NSA DECLARES CIA USED IT TO GATHER INTELLIGENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100520012-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: February 18, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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t-362,013 CPYRGHT
FEB 1 '8'1967.
Chief Reveal
Invest!; atlon i) o a r' after consL:l-Tog with student of. The Foundation for Youth and!
Stud
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recruited ':,_-w student leaders ing as conduits of CIA funds:'.
eiggn student icaders and gave '?`'rs building here, Brown add-;
CIA "assessme+its of the poli- cd. If it cannot do so, it will's
tical situation ai iong student`; move out, he declared,
organizaeions abroad." Brown praised the current of-
In disclosing some of the in titers of the organization, who
side dealings with the CLA, he said had gone through "ag-
Brown said the most "horrible ony in trying to break away)
Of Fur~d disgusting" aspect of the ;I f r o in 'the CIA. W. Eugene
relatiunship was tlae way the Groves, the president, and oth-~
CIA "du;?ed and trapped" stu- er officers have the complete!
'Some 20 Foundation ~a nt leader., into co-operating confidence of the board, Brown'
.t.` wi tiie ,=z.t: ncy. said.
-own identified the follow-I
`1.12smitted 'Cash Acco.- d i g to Brown, tlic CIA
Iicer Says
IJS Supplied
en
a
rs, t
e Catherwood,.:
ficers wi ; -vere already co-op-;
eratin; v CIA. But prior to Foundation, San Jacinto Foun
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dation, Sidney and Esther Raab'
revealing .,-(- CIA's l
nk th
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, `'Vashington Post News Service ecruits aslter tc; sign se? Foundation and R. E. Smith!
` ashington, D. C. - T h Foundation,
irity r! ! fap threat-
provided up to 80% of the ring 0-1, with 20 ea jail
Tonal Student associations en tences c-y d Is c I o s e d CIA Link Defended
et and used its officers; what the v,cie about to be Gloria Steinem, a New York
f
.;,u stall' in direct intelligence old., free lance writer, acknowledged;
Then di, 2,- were told, and in an interview Friday that she)
gathering activities, the organ hey were crapped, Brown said. worked closely with the CIA t01
,z scion's supervisory board con- After hsio g recruited. Brown +organize group's of American
fit cd Friday night. aid, some student leaders re- young people to attend world)
)ter three days of closed ejved under the table salary youth festivals in Vienna and
her in e e t i n g s, the student upplenencs of un to $3,500 Helsinki in 1959 and 1962.
17 o u P's national supervisory ollars a year. Others received ?1 She strongly defended her ac-
ooard gave its first official re- llowships after they left their tions and had great praise for
ort of the extent of CIA pene- osts, he said. the CIA agents with whom she
ration of the student organi- Brown said the supervisory "
,, collaborated.
ation, oard had "no intention of dis "I found them liberal and
Samuel W. Brown, a Her- olving" the NSA because of ! 1ar sighted and open to air ex-
a.rd divinity school student he disclosure of its 11 year fi :!change of ideas," she said. "I
who was chairman of the ancial involvement: wit-1: the- I never felt I was being dictated;:
oard's investigation, said: ' 'IA to at all." ,;
About 20 foundations and in-11
n- But he announced he Miss Steinem was director of
lividuals served as conduits of iate suspension of the cieden-,I the Independent Research serv-~
IA funds to the student or- als of representative. rs the ice, a group that sponsored the1
a&Z-Afon. Until January, 1966,. SA abroad, until they eouidHHltrips of several hundred youngp
he CIA obtained draft defer- IL, cleared of any involver. ient'iAmericans to Vienna and, Hel-j
rents for the officers and full] with the CIA. sinki.
imc NSA staff members.
In addition, the board CIA agents were consulted' 11 -.accounts containing fundsi
iho,:. staff appointments and' !Wing from the CLa. The last;
xr:-;;sed "s u b t 1?e influence"! nown transtaitt?d of CIA funds)
e'er the policies of the student' was made in i)&.ceribor, .1366J?
r9 up. rown sail.
NSA staffers gathered infor- The student organization will)
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