SAY CIA AID HELPED NSA COUNTER REDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100170020-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: February 15, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON - A defense
f the CIA infiltration o; he
ational .Student Associr,tion
vas? offered today by foimer
fficials of each organi,,;zi m.
Robert Amory.
Jr.., fu Hier
IA deputy director, deciarcd:
`If we hadn't done'-this, we
ist would have been run over
y. the.Commie=front .drganiza-
ions.".
Amery said CIA 'm:c n e y
made it possible for Ameriran
turbots to attend the taorid-
ide student conference :,t he
elsinki World Youth Festival
i 1562 and the Vienna Youth
estival`in 1959.
Paul Potter, an iITSA vice-
resident in 1961,. said. ir. Pos-
t n that NSA becanie the main
udent force behind _.the co-
inking. secretariat of the
Intenistionel Student Confer
ence w i t h headquarters in
Leyden in the Netherlands.'
This group is the WeGtern:r.
counterpart of the Red,domi-a ; ied International Union of
Students in Prague,. Czecho-
s;wakia..
Potter said that f o r m e r
SSA President Edward Gar-
vev was top officer of the Ley-',
don group for several years
at the peak of the cold war. .ti
Potter, formerly affiliated
with the lei;-leaning Students
for a Democratic Society' said.
,l,a t in 1961 NSA officers " co1
oratcd more and more with;
the -State Department and the
CIA. and were known as poo-':
ple willing to work in some
sense as covers for.thc CIA."
But he declined to~: n a m e
he
t
se; officers.
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