National Student Association organization
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Claims (19)
CIA funded
National Student Association documented
“obliged Gene Groves to make declarations he would have preferred to avoid while others positioned themselves around the debate. As soon as reporters began to delve into the relationship between the CIA and the National Student Association, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 1:06
Congress for Cultural Freedom operated_with
National Student Association host_asserted
“asset team to go on that tour of Africa that we talked about. They are also the ones that operated inside the United States with the National Student Association, the Women's Lib through Gloria Steinem. They have been intimately involved in…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 14:17
Carlos Lacerda founded
National Student Association host_asserted
“The hardline general named by the military to succeed Branco used the rally as his reason for banning a political movement called the Front. It had been put together by Luzardo, and that was his one last attempt to basically open up the pol…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 19:23
Jean-Marc van der member_of
National Student Association host_asserted
“from other states out of his jail and ordered his men to work around the clock to identify who they all were. Prior to the raid, Jean-Marc had been elected as the new president of the student union. Because he was also the only one among th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 7 @ 32:13
CIA funded
National Student Association book_quoted
“and the vice president were quote-unquote winning CIA assets and that each year these newly elected officials would be brought in. The CIA money supposedly supported only the NSA international efforts, which was a lie. That construction fai…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 2:54
CIA paid
National Student Association book_quoted
“at influencing the leadership. So if you're influencing the leadership of the U.S. National Student Association, you're doing it in the United States. They weren't leaders from overseas. During the NSA's project, the CIA paid expenses. Some…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 8 @ 3:25
Students for a Democratic Society front_for
National Student Association host_asserted
“with the CIA's National Student Association, which has been openly discussed as a CIA front. And they also had ties to the Weather Underground and other Operation Gladio terror cells in Europe. So anyone that's telling you that Karen Bass i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Hidden Terrors by AJ Langguth Part 2 @ 1:25:42
CIA spied_on
National Student Association documented
“But of just those programs the CIA selected, the agency would offer only a few documents to amplify oral presentations. Again, that could be read only at Langley. Everything pertaining to the President, 40 Committee, and the like would be r…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57
William Colby spied_on
National Student Association documented
“But of just those programs the CIA selected, the agency would offer only a few documents to amplify oral presentations. Again, that could be read only at Langley. Everything pertaining to the President, 40 Committee, and the like would be r…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 54:57
CIA funded
National Student Association documented
“The agency's international organization division had been seen as a counterweight to the Soviet-sponsored youth groups of the 50s. Though the sensibilities had changed with the growing opposition to the Vietnam War, the National Student Ass…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 40:27
CIA recruited
National Student Association documented
“NSA, National Student Association's International Activities. It had arranged for its officers to occupy an office. They paid for it. They contributed to the upkeep of the senior officials in this organization. They also funded summer semin…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 40:56
CIA spied_on
National Student Association documented
“After 1962, when the CIA's International Organizations Division merged with a covert action staff, they were still running the student program. It was literally part of the covert operations. Later investigation established that the CIA had…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 41:56
CIA funded
National Student Association documented
“It's remarkable how contemporary 1964 seems in comparison to 2024. 60 years later, we're still talking about how the CIA and the national security state has too much power, but never anything is ever done. Another quote. Three years later, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 35:28
1967 policy review ordered_assassination_of
National Student Association documented
“who had actually coordinated the public response, and John Gardner, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. They met in Krachenbach's office. Helms and Gardner sat on a sofa, the acting secretary behind his desk. Helms recalled sha…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 55:12
Cord Meyer ordered_assassination_of
National Student Association host_asserted
“If you are working to uncover, you're a communist. Instead, Corden Meyer instructed James Kiley, his case officer for the National Student Association, to turn off the money. At least the agency would be able to deny any current relationshi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 49:12
National Student Association funded
Brady Bill host_asserted
“But, you know, after the Soviet Union collapsed, I mean, we had a flood. I mean, 7.62x39 ammunition, it was cheaper than .22 long rifle because all the Soviet bloc countries were sending that stuff over here in mass quantities for people to…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Transnational AntiCommunism&Cold War Part 5 @ 1:28:23
National Student Association founded
Weather Underground host_asserted
