REPORT BY KATZENBACH COMMITTEE

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 2004
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• Publication Date: March 31, 1967
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31 March I4)67
MEMORANDUM FOR: See Distribution
SUBJECT: Repgrt by Katzenbach Committee
1. Attached is a copy of the retort from the
Katzenbach Committee, together with The President's
statement of endorse.lnent.
Although lhtr rilrc>rI. s SIn1omeilf oI' l'ulIcy is cicurr
enough In Lo'r?ms c)1' wjla t. the Agency can no l onkc?r? c1o, Lucre
are many questions ypt to he resolved as to what we can do
or, more precisely, as to the operational methods wh.l.ch can
be employed in the ipnplementation of authorized activities.
An effort will be made to clarify these questions as quickly
as possible, and will be in touch with all affected
components as we go along.
3. Area Divisions should note that its
projects do not fall within the purview of the report's
Statement of Policy as long as they do not involve the util-
ization of American-)rased educational or private volitiitary
orl;arrizaI.Ions arc cover or' I'rirrclinh III triIn ut.Ioil. I n I. 14)n o I' Anu?r? I t?st n I iid I v I club I.,3 nN rr V4111(,14 ue clc)nc)r?r?r I t.
PO I?M 1 1.1 o(I rltrcler I lie IIt?w }.;rotIIId ru I o i ;,rrr long u.-4 t ho o1?giIII I-
zaLions with which tI)ey are ussociaLed do not l)ecornc; Involved.
However, this is one of the areas in whch many questions
need clarification,
Chief Of Opera Lions
Att.;rchmcnt
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I'Clit IMMEDIATE REL,EASIE MARCH 291 1967
Office of the White lIoune Preen Secretary
'FillE, WHITE HOUSE
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
I have received the report from the committee which I appoir1ted on February 15
to rcivi(,-v/ rrla-tionnhipU ))e,twre n the, Central Intelligence Agency and private
Arnorica o voluntary or8anifaatieee-u. Thin coiieru tleeee ceerei-i.Hhecl of Under
Secretary of State Nicho1ati lSatzenba-ch, as Chairman, Secretary of I-iealth,
Education, and 'Nelfare Sohn Gardner, and CIA Director Richard Ite?lms.
I accept this committeeta proposed statement of policy-and am directing all
agencies of the government to implement it fully.
We will also give serious consideration to the committee's recommendation
"that the government should promptly develop and establish a public-private
mechanism to provide public funds openly for overseas activities of organiza-e
tions which are adjudged deserving, in the national interest, of public support."
Tea review concrete wars of accomplishing this objective, I am requesting
Seecreetary Runk to nerve an chnirrrran of a special comrnittoe which will include
represetutatives from arts .Exocutivo, the Congress, and the privates corm itnit.y.
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Dear Mr. President:
The committee which you appointed on February 15, 1967 has sought,
pursuant to your request:
---To review relationships between government agencies, notably the
Central Intelligence Agency, and educational and private voluntary organiza-
tions which operate abroad; and
-a To recommend means to help assure that such organizations can
play th.oir proper and vital roll, :;broad.
The cnnm-nittee has held a nurrrber of n-tfetings, interviewed c]o one' of indi.viduale
in and out of :;UVtlrttrnr`tlt, ittl't tt'v I, rl hoti'Jit.n(Is of pa geit ill tF c
have surveyed the relevant activities oi u number of federal agencies. And
we have reviewed in particular and specific detail the relationship between
CIA and each relevant organization.
Our report, supplemented with supporting classified, docu.nnenta Ql~~m.. . .
In summary, the committee offers two basic recommendations:
,l 1. It should be the policy of the United States Government that no feclo.r.:x1,
agency sihr,ll provide any covert financial aanistanct, or support, (Ili-act or
indirect, to any of the nation's educational or private voluntary organizations.
2. The Government should promptly develop and'establiah a public-private
mechanism to provide public funds openly for overseas activities of organization.
which are adjud
ed d
g
eserving, in the national interest, of public support,
The years immediately after World War II saw a surge 'Of communist activity
in organi7ationa throulg})out the world. Students, scientists, veterans,
women and Iprofeooionrel groups were organivr(1 into ilnt.(frnational badi~
s
which spoke in they cadences, rrclvoc,ted t}r(3 policies, and furthered the Into rests
f
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site communist bloc. Much of this activity was organized, direetod, and
financed covertly by cornrnunidt governments,
American organizationq, reacted from the first. The young men and women
who founled the United ,States National St'idednt Association, for example, did
so precisely to give American youth the capacity to hold their own in the
international arena. Bt}t the imuortance of students as a force in international
events had yet to become widely*
idely understood and NSA found it difficult to
attract private support for its international activities Accordingly, 'thg United
States Government, acting through the Central Intelligence Agenc;?, provided
Ht.IJJF,()rt I'm' this over(ean work.
