PANEL TO URGE END OF CIA'S SECRET FUNDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200320012-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 28, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

MAR 2 8 10467
Approved For Release 1999/09/07: CIA-RDP75-0000
CPYRGHT
CPYRGHT
ed to make public this week a
report calling for an end to
covert financing by the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency of,in-
ternational student and labor
programs.
Under the now proposals it
is expected that Congress will
have some measure of control;
over the publicly appropriated
funds
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for pag
new reorganization is expect.
President Johnson has per
sonally reviewed a draft of the
recommendations drawn by
the three-man committee by
appointed in the wake of the
controversy over the CIA's
The report- is said to pro-
pose creation of a new quasi-
public corporation that would
administer propaganda and
political action programs for s, ,
labor, . youth and, i.student
'groups abroad. Ong' model'
that the presidential commit.
tee studied closely was the
British - Council, which
operates as an adjuct of the
Foreign Office.
+ The three members of the
presidential study group are
Under Secretary of State Ni-
cholas deB. Katzenbach, its
chairman; CIA Director Rich-
ard Helms and Secretary of
Health, Education and Wel ;
Katzenbach has conducted a
detailed review of the CIA-fin-
anced activities that came
under criticism in the press
after Ramparts magazine last
January disclosed the exis-
tence of a network of secret
CIA funding organizations.
One'of the reasons for'es
tablishment of the secret fund
conduits during the early
1950s was the fear of a politi-
cal outcry on Capitol Hill
against the Agency's coopers
tion with leftist but non-Com-'
ganizations abroad.
The decline of McCarthyism;
in the United States obviated;
much of -the need for secrecy'
in these programs, according
to' sources familiar with the
background. Therefore it Is
expected that the Katzenbach
group will call for a far more,.
public approach to the inter
?national
-programs.
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