COLLEGES MAY QUESTION MEMBERSHIP IN NSA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400480031-5
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 31
• Publication Date: February 16, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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CIA ACTIVITY
QUESTIONED
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"watchdog" - committee
in the U.S. 'Senate said
Wednesday he wants to
find out what authority
'Student :Leaders Criticize Organization
for Its Acceptance of Subsidy From CIA
BY KEN REICH
Times $t.M Writer
Membership of college
a n d..,university student
body organizations in the,
National Student Assn. is
expected to become a ma-
jor.suhject of debate after
? disclosuresi it. ''as secretly
subsidized 14 years by the
Central Intelligence
Agency. - they were being infiltrat- ties, told an Interna-
The NSA, sr.ruden1. lead- * ed," the Stanford student tional Hotel news Gon-
"
sur-
ers -said locally, already' leader said. "They just ,'ference , he was
s
some
.u........ "r
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IuanIJ' campuses a
tive. Even before this Although Harris said he appeared to he "internal
. tion to confirmation of the Department Influence. dr
who als
l
mee
-
essed a
CIA subsidy apparently is, Editorial Opinion "But
: ceitinnl ing Wednesday.. -
S i
hl
g
y
td ?' ody " si sity student newspapers' -- finding out what's going
d
on there.
Ronald Robinson, said he editorially on the issue. _
. decision to stay in the
NSA would be reversed,
Referendum Wanted
At USC, the president or
the Trojan Young Re-
publicans pledged to press,
for a student referendum
on last Sunday's 12 to 4
.decision by the Executive
Council' of the student
government to reaffiliate
with the NSA after an
NSA was receiving CIA , had for infiltrating Na-
support after he attended t i o n a l Student Assn.
its , national convention.ranks.
last summer. Sen. Strom Thurmond
He said the national of- (R- S.C.), r e c e n t l y
ficers admitted privately named to the committee-
they were receiving, mo- which Is supposed to re-
ney through foundations. view Central Intel.
"But they didn't think ligence Agency activi-
One which has - the
"The disclosure that the But a challenge to the
funds until last year from
the CIA reflects discredit'
on both' organizations. It. ill
shameful that the CIA has. the school's delegate to the
engaged in financing the NSA.
student 'group, but it is , "If the CIA has been
equally deplorable that: putting money into the
the NSA-which claims to to, NSA," Levy said, "it's
came from David Harris, such aid. ties certainly conflict with.
Stanford s t u d e n t body "Clearly no organization , those stated by the U.S.
president, and Dan Mc- which pretends to oh.jecti . government. -
McIntosh, who Is one of
10 members of the NSA's
national supervisory
board, called the subsidy a
"shpcking thing" before he
,fleparted .(or an emcrgen
cy meeting of the board in
Washington. D.C.
He emphasized he
not been aware of it.
' Harris said he
'pretty sure" ; that
tion as the. CIA." to 4iholish the draft, get
group intends to call fnr.' .The UCLA student
intornal a f f p l r s of the Bruin, which has been crl-
riddled with espionage ? nesday, _ but did , not cons.
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