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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1967)
Prosecution Unlikely for NSA Officers From AP, CPS Reports The government is unlikely to prosecute the students who told of their relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency, says the general counsel for that or ganization. Lawrence R. Houston said “these boys were pushed into a corner" by disclosure that the CIA had financed international activities of the National Student Association. He said intent to breach na tional security must be shown be fore a prosecution can be achiev ed. Houston said in a telephone in terview Sunday night, however, that the students do not “have it carte blanche” to tell every thing about their dealings with the CIA. “But I can’t conceive the gov ernment would prosecute any of them for what they have said so far,” he said. Some NS A board members said last week after the link was re vealed that they had been threat ened with jail sentences for breach of security oaths if they disclosed the CIA dealings. Another allegation in the case was made Sunday by The Na tion magazine, which said grants from CIA-backed foundations went to Operations and Policy Re search, Incorporated, a subsidiary of the U.S. Information Sendee. 1 A long list of foundations and . organisations ranging from the ' World Assembly of Youth in | Brussels, Belgium, to the Ameri can Newspaper Guild, to the AFL | CIO in Washington have been named as involved with the CIA ; by sources and publications. Some, such as the newspaper union, have denied the link. * * * The ‘ new left" and the "new right” have united in their oppo sition to the National Student Association, following disclosure this week of the 12-year relation ship between NSA and the CIA. Paul Potter, a founder of Stu dents for a Democratic Society, and a former national affairs vice president of* NS A. charged that the association's current officers “are still lying" about sources of NSA's funds. Potter charged that "the pat tern of lying is just built into the very guts of the organization." He said a thorough investigation of the CIA connection should be conducted, and called for an NSA constitutional convention On the political right, the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) issued a statement ex pressing "deep shock thnt the CIA should secretly attempt to Influence student opinion.” But a YAK national vice • chairman also commented, "We are absolutely astounded to dis cover that federal funds in huge amounts have been placed in the hands of irresponsible leftist* who do not represent American students." For several years. YAF has led a "Stop NSA” campaign, charging that the association's politics were left-wing and against the national interest YAF called for a Congresslon House Says Administrations Aware of Link Since 1952 WASHINGTON (AP)—A spe cial House subcommittee ques tioned CIA officials Friday and then broke the usual secrecy rule to announce that “every adminis tration” since 1952 has known of the spy agency’s subsidy of the i National Student Association. The House Armed Services CIA Subcommittee issued the statement as reports whipped through the capital over who knew and who didn’t know about CIA Hires Many UO Graduates The Central Intelligence Agen cy was the largest single recruit er of 1966 University graduates, Eugene Dils, director of the Placement Service, said Friday. Dils said the CIA hires an es timated 20 or more University students—more than any other single organization in 1966 — but he couldn’t give exact fig ures because his office is never really sure when the CIA ac tually hires a graduate. “It’s kind of cloak and dager ish,” he concluded. “I have never been able to have the recruiter tell me di rectly they have hired anybody.” He said the only clues he re ceived were from the recruiter’s Far East Scholar Talks on Kyogen Richard McKinnon from the University of Washington Far East Institute will show a film and lecture on the Kyogen form of Japanese theater at 4 p.m. to day in Room 101 of the Student Union. McKinnon is a nationally rec ognized expert on Kyogen. The film and lecture is spon sored by the Asian Studies Com mittee, University Theater and SU Activity Board. The lecture is free and the pub lic is invited. suggestions that the placement service not continue to try to place a particular student. The first public statement that the CIA employed many Uni versity graduates came out dur ing Friday’s World Affairs Brief ing Center discussion on the Na tional Student Association-CIA controversy. It came from Clar ence Thurber, deputy director of the Institute of International Studies. Dils said that once a student enters the CIA, his office seldom hears from students. “Once they enter those walls they are anony mous.” He said that the CIA recruit er, Tom Culhane, who visits the University twice a year is “prob ably one of