MYSTERY DEATH HIDES CIA TIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400150019-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 29, 1999
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: February 26, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

JLATION IN THE WEST. 845,150 DAILY, 1,184,384 SUNDAY
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1967
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Copyright ? 1967
Los Angeles Times
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SUNDAY, 25c
Death Conceals Facts
But Ingram's death conceals much
.-about how the CIA originally got.
into the business of subsidizing the
BY STUART 11. LOORY
Times Staff Writer.
- e tore Avrea Ingram Jr. of Talladega, Ala., died
mysteriously in an out-of-the-way New York hotel room at the age of
30, he spent the erotic last four years of his life living where the action
was-in domestic and international student politics.
Ingram was graduated from the
-ranks of -the National' Student Assn.
to become an agent for the Central
Intelligence Agency. He was, in fact,
one of the two students who first
permanently hitched- the -twoorga-
nizations together-creating a rela-
tionship that went much deeper
than one which merely created pro-
American propaganda abroad.
I n g r a m's transition tells much
about the beginnings of a relation-.
This report on the CJ.t and its deal-
ings with the National Student Assn.
and other groups is based on research
and interviews by nmutbers of The
Tir..ics Washington Bureau. On Monday,
The . Timis will look at fouw tious,
some linked to the CIA, and their im-
pact on American life.
ship that eventually wound "around
every facet of American life that has
any connection outside the United
States," as Son. Richard B. Russell
(D-Ga.) put it last week.
S. Avrea Ingram- Jr.
-fRl Wlrephoto
international programs of private
groups from labor, students, women,
secondary teachers, academics, and.
intellectuals.
The NSA-Ingram-CIA link is spe-
-:ific. Ingram was:
-International vice president -of
4SA for two terms from September,
1951, to September, 1953, during the
period the CIA gave the first of its
regular payments to support NSA's
international program in the propa-
communism. The president. of NSA
that first year was William. to
Dentzer, how head of the United
States AID Mission' to Peru. -
-Associate secretary of the coor-
dinating secretariat of the. Interna-
tional Student Conference in
Leiden, Holland, from 1953? to 1956.
The ISC also received CIA funds
according to the disclosures of the
past two weeks. In this job, Ingram
succeeded Dentzer who left NSA
after his presidency to join ISC.
Helped Hungarian Refugees
-An ISC field worker in Vienna
during and just after the Hungarian
uprising of October, 1956. His overt
job was to help student-freedom
fighters fleeing Hungary to resettle
and resume their studies in the
West. What else he may have been
doing is not known.
Then, suddenly, Ingram was dead.
He had returned to this country
after Vienna and took up residence
in the Irving Hotel at 26 Gramercy
Park, New York.
At noon on Feb. 5, 1057, a maid
opened the door to Room 19 in the
hotel and found Ingram lying nude
on the' floor with a leather belt
around his neck attached to the
knob of a desk drawer.
The New York medical examiner
called the death "asphyxia by hang-
ing" and said the indications were
suicide. some of his friends and his
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