ONLY A FEW KNEW ABOUT CIA MONEY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300300030-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: February 15, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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ca;re from left wing students, from UW and on
1110 top funds to NSA, but said OnlylLiebcrt said. But he added that gate to the 1965 natinn~l ~rce
n:: ? two officers of the t; I e .L_
Student association' leithsts were more con-
!' .": ,.top officers knew where the
knew that th icerned about student resolu-
e central! money was coming from. tions so they left the financial
a
?rency (CIA) wasi
Garvey said he was to
I d' picture alone.
i s cretly prowl :n funds for tile' , i
s activi,ies, according ;.oi 'bout the CIA funds by an out-I The rumors about outside
:ori-Ilr associction officials now! going officer, who suggested, money coming from federal
fornieng at the University ofd that word about where the mon-!sources "like the state depart-
Wisconsin. Icy was coming from be kept!ment or CIA" were common-
For oti-Icr shu:cnt icadcrs con-I quiet. (place among workers, Liebert
nccted with the NSA, the dis-;, Although he said NSA mem-;said, but no one ever tracked
Au
was zivi
:clayey to their or-I partment officials before era-!
,;anizc.tio;h was as much of a, barking on their annual sum-!
;surprise to diem as it was to'' n:er world tours to meet other;
the ,Oncral -public.- students, he saki the briefings(
NS:'. ?resident Eugene Groves
~`'ashin ;ton, D. C., said T ues,
-
day t:at the NSA's last tic with
.le Cir,' ilad been broken and
'!that the bulk of the aid ended
in 1965.
aCnics
Groves said officers and em-
' of the organization had
neither carried out intelligence
!functions nor provided informa-
tion of a sensitive nature to any
govern; ;ent agency.
On the M a d i s o n campus,
,where the NSA was founded in
i 9.47, an ex-?resident of the
group, Edward R. Garvey,
a
riington, T,;W law school
stuc;cnt, coniir n;ed that the or
anization was- getting CIA
funds while he was president
from August, 1031, through Oc-
to.her, 1062.
it NSA presidents serve full.
.;;lhe at a salary of $4,000 a
year. Garvey served between
his graduation from UW and his
enrolment in. iaw school.
dew .-.ew c Money..
Although Garvey said he had
"
110 Smo.",d t',houghts" aijout
moray coming from the CIA,
? he said he would have termi-
nated imoney from the agen-
cy if "strings had b e c n at-
tached to it."
Garvey would not comment
on how the CIA transferred its
were routine. He said no men-j
Lion ever was made of special
intelligence instructions to the
students.
While he was president, Gar-
vey said, he never met any CIA
agents and received no instruc-
tions from the agency.
Donald A. Hoffman, 830 Shad-
ow Lawn dr., Eli- Grove,
served as NSA president 'in
11959-'60. Still a UW student, he
could not. be reached for com-
ment Wenesday.
Another NSA official, Roland
Lici)ert, Madison, who was head
of the group's education office
from June, 1964, 'until August,
1066, said he had heard rumors
about where NSA money was
coming 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
congress, held at UW that sum-
mer-
Michael Fullwood, Madison, a
delegate, said he had no idea
that funds for NSA were com-
ing from the CIA. He said, how-
ever, that the disclosure could
only hurt the NSA and its in-
fluence abroad.
.-yf bV1IVCjl-
ness of-the. arrangement are!tion, said there was no discus-1
sion of funds with his dclega-
tion.
Levy and Rheins, both UW'
student senators, plan to intro..
duce a bill in the UW student,
senate demanding a full expla-
nation by the NSA of the CIA
funding situation.
Joseph Kauffman, UW dean
of student affairs and a mem-
ber of the NSA advisory board.
said he had not heard anything
about the CIA money and that '
'he had been inactive in NSA '
;work_for months,
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