CANADA STUDENT GROUP URGES PROTEST OF CIA INTRUSION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600220002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: February 21, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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C nad Student rdup-Urged,
Protest of CIA Intrusion
Tells Commons
But Pearson Disagrees,
Official Action Isn't Warranted
FEB 2 1 196?,
By RON COLLISTER
Buffalo Eventng News Bureau
OTTAWA, Feb. -
`
ian Union of Students tocla
ailed on the government to pro
est the "covert intrusion" b
he U. S. Central I?telligenc
gency into Canadian studen
youth ' foundation two' $15
grants that helped set up t
two seminars in ?1965 and 196G.
This foundation was a
irons Monday that the gover
ment did not feel an official pr
test to the U. S, was warrant,
IPearson Disagrees
j A check of the 'past financis
+ records of the CUS has reveale
that this "front" has contribute
at least 'twice to CUS-sponsor
seminars on 'international st
roups.
It also demanded an assu
nce that the Royal Canadia
Mounted Police is not involve
in similar operations.
The action of the students fo
ows disclosures that the CI
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allonS of dui:ar3 to Stu(Leni:i
usiness and journalist group
round the world.
The Canadian students grow
ays that a prime "front" fo
he CIA operations is the Fou
ation for Youth & Student A
airs of New York City.
dent affairs in Canada.
But Prime Minister Lester
Pearson, told the House of Con
ment had no information th
the CIA`donated through t
proache ; as were ma
prospective contributors, during
the substantial fund-raising cam-
paign which preceded each of
the seminars," the-CUS reported
today.
On no occasion did. the' of-
ficers or employes of the CUS
have reason to believe that this
f dation was anything but a
n
ou
private philanthropic organiza-I1
tion, CUS President Douglas
Ward said, adding:
Poses Growing Influence
"It Foes without sr,,ing, then,
have been no direct contacts be-
tween our union and CIA opera-
tives."
The CUS says it is "deeply
distressed" by -the, .disclosure
that ostensibly private philan-
thropic agencies are actually
"tools of the U. S. intelligence
network. .
"We are even more deeply
concerned that these front or
ganizations could be used to
compromise the integrity of pri-
vate Canadian organizations in
the youth and student field."
The CIA, the CUS claimed,
had not influenced the content
of the Canadian-sponsored. sem-
inars.
"The problem," it added, "lies
in the growing influence which
could be exerted-especially in
youth and student affairs where
finances are seriously limited-
by an organization with much
available cash and hidden pier.
poses."
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