THE CIA AND THE NATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION

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• Publication Date: February 20, 1967
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various Federal loan and grant-in-aid pro-
grams to improve the quality of urban and
rural life through improved comprehensive
development planning, programing, and co-
ordination among and between Federal agen-
cies, States, regions, metropolitan areas, and
local governments, and to encourage greater
coordination between States and their p0-.
Committee of the U.S. Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency.
in accordance with the committee
rule, these pending nominations may not
be considered prior to the expiration of
6 days of their receipt In the Senate.
litical subdivisions in the planning and pro- - ADDRESSES,
gramming of Federal loan and grant-in-aid
ETC
CLES
programs, and for other purposes: Mr. HAT-
FIELD, Mr. JAVrrs, and Mr. MILLER.
Authority of February 7, 1967:
S.J. Res. 30. Joint resolution to establish a
commission to formulate plans for a me-
morial to astronauts who lose their lives in
line of duty in the U.S. space program: Mn
ALLOTr, Mr. BAYH, Mr. BIBLE, Mr. CARLSON,
Mr. COOPER, Mr. DoMINICK, Mr. ERvIN, Mr.
FANNIN, Mr. HARTKE, Mr. HILL, Mr. JACKSON,
Mr. KUcaeEL, Mr. LAUSCHE, Mr. LONG of Louisi-
ana, Mr. MURPHY, Mr. PROXMIRE, Mr. RAN-
DOLPH, Mr. ScoTT, Mr. SYMINGTON, and Mn
YOUNG of North Dakota.
Authority of February 8, 1967:
S. 913. A bill to amend part III of the
Interstate Commerce Act to provide for the
recording of trust agreements and other evi-
dences of equipment indebtedness of water
carriers, and for other purposes: Mr. MON-
RONEY, Mr. MORTON, and Mr. YARBOROUGH.
S. 915. A bill to provide for the establish-
ment of a Federal Judicial Center: Mr. MET-
CALF, and Mr. TYDINGS.
S-. 917. A bill to assist State and local gov-
ernments In reducing the incidence of crime,
to increase the effectiveness, fairness, and co-
ordination of law enforcement and criminal
justice systems at all levels of government,
and for other purposes: Mr. MUNDT, Mr.
TYDINGS, and Mr. YARBOROUGH.
S.J. Res. 32. Joint resolution to establish a
Joint Committee on Urban Affairs: Mr.
JAVITS.
NOTICE CONCERNING NOMINA-
TIONS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON
THE JUDICIARY
Mr. EASTLAND. Mr. President, the
following nominations have been re-
ferred to and are now pending before the
Committee on the judiciary:
Paul F. Markham, of Massachusetts,
to be U.S. attorney, district of Massa-
chusetts, for the term of 4 years, vice W.
Arthur Garrity, Jr.
William F. Malchow, of Minnesota, to
be U.S. marshal, district of Minnesota,
term of 4 years, vice Ray H. Hemenway,
resigned.
On behalf of the Committee on the
Judiciary, notice is hereby given to all
person,s interested in these nominations
to file with the committee, in writing, on
or before Monday, February 27, 1967, any
representations or objections they may
wish to present concerning the above
nominations, with a further statement
whether it is their intention to appear at
any hearings which may be scheduled.
NOTICE OF RECEIPT. OF NOMINA-
TIONS BY THE COMMITTEE ON
FOREIGN RELATIONS
Mr. FULBRIGHT. Mr. President, as
chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Relations, I desire to Announce that to-
day the Senate received the following
nominations:
Rutherford M. Poats, of Virginia, to
be Deputy Administrator, Agency for In-
ternational Development.
Maurine B. Neuberger, of Oregon, to
be a member of the General Advisory
.,
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rENDIX
EDI'T'ORIALS, ARTI-
PRINTED IN THE AP-
sent, addresses, editorials, articles, etc.,
were ordered to be printed in the Appen-
dix, as follows:
By Mr. BYRD of Virginia:
Editorial entitled "Teaching of Morality
Has Not Been Tabooed," written by David
Lawrence and published in the U.S. News
& World Report of February 13, 1967.
Editorial entitled "Again, the Big Squander
Bill," published in the Ledger-Star of Mon-
day, February 13, 1967.
By Mr. METCALF:
Editorial entitled "Big Trees, Small Plans,"
relating to proposed Redwood Creek National
Park, published in the New York Times of
February 19, 1967.
