PROSECUTION OF STUDENTS 'INCONCEIVABLE,' SAYS CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200120002-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 20, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

ily B-eN A. FRANKLIN
BOSMO
feb.. 20,._1907.'
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intelligence Agency said Sunday it was "incoriceIv
ai:,lc" that members of the National Student, Asso-
ciation who disclosed their seoi et relationshitn with
the CIA 'would be prosecuted for their .urlauthor-
izcd revelations.
Lawrence R. Houston, general cute gives thc,ie people cart
co.,n.cl of the CIA, said in 'a blanche to discuss anything fur
telephone interview that ".'we they they ma:v know that is o
have talked about that and there, 1 a confidentilal nature. mere i
is to be no retribution, no prose- ',some information we think the
cution," should plumly not discuss."
"Of course,-we don't like what Heustcin's . comments were
has happened, Ilouston said. ;`departti:re from the usual polio
"And we certainly don't mean of Cf-A. officials. In the past mos
12,at; Ui dceision. not to prose-,.: QJ ,officials have- declined an
-ccmment to newsmen. But ffous + ciation with the student orgsni-
ton made it clear Sunday that nation. An article on the CIA
he sought to reassure NS 'off ?~ NSA relationship is being nub-
ceirs or staff members that there lished in the forthcoming March.
would be no criminal prosecu-1 issue of Ramparts magazine.
won' { STUDENTS `TRAPPED'
- "These boys were driven into; . In a statement last Friday, -j
a corner wh'erc they had to say] Sam Brown, a 23-year-old liar-1
something, he commented; Hei yard University divinity student!
did not elaborate. and chairman of the NSA's 10-
According to NSA officers, member national ' superv'isory'
members of the student organi
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said th
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; zalion who had knowledge of the..and staff officials of the student
CIA's financial support or who ..organization had been 'trapped'
agreed to cooperate with thel
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"negligence. Information. that
was-not to be disclosed included] 'At'the signing of such an
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the fact of
the CIA
s interest. agreement, Brown said, those in
in the NSA or in' individual,''volved were aware that they:
'
members, as well as the
nature ::.were to receive classified info,
and details. of CIA? 'operations 17xhation, "to help them in their.;
involving students... , work." But he said they were
y of l not ' aware, until 'after they had
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eludes a warping - that "mien 'Brown said that the "ethical.
tional or negligent violation of trap"-, in' which "these students
this secrecy agreement 1 aY ,found _themseive~ stemmed from'
subject me to prosecution un ; their signature of the agree-,,'
der the espionage laws of i the anent. "Honorable people acting;
United States of America. ;.'out of the best of `motives were'
Houston 'said Sunday =fiat faced with an impossible~r
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would have to show mien to :"choose between exposing the,
and the by harm.
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power,' he said ' I dor'ttnk ,others or remaining quiet. and
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