C.I.A. STUDENT AID ASSAILED IN SPAIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000100740015-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 4, 2014
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: February 24, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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!Ft dbridit exchange Progfaiiii 'Of
C.I.A. STUDENT AID ische!ars, professors and students
!as well as other American-Span-
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!leaders have described as a con-
duit for funds obtained from
!foundations connected to the
,STAT - ' ish cultural programs.
/ ? Central Intelligence Agency,
N.-. ISSAILED IN SPAIN
. has denied knowing where the
. money originated. A statement
. ' Free Trade Unions Deny Linlc
released from the organization's
Specia: to The Nor York 'times
headquarters here said: ,
"The AmericanFriends of the
Middle East has had no indica.-
? :Falangist Paper Scores Use BRu-ssELs, Feb. 23 ? The
of 'Funds of Reptiles' International Confederation' of
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Free Trade Unions denied today tions from any of its contrib- .;
that it ever had links "either utors that the funds contributed :': :::; -.?
direotiv or indirectly". with the to A.F.M.E. originuted from . i..;';:. ,,??-!
Central Intelligence Agencyyce or
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Special to The New York Times, other than private sources ur u
... ..
' MADRID, Feb. 23?The Fa-
. had receivedfunds from that the contributors' are motiv- ;:i, '
langist newspaper Arriba said the organization. ated for purposes other than
in an editorial today that Span- A spokesman for the confed- the programs openly under-
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lards who had accepted United eration? said it had never re- taken by A.F.M.E. which are ''''?
States scholarships or travel ceived financial assistance from matters of ' public record.
In-
grants' that might have been the Foundation of Youth. .and A.F.M.E. is .investigating to in- . ?
financed by the Central Intel- St:dent Affairs, as was re- sure that this,' in fact, it the .,? :
ported in The New York Times case."
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ligence Agency had dcmonstrat-
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ed that "more than one intel- last Sunday. . .
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ligence has prostituted itself The information had been ob-
CONTAC Tells of Funds '? ?4
under the impact of the dollar." tained from a brochure issued?
lo% the Foundation for Youth The co-chairmen of the ?Con-
The editorial, which called --. '
and Student Affairs -of ?1 East ference on the Atlantic Com-
C.I.A. funds the "funds of rep-? Street, New York. ? munity (CONTAC). ? yesterday
tiles," referred to a statement 54th
Harry H. Lunn Jr., the foun-' conceded the group had re-
by an jafficial of the Nether-,dation's eXecutive secretary, has ceived funds from the Founda-
lands-based International Stu- been identified by officers of the tion for Youth and" Student Af?
dents Conference that the so-
National Student Association fairs, but denied it';knew of the
called "democratic unions" of
as a principal contact with the foundation's connection with the
Spanish students had been fi- . intelligence agency. ? ? Central' Intelligence .Agency.
'lanced by the United Stat-s. -
eThe brochure outlined the 1 Louis Tiiisenberg and Arthur
intelligence agency. group's program and listed the Wallensfein, the co-chairmen,
A dispatch from Arriba's:?Inter
Free
Confederation of ;said their organization had re-
New York correspondent also Trade Unions among "i.iceived? $1,000 of a required' S15,-
quoted Ramparts magazine to- .
number of organizations which1:000 Midget from the ?foundation
day to the .effect that an off i- have received grants from theilfor its first ' conference. They :?.?.
it?
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cial of the National Student As- Foundation for Youth and Stu- :said the group'. had withdrawn --
sociation in the United States .
dent ? : -.. ? its request' for funds ? from the. :-.1: .
traveled to Spain last year to : ?? : foundation for Its. second. cons
? meet Spanish students and to ? : .
participate in anti-regime dem-Friends of Middle East Denial. ! ber.feresce - scheduled :ter.. NremJ ' ? i
I.:6.ii.:Lailiecti-
onstrations. .: Special to?The New York Vases ? ,.
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Both the, National Student ? WASHINGTON, Feb; 23. ?4
Association and the Interna- The' American Friends: Cif ? thd ,
tional Students Conference were Middle East, Inc.1 which studenj .,
identified last week as groups ' :'.
that had been receiving subsi-
dies 'from the intelligence
agency.
,.
News Agency Suggestion
A suggestion that Frederick
E. Berger, the student associa-
tion's director for Spain and
Latin America, was sent' to
.... .
Barcelona last March by the
C.I.A. was made here earlier
5 ....:: ? ' , ' this week by Cifra, semi-official
..', ...? ? : . : Spanish news Agency.
Mr. Berger and Wilfred Rutz,
a Swiss citizen representing the
International Students Confer-
ence, took, part in a three-day
sit-in at a Capuchin monastery
' in Barcelona last March when
'university students set up the
antiregime "democratic union."
!? Both were subsequently ar-
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'rested and expelled from Spain.
-1 There has been no official
;?? ? ;protest thus far from the Span-
. ? ?ish Government to the United
:States over the alleged involve-
ment of the C.I.A. in this coun-
try's politics. .
.1 But officials privately have
..expressed surprise over reports
? 'that the intelligence agency
'may have sought to contribute
to the subversion of a regime'.
with which the ? United States' :
has cordial relations. .I'
- -There was no comment from' ?
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American officials here, but con-
cern '
was knowh to exist. that -
the disclosures. involving the in-: ? :.
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