IMPRESSIVE LIST OF CIA FRONT ORGANIZATIONS
By C.D.Cavanagh
Fresh revelations continue to appear in the American press on organizations that have been receiving secret finances from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The purpose of the CIA money is quite clear. The March 6 issue of Newsweek magazine put it plainly enough when it stated, "What the CIA was doing, of course, was secretly underwriting a miscellany of American organizations abroad, sometimes as cover for intelligence-gathering, more often to mount a social-—democratic counterforce to Communist propaganda."
Thus, the CIA not only wanted to improve its ability to spy, but, more importantly, it also wanted to shore up the pro-imperialist "left."
The press has made the CIA's method of financing organizations explicit. First, the CIA set up a series of dummy foundations. These included:
Andrew Hamilton Fund . Kentfield Fund Appalachian Fund Michigan Fund Beacon Fund Monroe Fund Borden Trust Price Fund Broad-High Foundation San Miguel Fund Charles Price Whitten Trust Tower Fund Chesapeake Foundation Victoria Strauss Fund Edsel Fund Warden Trust Gotham Foundation Williford-Telford. Fund Heights Fund Wynnewood Fund James Carlisle Trust
Then, these outfits transferred the CIA money over to several authentic foundations with whom agreements had been reached to act as conduits to the intended recipients. These conduit groups included:
Baird (David, Josephine, and J.M.Kaplan Fund, Inc. Winfield) Foundation, Inc. John Hay Whitney's Trust Foundation for Youth and for Charitable Purposes Student Affairs Marshall Foundation Granary Fund M.D.Anderson Foundation Hobby Foundation Pan American Foundation Hoblitzelle Foundation Rabb (Sidney and Esther) Independence Foundation Charitable Foundation J. Frederick Brown Foundation
The eventual recipients of the CIA secret contributions included a wide variety of organizations which had only one key thing in common -- a policy of anti-Communisn. This was enough to make them useful for the nefarious purposes of the CIA. The recipients that have been named thus far include:
AFL-CIO Foreign Department American Newspaper Guild African-American Institute American Society of African Culture African American Labor Center Asian Student Press Bureau American Council for the Interna- Atwater Research Program in tional Commission of Jurists North Africa American Federation of State, County Berliner Verein zur Forderung der and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO Publizistik in den Entwicklungs- American Friends of the Middle East landern American Friends Service Committee Committee of Correspondence, Inc. American Fund for Free Jurists Conference on the Atlantic Community American Institute of Free Labor Congress for Cultural Freedom Development Congrés pour la Liberté de la Culture
Council for International Programs for Youth Leaders and Social Workers Council of European National Youth Committees Crossroads Africa Encounter magazine Food and Restaurant. Workers Secretariat Foreign Policy Association Foreign Policy Research Institute of the University of Pennsylvania Fund for International Social and Economic Education Gambia National Youth Council Guyana Assembly of Youth Independent Research Service Inter-American Affairs Branch of the Public Service International Inter-American Federation of Working Newspapermen's Organizations | ; Inter-American Labor Organization (ORIT) International Confederation of Free Trade Unions International Cooperative Development Fund International Development Foundation International Federation of Journalists International Federation of Petroleum Workers International Food and Drink Workers Federation International Student Conference International Union of Socialist Youth International Union of Young Christian Democrats International Youth Center, New Delhi Institute of International Education Institute of International Labor Research, Inc. Institute of Public Administration National Council of Churches National Education Association National Federation of Canadian University Students National Newman Club Federation National Student Association National Student Press Council of India North American Secretariat of Pax Romana Oficina Relacionadora Movimientos Estudiantiles Universitarios Operations and Policy Research, Inc. Pax Romana, International Secretariat People-to-—People Project Hope Radio Free Europe Retail Clerks International Association School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University Synod of Bishops of the Russian Church Outside of Russia United States Student Press Association United States Youth Council World Assembly of Youth World University Service Young Christian Workers Young Women's Christian Association
More revelations are coming out all the time. Ramparts magazine, which set off the whole controversy with its exposure of the CIA financing behind the National Student Association, is reported to be preparing a special issue to examine the CIA's role in several other organizations.
ARREST MADE IN KENNEDY CASE
By Arthur Maglin
More and more doubt is being cast on the conclusions of the report issued by President Johnson's Commission on the Assassination of President