Wf- ltrtve taken N,',;A att an oxrrtt?tplo. While no trwtefltl pt'rr1)oHe Would he
lit, -V01!
by cltttailing any other CIA programs of ausistatice to~)rivate American voluntary
organizations, one fundamental print should he clearly stated: such assistance
was given pursuant to National Security Council policies beginning in October,
1951 and with the, subsequent concurrence of hit,h-level senior intordepartmental
review committ
i
ee s
n the last four Adminiatratio,\y. In Docombor, 1960, in a
cla:rsified re port submitted after a year of study, a public-priviatte Prcaid3ntial
Committee on Information Activities Abroad rtpecifica,lly ontlornad bothl,ovovt
d c
a
n
woVCrt proarrtmtf including thoso ansiotnd by CIA,
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Our study, undertaken at a later time, discloses new developments which
suggest that we should now re-examine these policies. The American public,
for example, has become increasingly aware of the importance of the complex.
forms of international competition between free societies and corn--m unist
ctt;jten. An thin awarono(n hue grown, no have potontictl Uourcou of support
for the overseas work of private organizations.
There is no precise index to these sources, but their increase is suggested
by the growth in the number of private foundations from 2, 220 in 1955 to
18, 000 in 1967. Hence it is increasingly possible. for organizations like
NSA to seek support for overseas activities from:open sources..
Just as sources of support have increased, so has the number of American
groups engaged in ove.rseas work. According, to the Agency for International
Development, there has. been a nine-fold increase just among voluntary
organizations which participate in technical assistance abroad, rising from
24 in 1951 to 220 in 1965. Thu total of S?'j_private American volunt;i ry groups
now working ove rheas may well exceed a thousand.
The number of such organizations which has been assisted covertly. is a
small fraction of the total. The vast preponderance have had no relationship
with the government or have accepted only open government funds, -- which
greatly exceed funds supplied covertly.
The work of private American organizations, in a host of fields, has been of
groat benefit to scores of countries. That benefit must not be impaired by
foreign doubts about the independence of those organizations. The committee
believes it is essential for the United States to underscore that independence
Immediately and decinively.
For these rearsona, the committee recommends the following:
STATEM'NT"OF POLICY
No federal agency shall provide any covert financial asgistanc..e
or support, direct or indirect, to any of the nation's educational
or private voluntary organizations. This policy specifically
applies to all foreign activities of such organizations and it
reaffirms present policy with respect to their domestic activities.
Whore oter.h support hen been given, it will be tcrminatcd an
fit IIchIy it ti pt-bitINo without (1estroying vftittttl,h, Irivit Io nrrltitI I I V'11 It oil it
before they can gook now means of support.'
We believe that, particularly in the light of reccrit.Iublicity, establi,911ment
of a clear policy of this kind is the only way for the ic{overnment to carry out
two important respons}bilities. One is to avoid anyjimplication that govern-
mental assistance, because it is given covertly, is used to acct the P-)11 Cie a
of private voluntary groups. The second responsibility is to make it `lilair: ~.-~.
all foreign countries that the activities of private American groups abroad
are, in fact, private,
'T'hin committee has nought carefully to an sons the impact of thin Statement of
Policy tit CIA. We hove roviowtid tittrh relovitt-t prti,i, rsttt of nn-tittttttt~`t~ tatrt'it+ci
out I,y th.i Agency in caiw - l-y-shire,, dot;til. As it *0 It. of thin ttcrutiuy, the
Car>ttsitiet, is tiatieflod that application of the Staten ent of Policy will not
unduly handicap the Agency in the ,.exorcise of itii national security resl,onsibil-
iti'ts, Indeed, it should be noted that, otarting well before the t;ppoai-ante of
*0ri the b.nia of our cane-by-cane review, we oxpoct that Ilia process
of termination can be largely -- perh.apa entirely --~ completed by December 31,
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certain of the rso a0ivi tiers.
The committee also recommends that the implementation of this policy be
supervised by the senior interdepartmental review committee which already
passes on proposed CIA activities and which would review and assist in the
process of disengagement.**
2: NEW METHODS OF' SUPPORT
While our first recommendation seeks to insure the independence of private
voluntary organizations, it does not deal with an underlying problem how
to tr-;j,port the national need for, and tiro intrinuic worth of, their efforts
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