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.
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, 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.
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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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