2 GROUPS DENY TIE TO CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000401810001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 18, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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: In , a joint statement 'issued."
the int-efligWiCe ?ag?en-ey's -SU-p..1 and Armed Serv- ..;
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: ices Committee Chairman Men-
. port of the ? student association .
del Rivers commended the CIA '...
it "until this week.".
for its cooperation" with the '
.. ,
1 "There was no need for my student organization. ..
! .knowing of it since it was being
I phased out when, I joined the They also praised the NSA for ..
I subcommittee.," Bates said in ."courage and dedication in pre- '.
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+ explanatiton of his lack of venting the Communists from
1 knowledge of the tie-in. taking over student groups. '
?By TOM McNrFF Jr.
' Officials of two Greater Boston
The congressrnan said he Bates said he was not troubled
couldrft see why everyone has about the CIA-NSA alliance or
to be so upset about this.:' ? other tie-ins which might be dis-
? closed in the future. .
"The students asked for help .
4and he government gave it to "It's the nature of their (CIA) ?
organizations named as parties-I' them. 'It is the function of the job to protect us. They were and; -
to the CIA-NSA controversy, dis-
:claim&. Friday night , any, con-
nection with the. Central In-
telligence Agency.
CIA to protect against infiltra- are doing their job. .
tion. ?
? . "I'm ,pleased that NSA was:
so successful in combating Mel.
. Atty. Herbert Burstein of .1 tremendous efforts of the Soviets -4
"I to infiltrate, Student groups," .
Bates said. ?
4 Bates also confirmed reports:
?that every administration since ??
1952 had known of the link 'be,:
-tween the students. and the CIA.
New York City, counsel for the
Richdaie Foundation, said "The
very concept of the CIA would
? frighten them to death." He re-
ferred to George A. and Manuel
E. Isenrnan, both of Newton
and both named as 'trustees of '
the Richdale ,Foundation,
The Richdale organization was r
formerly known as the Beaconl':
Fund, end as such was named in :
some reports as a conduit for
CIA funds to the Independence
Foundation, another Boston-
based agency.
In answer- to a question as to
,-whether researchers for Ram-
parts magazine, which broke the
story of the CIA-NSA affiliation,
: had approached the Beacon
: Fund trustees, Burstein said "as
far as I know, no.".
Burstein added, "Someone
would have approached me im-
mediately" if the trustees had
been questioned.
?
Ernest Frawley, treasurer and
a trustee of the International
Marketing Institute, with offices
tin the Hotel Commander in Cam-
Ibride. also denied connection
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