C.I.A.'S ROLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700050016-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2006
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: March 5, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Damaging Probe
C.LA's Role To the Editor: U.S. Students Abroad
To the Editor: . Current discussion of C.I.A. FOIAB3B
The current dehatp over subsidies to organizations and ,.' .to the Editor:
The recent exchange of ails
C.I.A:s "evil" influence takes foundations is full?of sound and; gations.and denials concerning,
place on a level of sophistication. I fury with little apparent atten- the implications of the C.I.A.'s,
comparable to the Salem( witch tion being paid to, the incalcula-. secret financing of associa- ?
trials: everyone suspected of ble and enduring harm such
dealings with the Evil One and revelations- are having, and will Lions. activities must have be-i
all his works, whether"he recog- '. continue for a long.-time to ' ,'- wildered and also disturbed
many of your foreign readers:'
nized Lucifer'or riot; is expected . ~ have,. on innocent persons and;
'~\, My own concern 'springs' from,,
to purge himself by, -public institutions. in this country and . lie fact that concern chairman of a
confession: abroad. ~universlty department in Brit-
.In. actual fact, the majority ? Once uncovered and subjected uni I frequently receive appli?
alfif of all "secret" information`- to investigation by'. Congress cations from Americans wishing'
and the Executive, no useful
gathered by" C:I,A. is in , the
public. domain. Even if it service can or is being per
weren't, is it rational to divide formed by the press in delving to undertake graduate studies
Americans into pure-trusting into every corner for further !:with us.
and trusted-and impure, evidence of the clumsiness al.. Those Inquiries are welcome,-,
Is the businessman who talks ready revealed. ti .and we have always been very,,
with a foreign head of state a I share wholeheartedly the' glad to accept as far as possible 4 -
spy because on his return he -view 'set forth- by The Times ,.FUCK people because, academic
gives the C.I.A. full. account: of Feb. 20 editorial-that free in considerations apart, . Anglo-
the interview? Is he pure when stitutions must remain free. I American friendship is fostered
hp goes unbriefed, but con- find, however,( that C. L. Sulz In this way. Similarly, we have .i
taminated ,when some ''of his berger's comment the previous enjoyed .many visits for, a
questions, are suggested by day was more realistic than shorter or a.longer period from
ur editorial comment that' ; American members of faculty.
C.I.A. or State? Does taking. ': YO
money previously touched by need for help In the most crit- Naturally should like this
the C.I.A. .make the recipientical phases of the cold war relationship to continue so long.
~? ?should have been met openly ; Fs we' are receiving ; Ameri-
unclean? --by direct public subsidy." c --i "t7 dents s'?.mnly as students.
As Prof. Henry ly told teele Com
rQce At the. time that the National But l am worried by the recent ?j .
nags( a Senate ,;Student Association was. trying a~scicsures; Do they, mean that':
panel, a perssiltent: told trait of the ?
persistent.
to hold its own in world con in addition to the routine check-_
American mind is belief in
? ; ferences where many other del-; ing of an applicant's scholastic
.'Old World conception and New
World innocence." As long as egations, and all those from r. references it may be a ? proper ,
the majority of our people lie ?? Communist nations, were heav-. precaution 'as well to af1t if 4
lieve in national . sovereignty, ily subsidized by their Govern } he, o she has any known con- ;
ments, I was lathe Department..- nectibn . with' a governmental
Is not must pay for pleasant paying of State and concerned with '., agency? KENNETH LITTIM
Is always a plet task V?S.I.A. All our efforts to per- (( `Visiting Professor)
Under Orders"suade private foundations ' and' l y of Anthrcpology
The C.I.A.'s business is neither Congressional committees, to al- Washington, tiniversity?OIAB3B
?At. _i Weis- Feb:: h7:?.1967f
a fourteen-year-old boy prisoner ' Unlimited Funds .
or sets fire to a straw hut,;' or 1,1 ut the Defense Department,
the bombadier's who drops-his ?annthe C.I.A. were able to get,
bombs - often, without doing. virtually unlimited funds from,
harm-.sometimes on civilians. :,Congress -- a situation thati
Those who protest today ?' seems to have changed very lit-
against being "used" are naive ? : ifi tle In the past dozen years.
In assuming that anyone can James Reston on. Feb. 17
live a "pure" life in a complex pointed to the British Council,;
modern` state, and that people .
a. Government-supported body ;
marine's who under orders takes purposes were in vain.
;.
can be divided into 'witches which in turn supports projects
(who have dealt with the devil) i ? similar to those which the C.I.A.
and pure souls.' Today our has been caught aiding.. Any,
friends abroad must bebaffled
one who has had any dealing.
by our lack of guile, our in- 1i .with Congress on behalf of,-an
nocence, And particularly by the !Executive branch of the Govern-
~;. willingness of so many decent meet remains very
skeptical'of
Americans to tell tales out of ' I ' Congress showing' enough wis-
school, mainly to purge them'- . ? dom. to emulate the British in
selves of contamination. f- ':.this field.
?HANS ROSENHAUPT t--.;' Continued publicity without
Formerly Captain !'; `,constructive comment can only..,
'-Princeton,' N. J., Feb. 23, 1967 and newspapermen whb have
done much . over the years for
t
hout ever
the United States wi
',having been conliected in any`l,
r' -:way with ..:the CXA.
HELEN K. MILBANK
Feb. 20;1967
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