CIA - STUDENT LINK REPORTS CALLED CALLOW, IRRESPONSIBLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200120005-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: March 8, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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night includes thcr dinner speaker and three students who were honored for be
1 ing initiated into Phi Beta Kappa. From. left to right are Susan S. Stover of..'
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was "more serious than any re_dom or a corruptor of students)wo led their classes in scholar
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Brooklyn, N.Y.-, John I'. Dovle5 of, thel?U.S. State Department, the speaker; Alan
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CARLISLE - The press' is- avies sat that is ?i-e a ion- ipso aver own, a senior, an
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closure of the Central Intelli- ship between academic and for- Miss Esther, Friedman of Glen
g e n c e A?gency's 'involvement e i g n p o l i c y was not an Burnie, Md.; and Stephen Ma
with the academic community abridgement of academic free- rini of Springfield, both juniors,.
Vietnam war," a former dip) "Those persons underwritten)
Beta 1O1ee recenalso t ut were honored. P1 r 11 '
omat told Dickinson College's by the CIA. surely found fulfill-IThey arepaAlan r Kiefer of!
honor students last night. ,_ .. -_u _.._.r a r?t I lL:r_d_t_L:. v a .. Tr-11-.. _e':
John P. Davies Jr. of Wash-
ington, D.C., a career diplomat
who has served in China, Burma
Land the Soviet Union, defended the subsidies.
Speaking at the college's
annual scholarship dinner at the
Embers Restaurant, Davies said
Itihe recent exposure of these op-
erations by the American press
was at best "a display of callow
irresponsibility."
Davies said the CIA funds
paid to the National Student
Association and other - student
groups were the U.S. govern-
m c n t' s "counteroffensive"
)against the use of students and
(professors by totalitarian states
In an effort to subvert free so-
IcintiCS.
ly cause. 'And if they lost inter-
est or changed their minds., they
could drop' out without being
shipped off,to Siberia."
The scholarship dinner, hon-
ored.'all students who made a
minimum average of 3.5 during
t4e".past two semesters. it was a
spe'dial tribute. to Edward. Phil-
college president, conducted the
meeting. Recognition of students'
son Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa
"Much of the,, counieraltack
had to be covert," he said,
"This deadly serious strugglc
around the world was an under-
cover war and had to be- fought'
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I?.. . Phi Beta Kappa Initiates Honored at Dickinson Dinner .