CRITICISM OF CIA SHOULD BE PONDERED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300300024-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: February 17, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Sanitized - Approv&h F.or'ReiefteCIA-RDP75-0
err.r- 11-1 r-" n. 71
WASHINGTON -'The FBI Association, the oldeat and targ-_?
years, ago thoroughly infiltrated est student organization in the
the American Communist party United Status, with perhaps as
much as $3 million between 1952
and, through the information and and 1965.
exposure which followed, was
the major factor in reducing the. Eugene Groves, NSA preai
party to a shell. dent, said the CIA funds' had"
been used to help 'finance the'
But suppose the FBI had'not 0 group's international activities,
infiltrated -- after all, the party including sending student repre
rep resented itself as a political scntatives to student congresses
grouping -'and today commu- abroad and funding student 'es
nism here had a far' greater change programs. i
membership and was consid. 1
rity. Groves said "the rclationshipi
ered a menace to national secu-
apparently originated because'
the CIA believed that a strongj.
The FBI would have been 'American national union of stu-t'
publicly condemned - and by :dents acting internationally wasil
now might have been replaced. in the national interest.",
by some new agency _ for it is
'responsible for obtaining in. i his was. said to be the' CIAO j
main purpose throughout -- to,
formation essential to the na?.. combat Communist-financed
Lion's domestic interests. r?
youth ortanizations which, like
The FBI's job is in this coun- NSA and ; similnr hJnN rn'_
Central Intelligence Agency, sponsored by government and
has the same responsibility as thus appeared to be :"students
the FBI but it's. field is the, ,? only."
world outside the United States. Some of.the CIA money went
. Now it is being criticized for as undercover payments to past'
subsidizing the National, Student. ? NSA officials in yearly sums of
u.... c
ith the possibility that Com-?.
iunist youth organizations,-
'sight dominate in the interna-,'
ional student field.
So it had to make a choice:
o what it dirt, try to achieve;';
he same result in some. other
vay, 6r rTA nettling 61tiough it tsy all over the world in a
ousand ways to prevent, re-
ce' or eliminate Communists
ntrol or influence. ' t
This raises a question: If ynu':
ere in charge of the CIA, what
ould you have done? One thing
sure:' If the Communists did
et control of the international'.
udent groups, and if this was',
ue to the failure of the CIA to
o-anything; and it this'fact be=t
came known, the CIA would be'
oundly condemned here at'
ome. ; ,
Sen. Gale McGee, D-Wyo,' de?;
ended the CIA against' what he'
ermed "short-sighted critl-i
ism." He' told the Senate, "Wei
re trying to survive in a jungle'
orld in which no holds ares
erred' on the part of those with
hom we must contend.".r,
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