Word: nsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the reporters, however, were thinking past the NSA statement to the week coming up, in which they would get their chance to expose the Central Intelligence Agency's complex network of domestic fronts. "The NSA is piddling stuff," one of them chuckled. "Would you believe the AFL-CIO?" The New York Times had five men working full time on tracing CIA finances. Ramparts magazine had a roomful of documents in San Francisco on the CIA's domestic affairs...
...there has never been any doubt that the CIA would survive the or-deal. The National Student Association however, may have been damaged irrevocably. Its most important characteristic--its avowed independence--has been discredited. At past international conferences, members of the American delegation would often point out that NSA was different from--and by implication, superior to--all the other national student unions because it received no government money and was in no way under government control...
Even if American students can forgive the NSA--as the first week's reaction shows they might--things will not be so simple in countries where the CIA is something of a specter. In fact, foreign students who came to the United States under NSA exchange programs are now in danger of being accused by their own governments of espionage. NSA leaders realize that the organization has become highly suspect to foreign students as well as to their governments. When the story broke, they began a frenetic letter-writing campaign to explain the nature of the ties to leaders...
...matter how the foreign students react to an emancipated NSA itself, they have shown their fear of the CIA before. In Berlin, for example, students recently called on the mayor to halt CIA activities at the Free University. Recruitment of German students by the CIA was described in the New York Times on Monday. The CIA appears to have confined itself to individuals and there is no evidence that it funneled large-scale grants to student organizations...
...initial reaction of American member schools has been to support NSA. While the National Supervisory Board was meeting in near-continuous session in Washington last week, dozens of members sent favorable telegrams. Not one school had disaffiliated by the beginning of this week. Surprisingly, a number of new schools had asked permission to join--it seems as if the publicity is boosting NSA's membership...