BRITISH STUDENTS STIRRED BY CIA CASE
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CIA-RDP75-00149R000500190012-7
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RIPPUB
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Document Creation Date:
December 15, 2016
Document Release Date:
March 31, 2004
Sequence Number:
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..--'.