EX-POMONA STUDENT REVEALED CIA AID

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700220015-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2007
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: February 17, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Association. Meanwhile, Dej_n,,isShaul, NSA president in 1962-1963 and
The young man, Michael Wood, 23, attended Pomona now a lawyer in Akron, Ohio, acknowledged receipt of the CIA
College in Claremont for two years, leaving in 1964 to take a , funds but denied the agency had any part in making policy. He
full-time job with the National Student Association. also denied CIA had used students to spy or had "infiltrated the
He then left NSA last September and moved to Son ranks" of student leaders.
Francisco, apparently to take a job with Ramparts. Ile said that if. he were still president, he would continue to
Wood served as director of development and in char;e of accept the funds. He said that funds also.came from the Ford
fund raising at NSA. He said that he learned that the CIA W;,s Foundation and Rockefeller Institution.
financing NSA from Philip Sherburne, NSA president In 1 9 6 5 - 1 Shaul said, "I had no more problems with that (CIA)
1966. money than I had with any other money."
The young man, who left Pomona College wil:lm,il) He also said that funds were used to send students abroad
graduating despite an excellent grade average, said that to.talk with young people from developing nations, attending
"betrayed the trust" of Sherburne 'because he considers V e youth festivals - including some youth festivals under
matter "a case study In CIA corruption." Communist sponsorship.
He said, "The specter of CIA infiltration of doiri- ! (, Shaul declared, "At the Eighth World Youth Festival in
institutions and the covert creation of them - must Helsinki in 1.959, we asked why did the Soviets resume open-air
those who regard unfettered debate as vital to represent. nuclear testing if they're so intent on peace. They had a hard
democracy." time answering, and, that one question changed .a lo' of
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A former Pomona College student Thursday was revealed Along with serving on the student counciY ?tie also wrote for
as the person who disclosed to Ramparts magazine the Central the college newspaper and worked on the campus radio station,
Intelligence Agency financing of the National Student KSPC.
attended the University of California at Berkeley for a year
before transferring to.POmona.
administration remember Wood as a "sincere and dedicated"
student.
He sat on the student council as commissioner of academic
affairs.
Wood was also founder and first president of the Human
relations Council, and, in 1964, arranged a human rights
conference.at the school which received national attention. The,
conference that he created is still held annually at the college.
Shelton L. Beatty, dean of men at Pomona College, said,
"Ile did a brilliant job. He became quite wrapped up in the
conference.
"Ile was a very bright student," Dean Beatty' recalled. "He
was a very lively person with a great deal of energy and verve. :
Ile felt that college should be a place where students should :
relate their studies to the world.
"What surprises me," the dean continued, "is that anyone
could think the NSA is being directed by the CIA.,NSA-seems to
be a very independent minded group. I've felt they've had
constructive ideas."
Wood is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walbridge Wood of
Banning. He graduated from Coachella Valley High School and
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