RAMPARTS CHARGES CIA INTIMIDATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000101910001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 16, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By Richard Harwood
? Washington Post Staff Writer
; Ramparts magazine made
!public yesterday its version of
'the financial marriage and
?divorce of the National Stu-
dent Association and Covert
Action Division No. 5 of the
'Central -Intelligence Agency.
Before the relationship was
disclosed this year. Ram-
parts said, CIA had poured mil-
lions into the college student
'organization and NSA officials
had gone to such Government
.figures as Vice President Hu-
'bcrt Humphrey in a vain effort
,to end their financial depend-
;
once on the intelligence
agency.
Moreover, the magazine said,
;the CIA "viciously turned on"
iformer NSA president Philip
,Sherburne "to intimidate him
linto publicly denying" that -
the? relationship had ever ex- ,
isted.
! The story is told in advance
Iproofs of an article that is to ?
appear in Ramparts next
imonth. The major revelations:
!in the article have already
been confirmed substantially
.; by the State Department.. ?
j The story, began in the 1950s',
'when the U.S. Government be-
came alarmed at the Commu-
nist take-over of international;?
?student groups in Europe. In
;.response to this problem, NSA
'
:,
set up a new International
Student Conference in 1950 in.,
cooperation with 18 other na-.!
tional student organizations. ,
'The new organization .flour-'
,ished, and ; "kept._ tn....4 rigid:!
Cold War line" under NSA;
leaders "who seemed more!
like professional diplomats:
than students."
Only a tiny handful of
I NSA's officers, Ramparts gaid,!
!were aware that the organiza-
tion was tied into the CIA, de-
rived from the agency impor-
tant financial support for its
international activities, and
was treated; in turn, by CIA as
"an arm of U.S. foreign pol-
icy."
The money and the policy
direction, Ramparts said, came
from Covert Action Division
No. 5 of the CIA's Plans Divi-
sion, whose personnel included
former NSA officers.
The magazine, said the
money was channeled to NSA
through an intricate maze of
:"foundations," some of which
;may be nothing ? more than
!dummy conduits for . CIA
funds. They included the Bor-
den Trust of ? Philadelphia,
;the Price Fund of New York,
the Beacon Fund of Boston,
;the '1