UF PROFESSOR HEADS CIA LINKED GROUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400580003-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 1, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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u ua ion listed as CIA York Times on Feb. 19 as one is no connection between the Cor.-
suh, o: ted, also directs tas 'CIA of everal s Terence and the CIA.
Lal U -sponsored Conference
on groups financed by the The Foundation, which was in-
Central Intelligence Agency. The corporated in 1930 by a "group
~r?e Caribbean the Alligator lear- Times story claimed thatthefoun-
ned Tuesday. But Universi~ of- of leaders in ieteU.S. and, Latin
Y lotion was located at the UF. lairs from the ands Latin
`icials deny any CIA affi,lation School officials denied the UF America," lists among its activi-
with either UF group. was connected with the Founda-
Dr. A. Curtis Wilgu ties
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travel
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on at all. The foundation head-,
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professor of history and quarters were located in the It also publishes a "Journal of
rector of the Conference on the Gainesville Security Building un- Inter-American Studies" which
bore the imprint of the OF Sch-
? - -? - ? - til 1964 when it moved t C
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Gables said Dr.
oral ; 001 of Latin American Studies un- Lyle director of the CenterMforl Lister atin til 1963, when the school became
4 American Studies, Tuesday. Wil the center and McAllister sue-
Gus was "operatin, ceded Wilgus.
individual" as g as a private I. That year, the journal moved
director of 0
Foundation, lie added, and not as its Offices to Coral Gables and
an official of the university. the University of Miami. It is
Wilgus is also director of theey still published in Gainesville. For
Conference on the Caribbean, h a while the journal was circula-
annual conference which discus= ten by the foundation withoutchar-
see political, social, educational ge.
and economic ' The journal is highly respec
f Caribbean area R problems in the table in academic circles
said
,
. epresentatis
ve McAllister, who thought it might-
and all over the United States
and many Latin American coun- tries attend annually. Nearly 400 be'discredited now because of the
people attended the 1965 confer ,tie-inwith CIA.
ence.
Until 1065, the conference was Vice President of Academic Af
a? financed b fairs 'Robert Mautz ? agreed with
y such private organi. , him. "That's the trouble with CIA
zations as the United Fruit Com-'
pang and Alcoa, meneY," he said, "Something
sIs*
Since then, according to McAl- '?,~ ? which
uspepe le suddenly be-
lister, UF has picked up the tab comes suspect."
of the expense was in paying epee- _-- v. ? frs expenses, was in
money was i andny, oul nodrnot back to his wo secretary,-:
Tho and
r b rt that
thought to come from the press- sday., w The Tribune reported that
r dent's contingency fund. he was enroute for here from.New
Each speaker for the conference York, via Washington.
1? is expert in one aspect of the
political, social, educational
or
,
i . He has reportedly been 'plan
economic condition of the Carib a year, Once
j bean area. Many of the ;'ding to resign from OF for over
Amen t
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I. cans have
worked in State and
intends to m
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s organized the Conference-`
In 1951, soon after he accepted.
the post of Director of the Sch-
ool For Latin American Studies. F PYRGHT
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7 ; was named by the Tam- za ons but McAllister, who sue-
All;~at~r gt;,;r p~ritar ceeded Wilgus when the School br:
pa Tribune as a direct
A U merican Foundation e e
, 'nip IQ? S~Wgiea in professor, who is direc-
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of foun , vas s ed b th
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graphical sketches in the UF's
office f
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