EX-POMONA STUDENT REVEALED CIA AID

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800100020-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: February 17, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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A former Pomona College student Thursday was revealed
as the person who disclosed to Ramparts magazine the Central
Intelligence Agency financing of the National Student
yV The young man, Michael Wood, 23, attended Pomona
College in Claremont for two years, leaving in 1964 to tz.kc a
full-time job with the National Student Association.
Ile then left NSA last September and moved to San
Francisco, apparently to take a job with Ramparts.
Wood served as director of development and in charge of
fund raising at NSA. He said that he learned that the CIA. was
financing NSA from Philip Sherburne, NSA president in 1965?,
1966. -
The young man, who left Pomona ? College without
graduating despite an excellent grade average, said that 'aaa
"betrayed the trust" of Sherburne because. he considers 1'.u
matter "a case study in CIA corruption."
is said, "The specter of CIA infiltration of domT "('
institutions and the covert creation of them - must ho:?:::,,
those who regard unfettered debate as vital to represent.ar r
democracy."
MIcanwhile members of the Pomona College faculty :;,,d
Along with serving on the student CounciT;'he also wrote for
the college newspaper and worked on the campus radio station,
KSPC.
Meanwhile, Dennis Shaul, NSA president in 1963.1963 and
now a lawyer in Akron, Ohio, acknowledged receipt of the CIA
funds but denied the agency had any part in making policy. lie
also denied CIA had used students to spy or had "infiltrated the
ranks" of student leaders.
He said that if. he were still president, he would continue to
accept the funds. He said that funds also.came from the Ford
Foundation and Rockefeller Institution.
Shaul said, "I had no more problems with that (CIA)
money than I had with any other money."
He also said that funds were used to send students abrcad
to.talk with young people from developing nations, attending
youth festivals - including. some youth festivals under
Communist sponsorship.
Shaul declared, "At the Eighth World Youth Festival in
Helsinki in 1.959, we asked why did the Soviets resume open-air
nuclear testing if.they're so intent on peace. They had a hard
time answering, and, that one question changed a lot of
viewpoints.''
administration remember Wood as a "sincere and dedicatee,"
student.
sat on the student council as commissioner of academic
affairs.
Wood was also founder and first president of the Human
lic.ations Council, and, in 1964, arranged a human rigi? s
conference at the school which received national attention. Tile
conference that he created Is still held annually at the college,
Shelton L. Beatty, dean of men at Pomona College, said,
"Ile did a brilliant job. He became quite wrapped up in the
conference.
"Ile was a very bright student," Dean Beatty recalled. "Ile
~.. as a very lively person with a great deal of energy and v~,rve.
c felt that col egg should be a place where studgtts should
relate their studies to the world.
"What surprises me," the dean continued, "is that anyone
could think the NSA is being directed by the CIA.NSA seerns to
be a very inderendaat minded group. I've felt they've had
constructive ideas."
Wood is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walbridge Wood of
Banning. Ile graduated from Coachella Valley High School and
attended the University of California at Berkeley for. a. year
before transferring to Pomona.
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