C.I.A. ROLE TRACED IN STUDENT GROUP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700240013-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 2007
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: February 19, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release20J7/0;1/.'6 ? CIA-RDP75
' a n y ,r i c s? octLticn Vofficcrs can.paign in Michigan, the i in
e So S~Vi1 d d L_ J
uiit isp in Cover;. yc December decided to toll r,
nr~r7,4~ f t s'' T) or Division No 5 of the CII. story. r',C spoke with Nl
? t I "' j1111 with which the student group's -Stone, a New York rrpres~n .,,
., -}_ t}afh
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ccrct relationship was niatn ,five of Ramparts who IN- ,,,t ilii7l l
tainccL. ii-1 touch with Warren Hinckle
! FIe sale Was "sort of like'3d, the riapzine?s editor.
.;c-~?s~ociatioi~ G` Il l&I l cllSl , I e had intended, Mr. Wood
an a.;:rru ..cup.' Such C.LI--.!
vi Ir2aGers' 2vP;Aiinc,? agents akva.Ys attended the as-; said, to try to force Mr. ,Sher-
ne and others to make the
? =r,;;iac:on national rrectinf;s, and bor
a? cd a vi'cai role in decision disclosure, but they would not,pi
1_11a:-Zing Madison, Wis. in Au- and did not until the C. I. A.
ny WALLACE TfjRN- 1 265, he reported. relationship was announced inI
Z u v 1
~:dJer~i erne;ats taken by Ram-'
"
In thy,? year, Vietnam was )arts in The Ncw York Times
wAN I aA:'aCISCO, Feb. io
t .o. c4 very bitterly for nine --3 we,Wrtt-.lercrr .-Port-.-
in an interview here that the of all, that no absolute position
Central Intelligence Agency be taken, and concerned that no
held sway over the actions of perm r.dr.t cessation of
bomb- position be taken."
the association by controllin
ran the students' group. The student association voted)
-
for negotianon and for cessa-
This summation ivas given by i
i_on of bombing providin Borne
~.icnaci Wood, 21 years old, for- now of willingness to negotiate
rnerly the director of (level- cane from. the North Viet-
opment for the association. Mr,, namcse, he said, satisfyire the
Wood was the chief source ofi agency lobbyists.
the article in Ramparts maga On another occasion, he said,
:sine exposing the C.i.A.-iv,S.A.1 it was proposed that three oft
:relationship. The intCrview was the 1SC delegates to the Inter-
national Student Conference be s :field in the amparts office. elected, rather than named byI
acre. the association's officers,
in discussing the rc:ationship, "A'1 those people. who Ua to'
Mr. Wood lapsed into the cover fill .S.C. are Witty agents,"
f -Wood said.
language in which he C.I.A.
the ri n a: the A,ency and. s proposai, he related, was
Is s;uasi:ed by the full force of
!',`;.hose who have bean sworn to
~h intcliicnce aeeiicy's loipby-i
Secrecy and told of the relation-; ing group. He explained than
ship are the "Witty." , uch a. pian would have inhib-t
tea tic gathering of intclii-
' bid 11:06,it Each Ot:xer ree at a ternat.ional st:.tdent
"i'co;,le are ackrmrl:ed;ged to meetings, since sonic American]
one another," he srie. "In your dclefates would not have had
department they Vri'.i tell you C I.AA. connections.
wlio knows and w:o doesn't M"_. Wood described himself
know, so you :snow v.ho to talk, as a 'Siovcnsonian progressive,;
to. You will be acknowledged to the type of person who finds
the Witty people in your de-'. hinms~.elf constantly being shoved.
partment.' 'shout by the insanity of present
There were eight who knew' American policy, both domestic
"last year and nine the year and internationally," Ile said he
he said. considered the war in Vietnam
;iefore
,
One of the important elements atrocious."
.in maintaining control was that "I think it's b'tter ly brutal,"',
,,he top officers were "made. -ice adeed. "It niakes (Tie ashamed(
'Kitty," Mr. Wood, a red-heard- Jo cT: ;fie It I" hlic
Tii hly coniiietent atudents had fvi:on he lear>ed of the C.I.A.-'
been admitted to the Interna
Tonal Student Re.a'tions Scrn- '?S._. ' c'.:ttonsllip, he said lie
ii r:nCilcci to iil'sr c it public
'."roar, wnich was op?~r%t.cd for 13' t4 he .
summers until it was canceled ? :tad cep tole, or the
last summer. censa-t:rm by Phil Sherburne,
sr i,stie i president for 11965-
"All this time, o fivers and' ?o was trying to pcrspac c
;tail of the association who are' --' ;n
cod . ., .o,; to leave his Lie-.
Witty are rciihy ooservine po-:' ,vsio"rnic nt post with the student
ptc and cove io p,in;; cioices for: .;.pill p in r.,,;stration over its
office holding,' Tic: said. "Thc.? niy,,?,e--'s rciations with so,ne
crnr.d
cncy has to be cone
icuna::'acrs.
about who is Chcn C.i. The di tr- t~? t said rector of the seminar usually is ? voce Bast he had first