitators.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/06/04: CIA-RDP73-00475R000100740011-4