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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700460025-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2004
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: February 26, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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a arst-rate travel program and
in educational reform
One of the r:,.--w-'
:- - ifcni-: in , itinerary, personnel and can-
the relation between the C.:..A. teas were arranged by N.S.A.
and the Nation:;. S, udent Aaao- students. The vial c_'_, 1, new the
ciation lies in t e fact that at a, funds were from the Stare De-
time in the nineteen: fifties wnen partment. No one -then ques-
the unite, States was sushi- tioned the integrity of the spon-
cious of any political action by
students, ..:nwiiling to grant
then. ras ;cnsibility for social or
educatoonal policy in the univer-
sities or funds for indencr.,i: r.t
student action, the one org;.::za-
tion in the entire country Vn::?'n
did trust the students w;s u:e
most sensitive of the,., all, the
Central Inteliigence Agency.
Program Subsidy
The irony continues
fact that the international pro-
grams of N.S.A. were very good,
were conducted in apparent is n-
depenc:nce of Govermnent pol-
icy, hue .., ^lf .ever have been
possibl, z _ ,ll without the C.I.A.
subsid'-.
The fault lay in the secrecy,
not in the programs. ? If is
were to be written about .'Or-
eign student leaders and
cal movements abroad, ~.aese.
could very well have been
lished openly to the benefie of
all conccneed, both here and,
abroad.
Under an open grant from the
State Department, the National
Student Association last fall ran
P:blic and Private Funds
Is it not possible to organize
a National Foundation for Stu-
dent Affairs, an the model of
the National Endowment for the
Arts, with an independent board,
a $10-:pillion annual budget and
a. simple administrative arrange.
ment for grant-making to stu-
dent projects and programs? Or
an Office of `Student Affairs in'
the United States Office of Edu-
cation? Or, failing than why
not establish a compare ie na-
tional foundation throe 'h a con-
sorti:.m of existing foundations,
to l ._lch both private and egad-
lie money could be given open-
ly, making it ,possible for the
donors to take pride An what
they are doing and In the young
people they are supporting?
Otherwise, -the students will
be right back where they start-
ed from, except that this time
they will start under the handir
cap of having been damaged by
the clandestine decisions .and ac-
tivities of their own Government.
HAROLD TAYLOR
New York, Feb. 22, 1967,
The writer, former president of
Sarah Lawrence College, was at
one time a -member of the Na-
tional Student Association ? Ad-
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