BRITISH STUDENTS STIRRED BY CIA CASE

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000500190012-7
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RIPPUB
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K
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1
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December 15, 2016
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March 31, 2004
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12
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Publication Date: 
February 21, 1967
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NSPR
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'By Karl' E. Meyer WashlnaCon Post'xorelm 8ervico closures that the U.S. National Student Association has re- .'calved secret subsidies - from the' Central Intelligence The sense of the board meet- ing, according to NUS secre- tary Trevor Fiske, was that the British organization "naturally regretted what had happened but now felt It was somethin'gj in the past." Nevertheless, the disclosure) that beginning in .1951 NSAI was getting annual. sums re- portedly as high as $400,000 from the CIA has had a power- ful demoralizing effect here. NSA took the lead. in organ- izing the non-Communist ISC at a meeting in, Stockholm in 1950. The aim was to counter the pro-Communist Interna- tional Union of Students. Some 50 Western and non- aligned student organizations are now affiliated to the ISC. But what raised doubts about the ISC were reports that it I had received some funds from the Foundation of Youth and "Britain today. "dent of 'Britain's National '.Union of Students flew early :today to the \headquarters in ;Leyden, The Netherlands,. of the, non-Comliiunist Xnterna- ;tional Student Conference to see whether his organization !should pull out. t.'? Martin's' departure followed an"all-day debate Sunday of the- NUS executive board con- :cerning future' British ' rela- tions with' the NSA. The board decided- to 'continue its ties .with NSA since the secret sub- sidy'reportedly ended in 1965. Student Affairs,. reputedly, a CIA conduit. ' Britain's NUS represents 366,000 students in 670 univer- sities and colleges, It recely@s some foundation and, govern ment grants but finances, the bulk of its international activi- ties from student subscriptions and profits from a holiday travel bureau. The NUS does get direct government, grants from the British Council, an official agency set up . in 1P34 with Foreign Office support. to as. sist overseas cultural projects. . The Council has' given the NUS ,a grant'of some $8400 to assist a student exchange pro-, gram with the Soviet Union. Another $2800 was contributed for 'an exchange program with Chile. Besides -this,. the .NUS has also sent.$2800'to help defend students ; in: South, Africa, Who, have ' run `afoul of racialist apartheid laws.: This sum was contributed by an unnamed In- dustrial trust with interests In South 'Africa. "But we are certain. that it is private," an NUS spokesman said of the trust. We verified its nature before taking a shill- ing." , -_ . . . 11-* Next month,. the. NUS .'will be among 10,.Western Euro- pean:student associations par- ticipating.?in Edinburgh at a conference on'X!luropean edu-, cation. NSA is to send ,an,ob?- serverAo this meeting,. 'which) the.ISC organized..--'.