ONLY A FEW KNEW ABOUT CIA MONEY

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000400060006-9
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December 14, 1998
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February 15, 1967
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NSPR
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i ? A2IL?,TAU!{EE JOURIVA'L ? Feb ..15, 197 Sanitized =Approved For Rene I F~l~Aeb3~ ;?;,clison, ~Vis.-Only the tops 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 Sanitized -.Approved for Release :CIA-RDP75-001:498000400060006-9