DISCLOSE AID FROM CIA TO CHURCH UNIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200580015-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: February 22, 1957
• Content Type: NSPR

Approve4fo,r f e easq 1999/0'9/17: CIA-RDP75-00149
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edorai efforts to investigate
e foundation links" to 'the !
'The council had no knowI- I
dg,i at any time that any of
uls w iii CIA invoivem:lent,"
C added. I
The proposal to testify
1111stanies c o u n c i l programs'. ` M 1 v , Lain u in ms on-
have received financial assist-;stitut[om shall abridge the right,
ante from foundations allegedly:,of persons lawfully assembled,
linked to the ecnt'raI intelIi-!1n any public building v~Ydch is
supported in whole or in part r
ae : agency.
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dw1n Espy fd
.. .,,uns, to participate in non-
executive head of the council, ,denominational prayer."
told ~ t h o council's general The d e c i s 1 o n to testify.?
board, which is meeting in''agairist adoption of the amehd-
Chic go, that at most, the'rnent, a committee report said,
foundations 'gave only $7,000 or was. based on the conviction 1:
$8,000 to council activities. ,
that the first amendment to the;`
The board also authorized a'Constitution provides sufficient.
plan to testify in opposition protection for the religious-
to a prayer amendment to the 1liberty.
Constitution proposed by Sen. Phan Is Told r
Diri sen [.1L., I11.]. I.
If the board authorizes coup- A
Details Arc Told oil ;representatives to testify
Detailing the aid f r o m before the Senate judiciary
foundations said to have 're- conlniittee concerning the pro-
ceived funds from the CIA, Dr. posed amendment, stating that
Espy said that the Foundation ? the amendment appears unnec-
for Youth and Student Affairs essary and possibly frivolous. r
contributed between $200 and The ccomrnittee . ?report said
$300 in '955 to pay expenses of that the amenchnent gives no
a conference sponsored by. the 'indication that the prayers to),
National S t u.d e n t Christian wliic:,i it refers will be volun-
federation, a council affiliate. +tary, and if they are voluntary,
In addition, he said, last year they c re permissible now. To
and this year the council has I amend the Constitution to per-
received approximately $2,000 mit acts not forbidden, is
from the Kaplin Foundation to unnecessary and a frivolous use
assist the council in its poverty, of a grave and rarely invoked
rights program, expedient, the report states.
For several ---?-
j Scars before
1955, the David and Winfield
Board Foundation contributed
$3,000 and $4,000 annually to the
national co ncil for direct relief
grog ar s in the 'United States
and ovcrscas, Espy reported.
'hC ;aircl.Foundation went out
of existence two years ago.
Pledges to Help Probe
Espy said that the council is ;
"only too glad to cooperate to
the fullest in any and all'i
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BY RICFIARD PIIiLBRtCt
~ The 'general secretary of thc~
National Council of Churches;
said yesterday that in three
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