COLUMBIA TRUSTEES' BLOODSTAINED HANDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100050040-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: May 12, 1968
• Content Type: OPEN

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CPYRGHT THL WORKER
CPYRGHT 12 May 1968
By ART SHIELDS -
One trustee-Frederick Rus-1
sell Kappel-represents $80 bil
lion of riches in several gian
corporations. That's enough t
rebuild black Harlem man
a$ _
hands after sending
Sus his to the cross. ~, But I
ubt if Columbia's leading
t ustees went to the bath-
om after telling the cops
beat ' up black and white
tudents. Their hands were
loodied in Vietnam already.
We'11 begin with Grayson
irk, the university president.,'
. Kirk sits on the boards of.
orporations with combined as-
ets of $15 billion. His com-
anies' weapons are killing Viet-
amese children.- We'll give de-
its below. And we ask, bow
I an he deny that he is a Mer-
hant of Death? And how can'
e double as a war profiteer and.
general of learning?
Trustee William A. Burden, an
portant Wall Street financier,
omes next. Mr. Burden is the
ational chairman of the Insti-
ute of Defense Analysis, that
he students want off the cam-
us. And many professors are
against it as well.
MR. BURDEN'S INSTITUTE
The Institute for Defense
alysis has nothing to do with
cholarship. It uses the univer-
ity's laboratories and its scien-.
ists to help the Pentagon and
he war industries. This means
elping Mr. Burden himself. His
I- company-Lockheed Aircraft -
akes war planes for Vietnam.
is bank-Manufacturers Han-
ver Trust-finances the nuclear
ndustry. ?
And the cops were fighting for
urden and other war profiteers
hen they slugged Columbia's
tudents.
? Such ugly facts are hidden by
be capitalist press. Such news
"not fit to print" in the Daily
News, the Post-or the Times, .
whose chairman, Arthur Hays'
Sulzberger, sits on Columbia's
board-of directors.
It's "not fit to print" because
Columbia's trustees are too ex-
clusive to touch. The trustees,
collectively, represent about $108
billion-in Wall Street securities.
The late C. W 91] t&ed CcA
lumbia professor, must have been
thinking of them when he wrote
times.
Mr. Kappel's biggest job
with America's biggest mono
poly. That's the American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Co. He
chairman and chief executiv
officer of .A.T.&T. and custodia
of its, $37 billion assets.
CPYIRGHT
usiness. University, duties must
also give way. His schedule is
now divided between Wall Street
and Morningside Heights. And
he may have been discussing war
contracts with Allen Dulles, the
ex-CIA Chief, and General Max-
well Taylor, the former Chair-
man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
when the campus struggles be-
gan.
Dulles and General Taylor are
This trustee not only collect
our telephone dimes. He is i
the Death business as well. Hi
company assembled the atomi
bomb that burned up Hiroshom
and butchered its, people. An
he makes. missiles for the killer
in Vietnam.
leading members of the military
industrial complex that Eisen-
hower warned against. Both, sit
with Grayson Kirk on the board
of a big Wall Street Investment
company-Dividend Shares.
Kirk's firm holds $327,000,000
in securities in dozens of corpo-
rations. Most of these companies
do business with the Pentagon.
Some sell guns, others planes, oil
and missiles. A number, like
Union- Carbide, make atomic
fuel. And a block of 1,750,000
jshares of Dow- Chemical, is one ?
of Kirk's portfolio items.
Dow has the napalm mono-
poly. Its evil product has burned
many kids to, death. Dow? money
is blood money. Dow recruiters
were boycotted in a mass de-
monstration. on Columbia's cam-
pus.
President Kirk Is impartial in
? his services'- to 'the two Wall
Street giants - Morgan and
Rockefeller - that control his
university. On some days he is
seen driving, to. a meeting of?the
board of directors of the Inter-
national Business Machines,, a
$5 billion Morgan company. On
other days he sits with the di-
rectors of Mobile Oil, a $6 billion
Rockefeller institution.
I.B.M. is the computer king.
Wall Street speculators call it
the firm of the future. There are
I even wild whispers of the time
when the President of the USA
will be controlled by an- I.B.M.
computer. But I.B.M., mean-
while is netting millions from.
the war in Vietnam.
Mr. Kappel is a symbol
Rockefeller billions. He also sit
on the boards of Metropolita
Manhattan Bann ($1, billion .
These two giants-and A.T.& .
rare in the Rockefeller spher . ?
Kappel is also a director f
America's biggest food comp
-General Foods ($1 billion)
and some lesser institutions.
Kappel 'has honorary docto -
ates from eight colleges and un -'
versities. But do not be misle
This trustee is all business. e
one book to which his name
signed is called, "Vitality in a,
Business Enterprise." But t is',
vitality does not extend in o
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fields
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wouldn't know what the stude
'were talking about if he drop-
ped into the classroom of 1 is
poorest paid instructor. He
his big chair on' Morningsi e
Heights as a spokesman f
monopoly capital - and for 0
other reason.
Kirk, on the contrary, won is
title the bard way. But schol X-
ship suffers in competition 1-~ 1h
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