HAR.VARD LEARNS OF CIA HELP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100060028-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2000
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: April 15, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000/08/03 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000100060028-8
H arvard L~arws of CIA Help
Fifteen organizations, serving as Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency conduits, pro
vided a total of $456,000 for 13 programs
at Harvard University between 1960 and
1966.
The CIA's use of foundations to funnel
funds to Harvard was disclosed Friday
after a report'was submitted to the faculty
by Humphrey Doermann, assistant to
Dean Franklin L. Ford of the Faculty of
Arts and Sciences.
Ford said no strings were attached.
The funds were given to programs and
individual faculty members for research
in the Departments of Psychology, Philos-
onhv and Social Relations.
-was aided financially by groups partly
financed by the CIA.
Kissinger said the CIA had made no
r,d
effort to influence the content, policies or.
personnel of the seminar.
The report. to. the faculty pointed out , -i
that the conduits did 'not necessarily re-
ceive all of their money from the CIA.
None of the so-called "dummies," organi- ! ..
xations used exclusively by the CIA, gave
I
,
o money to the Harvard programs or faculty
!,,,member.-;.
Richard M. Hunt, assistant dean of the
faculty and head of the Fund for Inter-
national Social and Economic Education,
told the faculty he did not knowingly , .y
receive funds from government-connected'
,
nar o
e
national Sem
which draws government leaders to, HarYi 1_ Dean Ford, speaking at a faculty
yard from foreign countries, each year, 1 meeting earlier in the week, discussed the
and has received $243,000 since 1953 possibility of the CIA openly offering
Its executive director,' Henry. A Kis- .funds to faculty members for clearly
;?. singer, a member of the '.Class of l9'O, specified and unclassed research in the ry
said he was unaware that ,the, prag$am' future
Among the recipients was the Inter-
Summer School
f th
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