ALTERNATIVE FINANCING OF STUDENTS TO BE AIRED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200670005-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: NSPR

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Scr;;, Howard Stoff Writer
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co:nn:ittce will start hearings
sea:. On Ways to substitt;te opei:
of std ent ...:d other
groups operating overseas for
secret bankrolling of these
activities by the Ccntial
Tnteliigonce Agc:,cy..
President Johnson, accepting
recommendations of , Cabinet=
ieval advisory committee, has
ordered the CIA to end its
covert financing of such groups
. ar.d assin ned Secretary of State
Dean Push to find
alternative. -
i'he President indorsed the
advisory comnI_ittcc's proposal.
to create ?a new organization to
collect public and private 'funds- Encourage c o.n t I n u i n g
o ,enly for overseas activities of studies of
communism, fascism' i
organizations which, are jnidgcd and other political ideologies"
to be operating in the naliona?l which may impair i::ternatignal
interest. relations.'
Pop, Dante ascell (D., Rep.: ascell said he will call
Fla.), who was pleased by the '?,ir. Pusk and CIA Director
advisory co-,-_ ai,tee re port and Richard Helms `to` testify
at the
re P r e s i d ,fin i s action,, hearings.
snh-cO:nrnittec will start study
ala alternatives . to the CIA
Operation.
Pending
before ..cp, : ascc,l s ,
sob-committee' are about -a
dozen bills - including one of
his own proposing,.;:
establishment of a naw.
Government eo:poration, , which
would be known as the Institute.
..Of ; International Affairs. ,its aim
be., to - :'promote private,;
tiU,.~S _p.a r t.i e i p.a l i o n in
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international - organizations , and
Directed- 'by. nine persons .1
, tae i
institute would accept private
and' public' funds and dispense.
them to' voluntary ' groups
operating 'overseas to achieve
these four purposes:
Strengthen friendship and
understanding;'among peoples of
the free world..,
Encourage the- development
of free and democratic;
institutions.
Promote private U.S.*-'
participation in international
orgaaizatian's and movements `
which support these purposes. 1
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