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OCR Page 1 of 174NATIONAL AFFAIRS
THE PASS-THROUGH: HOW THE CIA BANKROLLED PRIVATE PROJECTS
Fronts
Conduits
Recipients
Tower Fund
American Council for the
M.D. Anderson Foundation
International Commission
of Jurists
Gothem Foundation
Congress for Cultural
Borden Trust
Freedom
Beacon Fund
Hoblitzelle Foundation
Institute of International
Labor Research, Inc.
Price Fund
Synod of Bishops of the
Russian Church Outside of
Heights Fund
Russia
J. M. Kaplan Fund. Inc.
. Williford Telford Fund
African-Américan Institute
C
Edset Fund
American Friends of the
Middle East
I
Baird (David, Josephine. &
San Miguel Fund
Winfield) Foundation, Inc.
American Society of
A
Kentfield Fund
African Culture
Institute of
Monroe Fund
International Education
J. Frederick Brown Foundation
Michigan Fund
Institute of
Public Administration
Andrew Hamilton Fund
Atwater research program
Appalachian Fund
Rabb (Sidney and Esther)
in North Africa
Charitable Foundation
Wynnewood Fund
National Student Association
Charles Price Whitten Trust
Marshall Foundation
Operations & Policy
James Carlisle Trust
Research, Inc.
Baedeker: A sampling of how the CIA helped fund some of its pet philanthropies during the past decade
conservatives, who were irked because
San Francisco-but it maintains not even
said William P. Hobby Jr., president of
so much of the money was going to mis-
a
post-office box there. The trail to the
The Houston Post and trustee of the
sionaries of the liberal left. The Adminis-
Price Fund leads to a Manhattan law
Hobby Foundation. "We were told that,
tration felt compelled at once to defend
office-and a tight-lipped attorney who
if we cooperated, we would receive cer-
the CIA as having merely followed or-
will not even identify himself. A Dallas
tain funds from the CIA. Then we'd re-
ders dating to Harry Truman's day-and
answering service takes calls for the
ceive a letter, say from Organization
to pass the word that at least some of the
Kentfield Fund; an operator there
XYZ, asking for funds. We granted the
pipelines would be turned off.
thought its patron was an otherwise un-
funds, of course." And with no questions
Dummy Fronts: The technique, in re-
known philanthropist named Dana Kent-
asked: "We believed that they [the CIA]
trospect, seemed surprisingly simple-and
field, then apologized for not checking
knew what they were doing.'
surprisingly vulnerable to disclosure. The
further: "Some of our records were
What the CIA was doing, of course,
CIA's pet tactic was a three-layer "pass-
rained on. They melted together."
was secretly underwriting a miscellany
through" operation for getting money
For the "pass-through, the CIA adopt-
of American organizations abroad, some-
from its own coffers into the hands of cer-
ed some 30 of the 15,000 authentic foun-
times as cover for nelligence-gathering,
tain favored philanthropies, some of them
dations currently operating in the U.S.
more often to mount a social-democratio
knowing, some apparently not.
and made them conduits to the recipient
counterforce to Communist propaganda.
First, the agency set up perhaps a
groups. A few (the J.M. Kaplan Fund
Disparate Groups: The list that began
score of "primary organizations -dummy
and three David G. Baird family founda-
with NSA grew last week with the addi-
foundations whose assets seemed to con-
tions) had been under Federal scrutiny
tion of such disparate groups as the re-
sist mainly of nondescript names (like
for mixing business with philanthropy-
tail clerks union and the World Confed-
Price, Gotham or Beacon). mailing ad-
troubles that vanished once they took up
eration of Organizations of Teachers.
dresses and mysteriously elf-replenishing
with the CIA. Others linked at least in-
The Kaplan Fund. founded by the for.
bank accounts. I ypically, these fronts
directly to the network included such
show up neither in standard foundation
foundations as New York
directories nor in the files of the Internal
nulti-millionaire John Hay Whitney's
Revenue Service (where one assistant
Trust for Charitable Purposes. Most sim-
commissioner is usually wired into the
ply answered a call to patriotic duty
rum
operation). Nor are they easily found.
"We were approached about three years
The Edsel Fund's last known address was
ago by a representative from the CIA.
Dominican
An intermediary
Newsweek, March 6, 1967
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