Editorial entitled "A Challenge to Citi-
zens," published in the Western News, Hamil-
ton, Mont., January 18, 1967.
Article entitled "The Next 25 Years," writ-
ten by Lee C. White, Chairman, Federal Power
Commission, and published in the magazine
Public Power for January 1967.
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STUDENT ASSOCIATION
.Mr. YOUNG of North Dakota. Mr.
President, I have noted with considerable
concern the continuing controversy over
the CIA's financial assistance to the Na-
tional Student Association and other or-
ganizations that participate In interga-
tional conferences.
It would be preferable if private
sources would provide the funds for
students and others to attend interna-
tional conferences, or if some Govern-
ment agency other than the CIA would
do so. When this assistance by the CIA
was first given to the National Student
Association, no other source of assistance
was available. Thus, if the CIA had not
provided the funds, the Communist stu-
ii 'nts would have completely dominated
.;:,c international conferences.
I am not one who believes it is all
wrong for students and others to re-
ceive some guidance and information
,froln the CIA as to how international
conferences are manipulated by the
Communists. Not many people realize
that no student can enroll in the Mos-
cow University or other universities in
Russia unless he has been thoroughly
indoctrinated in the Communist philoso-
phy and is a dedicated Communist.
Russia and other Communist nations
have a one-party system and only one
viewpoint. Thus, their students and
others attending international confer-
ences present one united viewpoint, and
they are financed by their governments.
Our system of government and our
philosophy are entirely different. We
have a two-party system and many fac-
tions within these parties. Thus, we do,
not always present a united front at
international conferences. The Nation-
al Student Association, as well as others;
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does not always support tte official poss.
tion of our country.
The CIA has made some mistakes, but
the good it does far outweighs any errors
If we are to survive In this troubled
world and counter the operations of tht
Russian KGB, we need the CIA-aild
badly. It should be remembered that the
CIA operations are directed and coin
trolled by the "resident of the Unitee
States and the National f:ecurity Coon
cit. It also receives guidance, directiop,
and supervision from a committee o
private citizens appointed by the Presi
dent, as well as by the Bureau of tlu
Budget and committees of Congress.
Mr. President, one of the best editorial.
I have read with reference, to this recent
controversy over the CIA appeared I.
the Sunday Stair of Feb)uarr- 19, 196'+,
and was entitled "What Are We Trying
To Do to the (IA?" I ask unanimov
consent that the editoria. be printed i,
the RECORD as a part Of my remarliz.
There being no objection, the editorial
was ordered to be printed in the Ricoh---.
as follows: -
WHAT ARE Wa TRYING To lO TO TEL CIA'
It is just poardble, if we all manage t
work ourselves into a wild enough lathe
that the current flap over the CIA can 't`e
escalated to the point where it will destmr
the nation's intelligence organization.
almost seems that this Is what some of ti':e
breast-beaters would like to do.
One day we have a disclosure that a sta -
dent organization has been receiving cove t
funds so that young Amer(cans can coD-
pete with young Communii to at world st- -
dent meetings. 'T'hen, suddenly, nothing w tI
do but that ever:,' traceable operation of t2 e
CIA must be 1afar bare to public view. cot+:,-
mented upon IIi tones of pious horror, t.-
vestigated, sernionlzed, deplored and pw..?-
ished; until the terrible guilt of it all has been
established for ell time, for all the World 'o
see.
And what, precisely, ari we guilty C`?
Why, of using our wits and available mea is
to compete in a 'oattle just as real, dirty ai d
deadly serious as any shooting war in whi h
we could engage.
Confronted by adversaries who threw tis
full power and wealth of toe state into ttis
effort to mold and control world opinion, ?-ve
did not abandon the field to therm InstarA,
we devoted some public furls to seeing to it
that Americans could confront the tOtalitt c-
ans in the intellectual lists abroad, speaking
their minds in representing the views of a
relatively free so,Aety.
It worked, incidentally. A wide variety _+f
Americans, mos . of whom never knew tae
source of the funds backing them, pro',d
more than able over the y+rars to hold- their
own in confroni,ation with disciplined, p >)-
fessional Communist agents. They p e-
vented the takeover of nimerous lnterl a-
tional organizations and established oth -re
which have contributed eubstani,ially to , tie
global cause of freedom.
