PROFESSOR DISCLOSES CIA SERVICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400320003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 23, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

THE DAILY CALIFORNIAN
Feb. 23, 1967
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e projects; without sub- his method is subsidy by the CIA.
1To t1'e Ice Box: N
sidy they wouldll Ad N lt l
, coapse.nowe usook at the students
Thi, is a CIA type surfacing -, subsidy from private sources .was involved. Dan McIntosh says: "It
-; because I find the outcry of my not forthcoming. is terrifying to know that the
friend Dan McIntosh nauseating. My next argument is a tougher CIA duped students and used
My service with CIA extended one to sell: CIA was the only gov. them as spies." Isn't this rough,
from the beginning of 1951 to the ernment agency which could sub- on Mr. McIntosh's colleagues? I
summer of 1953. During that time'" ' sidize organizations such as the have .known many young men'
11 learned about activities such as NSA without restricting or even who entered the service of CIA,
the subsidizing of the NSA. My ending their Independence. Let men whose Intelligence and moral
initial reaction was strongly neg. me illustrate. Suppose the subsidy strength was as great as that of ,
J ative. Slowly I became convinced came from Health, Education and Mr. McIntosh. They simply be-
that the international activities oft Welfare. Given the very vigorous ? lieved- that their country was
organizations such as the NSA civil rights and similar activities worth. serving, and that they
were essential and that these ac- of NSA, what would have hap. could serve their country - by
tivities could not be carried out pened to a HEW budget which working in CIA. Many of the
except by subsidy from CIA. included funds for NSA? - young men who worked with me
It is not difficult to demonstrate Only CIA can subsidize without '. in the agency in 1951 now occupy:
,;
that in the years 1951-53 the acti- controlling, because only CIA has high posts in academic life, in-:.
vities were necessary; the alterna- a budget which is not scrutinized, other professions, and in policy-
tive was to leave the field of inter- line by line, by congress. There- making branches of the govern
'national youth activities to corn- fore if anyone in-the government, ment. They were not then, and
hnunist and communist-front or? up to a cabinet member or even they are:not now, either dupes or ;.
!ganizations, which were well fi the president, wants-to encourage. morally depraved. Neither, I sus- ;?
nanced. What 'wa8 true. of - the some activity without Impairing pect, were the NSA officers.
(NSA : was true.. of other ; CIA- -: the Independence.?of the activity! When he was president, Her- j
{bert Hoover told a French di to-;T'
h
mat t
at the United States should r
be in the world but not of it,. and
Secretary Stinson abolished the
lintelligence unit of the Depart-
ment of state, remarking that
gentlemen do not open other gen-
Itle-nen's mail. All that is long ago.
Since. then there have been many
-impressive, .indeed vital, triumphs
for American intelligence. And'.
there have, been some horrible '
messes, many of them, like this
-one, proceeding from the assump... 1
Lion that American democracy
can operate like British democ-'
racy. We can't
In Britain if
o
.
y
iz
., I publish racial secrets you go to,
j
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H
a
.
ere you make the front:
i page and can pass for a great
moralist.
Oh well, we can't keep official .
secrets, but we've had few defec-
1,, tors. And we have many young a
men with brains and strong char.
actor who are proud to serve ti
their country in the intelligence
field. Fortunately, for our eoun.
try's welfare.
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