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...quoted indirectly as saying the Independent had served as a "tax-deductible front" for a $300 contribution made by Richard G. Rockefeller to Miss Shiras's group. I never made such a statement. Indeed, the Independent has never served as a conduit for the funneling of funds to this or any other student group...
...Shiras told her committee members her search had been funded by the "Independent," and instructed them not to talk about the project to other media. Checking this report with Jennings, a CRIMSON reporter was assured the "Independent" was not buying stories from news sources but merely acting as a conduit for expression of Rockefeller's eleemosynary impulses. As to the advantages of such an arrangement over an outright gift, we cannot, and did not, do more than merely suggest one possibility. Jennings said to the CRIMSON reporter, "You guys do this sort of thing...
...World Bank. Don Price was Deputy Chairman of the Research and Development Board of the Defense Department, 1952-53, Associate Director of the Ford Foundation, 1953-54, and Vice President of the Ford Foundation, 1954-59. He is a trustee of the Twentieth Century Fund (a suspected CIA conduit), the Rand Corporation, and the Rhodes Trust. Raymond Vernon was Assistant Chief of the International Resources Division of the State Department, 1946-48, the Deputy Director of the Office of Economic Defense and Trade Policy, 1951, and Acting Director, 1954. He is a member of the joint Presidential Congressional Commission...
Tough New Agency. SIPC would be more than a conduit for cash. It would be, in effect, a powerful new brokerage-regulatory agency. Its officers could, for example, examine the books of brokerages to determine if they were on the verge of insolvency, order changes in the way brokerages keep their books, arrange mergers to rescue troubled firms and, as a last resort, ask a federal court to appoint a trustee for a failing broker...
...movements of anticolonial and anti-imperial liberation. For example, I was specifically invited to the Center nine long years ago in order to undertake a study of anti-British political movements in Africa. Out of that work, which was financed by Center funds derived from non-govermental (and non-conduit) sources, emerged a book. The Rise of Nationalism in Central Africa (1965), and a variety of articles-all sponsored by the Center...