PRESIDENT BARS COVERT AID FOR PRIVATE GROUPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400220023-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: March 30, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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since the early 1J50s. to the total ban on covert sup-s findingseign countries that the activi
port. Where "overriding na-, were recorded in a lengthy;; tic_ of private' Amecic
Ile instructed all Govern- tional interests so refluire,"I; document that, unlike the pub- groups abroad are, in fact,
meat agencies to heed the rec?'secret assistance could ' be 'lie recommendations, remained !private."
Iona u en aSocfa ton had
dorsed }pow the proposed reorganiza? bilittes.:
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een approved in the highest tion might affect Cord Meyer "One is to avoid any impli
mittee's recommendation levels of the last four Adminis- Jr-, the CIA official responsi- cation that governmental as
yesterday to end secret Gov. trations. ' r ble for managing the labor and sistance, because it is give
ernment financing of inter- The comznlttee headed by student affairs' programs 'at covertly, is,used to affect the
the center of the recent con- policies of private voluntary
national programs that havej Under Secretary of State-' troversy Meyer was ques-I groups," it said,
been carried out by the Cen Nicholas deB. I{atzenbach, out- tioned for weeks about the ac-. "The second responsibility
tral Intelligence Agency-lined one potential' exception , tivities that he administered!: is to make it plain in all for
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