JOHNSON PRODDED ON 'OATHS' TO C.I.A.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400220033-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 33
• Publication Date: March 10, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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4 `ORS' TO J. ,A.
University Service Asks End
of Student Secrecy
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The policy-making committee of
World University Service of the
United States called on Presi-
dent Johnson tonight to release
"from their oaths" student
leaders and others who it said
were "sworn to silence" about
financial relationships with the
Central Intelligence A;er_cy.
World i;..i?.?ersi`y Se v ce is a
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campus: rd scrv-.ce or?a.ruza-
tions. Alin pica to President
Johnsor c;as issued in the f'orm
of a re,lution.
bated :'or more than two hours
here by the organiza-
tion's gcr oral committee.
It exprCases "outrage" at the
intelligence agency and at other
"individu:.,ls, foundations and
organl:sn.tions" that it said had
established "a network of con-
spiracy within seemingly free
irrstitutiOILS."
The much amended resolution
was largely the work of the
Rev. I.Mierd ;Mumma of Bos-
ton, ,Presbyterian university
pastor at Harvard and member
of the World University Service
Sanitized
The resolution calls for an'
Investigation, by a speclall
W.U.S. panel, of "published re-;
ports" that John Simons, the
organization's executive di
rector, and Dr. Buell G. Gal-
lagher, a past chairman, were:
"possibly guilty of complicity
in acts which the eqmmittee
thoroughly deplores."
The resolution recognizes:
that both Mr. Simons and Dr.
Gallagher, president of the City
University of, New York, "have:
categorically denied any knowl-'
edge" of C.T.A. involvement in
the organization. It says the
available evidence is "circum-
stantial and not particular or
substantive."
The request , to President
Johnson asks him to "recognize
the dilemma of conscience of
persons sworn to silence" about
dealings with the intelligence
agency, and to "release such
persons from their oaths."
It was proposed as an
amendment to the main, eight-
pdint resolution by Gerhard El,
ston, an official of the National
? Council of Churches.
The main American affiliates
of World University Service
are the National Student-As-
sociation, the Newman Founda-
tion, the B'nai B'rith-Hillel
Foundation, the Student . As-
sociation o: the Y.M.C.A. and :
Y.W.C.A., aid tiro University
Christian Movement.
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