ONLY A FEW KNEW ABOUT CIA MONEY

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000300300030-6
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November 11, 2016
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February 22, 1999
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30
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February 15, 1967
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NSPR
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YAIL,dAUI E JOUI cAL ? 'ilk i` Approved' t Fi le : CIA-RDP FOIAb3b NSA cc e former dele 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, Sanitized - Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-00149R000300300030-6