ONLY A FEW KNEW ABOUT CIA MONEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300030013-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 1998
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: February 15, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

11ILWAUI# E JOURNAL
"Feb. 15,. 1967
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.lnurnal Speclal Correspondence
?:."flison, Wis.-Only the :op,
oils, or two officers of the Na
;c,r,al Student association
(NSA) knew that the central
intelligence agency (CIA) was
secretly providing funds for the
group's activities, according to
for rner association officials nowl
studying at the University of
Wisconsin.
For other student leaders con-1
:nccted with the NSA, the dis-
closure Tuesday that the CIA
was giving money to their or-
ganization was as much of a
surprise to them as it was to
the general -public.-
NSA President Eugene Groves,
Wasllington, D. C., said Tues-
day that the NSA's last tie with
the CIA' had been broken and
Ithat the bulk of the aid ended
in 105.
Denies :nte:ligenccWork
Groves said officers and em-
ployes of the organization hadi
(neither carried out intelligence
functions nor provided informa-
tion of a sensitive nature to'any
government agency.
On the Madison campus,
where the NSA was founded in
19117, an ex-president of . the
r o u p, Edward R. Garvey,
Burlington, a UW law school
student, confirmed that the or-
h?inizaLion was' getting CIA
funds while he was president
from August, 1961, through Oc-
tober, 1962.
NSA presidents serve full
,time at a salary of $4,000 a
)year. Garvey served between
his graduation from UW and his
,enrolment in law school.
!Few i{new of Money, ?
Although Garvey said he had
no "second thoughts" about
money coming from the CIA,
he said he. would have termi-
natcd nil money from the agen-
cy if "strings had b e c n at-
Itached to it."
Garvey would not comment
on how the CIA transferred its
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about the source of NSA funds two current NSA delegate
came from left wing students, from UW and one former del
unds to NSA, but said onlylLiebert said. But he added that gate to the 1965 national NSA
ne or two of the organization's Itile leftists were more con- congress, held at UW that'sum
op officers knew where t h el cerned about student resolu- mer.
noncy was coming from. 'tions so the left the financial
they Michael Fullwood, Madison,
Garvey said he was t o l d! picture alone. delegate, said he had no ide
bout the CIA funds by an out-I The rumors about outside that funds for NSA were com
oing officer, who suggested, money coming from federal
hat word about where the mon-isources "like the state depart- ing from the CIA. He said, how
y was coming from be keptiment or CIA" were common- ever, that the disclosure coul
uiet. Iplace, among workers, Liebert only hurt the NSA and its in
Although he said NSA mem- said, but no one ever tracked fluence abroad.
ers conferred with state de-)any of them down. . I Marvin Levy, Madison, a del
artment officials before ern-' Sharing Liebert's unaware-(gate to the 1965 NSA conven
arking on their annual sum-Iness of. the arrangement are!tionLsaid there was no discus
ner world tours to meet other' '?sion of funds with his delega
tudents, he said the briefings! tion. ..
(:ion ever was made of special' student senators, plan to intro
While he was president, Gar- nation by the NSA of the CI
ey said, he never met any CIA finding situation.
gents and received no instruc- Joseph Kauffman, UW dear
ions from the agency. ? .'of student affairs and a mem
.Donald A. Hoffman, 830 Shad- i '. ber of the NSA advisory board
w Lawn dr., Elm Grove,
resident 'in said he had not heard anythin
-A as NSA
p
n59-'6o. Still a UW student. he ;about the CIA money and tha
icl;crt, Madison, who was head
f the group's education. office
rom June, 1964, "until August,
1966, said he had heard rumors
bout where NSA money was
oming from, but "nobody had.
any proof,"
He said some officials and
workers were suspicious be-
cause "certain foundations gave
so much money when NSA
didn't do much to..benefit..the
donor."
Much _ of the speculation;
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