NOTHING ILLEGAL SECRETIVE ABOUT CIA FINANCING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700220018-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2007
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: February 15, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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He added that the Ford and
Rockefeller foundations _ also
contributed heavily to NSA,
whose budget was in the neigh-
borhood of $500,000 at that time.
" Wi'E FELT there was a fan-
young people from developing,
areas like Latin America and;
Africa who were attending Com-
munist-sponsored Youth Festi-
vals.
`."Here also was a chance to
present the opposite side during
open meetings," Shaul contin-
ued. "At the eighth World
Youth Festival in Helsinki. in
The tie was terminated after J 1"59, for example, we asked
eas because as an -1 why did the Soviets resume
about 15
y
,
Akron lawyer Dennis Shaul,' NSA spokesman put it, "it was ] open-air nuclear tests if they're
former president of the Nation-' decided the relationship was so intent on peace. They had a
al, Students Association, said'; intolerable in a democratic so-' hard time answering and that
,
Tuesday there was nothing it- ciety." one question changed a lot ofI
le
al or sdcretivn about th
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e
deuce -agency iunus to neip it- ~~ ~-~ - -?~ '~ ?'~' SILI'tJL said the projects fi-i
nance its international rSchool graduate headed the
NSA in 1962-1963 when the CIA nanced by the CIA were but a'
grams. small part of the overall NSA`
Shaul, 28, of 202 Twin Oaks donated abou'F . $100,000 'a year.;l program, and that Ramparts'
rd. commented in the wake of THIS money went toward fi advertisement "doesn't recog-
`'a;esday's reports that revealed,' nize the fact that we drew on,
? 1 : 1 0 CIA 1 k nancing foreign students visit
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x.ie . - m an
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e sub- ing the United States and al many financial sources for
sequent split between'the two man worthwhile efforts. The;
organizations. :.lowing American students to
or y
t ott ?a +s?. ..,....,,?.,.... ,? article implies a situation that]
"THIS method ,of disassocia-1
tion from the CIA prejudices all
past NSA programs and indi-1
uepeuuence ceieurdi.iuns, yuu
name it, abroad. The NSA includes more than
"We were competing against 300 colleges in the United States
a number of well-financed and is affiliated with 60 student'
Com m u n i s t organizations," groups overseas. Officials at
Shaul continued, "and our pur- "University of Akron .and Kent
pose was to present the Ameri- State University said there Is
can side of things as opposed no record of a chapter at ei-
to whatr the Communists said they campus.
was the American view." I The NSA has shifted its em-
I-phasis from international to do-
Shaul like current president
i
d
mest
c programs and accor
,-
Groves, dismissed as complete IIng to Shaul this Ihay be one
ly inaccurate full page news=of the reasons fqr' NSAs deci-
r
'
pape
, ads financed by Ram-
sion regarding CIA financing.
parts Magazine that said the
"CIA, has infiltrated and sub- "WE SOUGHT results rather
verted the world of American than this Hamlet-like pose that
student leaders over the past: has been struck on the pros
15 years, and has used students: and cons of government financ-
to spy. ing, said Shaul.
The ads were promoting a "There is a huge mass of
10,000-word story upcoming in: people we're not getting to at
...worthy cause the magazine's March edition. the youth and student level, t
still president I would continue
to accept CIA funds because we
werc as influential in decision-
ra ng as they were."
"We had a number of prior and the Communists are. These
ity,programs that needed finan- people from developing nations
cing, and as long as we had can be reached by receptive
control of the programs, as long American students.
as we had the independence to "This meeting between us is
Current ' NSA President Eu- I' set up our own programs, WO] what the CIA was financing.
gene Groves issued a state- viewed the CIA just as any And despite what you might
ment Tuesday that no new CIA funding souraa," said Shaul, a ; read J n Ramparts or else-
funds were being accepted for 1956 graduate of St. Vincent's where, the means were never
its $825,000 annual budget. +High School and a 1960 gradu illegitimate and the end was
to of Notre Dame. 4 i a 1ways,,,~vorthy."
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