FULBRIGHT PANEL HOLDS SECRET CIA-NSA INQUIRY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200870009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: March 7, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

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Sanitized - Approved For eTbas'e CIA-RDP75-00149
By Andrew J. Glass
Washington Post staff writer
, CPYRGHT
.covert penetration of the Na-
tional Student?Association by
the Central Intelligence
Agency.
. The 3-hour unannounced
The Senate ? oreign a a- ne o tile memDerse,
tions Committee yesterday be- Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.),:
gan a secret Inquiry into the l said: "What I heard convinced
committee session ran counter
to a decision by the Senate
leadership against conducting
a special legislative investiga-
tion of the CIA's activities.
Members of the committee
.questioned:
. 4 Philip Sherburne, 24, ali
past president of the NSA whol
in 1065 attempted to break the
long-standing subsidy to the
,student group from the CIO.
- o Michael J. Wood, 21, the
NSA's former chief fund-mis-
.er. After being fired by the
student organization last year,
wood revealed the CIA ties
to Ramparts magazine, thus
triggering the exposure of a
broad CIA network that fund-
ed private 'U.S. groups work-
ing abroad.
The two young men were
questioned separately. Sher-
burne, now, a first-year lIar-
`vard Law School student, said
thati he had appeared at the
Committee's request. But he
%declined to divulge anything
that was, said before the ,Sen-
ete panel,
Fulbright Also Reticent
The student leaders have
reported that, over a 14-yeas
period, the CIA funnelled
1 about $4 million to the NSA.
It also recruited former NSA
members into the agency.
Foreign Relations Chairman
J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.)
was equally reticent in refus-
ing to tell reporters about the
meeting- "It's none of your
business," he said.
"I think it would' be best
that the Committee's discus-
sion was a b o u t ' "nothing"
Gore admitted that Wood wag
coat, he walked out of the
.Capitol into the rainy night:
' it was Sen. Albert Gore (D.
Tenn.) who blow the cover
after Fulbright told reporters
not to' talk," Sherburne saki f
after the meeting. Then pick-I
ing up' his attache case and
pulling tight his black rain-
me more and more that the
limited to spying .., and that
all of the extra-curricular ac-,
tivities should be taken away.:
"The CIA certainly has to)
be brought under open sur-,
veillance by legislative com-:
mittees of Congress," Morse;
added.
Fulbright serves as a mem-';
her of a special Senate watch
dog panel on the CIA. It was.
not known whether this group;
was informed in advance of
the Foreign'Relation Commit
tee's infjuiry. ,
Didn't I{now About It
Both majority leader Mike
Mansfield (Mont.) and the
Senate Republican leader,
Everett M. Dirksen (Ill.), have
publicly said that the CIA
ought not be. investigated in;
the Congress.
-so furtive was the session]
with the two student leai',?.rs;
that at least one member of l
the committee, Sen. Karl
Mundt (R-S.D.), said he didn't
even know that the secret
hearing was taking place.
Mundt learned of the ses-
sion when he entered the
committee's chambers' in the
Capitol to pick up a dozen
copies of the proposed con-
sular treaty with the Soviet
Union. . He left a few minutes
later, saying, "I have other
things, I'm interested in."
it was learned that the For-
eign Relations Committee has
also obtained a complete set
of NSA financial records from
its current President, Eugene
Groves.
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