FORMER PHILA. 'QUIZ KID' FOUNDED STUDENT GROUP IN CIA CONTROVERSY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700220010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 11, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: May 19, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

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"So I guess he must" iiav,-e had not appear until later this, Lady Bird at Wedding
some contact with them, month in the March issue., s The Independent Research
'Forgot to Check Willi CIA' Shaul said: "I regret ' the( Service sent a., delegation of
" whole thing," He said he''?more than 100 students, teachers
Whenever he's hac?e andAncant the Ramparts story, notland intellectuals to the Commu-1
his social engagements g(,. ii the source of the funds. youth festival at Helsinki,
mixed up he'll say he for o(, nist
to check with the , i feel this group of people ?Finland, in 1962.
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mc." both in Ramparts and in thet Shaul said he was among',.
NSA, have done a disservice,", those who attended the confer-
Mrs. Sigmund, who lives, .in Shaul said, c' ence. The U. S. delegation dis-
Wyncote, is a remedial lead??,' Ramparts. charged that the]rupted the meeting by publish-
ing teacher in the Philadelphia ClA used NSA as a' tool of for. ing a newspaper, running an
school system,
eign diplomacy and a spy net-fff information service and taking
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with Paul Sigmund. Shaul said the student mem-"he festival that year.,
Sigmund's work with the 1n t hers of NSA set the organiza-I Sigmund joined the faculty
f dependent Research Service of-' ions policies and programs ,',at Princeton early in 1963. In
I ter 1960, Shaul said, was "per: .,and that he viewed the CIA as' January, of 1964 he married
t spheral," although he kept in ,he -would have any other[Miss Boggs in. Washington.,
touch and took part ,in source of money, Mrs, Lady Bird Johnson at-
tended the wedding, Both she
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By LAWRENCE M. CAMPBELL ly were funnelled money by the, Will Always Be 'Suspect' and Market sts., and later had
Of The Bulletin Staff , CIA, through private founda- "Paul is an excellent personioffices at 37th and Chestnut)
sts.
A one-time Philadelphia lions, and developed great contacts) The international division of "Quiz Kid" was mentioned On Study Project in Chile abroad," Shaul said. "He is anNSA; 'however, did not come
prominently last week in 're-; Dr. Sigmund Is now', on a expert in political eat deal of1arate quarters in Cambridge,
traveling abroad - I would
gence Agency channeled funds ler Foundation' in Santiago, say 90 percent on his own. Mass. The CIA reportedly for-
to the National Student Associ-' Chile, with his wife, the for 'warded funds.only to the inter-
ation and other youth groups mer Barbara Boggs. She is the'' "He is one of those personsinational division . for. work
for work abroad: daughter of Rep. Hale Boggs i who have spent a lot of timelabroad.
He is Dr. Paul . E. Sigmund,' (D La), House Ma orit Whip. and selfless effort developing
j y Whip. - not espionage Elected Vice President
Jr., 37, now an associate pro-,They left about'two weeks ago! and now all his work and con-~ Sigmund 'was elected vice
fessor of political science at and will not be ?back until July
Princeton tacts have been compromised.-president for international af-
University. or August. "No matter where he goesfairs in 1954. at the NSA con-
'Dr. Sigmund, a native of, Peter,R. Sigmund, a. brother, or what he is doing he will al-;vention'in Ames, Iowa. He was,
Wyncote, became an officer in of Port Washington, N. Y. saidways be suspect." assigned to oversee the associ
the NSA in 1954 when he w,as his brother had done "quite a' Shaul said he is not certain ation's foreign student program
a graduate student at Harvard lot" of work with college youth' whether the CIA had financed and keep in touch with 41 other
University. ?, groups. Peter Sigmund said. he the Independent , Researchlstudent unions around the globe.
He ' is reportedly' a founder. knew nothing about the alleged Service. But he said if he were The post was one of three
of the Independent Research) CIA connection with the work.' still president of that group or fulitime salaried elective of- '
Service, of New York, in 1958. Sigmund's mother, Mrs. Paul' the NSA, he would continue to. fices in the NSA at that time.
. Both NSA and the Indepenf]-. E,, Sr., a widow, said she was' accept CIA funds. Sigmund, an Air Force Re-
eat Research, Service. alleg d-c well acquainted with her son's
~? ... work and interest in NSA Regrets -the Stor servist, was called to active
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