National student group admits big CIA subsidy
WASHINGTON - (UPI) The National Student Association, the nation's largest campus organization, has been partially subsidized by the Central Intelligence Agency since the early 1850s.
The NSA admitted the CIA subsidy—possibly amounting to as much as $3 million—in a statement Monday night. The organization has chapters on more than 300 U.S. college and university campuses.
The University of Kansas once subscribed to the NSA. However, student government officials at KU did not believe in the political stands which the NSA was taking on national and international issues. Affiliation with the student organization was dropped during the '63-'64 school year.
KAY ORTH, El Dorado senior, said that student officials at KU did not feel it was right to belong to such an organization, and besides, nothing was being derived from it.
The University of Nebraska is the only school in the Big Eight which is in some way affiliated with NSA.
In 1965 the officers of the association, which maintains many ties with student groups abroad, decided that the "clandestine subsidy could no longer be tolerated" and the relationship was broken off, the statement said. It was released by Richard Sterms, NSA vice president for international affairs.
Thus during the present academic year, the remaining funds from sources "which are ultimately CIA" amount to less than five per cent of the NSA's budget of $825,000. Beginning last Jan. 1, all subsidy was ended, Sterns said.
Johnson tells world why attacks resumed
ASKED ABOUT reports that the CIA subsidy had totaled as much as $200,000 a year—nearly a quarter of the annual NSA budget—Sterns refused direct comment. But he indicated that the figure was accurate.
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Johnson sought today to soften the impact that the end of the pause in U.S. bombing of North Vietnam had on worldwide hopes for peace in Southeast Asia.
Explaining his decision to resume the bombing, the President renewed his pledge to respond promptly to any signal from Hanoi that it seriously wanted to end the fighting.
son to order bombers back to the Communist targets in the North.
It was the total absence of any such sign during a six-day lull in American air attacks—including 42 hours beyond the lunar new year ceasefire—that caused John-
The President, in a statement late Monday, a few hours after carrier-based warplanes hit the southern end of North Vietnam, said he had no choice but to order a resumption of attacks. The only response to the pause, he said, was intensified Communist infiltration of South Vietnam.
Johnson's statement was noticeably low-keyed, containing no harsh charges against Hanoi while emphasizing that Ho Chi Minh could initiate peace talks any time he is really ready to negotiate.
Sterns said association officers and a few staff members knew of the link with the CIA, but most of those who participated in the organization's programs did not.
The NSA disclosure was not the first reported link between the CIA and the nation's campuses. Michigan State University admitted last April that five CIA agents had infiltrated a government-financed university aid mission to South Vietnam from 1955 to 1960. When it discovered the agents the university promptly fired them and dropped the program.
There have also been reports of other CIA campus operations, among them the Center for International Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Daily Kansan Tuesday, February 14, 1967
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