NATIONAL STUDENT GROUP SECRETLY AIDED BY CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800060003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 15, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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'Intcui??ence Agency secretly-'5 American students who at, coming Ramparts story. Cater said T n e s d a y than
helped iorrn the National Stu-!ended a meeting of student or. Werdell said he now suspects Groves told him the CIA money
;dent Association in 1047 to cre-I^anizations in Prague in I91 that he inadvertently was in was being termi ated. "It wa
ate .. "credible" and - Commu-! flee NSA's own constitutional char, of a CIA operation three the first I'd ht 3rd of it and
nist voice among youngsters at-convention was held the nc:i years ago which sent an there wasn't anything for me tol
tenu[:i- international meetings, year at the University of Wis, integrated group of American do about it," Cater said.
it ica, e.? Tuesda consin? jazz musicians on a tour of Af-
Y? During the day NSA lecItiers!
w'?ich spent $200,000 Early NSA leaders came pri? rica. He was told at the time tried to audit books chile
ye r mi tine student as- manly from Catholic colleges that funds came from a private preparing for in cmrracncy
vinurr, in the post-war period, They were considered liberal it nr?ot?1p of businessmen, but now meeting of their 10-mcu:her
the 1950s, gave instruc-;most policies, but strongly anti he says "that doesn't add up." board of director,: The board is
iii:>ra to so;ie American students lCommunist. In the past three or four years to conduct. a "thorough in
aitendrng these conferences and A former NSA leader said ti c. only a handful of NSA leaders vestigation" in the next few
'`ueoriefcd" them on their re-;initial group "wanted to find al- knew of the CIA connection. The days and issue a:eport.
e State Department said the num- The NSA actually does not
turn home, association sources Iternatives to c o in in u n i ~ m.".
disclosed. !'They attended :iumerous Mt. her was two. NSA sources said have individual student t,",'m-.
r ;a "i.", ur;her sponsored ventions of students in. ctc,',0tn the number was closer to half a bets, It is a confederation of cot
and western Euro n to lege and univ.'rsit
scrota slips to Wring roreign, P; o p 'r itci ? The president, who serves a governments which join I?stu eir
r d e n t s acre from un- the democratic process. y
f or:i - year term, always assediovn vote and pay annual uses.
u aevctopcd nations and helped The CIA provided funds the
word about the CIA to h'rslDclegates floor rile 300 member
to ?nce NSA tours abroad, the the start the
, he said. The cney s u c c e s s o r. Other officersjschools meet at it national stu-
sources said. refused to discuss Inc is>ue at frequently did not. Only a few oft dent congress each August.
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`liese ties binding the govern.! all today, referring reF iort.c;s tv the NSA's 50 staff members The NSA has ;,dopt d resole
r::cnt's r-.ajor spy agency to the the State Department -- it high- were aware of the CIA's sup- 'tions calling for'he abolition of
ma don's oldest and largest or ly unusual procedure.
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rcanizar-ion of college students A State Department official Ali ),t
three years ago the
were learned after Ramparts: said the CIA su, por. 1 e ,: i:; NSA started a major fund drive
Magazine p u b 1 i s h e d ad- period when Communist sic to broaden the base of its sup-
Ivertise:nents for its March issue dents were well finance-I v:d port.
got support from their, gcc rrn-
jw two eastern newspapers. ment 1 0 A "Most of us had been active In
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The ads promised accounts of
"How the CIA has infiltrated.
and suoverted the world of
American student leaders" and
now "it has used students to.
W. Eugene Groves, NSA presi-.1
tier, , denied that officers of
em.;loyes of the association;
which represents student
governments at 300 colleges and
universities, knowingly per:
formed "intelligence functions''
for the CIA.
He issued a statement ac-
.1 e merican st.;c"enis. student Jovcrnment or student
were handicapped by a lack of newspapers," Wendell said. "We
funds." all knew of the danger of one
The funds were Cha inelecl' source of support.".
through the CIA, he said, be- The NSA now receives funds
cause "overt support of the NSA from such organizations as the
abroad would ]lave destroyed its Ford Foundation, Rockefeller
integrity. Its credibility-
redibility as a Foundation, New World Foun-
free spokesman would have' dation and the Industrial Union
been impugned front the out-' Department of the AFL-CIO.
set." Groves recently met with Vice
He added that this arrange- President Hubert H. Hum hre
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The CIA's role in NSA affairs!
dwindled gradually. By the late I
1950
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s, even many of the, as-
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knov:eu gin', receipt of CIA
sociation's leaders did not even-
funds, however, saying theyknow of the CIAconnecLon. I
suported a number of projects Last year, for example, Wii-.e
assisting student groups abroad Liam Werdell was assistant torn
a,td ra-aoting international un,pe NSA president. He said he j
derstan(ling on American cain?
pust.5."
"..'oves said he has been quiet-
t:yotto eliminate CIA funds
from the NSA's $825,000 annual
budget for about two years. ThE
ties Committee, admission of
Communist China to the United
Nations, cessation of? the bcinb-
ing in North Vietnam, anc inclu?
sion of the Viet Cong in negotia?
tions for a cease fire:
Most NSA members %v, n?
dering In and out of their head,
quarters in a three - story scone
townhouse here were baffled by
the affair.
One pointed quizically to a
blue poster on the back of the
front door which announce,; a
tour of Japan, Hong Kong Ind.
Korea sponsored "through a
grant from the Department of
State,"-
from public and private agen-i "I wonder what that really
ties, means," he said.
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