CIA USED NSA STAFF FOR SPYING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100520008-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 18, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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By Gerald Grant
Washincton Post Staff Writer
Thu eitt proytIdurt Up to
dent Association's budget and
? used its officers, and staff in
'direct intelligence gathering
,'activities, the organization's
supervisory board confirmed
last night. ;
.After three days of closed-
,door meetings the student
group's national, supervisory,
board gave its first official re-
Port of the extent of the CIA
penetration of the student or-
ganization,
Samuel W. Brown, 'a Har-
vard Divinity School student
,.who was chairman of the
board's investigation, said:
? About 20 foundations and
individuals served as conduits
of CIA funds to the student)
'org'anization,
Until January, 1066, the
CIA obtained draft defer-
ments for the officers and
lull-time NSA staff members. ~
, 0 CIA agents were con-!
suited about staff appoint-
- -silents and exercised "subtle
influence" over the policies
Of' the student group.
NSA staffers gathered
information for the CIA about
'foriegn student leaders and
? gave CIA "assessments of the
political situation among stu-
dent organizations abroad,"
Meanwhile, CIA supporters
on Capitol Hill marshalled
support for an attempt to
justify the Agency's penetra-
tion of the student group.
' Chairman L. Mendel Rivers
' (D-S.C.) and Rep. William H.
Bates (R-Mass,), the ranking
members of the House Armed
Services Committee, issued a
statement in which they said
of, the action: "Espionage. was
not involved-the survival of!
In disclosing sgme of the in-1;1
and disgusting" aspect of the
relationship was the way the
CIA "duped and trapped" stu?
dent leaders into cooperating'
v.'ith the agency.
-According to Brown, the
Why did the students sign
the agreement? Because,
needed to know in order to
handle overseas assignments
for the NSA. In order to gain
Ili-ormation, students were asked
to sign the National Security
This kind of trickery was
nvoivement with NSA,"
cived under-the-table salary
upplements of up to $3500 a
car. Others received fellow-
Brown said the supervisory
oard had "no intention of dis-
nanefal involvemOn4 with the
But he announced the im-!
acclliatc suspension of the cre-11
ould be cleared of any In-.
I
nlvernnn4 with the CTA 11
I ? funds that were in ac-'I
loots homing from CIA
December, 1966, Brown said,;
The : student organization
ill seek to terminate its CIA
garters building at 2115 S St.'
Brown praised the current
ficers of the organization,
rough "agony" in trying to.
oak away from the CIA, W.
id other officers have the
Brown identified the follow- as conduits of CIA.
e Cathcrwood Foundation,
I after consult' v? +~ i"1"''"
~icaAq~ s
student officers wh were wereetweens fZir ar the the CIA. But he;
already cooperating with CIA., declined to name them, ~
+ ,But prior to revealing their The NSA'. rt latinnchi' ,,,;(~, I
oz,. acne here is some evi- '1 uo ;can eader
de:;ce that it iingan ,, r t that ship Conference.
he said. CIA support ??j-,,or myself, I car, see no rca f
-ii from 40 to 30 her cent? son way the United State
over that period, Brown add ed?; send students to inter -- -------
uas the CIA penetration ,jus.' free world," Towers said.
tified." The U.S. Government But Sen. J. 11'illiam Ful
owes an "enormous apology to l bright (D?Ark.), the chairman
the National Student Associa- of the Senate Forcign Rela.
Lion, its officers and staff and tions Committee, said the
to an entire generation using whole thing is tragic as well
NSA in this manner." Brown as comical" in view of ]ast
-p.,
Rivers and Bates said the (.TA
:or NSA members to combat!
committee to oversee the CIA.
Calling for "tiehtcr su
Sion" of the Agency, Fulbgight'
added: "It is incredible that'
the President didn't t-
Rivers and. Bates met lvith
tewsmen after the Armed
mrocccs subcommittee Which i
eats With CIA. affairs had
laid. a closed-door meeting
the CIA had assurcu him that
it had not "secretly subsidized
or used" Fulbright scholars
who were studying abroad. `
At the State Department, it
was announced that the three-.
man panel President Johnson
appointed Wednesd
ro among tilos ? I''a careful review ofyanonGov
locked moves who last year crnment activities" that could
broaden ongressional supervision f enddaner" h
b l em integrity and:
he CIA, independence of the education
They said the link between communii " 1
he Agency and the NSA had liberations. dad be?ui? its dc.
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hown to every Admin. ? The panel is' hauled by .Act
itration since 1952 d i
an known ng ecretary of State Nicho.?
the Armed Services 'sub. las doB Ii t
ommittee for several years, eludes Secretary of Health,
Their praise, was echoed bye Education and 1~'
ale Joan
o rv?TSen.. `.John G. 11 W. Gardner eliand Director,
Owe r (R (R-me1 ;n ,~,,,,., i_ i_~INnim,
? ? press spokes-
man Robert J, 11-T I
osJcey said
'the meeting was "both an of
fort to clarify the present sit-
uation and to suggest sensible
courses of future action,"
In another development, Lt
Gen, Lewis B. I-icrshcy, thc'
Selective . Service Director,'
said in an interview with th,c;
Associated Press that he re-.
members "talking to some
NSA men" but added that lie
did not recall What they said.-
1i10 was commenting on an -
article in Ramparts Magazine:
which said that NSA officials
were given draft deferments'
for "an occupation vital to the
national interest."
don't think you would
ever find me saying I 'am go- ,
ing to take care of somebody,"
klcrshey said
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