BRITISH STUDENTS STIRRED BY CIA CASE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500190010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2004
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 21, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN

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By Karl L. Meyer / The sense of the board meet-
washino on Post Porcign service ing, according to NUS seere-
LONLON, Feb. 20 - Dis- tary Trevor Fiske, was that the
? closures that the U.S. National British organization "naturally
Student Association has re- regretted what had happened
ceived secret subsidies from but now felt it was something
the Central Intelligence in the past."
A^:ency caused a kickback in Nevertheless, the disclosure
in today. that beginning in 1951 NSA
Geoffrey Martin, 24, presi- was getting annual sums re-
'
dent of Britain
s National portedly as high as $400,000
Union of Students flew early from the CIA has had a power-
today to the headquarters in ful demoralizing effect here.
Leyden, The Netherlands, of NSA took the lead in organ-
t e ron7 Co mmunist Interna- I izing the non-Communist ISC
.tional Stt cie::. Conference to at a meeting in Stockholm in
see whether :.is organization 1950. The aim was to counter
should pull out the pro-Communist Interna-
.cerning future British rela-
tions with. the NSA. The board
decided to continue its ties
with NSA since the secret sub-
.sidy'reportedly ended in 1963.
Student Affairs,
CIA conduit.
reputedly a
'Britain's NUS represents
366,000 students in 670 univer-
sities and colleges. It receives
some foundation and govern-
ment grants but finances the
bulk of its international activi-
ties from student subscriptions
and profits from a holiday
travel bureau. N
The NUS does get direct
government grants from the
British Council, an official
agency set up in 1934 with
Foreign Office support to as-
sist overseas cultural projects.
The Council has given the
NUS a grant of some $8400 to
assist a student exchange pro-
granm with the Soviet Union.
aligned student organizations i Another $2800 was contributed
are now affiliated to the ISC.1for an exchange program with
But what raised doubts about; Chile.
the ISC were reports that it ? Besides this, the NUS has
had received some funds from also sent $2800 to help defend
the Foundation of Youth and students in South Africa who
have run afoul of racialist
apartheid laws.. This sum was
contributed by an unnamed in-
dustrial trust with interests in
South, Africa.
"But we are certain that it
is private," an NUS spokesman
said of the trust. We verified
its nature before taking a shill-
ing."
Next month, the NUS ' will
be among 10 Western Euro-
pean student associations par-
ticipating in Edinburgh at a
conference on European edu-
cation. NSA is to send an ob-?
server to this meeting, which
the ISC organized.
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