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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400060005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: February 25, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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12. Leadors Say They Kept
Independent JudJment
Aiy L lIiYIJ.\ \~r ~.OL~~TS
,tire National Student Associa-
tion said yesterday .that they
Lance and independence of judb-
ment" while receiving as much
as 6:00,000 a year from th
Central Intelligence Agency to
operate their international pro-
igram. '
r dF rRee se:
tvhet'ret? G.I.A. funds entailed
' ary such conditions. We state
ca.tedoricaily that they did not.
!Allegations ? that we were
'
'trapped', or 'duped) are arrant
nonsense." ?
Such charges have been made
by present association officials.
The farmer ~ presidents said'
that although they constantlyf
I~
~ sought other financing, "this re-
lationship was tite only rcalts-
ti
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nd
ibl
l
ti
j
c a
respons
ve
e a
terna
~!availahle to uG at. that time." i
Tltreo Policy Areas Cited
In at least three iinportant
arcasalte association maintained ,
an independent foreign policy ~,
that often conflicted with offi-r
cial views, the presidents said. ,
ported and sought to strengthenkl
democratic student. organize.-
itha.t the association had con-I
i '
(can foreign; policy even while
~, The statement issued yester-
day was signed by every presi-
dent-with one exception-who
~ Stc;,hcn Robbins, president in
l0u ~-Gi, is in the Army and
(could not he reached. The two
Si.crburne and W. Eugene
Groves, 'nave opposed the asso-
dents and other ex-officials of
the association have maintained
that the intelligence agency did
,
influence association policy:,:
They insist that former pt?esi-
dents, some of whom either
worked for-the agency or were
suii.,iciircd by it, tried to influ-
? ence elections and occasionally
association policy on such issues
as the war in Vietnam.
The former presidents said
in their statement that in the
early nineteen-fifties the stu-
dent association ''recognized the
vital importance of American
'student participation in interne-,
tional student affairs which,
otherwise would have been
dominated ~by the well trained
and well informed i^epresenta-
? +vcs of Isastern Europe and the
:5avict minion," ,
Iiowevcr, they said, "without
substantial fund:;, N.S.A. inter-
n~..ionai ;,rohram would have
bee;: im;nobi]ized,"
"Yet each oY us concluded
ricer, ~~tithout question, we
~rould have chosen immobilize-.
crams,': they said.
c"NSA's international policy! I
arly recognized the crucial im-
q"~i~hilc we were quite a~t'are I
f' the expansionist ambitions,
that "political contexts chanbe,"
and that what might have been.
of N.S.A. to lead the organiza-
tion in the direction which
seems to ~thcm appropriate dtir-
uJilliam ~T. Dentzer? Jr., 1f152.
Stanford L. Glass, 105G....
Harald C. Bakl.en, 1:357. ;..'
W, Dennis Shaul, 1063. - '
n,.an,,,.,. ~T r_.,ii? ~ nee
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