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When they heard that the National Educational Television channels were going to run a 49-minute excerpt of a documentary filmed in North Viet Nam, 33 U.S. Congressmen signed a letter accusing NET of "acting as a conduit of enemy propaganda." It was precipitate on two counts: 1) they had not seen the film, and 2) if they had, they would lave realized that there was no cause for alarm. Northth Viet Nam: A Personal Report, filmed by British Journalist Felix Greene, was so transparently tailored that only a twelve-year-old would buy its presumed authenticity...
...Mercedes and Harlingen, where a Spanish-speaking radio station ominously warned: "Get the lame, blind and old people to high land." But there is no high land in Harlingen (pop. 41,100), a citrus-market city 36 ft. above sea level, and the pitifully inadequate Arroyo Colorado became a conduit delivering the full fury of the flood. Beulah had closed the highways north; southward seethed the Rio Grande; eastward lay the Gulf, and in from the west swept the flood. Harlingen was trapped...
Humphrey Doermann's report on CIA financing gave the University a clean bill of health--almost. Doermann, assigned by Dean Ford to investigate possible CIA influence, told the Faculty Tuesday that Central Intelligence Agency "conduit" foundations have channeled $456,000 into the University from 1960 to 1966. Conduit foundations, unlike so-called "dummy" organizations, do not receive all their money from the CIA, and therefore there is no proof that the agency's dollars actually went to the University. There were no strings attached to the aid, so the government could not directly influence research or prevent its results from...
...three European cities on his Ph.D thesis for Harvard, supported by a grant from the Catherwood Foundation. The Catherwood Foundation is listed by the Congressional Quarterly as a CIA "cooperator," which means it is not as CIA-controlled as a "dummy," but more involved with the CIA than a "conduit...
Simon is former assistant director of the Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs, a WUS-affiliated organization recently exposed by Ramparts magazine as a conduit for CIA funds. WUS is a church-related federation of campus and service organizations, many of which, including the National Student Association, have admitted receiving CIA monies...