COMEDIAN MAKES STOOGE OF CIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300250002-3
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 5, 1998
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 15, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Dick Gregory, they comedic
who says he is a 1963 Presiders
tial candidate, told a group o
about 400 students at the Na
tiona9 Student Congress tonight
that thtir group was "infiltrat-
ed" by the Central Intelligence
Agency because "you're think-
ing."
lie said that the CIA is
"scared" of the growing num-
ber of Americans who are 26
and under "who are searching
for the truth."
Mr. ? Gregory, whose appear-
ance was sponsored by the
Students for a Democratic so_'
ciety-some members of which)
want to dissolve the National
Student Association - admitted
that many people were "upset
that the student groups and the
CIA were romancing each oth-
tDick Gregory Raps Agency', people attending his talk "won't
In-College Park'> Talk it back -and watch the CIA
verthrow governments all
cross the world." He added:
By JOHN AI. PURNELL b' 'And don't think it won't hap-
i I
[Sun Sla/J Correspondent) en here."
Mr. Gregory was brought to
he campus by student radicals
ho hope to draw support to a
)Ian that would dissolve the
U.A. because of its financial
ies to the CIA.
He said that it "takes a dumb
at to want to be a spy" and,
riticized the CIA because it"
'keeps getting caught-by us."
The students, meeting on the
'niversity of Maryland campus
I I. ere; greeted Mr. Gregory's 're-
arks with enthusiasm and.
ughed loudly at his jokes,,
hich were highly critical of the
S.A.'s involvement with .the
IA.
"Sorry You Got The Rap"
Mr. Gregory said he did not-
now why the CIA had to use
e student organization be.
ause it can "buy all the secrets
i wants:... I'm sorry you got
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