ONLY A FEW KNEW ABOUT CIA MONEY
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February 15, 1967
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? A2IL?,TAU!{EE JOURIVA'L
? Feb ..15, 197
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71~', or two officers of tite Na-~
[?nr,al Student association,
NS:1j knew that the central)
'ntclli; encc a1 ency (CIS j was
secretly proviUing funds for the
?,n,u;is activities, according t.o
'orrncr associ ;tion officials nowi.
tudying at t11e University of
isconsin.
ror other stucicnt leaders con-
..ccted wit17 the NSA, the dis?~.
]osure Tuesday that the. CIA
vas givin;; money to their or-
' ~a~7i?ration was as much of a'
~ urprise to them as it was to'
he ; eneral ~public.~
NS:'~. President Eugene Groves,
+/ashin^ton, D. C., said Tues-
'ay that t:7e . ESA's last tie wit,7
he CIA' had been broicen and
hat the bulk of the aid ended
n 19G5.
:~enics .ntel.i;;ence_G/orlc
.Groves said officers and em-
lo,es of the organization hadi
either carried out intelligence
unctions nor provided informa-
ion of a sensitive nature to any
overnment agency.
Ou the Madison campus,
where the NSA was founded in
9ry, an ex?president of tl7e
r o u p, Edward R. Garvey,
' urlington, a UW law school
?tud,.nt, confirmed that the or-
,anization was' getting CIA
'ands white he was president
rom August, i9G1, through Oc-
cbcr, 19G2.
\SA presidents serve full
I irne at a salary of X4,000 a
car. Garvey served between
lis graduation front UW and his
,l:ohnent in law school.
%ew I{rcw of Money , . ,
Although Garvey said lie had
o "second thoughts" about
7onay coming from the CIA,
c said he would have termi-
ated ~.il nloncy from t17e agen?
y if "strings had been at?
' ~achcd to it."
Garvey would not comment
n how tho CIA,transfcrred Its
CPYRGHT
op officers knew where t h
noncy was coming from.
Garvey said he was t o 1
bout the CIA funds by an out
,oing officer, who suggeste
hat word about where the mon
y was coming from be )cep
uiet.
ers conferred with state d
artment officials before ern
arlcing on theic annual sum
ter world tours to meet othe
tudeiits, he .said the briefings
vere routine. He said no men-
tion ever was made of special
intelligence instructions to the
tudents.
While he was president, Gar-
ey said, he never met any CIA
gents and received no instt'uc-
ions from the agency.
.Donald A. Hoffman, 830 Shad-
w Lawn dr., E 1 m Grave,
erved as NSA president 'in
1959= G0. Still a UW student, he
gold not be reached for conv-
ent Wednesday.
Another NSA official, Roland
icucrt, Madison, who was hea
P the droop's educatlorn oPPic
from June, 19G4, "until August;
i9GG, said he had heard rumor
about where Iv'SA money wa
coming .from, but "nobody ha
any proof."
He said some officials an
worlcers were suspicious be
cause "'certain foundations gav
so much money when NS
didn't do much .to,.benefit th
denor." ' .
".Much _ of the speculatio'
CPYk~GHT .
iebcrt said. Taut he added that
he leftists were more con?
erned afloat student resolu-
ions so they left the, financial
icture alone.
The rumors about outside
oney coming from federal
ources "like the state depart-
ent or CIA" were common-
lace among workers, Liebert
aid, but no one ever tracked
ny of them .dawn: .
Sharing Liebert's unaware-
ess of , the.__arrangement`? ar
rom UW and one former dcle-
ate to the 19G5 national NSA
ongress, held at UW that;sum-
mcr.
Michael Fullwood, Madison, a
clegate, 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.
Marvin Levy, Madison, a deice
gate to the 19G5 NSA conven?
tion,~.said_there was_no discus-
sion of funds with his dcle;;a?
tion.
Levy and Rheins, both UW,
student senators, plan to intro=
duce a bill in tl7e UW student
senate demanding a full expla?
nation by the NSA of the CTA
funding situation.
Joseph Kauffman, UW dean
? of student affairs and a mcm-
ber of the NSA advisory board.
said he had not heard anything
about the CIA money and that
he had- been inactive in NSA
ivnrk 4nr mnnthe
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