NSA CLAIMS CIA INTIMIDATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700360002-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 20, 2006
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 14, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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the Independence Foundation ;NSA a CIA front titill remain,"
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COLLEGE PARK, Aug.. 14 -- The National Stu- rrev?and Esther Rabb Chart THREE PERSONS who ware
dent Association president said today NSA members'ftab1e' Fund, $11,000, and others A. have pari.icillatrd in a sy m-
,~rere harassed, intimidated and threatened for endin for
lesser amounts. posiwabruptly, an NSA_ flC~ Of9V0 , aildi'e??= Ili?Cl0?ed t1i0 CLAa t A Etii1H00.I) 1 g1.~~1nl dfmn 1 11Th, WIlril ;
ing .1,500 defeats eto the also- Lion in February, the student ~79 j5ercent of tlle 1~8]3laiifl, u lonli pu i fti:
, writer for the New Rrpu';lio;
ciation's annual' convention at-organization immediately be. NSA budget-came from CIA
the University of Maryland, gan severing its ties with theconduits. Sol Stern, amparts managing;
outlined in eerie detail what he!governmer~t agency. CIA support rose steadily' editor, of Ramparts la Iorinc; l'
called a record of early-morn-j lduring the next 10 years. and' and Michael wood" a' o disr.l
ing phone calls, threats of! THE BREAK was completed; reached a peak h} 1962,'when NSA staff meiilbei wlio dis
blackmail and fear by studentsr\vhen NSA acquired title to its{CIA conduits gave the NSA closed to Rarrlparts the CIA-
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began Iast February when the In outlining fully the organ,- ! NSA overseas representatives;
,NSA announced it was endin 'nation's involvement with the"were chosen not on the b
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It 15-year associatio with th CIA Groves said that at one s
;'of their famili,tily with Ameri-
4super-secret spy agency. lJoint the spy agency was pro. can student politics, or their'
wpiding? 91 percent
DURING THAT period, thahudget of NSA'sjiconunitment to NSA," Graves
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NSA accepted more than $3.31 "It protected ?us from (Senrli'st,id, "but on their ability in in-1
inlillion through CIA conduit soseph) McCarthy, it helped! t~alligence tasks."
rand in return
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recruit?omne people get d
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- kcd members who acted as "ClAments, and it probably put in "NSA WAS exploited be...
!agents and informers." a good word to t e Intern
l cause it was weals.". GrOV-S
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/said, Richard G. Stearns, NSA!
'future service in the U. S. gov-
('r,uncnt by a CIA agent over
cinntinucd. "To the individuals
involved, a generation of the
iilast: promising student leaders,
the CIA taught that spying on
the phone, 11.U1Jua1 tens) in Langley. 'file 1?~,lci,the constitutents at home,
other first person to be dialed. in time,
Another NSA leader,Timof trouble was the head of;"as serving their country."
'' Tohnson, "was frightened that"' covert action N . O 5," he i! Meanwhile, pledging never,
'he would be knocked off on theIadded. .to accept CIA money, Groves
street corner that week in ";,nd Sterns will recommend that.,
h NJCA abandon much of its pres.:
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GROVES SAID he had beenlthe Foundation for Youth and r,-)broad and shift the organiza-
told that Philip Sherburne, a;) Turn to Pa a 3G Column rion s emphasis to student
former NSA president. "was^ - 9 ' troblenis at home.
.psychiatric records that would,
appropriately turn up at a fu-!
ture date to ruin his career or1
to open him to hlackmail." i
"There were difficulties and!
fear"' during the February pc-
riod, Groves said, but "physical
.fear we parried."
Running concurrently with'
'+Iithc NSA Annual Congress 1s .a
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