DON MACLEAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000400940001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: March 8, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/16: CIA-RDP73-00475R000400940001-0
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Has Ramparts magazine itself been the indirect recipient of CIA
: cash? Well, that remains to be seen, but the suggestion comes from
another partisan, fringe publication, The New Guard. ? For a
? month now, The New Guard, a rig,ittwing magazine published by
? Young Americans for Freedom, has been trying '? to ? return
!Ramparts' original serve. Ramparts, orientated toward the left,
opened the match by.chargin,g that the National Student Association
was in. part .financed, .ihru sundry private foundations, by the
' Central Intelligence Agency. ? The game moved swiftly after that,
with new CIA-backed foundations, businessmen, students, , et al,
turning up every minute.
? Now, in its April issue (for release next week), The New Guard
has a story which it hopes Nvili get the ball back over the net
?: to where Ramparts will have some explaining to do itself. ? The
; article, written by Phillip Luce, says that a CIA-financed foundation
- is a contributor to another foundation on whose board sits a man
?? who is a financial backer of Ramparts. 9 Yesterday, I talked to
? ? 1'AF "College Director" Phil Cramer, who read parts of The New
Guard's "expose" to me: "One of the major financiers of
Zamparts is Irving Laucks, who is on the Governing Board at the
? Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, in Santa Barbara,
?; Calif."
! The article continues: "The Center also is responsible for sending
Robert Scheer, man'aging editor of Ramparts, to Vietnam. The
r records of the Albert Paver Foundation, already cited by the mass
' media as a CIA conduit, show it has given $15,000 tp the Center
? in the last year." ? A careful check of files at The Washington
Daily News failed to turn up ',any "mass media" mention of
the Paver Foundation being a CIA conduit. There is confirmation
..that th.e. Center sent some people to Vietnam,. but Mr. Scheer is
ilot among those listed. Mr. Laucks frequently is mentioned as a
Ramparts backer.
At this point, it's uncertain If the Paver outfit is a CIA conduit
: and if it is, whether any money it gave the Center actually went
to Ramparts. ? Attaching from a different angle, The Guard says:
the Ford Foundation was created in the early 1950's, at
least one CIA operative was placed in that Foundation with tho
? specific job of channeling funds. to 'worthwhile' organizations. The
: Foundation has been a major contributor to the Center." a
:The New York Times says, " ... the Ford Foundation has had no
; CIA connections since 195940, according to informed sources." ?
remains to be seen if Ramparts got money from the. Center -
:,.itself .or just Mr. Laucks. ? It's all rather confusing-and the foul
lines have become somewhat obliterated. ??? ? " - ?
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neclassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2013/12/16 : CIA-RDP73-00475R000400940001-01,