“The National Student Association is indicative of how they operate. So they had a couple of cutouts. They basically funded the entire thing. That gave birth to the Weather Underground, the other domestic terror operations. And so whether di…”
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National Student Association funded
Weather Underground host_asserted
“And he was involved in operations in Vietnam and throughout Latin America. And I'm like, oh, my gosh. And then we realized that the CIA was embedded in the National Student Association that was behind the Weather Underground. And what were …”
▶ AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 54 - _JFK - OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING - 9_11 - STRATEGY OF TENSION_ - EP.414 @ 28:05
CIA funded
National Student Association host_asserted
“And he was involved in operations in Vietnam and throughout Latin America. And I'm like, oh, my gosh. And then we realized that the CIA was embedded in the National Student Association that was behind the Weather Underground. And what were …”
▶ AlphaWarrior Show - OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 54 - _JFK - OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING - 9_11 - STRATEGY OF TENSION_ - EP.414 @ 28:05
Mentions (47)
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And he was involved in operations in Vietnam and throughout Latin America. And I'm like, oh, my gosh. And then we realized that the CIA was embedded in the National Student Association that was behind the Weather Underground. And what were …
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They purposely infiltrate them. I was amazed at the beginning of my research to know that the CIA has domestic stations all over the United States. They basically owned one of the Miami papers down there when they were doing all of the Cuba…
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When asked to explain the conflict in light of its earlier announcement of Hoftar's appointment, said, quote, this is the position of the council today. The situation is fluid. The political viewpoints change frequently, unquote. Gotta love…
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In 1962, the Georgia Council on Human Relations got $2,600 of CIA money from the Norman Fund, and Norman officials deny any knowledge of financial ties to the CIA. I'm sure they do. The National Student Association, which received massive c…
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throughout the course of the 1960s and early 70s to basically gather intelligence. And the organization that she was part of, that Vencermos Brigade, was part of the Students for a Democrat Society, which basically had overlapping leadershi…
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And the CIA is going to be his financier. He met with a couple of CIA agents. And we'll get to that in just a second. At 18, Drummond founded an organization called Gap. And it was basically like a group of patriots. That's kind of what it …
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the National Student Union, and the National Student Union had more people in their group. So Drummond was very particular about who he handed out leaflets to, and they didn't have at the time a very large budget. So he was very careful. He…
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films of the Jeep being set on fire showed John Mark nowhere around it. When the court adjourned to deliberate, John Mark was ordered to return for the verdict. From the tenor of the preliminaries, he was convinced there would only be one o…
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who was also not guilty of any crimes, demonstrated his faith in the military justice by showing up for the verdict. He was sentenced to two years in jail. In absentia, John Mark drew the same sentence. By then, it was September of 1968. A …
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Although Kulbaugh's description matched some eyewitness accounts of the man accompanying the girl in the polka-dotted dress, proof for Morrow's theory has not been established. Kulbaugh, whose real name is Khalid Kulbaugh, sued the Boston G…
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Probably most important, the stories challenged some Americans who were involved in certain CIA secret activities. Key here were the officers of the National Student Association, which was purported to be a non-government and non-partisan o…
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The agency's international organization division had been seen as a counterweight to the Soviet-sponsored youth groups of the 50s. Though the sensibilities had changed with the growing opposition to the Vietnam War, the National Student Ass…
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NSA, National Student Association's International Activities. It had arranged for its officers to occupy an office. They paid for it. They contributed to the upkeep of the senior officials in this organization. They also funded summer semin…
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After 1962, when the CIA's International Organizations Division merged with a covert action staff, they were still running the student program. It was literally part of the covert operations. Later investigation established that the CIA had…
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He was being accused of as being an American spy because he was. More frequently, the agency simply asked students to keep a watchful eye out and tell them what they'd seen. They were using them as intelligence operations. They would brief …
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soured everything. Shortly before the time series on the CIA, the NSA president, Phil Sherborn, told his director of development, Michael Wood, of the CIA's role. Not everyone in the organization were witting. Cord Meyer of the covert actio…
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that they approved of, that were read into the funding. When Wood learned of the connection, he was scandalized. He first tried to replace the CIA money contacting Vice President Herbert Humphreys, who did some fundraising but had little su…
