STUDENTS CALL CIA REPORT 'WHITEWASH'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300460007-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 25, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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By Gerald Grant
Washington Post 6tnrt writer
day" of disclosures had already IN7111 Lot
hurt the American intelligence-,~ As soo
gathering effort. Democratic straightened-out, Groves con-
Leader llike 12ansfield, in an- tinued, NSA will turn back to
CIA about $5000 to $10,000 in
,other news conference, said the. unused funds. The student
r Senate panel that now super-
vises the CIA is adequate. ?
organization, now about $35,-
000 in debt, has launched a
The Republican leader in~
the I-louse, Gerald R, Ford of:
an
said that- in at least',
Michi
,
g
The Johnson Acilinistra-' two, of the eight years hei
tion's preliminary report on, served on the House CIA
,he CIA's covert financing ac. watchdog committee its chair-r
tivitics was branded a "white 'man, the late Rep. Clarencei
!,wash" yesterday by leaders Cannon (D-Mo?), and the rank-
o1 the student organiratioa1 ing Republican, the late Rep.
!-secretly supported ? by [iii, John Taber (R-N.YJ, had ap
j.CIA. ;'proved secret CIA support of
W. Eugene Groves, president private groups.
of the National Student Asp.' ,
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ci-ttion' asserted that the ?e ' Congressional Investigation
very critical with the direc- inc exposure of its 15-year said students had told him
for of the CIA, Richard M. financial involvement with then that NSA staff members had
Helms, as a member. Secretary CIA, Groves said, the organ been sent to Santo Domingo
John W. Gardner of the De- ization was not going to fold I
partment of health, Education I up on either the national or; ostensibly to talk with stu- I
and Welfare is the third mem-1 international fronts. dent leaders there about Uni-
ber. Campus reaction to NSA's ve rsity reforms. But he
Dut on Capitol Hill, Repub-l decision to terminate its rela-1 charged the students gathered
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