EX-STUDENT AIDES DEFEND SUBSIDIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300100001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 25, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

_ ? ~~ whether C.I.A. funds cntaiiCd
,;_i ~? _ ,Jiff, _ .;_JL''~+ .any such conditions. We state
ategoricaiiy that they did not.
l t . o !Allegations that we were
__j__ "4\j 1/ ~I ~~i~iy1 ICJ',' trai i ed'. or 'duped' are arrant,
nonsense."
-' j Such charges have been made,.
e by present association officials.
12 :_oad s Say They Dept;.
The former presidents saadl
independent JLldn'ment that although the. constantly)
sou ht other financing, "this re-
';aationship was the only realls-!
'!tic, anc responsible alternativeI
ti:;- V N V. 011 `,TS r
weave former available to us at that tinge."
r esic,ents of i;.
e \ational Student Associa-I Three Policy Areas Cited
lion said yesterday that they' l In at least three important
areas the association maintained
had retained "the utmost vi i- an independent foreign policy
:_-co an(: independence of judg-that often conflicted with offi-
mea wh is receiving as gnash cial views, the presidents said.
as $100,.000 a year from the, S"N.S.A. consistently sup-
Central Intelligence Agency to! ported and sought to strengthen``
operate their international pro-; acrmocratic student oaganiza-
lions in those countries wher
ram? K they existed and encouraged
The former presidents noted; their formation where they did i
that the iassociation had con-! not exist."
istently opposed official Amer- c 'N5A's international policy!
can foreign ;policy even while early recognized the crucial im-
, portance which nationalist
it was taking large subsidies i,i movements in Asia, Africa and
.1from the Federal Government. Latin America would have in,
The statement issued yester- shaping our world."
day was signed by every presi-;11 c" While we were quite aware
cH t-tvit:n one exception-who 1 of the expansionist ambitions
:.d oliice in the association:1:and ideological goals of the So-
twecn 1052, when the link l:; viet Union, N.S.A. chose to deal
;..h the intelligence agency;'with the Soviets and Eastern
was first forged, and 1064. Thel?.='uropeans not as ideological
one cxccption was Richard J.j;pariahs but as political adver-
Yu;-nliy, now Assistant Post- I caries in a changing world."
]master General, who declined The former officers noted
to sign He was president in that "political contexts change,"
1552-5 . !and that what might have been
Stephen Robbins. president ini responsible course of actie?a~
'B, -65), is in Army and 115 years ago might not seem ' oI
cnn:d not be reachc,. . The twos to students today. They this:
:..ost recent presidents, Philip, appeared to defend the decision)
:>l.crburne and W. Eagenej of current leader.; to break with
. Groves, have opposed the asso- -the intelligence t,,,,ncy.
lion's relatio: ship with the "We have always recognized,"
r,i e,ige:.ce agency, they said, "the resnonsioility of
each group of current loads: s l
cllar,-,es Are :ecallcd of N.S.A. to lead the or ganiza-
';:;e te.'o most recent presi- Lion in the direction which]
Ideals and other ex-officials of seems to them appropriate dur-
tne associ ,.lion have maintained ding their term of office."
t.hat the iatelligci.ce agency didThe twelve signers, and the
influence association policy: ,year in which they left office
They insist that former press- are:
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dents, some of whom either
wnrlccd :or the agency or were
su i.:d: ,cu by it, tried to influ-
:Cnce elections and occasionally
Jassociation policy On such issues
as t',.e war in Vietnam. .
The former presidents said
,in their statement that in the
early nineteen-fifties the stu-
dent association "recognized the
vital importance of American
student participation in interns-.
.tional student affairs which.
iotherwisc would have been
.dnrnin:acd by the well trained
and well informed representa-I
William ?T. Dentzer Jr., 1052.
James M. Edwards, 19:,,1.
1riarry H. Lunn Jr., 1055.
Stanford L. Glass, 1956....
Harald C. Bakken, 1957.
1~. Ray Farabee, 1958.
Robert R. Kiley, 1959.
IDonald A. Hoffman, 1960.
Richard A. Rettig, 1961.
Edward R. Garvey, 1062.
W. Dennis Shaul, 1063.
Gregory.M. Gallo, 1964.
a1,....