INTEGRITY COMPROMISED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100680004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 1, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN

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+ areas ot merican life escaped unscathed from
the disclosures of secret Central Intelligence Agency aid,
set off last month when Ramparts magazine exposed the
CIA's link'to the National Students Association.
Religious groups, apparently some labor unions, and
even a Latin American aid group headed by Norman Thomas.
found themselves, wittingly or unwittingly, wound-up in
the CIA web.
The deepest. tragedy for teachers, however
came when it was
,
disclosed that some educators had fallen under the CIA spell. Evi-
dence dug up by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other
newspapers, appears to indicate that William G. Carr, executive
secretary of the National Education Association and secretary general
of the World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Pro-
fession, knowingly accepted CIA aid and helped organize a foundation
that became a transmission belt for CIA money.
Carr's intentions may have been "honorable." Teachers who view
the East-West struggle as one of primacy may sometimes forget how
a democracy should operate, and substitute expedience for principle.
If money is, easily available for international projects-even if it
comes from 'the CIA-why not take it and put it to use?
Such "gifts" are, eventually, found out, as they were in this
case. The integrity of teachers has been compromised, and
American educators who go abroad, seeking links with colleagues
in Europe, Asia, or Africa, will henceforth be under suspicion that
they may not be acting independently, but as arms of their govern
ment-and, if so, what makes them any better than agents of
totalitarian lands? For ? the hundreds of thousands of teachers in
the U.S. who are NEA members, certainly the recent disclosures must.
i.. shake their faith in their organization.
A full financial accounting of NEA funds sent abroad, as called
for by AFT President Charles Cogen, ought to be immediately forth-
coming. the education profession is too vital a force in our society;
for the air surrounding it to remain unclear.
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