Consider, for example, -he experience of
Gloria Stelnem, as interes+ingly reported in
yesterday's Washington Post. A New Y,rk
writer, Miss Steinem was director of ",e-
thing called "'rhe Independent Resealch
Service," which took CIA money to send e.?v-
eral hundred young Americans to Wo-ld
Youth festivals in Vienna and Helsinki in
1959 and 1962.
Miss Steinem said she Worked cidaely with
CIA agents on the program, but that few of
the students who took .hose trips knew
that the CIA wrs picking rp the tab.
"I never fell 'I was being dictated to of
all," she sa.14L "I found them (the CIA y ,en
with whom abe worked) liberal and I ir,
sighted and open to an esohange of I*ras.
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They wanted to do what we wanted The Senator from North Dakota [Mr. to indoctrinate the universities everywhere
to do-present a healthy, diverse view of the YOUNG) has received unanimous consent and to dominate any and all student confer-
United States." ences on Cold War Issues.
She was backed up by Dennis Shaul, an- that this joiul be printed in the Not all of the facts are yea. at?iland, but
other spokesman for the organization, who RECORD, and d I join with him in my very the liberal-syndrome verdict of guilty as
said: "We had Minnesota schoolteachers who strong endorsement of this editorial, and charged is, of course, already In before the
were further right than Bill Buckley as well I recommend that every Member of this jury has even entered the box. The jury is
as members of Students for a Democratic body read it. a group of three officials heioded by Ui,der
S.clety. Nobody told them what to do." I shall try to answer at this time, very Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenhnch
Bear in mind, except for such American briefly, "What Are We Trying To Do to which has been charged by the President to
participation financed by CIA funds, these the CIA?" I believe that some groups look into this business--into all the farts,
festivals were completely dominated by Com- and not simply into such frets or alleged
munists, all financed and controlled by their are consciously trying to destroy the CIA. facts as the lefties have seen fit to prod Ice.
governments. Yet, says Shaul, "The Hel- That is exactly what will result because The President's instruction:; are for a i e-
sinki festival was a disaster from their point of their activities. I believe, too, that view of any governmental activity that might
of view, and I think we can take a good deal others, not consciously but because they endanger the independence of the education-
of credit for that," do not know the facts, can well con- al community. But the President's instruc-
Well now, why not? Is this really some- tribute to rendering the CIA incapable tions do not stop there. Fos he recall; as
thing that has to be apologized for? Who of meeting the very important and nec- well "the great need of American pritote
is corrupted by such an operation? ' Who organizations to participate In the world
would have eSSaly mission that it has.
paid the Americans' expenses, if coovide t substantial countries,:' he obser uch
the CIA hadn't? I do not object, of course, and would
never object, to some examination of its "provide substantial subsistence for such
"The CIA," says Miss Steinem, "was the activity.-
only (organization) with enough guts-and activities in a proper way. But to at- What this means is that for decades the
foresight to see that youth and student af- tempt to treat that department as other Communists have provided a "substantial
fairs were important." And here, the lady deparments of the Government are -subsidy" to every kind of world student con-
puts her finger on an important point. treated is to totally miss the goal of what vocation so that they could prick these slap-
Of course, it would have been better if this its mission is and to destroy it. posedly open discussions with their cwn
sort of thing could have been done without Mr. President, the CIA has made a people. On the evidence now i v ilable,wnat
subterfuge. It is too bad that private funds great contribution during its lifetime. I CIA has mainly been doing is providing he
were not available for these purposes. It means to non-Communist students to atti rid
would have been healthier, lacking such pri- know of outstanding illustrations, which these student conferences ane offer a point
vate sources, for our government to have I cannot divulge in an open session. The of view different from that oi the Comnai-
appropriated openly the necessary monies, CIA has contributed in a very substantial nists.
through the State Department, U.S. In- way, both in saving money and in gain- If this turns out to be the truth of the
formation Agency or some other "respect- ing information that was valuable, 'far business, and If it turns out that CIA has not
able" ivganizat
al- mortally n beyond any figure in terms of money ng it to par 1 corrupted iAmerican n studenioconvoc tions
mayi have vbeen oavailableu whe
itself.
programs were initiated in the early . that would otherwise have been totally con-
1950s, it would have been advisable to switch I think we are treading on very dan- trolled by Communist stooges, it will be elf-
them away from CIA support as soon as that gerous ground. If we continue in this ficult for some people to believe that a capital
became possible. manner and do not channel this matter offense has been committed here.
