SALTONSTALL DENIES 'CLANDESTINE' LINKS OF C.I.A AND SCHOOL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700170018-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2005
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: April 19, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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APR 19 1966
SaItoonstall Denies
'Clandestine' Links
Of C.I.A. and School
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, April 18
Senator Leverett Saltonstall
y?said today that there was no
ing "clandestine" about -the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency's par-
ticipation in a Michigan State
University program to train
security policy in South Viet-
nam from 1965 to 1959.
"The C.I.A. representatives
worked specifically ih training
the Vietnamese police services,
not in Clandestine C.I.A. activi-
ties," the Massachusetts Repub-
lican declared on the floor of
the Senate.
, Mr. Saltonstall, who is a
member of the Senate Armed
Services Subcommittee, which
deals with C.I.A.. activities, said
that he had asked the agency
about published reports crit-
icizing it for allegedly having
used an institute of higher
learning as "cover" in Vietnam.
According to the C.I.A.; the
police training mission origi-
nated in a 1954 proposal;
by President Dwight D. Eisen
hower to help free world na-
tions strengthen their police and
security forces against Commu-
nist subversion, Senator Salton-
stall said. Other United States
agencies beside .the C.I.A. were
ordered to provide assistance in-
eluding manpower.
Owing however to the'
"urgency" of the situation and
the non-availability of adequate
personnel the Government con-
tracted the responsibility to!
Michigan State University and
the university in turn, agreed
to include C.I.A. technicians ink
its program, Mr. Saltonstall
said.. I
Desmond_1j'itzgerald Namcd 1'_
Tn an Esquire magazine ar
ticle published today, Desmond
Fitzgerald'is named as the man
in charge of espionage activi-
ties abroad for the C. I. A.
Mr. Fitzgerald is identified as
the deputy director of plans for
the agency. Tie it .YHte,forme
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