WHY THE STUDENTS FLUNKED THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700220003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 28, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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FEB 281967
Say A;isi sr G9ZI;LNSPAN student leaders of i7;y gen n- rludent gatherings found them-,. Ramparts, ~, hich "
tion and the I selves patted against overwhelm.' secs itsrif n?
re ent ~encration. ? a spokesman (or the grotvtp,
it was the National Student p jingly Well-informed and well?l
Assn:. xhlch first sottbht out We were ? internationally financed groups from behind the! I1ai Left, ran the story in 11 '4 1
blanch Issue; look full ? parr
CIA ';:..cis in ; 932 to send,meri. minded and wanted to promote Iron Curtain,
newspaper ails befred afl to
the best aspects of America. W:a As Grove explained It, in 1952
reh cans -o') world student gatbcr- thought it was worth doing, both the student group's officersi scoop itself, and clxtred a flaod?1
ir,cs, .ncl it. was the some NSA because it would have a go'Kl found "It was impossible to ob? arc ?f Comm^nt, cl.ticism ands
which, 15 years later, made the effect on domestic i ,alicies, art1 twin funds from'private groups"I Some criticized the CIA for!
ritial moves to sever the secret it would promote international to carry on the overseas pro-I 5ecretly subvc; tuns the students:
,;,tancial ties between the two good feeling for the count;y. gramr,.
groups. land other or;;-,nilafiuns. Other:,,
"The leaders of NSA today The officers ,felt that iheIIikc Sen. Robert Kennedy, felt'
Tn the interim, there was a are- more' concerned with alien. existence of heavily financed' ?
t the Cgu n wag s reside a bunt
vast Change in the thinking of etion frog: the nation's own in?+ anti totally controlled Soviet- ra
" ru .Presidents .[~ianti
American college students - stitutions. It Is in this light that; front organizations in the inter. wer, T
from "dedicated and idealistic" they concluded that the relation-, national student field Made,it' Johhnso Johnson Truman, about atyt
young people in the early 1930s ship was intolerable,? imperative that democratic and Jon knew all about tile, ~ in] !
pay.
to the way one observer ode- Eu~ progressive organizations main-lments.
scribes tor;