No one, moreover, can possibly defend into a proper examination of whatever For the long-observable trut)i is that Coin-
all the details of any one of these operations. Congress wishes to develop as to the munist money for the indoctritation of at?u-
No doubt there have been messy procedures facts-if we do not channel the matter' dents both here and abroad Las been ni,;:t
which, when exposed, prove embarrassing? ino a proper pattern-we will have dem- lavishly expended. Any rational man can
There is, one inevitably recalls, a saying see as much when he looks at some of the
onstrated beyond all doubt our incapac- so-called "student demonstrations" which
about making omelettes and breaking eggs. ity to carry on what has become an es- have been occurring on some American case-
What is beyond comprehension in all sential function of government. In other puses under the undoubted leadership of
this, however, is the monumental naivete
Involved the apparent shock words, if you are going into the business pro-Chinese Communist forces.
But if we want to look at the whole mat .er
these disclosures on the he part of otherwise to reaction, of collecting information, you have to go p
theh
knowledgeable people. After all, what have where the information is, and you have of "subsidy" with any honesty we also want
the outraged gentlemen supposed was going to resort to methods that are effective, to look well beyond what the r CIA alone r.as
on all this time on the sprawling acres out whether you approve of those methods done. laden Some American the foundations most for eaars
at Langley? Of all the endeavors of the CIA, or not. undeniably for veers
offered much shelter er have fer to writers
the effort to create outlets abroad for the I hope that the American people will and others whose opposition to any strong
expression of American opinion must surely ' exercise care and caution and restraint stand anywhere to Communist ansionitan
it rank noted, the milder. This is not, be before they jump to conclusions, and is perfectly clear on the recordp
, a tea party that we have been
engaged in. This is a viciously contested un- that they will judge this matter finally Now, in this columnist's opinion, this is
dercover war against shrewd, dedicated ene- upon the real facts. no crime; for there is nothing in the law or
in American tradition to forbid ihultibillion-
mies who happen to be quite unhampered by Mr. President, I have an article writ- dollar foundations to give the getter of it Co
nice-Nellie scruples. The need to press this ten by the columnist William S. White, the left if they so choose. But it is a lit,le
fight has all along been recognized by the top which appeared in the February 18 issue silly to suppose that this form of Foundati:n
leadership of the country. The procedures of the Washington Post, entitled "Delay money is absolutely chaste or even absolutely
that suddenly evoke such outraged reac- Verdict Till Evidence Is In," and I ask private. The simple fact is that it, too, is
tions were not dreamed up privately by the
CIA. They were directed from the top, and unanimous consent that this article be very near to being public moni?y--that is to
properly so. printed in the RECORD at this point. say Government money-for bad it not all
There being no objection, the article been poured into precisely these foundations
The idea that an organization like the a very great part of it would have been quite
CIA can' conduct its operations while was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, rightfully seized by Government tax cc1.
restrained by a sort of daisy-chain of clergy- as follows: lectors.
men, den mothers and liberal politicians- UNFAIR TO CIA-DELAY VERDICT TILL EVIDENCE, The central point of this piece, however, is
such a notion is simply absurd. For our Is IN simply this: There is a spreading Atnerici ti
part, we hope that the present hysteria will (By William S. White) characteristic of self-indictment, alike of the
be calmed with a rational inquiry conducted This country's many articulate victims of Government under any President and of o?ir
by responsible and realistic men who have the great ultraliberal syndrome of our time- national motives at any time, that amounts
some knowledge of the very serious prob- to a national neurosis.
that is, a quivering fever of conviction that
isms involved. We are inclined to suspect this Government is inevitably wrong in any CIA; let ue us onr h a moment rid be wi the
that they, and the public, will end up con- conceivable CIA; but let all h the other helm c n ir'i
eluding that the world has not, after all, tough u,h backfire to attem the pt to
fires of set off any Communist really wait for all the evidence before oeiFu
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ended-and that, in doing a job which had
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to be done, our intelligence organization has version-have have again automatically convicted
not done too badly, the poor old Central Intelligence Agency.
President, I have before me an editorial iy anti-vietnam war little magazine called Mr. HRUSKA. Mr. President, in
which appeared in the Washington Eve- Ramparts, that for some 14 years the Agency common with all Members of this hod v.
has been giving financial assistance to anti-
ning Star of February 19, 1967, entitled Communist or non-Communist student this Senator has been giving .t great deal
"What Are We Trying To Do to the groups who sees: to resist the incomparably of attention to the developments relatir g
CIA?" more heavily financed Communist program to the proposed Consular Convention br.
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