RAMPARTS CHARGES CIA INTIMIDATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700240009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2007
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 16, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST
App f~c Fir Release 200' 1 'W$ Ik 4W_,
FES 16 1957
Dell l sought
Ramparts
Chw 4 es CIA
Intimidation
was treated, in turn, by-CIA as'L?'sther'Rabb Charitable Foun-
By Richard Harwood "an arm of U.S. foreign pol- dation of Boston, and the Fair-
ley.' field Foundation. r
Ramparts magazine in a d e The money and the policy These foundations, In. turn,
public yesterday its version of direction; Ramparts said, came said Ramparts, ' passed on
the financial marriage and from Covert Action Division money to NSA and such other
divorce of the National Stu-',No. 5'of the CIA's Plans D1vi- groups, as Independent Re.
.dent Association and Covert Sion, whosb personnel included search Service; the ? Interna.
Action Division No. 5 of the former NSA officers. tional Student Conference,
!Central Intelligence Agency. The magazine, said the Policy. Research, Inc., the
Before the relationship was money was channeled to NSA Arfierican Society for African
through an intricate maze of Culture and the International
disclosed this year, Ram-
parts said, CIA had poured mil- '"foundations," some of which Development Foundation.
'lions into the college student may be nothing, more than` In the case of NSA, Rdm-
'organization and NSA officials dummy conduits for ' CIA parts said the CIA funds were
had gone to such Government funds. They included the Bor- used solely for its interna-
figures as Vice President Hu- den`Trust-of - Philadelphia, tional activities and to permit
`bert Humphrey in a vain effort the Price Fund of New York, NSA delegates and officers to
to end their financial depend- the Beacon Fund of Boston, travel abroad '.and take part
.once on the intelligence the 'Kentfiled Fund of Dallas, in' international student meet-
;agengy, !the Edsel Fund, of San Fran' ings.,. Moreover, the magazine said elseo; the San Jacinto Fund For NSA officialsi,'the niag-
the CIA "viciously turned on, ,l of .Houston, the' Tower Fund azine aid, 'it meant' lots bf
former NSA president Philip and the'Appalaehin Fund,,formbndyr.' seal ', of doing. lm?
the- relationship had ever ex-
is ke U. The story is told in advance
proofs of an article that is to
appear in Ramparts next.
month. The major revelations'
in the articl." have already:,
been confirn- r; substantially'.
by the State - %)artment.
The story b,";an in the 1950s" when the U.S. Government be=
came alarmed at the Commu
nist take-ove_ of international,'
student groups in Europe. In
'
response to t
r;s problem, NSA:
set up a 1:ew International;,
Student Con-crence In 1950 in"
cooperation with 18 other na.'1
tional student organizations..
The new. organization .'.flour,
}shed, ?and ~'kex-t ~ t,4:;~,..~1~icT~;
vital to the national Inter-'
est.'. ".' "
The few NSA officers aware'
of the relationship, according
to Ramparts, were requlred
to take the secrecy oath pre-
scribed In the 'National Se
curity Act. But the story
broke, as a result of a, conver-
sation that-occurred in March,:
1966 between Phil Sherburne,
the NSA president at that)
time, , and Michael Wood,
NSA's director'.. of develop-
ment.; ' ' I
Sherburne told Wood the
-whole story and''subsequently
took steps to end the relation-
ship with CIA.
Ramparts said'Sheburne de=
manded that NSA make Its
own 'policy decisions, Inde?
pendent .of CIA;' and went to
Vice President Humphrey tore
help.'.Rahsparts says he told'
Humphrey of the CIA.connec-;
tion and asked the Vice Presi.'
nancially Jndcpendent. Hum-!
phrey, according to the maga-
zine, tried to raise money for
NSA from, Roger tInugh of
Manhattan bank but "only. a-]
few hundred dollars came in.",
The Issue was finally forced,`
Ramparts said, by Wood who;
told the itory:to;tlie.magazino'
!Cold War line" 'under NSA;ichich nn:add're'sses nave peen portant worx, overseas travel
leaders "who seemed more'given. .' and, perhaps, most important'
Iike, professional diplomats: Through these conduits, of all, very little feeling of
than students." Ramparts claimed, CIA money having sold out one's political
Only a tiny handful of;was passed to various private convictions . .. The CIA re.
NSA's officers, Rampart' Said, foundations and organizations lationship meant something
were aware that the orga