NSA ADDS 20 COLLEGES DESPITE EXPOSE OF CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300210008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 25, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 7, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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lease for a row house that the
NSA headquarters staff ocSu?
pies at 2115 S St. NW. If the
lease cannot be straightened
out before the congress meets
in August, NSA. will move out.
the officers said.
The staff has had to tighten
its belt, somewhat, particularly;
cutting back on travel, Groves.
said. But some new sources:
of funding are flowing in.
NSA received a $250,0001
,,rant from the Office of Eco-
nomic Opportunity for a stu-
dent tutorial program in pov-
erty areas. An $80,000 grant
from the U.S. Office of Edu-
cation was recently renewed,
providing funds for student
efforts to gain more voice in
development and evaluation of
course offerings.
The State Department has
furnished $00,000 for programs
in Asia, Africa and Algeria.
The Stern Family Fund pro-
vided $35,000 for educational
experiments in which students'
would be given college credit,
for off-campus work in such
activities as civil rights or the
poverty programs. Another
private grant of $3000 will be,
used for an investigation of
the use of drugs on the
than 1000 delegates are expect-
ed.
Richard Stearns, internation-
al affairs vice president, pre-
dicts that a vocal minority will
try to convince the Assembly
that t}le NSA officers still
maintain covert ties with the
CIA. lie believes they will
argue that the NSA should dis-
band and start anew.
But Stearns maintains that
soundings he has taken on 40
camp::.scs since the blow-up
Indic ::c that those who favor
fo'icii:g the organization will
hr v;;ied down; by an over-
v'hel::ain, warhiil.
Yet he admitted. there
cutanc,s t .at the l a Iona is -year-o . ormer roues,
Student Assuei; tiotl close itsischolar. "More people know
doors, raised at t. -,c lime of the1 about us and we have sn nr
sensational expo e of its covert;
ou ces of fitiaticial
:?e:ationsnip vrtil the CIA, new sources'
agave been neatly forgotten atiport."
NSA's headquarters here. In a relaxed mood at e
I: / -
W. now stranhgely calm NSA bra i.
.mil lie ~r]?pye S, iile J1?i
dent of NSA, saki in an inter-' quarters, Groves cited iwo
view ye tercia. '.hat only two; factors that he felt were ;toys
cohe;,es had t,.... the studentlln maintaining the support ('!
er0.uzatainn . ee Lite revela?,the members. The first w?s
tipn last dci,r, :., y of its 15-, the officers' decision "to ad:u,i
..: history of secret subsidies) the whole thing" after ,nc
;rout the CIA. 'i're two were'-story broke in Ramparts ma;
Brandeis and Colorado State. azinc. The second was the
But in the same period, 201revelation of NSA's previous
c o l l e g e s anti universities; attempts to disentangle itself
joined NSA who had not pre-from the Central Intelligence
viously been members, push?iAgency.
ing its total membership well, But he feels a serious c:-,al-.
ranged from Clemson to thelcongress this August at the
University of Denver. (University of Maryland. With
"We're a lot stronger than! reservation running at twice
we were.before," said Groves,
?'?'i ;trnng support for
s to ensure full i% oio NSA's sources of
:,,:ppurt and to make the na-
tional organization more re-
ponsiVe to grass roots de-
res.
Irrelevant ?rograms
One .csuit of the CIA's in-
filt,ation of the student or-
anization, Stearns went on,
was that three-fourths of the
staff eventually became in-
volved whit inh-rnational pro-
r; ns 1 r,lt hacl "little relev-
r.lbers.
r :ra.u, Stearns does
campus.
Request Turned Down
However, the Ford Founda-
tion. turned down three weeks`,
ago NSA's request for two'
grants totaling $330,000. Onel
would have financed a kind of;
reverse Peace Corps, using t!
foreign students who are study-
ing at American universities'
as "corpsmen" in big city
slums during their summer
vacations. The other wouldi
have sponsored an Internation-
al exchange program among
students interested in educa-
tional lreforni- -- ,
,l?> r:, ct it will ever again
assurue the same proportions
as it did during the "student
cold war."
The ar ticulate 22-year-old
vice-president, formerly an
undergraduate at the Univer-
sity oi Chicago, is now at work
on a book about the student
cold .war politics.
He said his research indic-1
c;::es that the CIA support of
NSA began in 1950, with al
$12,000 grant from "undis-1
closed sources" to send a team)
of students to Europe and'
Africa to study student
groups.
Only Lease Unbroken
Al the height of its involve..
roent, the CIA provided 80 per;
cent of the NSA's annual bud-i
get and used its staffers to!
;lather intelligence on student
leaders abroad.
Groves said the organiza.
tion has now broken all ties,
with the CIA, except for a
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