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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400200008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 16, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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By PETER A. JANE SEN
Of Our Wasldneton Bureau
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WASHINGTONThe Centre
agents were."the ?fellas" or "the
boys.,,
! ,cy-were known 'as "being witty"
Code "Witty"
For code purposes, the CIA
was known as "the' firm." Sill ,
dents cooperating with the agen?
'Intelligence Agency (CIA) ha
controlled the National St.uden
Association (NSA) by helpih
select some of its officers an
giving them secret assignment
code names and draft defer
ments since the Gruman adnrin
istration.
These details were container'
In advance copies mate ,ivail.
I able yesterday of the March is
sue of Ramparts magazine.
Both the state. department
1, speaking fdr the CIA, and the
student association have ac?
knowledged Ramparts' charge.,
that the CIA often provided halt
the student association's $815,001
annual budget.
i. Ramparts says the CI'i
worked with fide or six NSA of.
ficers and staff 'members cacl'
-year who were given tote ,~nret
c,-clearances' and signed ii dge
Grants" , because of, his fund;
Division Number Five of.- the
CIA's plans divisions.
Secrecy Oath
The student being recruited
-was asked If he would work or
international affairs for the
NSA. particularly on matters of=,
'lfecting at 1
members, and one of "the fe11
agreed, he was asked to sign a
national security oath to remain
silent abouthis work.
Only after signing the oath,
Ramparts says, was the student
told he was working, for the CIA.
The espionage agency promised
"`severe legal penalties" if the
student violated the oath,
As Ramparts, a new liberal
magazine puhlished? in San
Francisco, gave its version df_
the CIA's student. activities,
President. Johnson called for a
"careful review" of any govern.
ment activities affecting the "in-
tegrity and independence" of ed-
ucational institutions. '-
Ile ordered Nicholas Katzen.
bach, tatting secretary of state;
Richard Helms, CIA ? director;!
and John W. Gardner, secretary[
of health, education and wel-
fare, to develop 'policies to guide)
"government agencies in their;
relationship to the international
activities of American educa
tional organizations."
. Leader; of the student asso-)
ciation, which represents stu-,'
dent governments on. 300 college
aid university campuses say'
they told Vice President Iiubert
Humphrey of the CIA. funding;
last year. They further dis.-14
cussed it las month with Doug.
ass Caaer, a White House age
sistant.
Neither the vice president por
.ater was able to snt;gest ways.
o com,ppletely sever the tie, the'
Youngsters say, ai hough the
ice president helped find fi
[voicing from foundations and
'ice private sources.
'i''ie CIA's contribution dwin,'
14. C, to al~'jui 5 per cent' of. the!
'SA's budget last year. Some
Indents say it had been termik
ated thi -year.
The Ramparts article charges',
hat. most of the CIA's student
unds were channeled to : the
SA through the Foundation foil
outhh and Studen Affairs in
ew York. Its director is Harry"
unn, a former NSA president;,
ho says the foundation,is "not;
CIA front," ?
The foundation also allegedly'
ipplicd CIA funds to the U,S.i
outh Council of New York,.
coup of 3 organizations;. the. In,
rnational Student Conference[,
Leydon, the Netherlands, ' a'
nfederation of tip organiza.
ens, and the World Assembly
Youth of Brussels, Belgium,
.presenting s It u d e n't groups.
om 54 nations. .
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