BROCK URGES CIA-NSA QUIZ
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March 26, 1999
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February 17, 1967
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icy and snecifically the war iii: 1
titularly s i n c e some of th
groups they apparently hav
questions as to where els ?j
they've spent their money with
"This also raises very seriou tl
it," Brock said.
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End Foreign Activity
News-Free Press Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Rep. Bill
Brock of Chattanooga said to P
:day there is every reason fo j7
a full investigation of CIA in
volvement in various studen
groups.
He said revelations that th
super-secret intelligence agent
has .been subsidizing the Nation
al Student Association (NSA
and other student groups "cast a doubt on the whole purpos
of CIA objectives."
the first place,'. the CI
is supposed to be operating out
side the United States, not i
CPYRGHT
Johnson and. other NSA lead&'
ers said Thursday no CIA mon-!,
ey has gone into the student or-!
ganization's domestic activities;
including its extensive civil
rights program in the South.
The NSA has an office in
Tougaloo, Miss., and operates-,
the Southern Student Human,
Relations project in Atlanta'
under a $33,000-a?y e a r grant
from the Marshall Field Foun-4
dation, Johnson Said.
It also has conducted voter:
registration drives in the South,'
raised money for impoverished"
Negro families and collected:
more than 1 million bogks froni
students for distribution to Ne-i
gro colleges.
Johnson said he was unaware,
until a few weeks ago that the!
CIA had been underwriting the't
cost of NSA's participation in7
foreign student activities for thq+;
last 15 years. .
By United Press International
The controversy over the;)
CIA's subsidizing the nation's.
largest intercollegiate" student
organization took a new turn]
early Thursday in ,a secret
meeting of the NSA's advisory"
board.
United Press Internationale,
learned from the' gathering that,
he board was consid+rinb
eeping alive the financial
rrangement with the CIA, .
ontrary to earlier NSA repudi?
tion of the subsidies.
The board later denied it was l
kinking of resuming the CIA'
association, and insisted,it wasil
vorking . on the assumpor 'all
IA ties were dissolved.
Meanwhile, the NSA . 1
considering giving up its ove
seas activities in the belief . it
representatives would alway
be looked on as governme
spies.
As an emergency NSA boar
meeting on the organization'
future dragged into the thin
day today, its leaders appeare
convinced abandonment of i
international branch will be th
cost of its long-secret financi 1
link with the CIA.
"I think that's very likely
happen,". said a participant i
the meeting, Jim Johnson, 21t
last year's vice president f
national affairs.
Vietnam."
By Associated Press
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