PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1967 PAGE SIX THE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, MAI~CH 1,1967 I I Friends of SNCC Presents NOTHING BUT A MAN Sunday, March 5 Room 3K, Michigan Union The CIA! By LEWIS GULICK WASHINGTON (P)-In the fur- or over Central Intelligence Agen- cy handouts to students, no one] is questioning the CIA's legal au- thority to spend large amounts of the taxpayers' money in secret. The 1949 Central Intelligence Agency Act says the CIA director may spend money without regard to the provisions of the law and regulations relating to the expen- diture of government funds." He can do this on a voucher certified by him alone. Currently presiding over the far-flung intelligence operation is a 53 year old former newspaper- man, Richard Helms, a Navy lieu- tenant in World War II who rose through the ranks in agencies which developed into the CIA. Nor does CIA have to report to Congress or to any federal de- partment. It is an independent agency responsible to the Presi- dent. It does give some informa- tion about its activities to a des- Admission-$1.00 Shows at 7 and 9 I ignated group of Congress' mem- The National Student Associa- bers. tion and some other groups get- The secrecy laid down by law ting CIA aid have, in fact, taken and practiced by the CIA is in the some positions critical of U.S. pol- tradition of the spy business: for icy. Defenders of the subsidies espionage to succeed, it must be say, however, that the students did kept quiet. a highly effective job overseas Thus the spreading disclosures when they found the anti-Yankee about CIA payments are not to drive led not by "liberals" but by CIA's liking. And the publicity in hard-core communists. each case means that even with- A variety of undercover meth- out the presidentially ordered in- ods of payments have been devel- vestigation, CIA would probably oped by the CIA. Foundations, want to end that operation. trusts and special funds have been Subsidiesto the National Stu- pipelines for CIA payments to dent Association began at a time non-government organizations. when government officials and One version works this way: some internationally minded stu- Foundation X is set up under con- dents were concerned about the trol of a person working for or global Communist campaign to trusted by CIA. The CIA becomes take over non-government inter- an anonymous donor to Founda- national groups and use them for tion X, which in turn gives direct- the Kremlin's ends. ly to private organization Y or Some American students willing gives indirectly through some oth- to travel to international meetings er group which makes donations. to contest the well-financed Red This way the sources of the delegations lacked funds. Govern- funds are concealed and the num- ment officials decided the money ber of persons knowing about it for the overseas U.S. student act,- can be kept to a minimum. In vities should be paid secretly, so as some cases even the officers of the to avoid opening the Americans to private organizations were un- propaganda charges of being gov- aware, they said, that money their ernment agents. Hence the job organizations received really came went to CIA. from the CIA. Rank-and-file This is the official version. members of the organizations Another reason for CIA involve- generally knew nothing about it. ment, according to some who re- In historical perspective, CIA is call the circumstances 15 years the postwar embodiment of gov- ago, was the uproar over the com- ernment intelligence activities munism in government charges by that date back to the earliest days Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R- Wis. of the Republic. American collegians then as The main U.S. intelligence work now tended to criticize U.S. for- was, until World War II, carried eign policy, and some were far left on by the armed ,services and by by McCarthy's standards. Open the State Department. The first government subsidies of students four CIA directors after the war who strayed from official policy were admirals or generals. could have come under McCarthy's But during the war, intelligence attack. CIA's secret payments mushroomed into a huge and com- were hidden. plicated business. New cloak and s Privileged Secrecy: A Historic Controversy RICHARD HELMS sidies for overseas student activi- ties are only a fi action of the, tI tai. By general acknowleigment,t CIA's annual budget runs into< hundreds of millions of Dollars,< nst of it hidden in the multi- W."ion-dollar approapriations Con- gres: votes for defense. It probably employs severall thoi sand persons, though heie' again the numbers are seret The CIA law provides for secrecy on "titles, salaries, or numbers ofI personnel employed by the agen- cy." i Proportionately, only a small! percentage of CIA men are over- seas in spy roles-although there is probably hardly a country1 Lrcund the world without some sort of CIA presence. Many personnel are at work on such projects as researcl on for-, eign economic and scientific de-; velopments, monitoring and ana- lyzing foreign propaganda broad- a sasts, compiling data on foreign political personalities and organi- zations. For instance, CIA runs what it believed to be the world's single most comprehensive system of in- formation storage and retrieval. It has translation computers that can convert Russian texts into English at 30,000 words an hour. Its global radio listening service relays im- poratnt foreign broadcasts to1 Join The Daily Sports Staff dagger outfits sprang up, most no- tably the Office of Strategic Ser- vices. With the end of the hot war and the beginning of the cold, the in- telligence functions o'itside of those that were strictly military were lumped in 1947 into a new agency, the CIA. Today CIA is one of the federal government's biggest operations. Because of the secrecy, few people' know just how large it is. Its sub- Washington almost instantane- ously. Against this broad range of in- telligence gathering, the recently disclosed CIA subsidies to student and other private groups have been a relatively small operation undertaken in the first instance at White House orders-not on CIA initiative. There is some indication that former President Harry S. Tru- man opposed CIA getting into ac- tions to achieve political goals, as distinguished from merely collect- ing intelligence. Writing in 1963, the year after the CIA-linked Bay of Pigs fiasco, Truman, who was president when the CIA was created, said: "I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations. Some of the complications and embarr- r",sment that I think we have ex- perienced are in part attributable to the fact that this quiet intelli- gence arm of the President has been so removed from its intended role that it is being interpreted as a symbol of sinister and mysteri- ous foreign intrigue-and a sub- ject for cold war enemy propa- ganda. "I, therefore, would like to see the CIA be restored to its original assignment as the intelligence arm of the President, and whatever else it can properly perform in that special field-and that its op- erational duties be terminated or properly used elsewhere." The White House now says, however, that CIA support of Am- erican private organizations was started by the Truman admini- stration under policies set by the National Security Council in 1952 and continued thereafter. Calls for closer supervision of the CIA have erupted again in the wake of the latest disclosures, but it remains to be seen whether they will have much effect. Last July the Senate-after a rare secret debate-voted 61 to 28 against a move to widen the select panel of seven Armed Services and Appropriations Committee mem- members which had been privy to CIA matters. However, the chairman of the group, Sen. Richard B. ,Russell, D- Ga., broadened the membership last month to include three For- eign Relations Committee mem- bers. Within the executive branch, the CIA is supposed to be supervis- ed by the National Security Coun- cil and by the P'esident's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Its budget comes in for a Budget Bu- reau review as do those of other agencies. 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