the most thorough recruiters on campus '’ Culhane — contacted through the Portland Office of the FBI— said, “We’ve always considered the UO a good source.” He also visits other campuses in Oregon, Washington, Montana and Idaho. Culhane said he interviews about 70 to 100 students every year in “many fields” including chemistry, math, physics, geo nology, accounting, economics, public administration, library science, and history. "A fair proportion” of the in terviews are hired, he said. Cul hane’s last visit to the Univer sity was in the first week of February and he will return in the fall. The GRADUATED PUMP Look-Sex! Now That We Have Your Attention CHECK OUR LOW PUMP PRICES You Can't Buy Better Gas at Any Price COMPLETE AUTO SERVICE 40% off—All Labor 25% off—Hancock Oil Filters, Tires FREE—Air, Water and CIGARETTES - 25c a pack Moores Hancock 1905 Agate , the politically hot CIA under I cover payments to the nation's biggest college student organiza j tion. One source confirmed that the i Senate group which supervises i CIA activities had known about the payments for some time. This Senate committee report edly has been pressing CIA offi j cials to transfer some other ex j penditures to departments where they would show up in the pub ! lie budget—and avoid embarras sing disclosures such as the CIA ' NSA financial link. Included in these are CIA funds being used in pacification and rehabilitation programs in South Vietnam. Meanwhile, the NSA’s govern ing board was nearing a show down on whether—and how—to remain in operation. The group is considering giv ing up its overseas activities in ■ the belief that its representatives 1 will be viewed henceforth as spies. The 10-man supervisory board abruptly shifted its meeting from one Washington hotel room ' to another one down the hall 'after fears were expressed that | the first room was bugged. An informant said the NSA of ficers were convinced the original meeting room was rigged with secret listening devices. ASUO Petitions Support Pass-Foil The ASUO is sponsoring a pe , tition drive to show student feel ing on the pass-no-pass option which will come before the fac ulty at their March 1 meeting. “We feel that through this pe tition drive we will be able to show the faculty that there is student support for the pass-no j pass option. “We encourage interested stu-j dents to take the initiative to do more than just sign their name,” said Dan Allison, senator-: at-large. The booths are located on the! Student Union Terrace and in! front of Commonwealth Hall. j The pass - no - pass proposal adopted by the ASUO Senate says i that any course above the Uni versity’s requirement of 150 graded hours can be taken on a pass-no-pass basis except those courses fulfilling departmental graduation requirements. We now have a complete supply of ST. PATRICK'S DAY CARDS Drop in and look at our complete line of • contemporary cards • knick-knacks • party supplies EUGENES HALLMARK STORE 43 W. Broadway 343-0114 Philip Werdell, editor of the student magazine "The Modern tor” who is acting as a press liai son man for the NSA supervisory board, told newsmen: "The CIA has intimidated the students by means of threats ranging from character assassi nation to putting pressure upon the establishment' to reject them from responsible roles in Ameri can society." While Werdell was denouncing the CIA, the House subcommittee was praising the intelligence agency in a statement after ques tioning CIA Director Richard Helms. It said the CIA aid was given at the students' request "to count er Communist attempts to take over foreign student organiza tions by making it possible for American students holding inde pendent views to participate in international meetings." "The program of financial as sistance to the National Student Association has been known to every administration since 1952,” the statement added. After the CIA-NSA disclosure. President Johnson ordered a top level inquiry into activities by the CIA or other government agencies that could endanger the integrity and independence of the educational community. That survey has begun. State Department press officer Robert J. McCloskev said Friday al Investigation to determine whether there had been a "viola* lion by NSA of the federal law prohibiting tax-exempt groups from .seeking to inlluence legis lation before Congress" and whe tlier the CIA subsidy violate" “the federal law prohibiting the use of federal funds to inlluence log ialation before Congress” David Jonoa. YAK’s executive director, said he expected NSA to collapse, and added, "We won't miss It very much.” He called the current NSA contro versy "a lesson for the student left." Commenting that "this Is not going to hinder the activity" of the student right, Jones said the collapse of NSA would allow "the student right and the student left to begin to hold their own for ums." 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