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Several National Student Association delegates yesterday suggested that even though the Central Intelligence Agency has contributed money to NSA, it has not influenced NSA policy. This view is dangerously naive...
While the present national leaders of NSA have refused to comment on the extent of CIA influence, past officials--some who knew of the relationship and some who did not--are beginning to talk. They indicate that the CIA groomed the leaders of the NSA's International Commission and that the agency has had access to student reports on young leaders from this and other countries...
...National Student Association revealed late yesterday that it has been subsidized since the early 1950's by the Central Intelligence Agency. NSA president Eugene Groves said that the group has been struggling for two years to break the "covert relationship" and would no longer accept CIA money. The CIA first offered the money, he said, because it wanted to counter Communist-sponsored youth activities...
...plenary session of the National Student Association's annual conference, held at the University of Illionois last summer, former NSA president Allard Lowenstein argued against David Harris, bearded and blue-denimed president of the Stanford student body, on the tactics of political involvement. Harris claimed that extreme action in the form of protest was necessary in support of a moral position. Since the entire society appeared to be unshakably corrupt, he contended, a pragmatic, peicemeal approach to social action was doomed to failure...
...real work of drafting began on Sept. 7 in New York City at the home of Abby Erdmann, a student at Smith College. In addition to 12 student body presidents, college newspaper editors, and several elder statesmen of NSA, the group included Norman Thomas, former Socialist candidate for President, who went to dinner with several students before the meeting convened...