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others at NSA of the CIA connection and began talking to the San Francisco-based magazine called Ramparts. That magazine had already raised eyebrows at Langley because of an expose reporting that the CIA had hired Michigan State University …
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that trained operatives at Michigan State and deployed them forward as part of the Phoenix program in the Vietnam. Rampart saw the opportunity to make a powerful statement against covert operations by revealing the CIA NSA links. Subsequent…
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In early January of 67, Langley picked up rumors in New York publishing circles that Rampart's piece on the agency and the National Student Association, written by Marcus Raskin, yes, that's Jamie Raskin's dad, had been scheduled and would …
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But the same time the agency intercepted a letter from an unknown organization, probably contrived, mailed from Vienna, still a spy haven. The letter alleged that the CIA employed someone in the coordinating secretariat of the International…
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it marked the onset of the Ramparts fiasco. A week earlier, presidential political aide Douglas Cater had been sitting in the White House office when his phone rang. In that case, it had been the National Student Association president, W. E…
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You let that feller come into your office and lay a big fat turd right in your lap. Cater knew well what was going to happen. He had been an addressee on CIA memorandum about Ramparts and Robert Scheer the previous summer and had written hi…
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Cater rushed to see the president. Johnson was impatient. Cater argued they ought to use the week left before Ramparts hit the newsstand to prepare a response. Cater made private inquiries and determined that the National Student Associatio…
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but develop a different way to support groups more openly. You know, kind of like what they did with the USAID, the guy that was running the USAID. Oh yeah, we do everything the CIA used to do covertly. We just do it overtly. The National S…
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says that he not only knew about it, that he approved the funding for the CIA to illegally operate in the United States. Okay, everything's fine. Go on about your merry way. Nothing to see here. Gene Groves dismissed the Katzenbach report a…
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Doug Cater came to his own conclusion, quote, secrecy has a self-destructive potential which cannot stay the long course, especially when pitted against this country's passion for publicity, unquote. No, not publicity, truth. The secret war…
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continuing our saga. We start with the exposure of the CIA's role in the National Student Association, which we covered yesterday, marked not the end but the beginning of controversy. The agency had no one to blame but itself for what happe…
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obliged Gene Groves to make declarations he would have preferred to avoid while others positioned themselves around the debate. As soon as reporters began to delve into the relationship between the CIA and the National Student Association, …
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That mentioned CIA's idea of a golden parachute, which would have at least eliminated current funding problems. The CIA argued that the radios were not really private voluntary organizations like the National Student Association, but were a…
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Another, Bruce McMaster, masqueraded as a representative of the Ford Foundation, one of the CIA's favorites, which was a violation of CIA regulations that had been put in place when they were exposed using the National Student Association. …
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and other entities. The model also served in the 2005 elections in Iraq, where charges of covert U.S. roles were made. Venezuelan government leveled the same accusations. This kind of activity harkens back to the CIA's National Student Asso…
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And they made donuts out of the apple mash. And oh, my God. I've had them. Best thing ever. Yes. You're absolutely right. Okay. We're going to continue on. We're in the chapter Covert Legions, page 92. We start here with the National Studen…
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Braden and Cord Meyer and basically Warhamster and I did almost an entire show on Cord Meyer. So I'm not going to spend a lot of time going over his history. You can go watch that other podcast. But the National Student Association project …
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capability that they were deploying. The summer group held seminars each year where the CIA would go through the field for its preferences, then supported those people in the association's elections. Cord Meyer and other agency apologists a…
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and the vice president were quote-unquote winning CIA assets and that each year these newly elected officials would be brought in. The CIA money supposedly supported only the NSA international efforts, which was a lie. That construction fai…
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at influencing the leadership. So if you're influencing the leadership of the U.S. National Student Association, you're doing it in the United States. They weren't leaders from overseas. During the NSA's project, the CIA paid expenses. Some…
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Right. There's like a 15 second delay. Thank you. Sure. So basically, for those over on Rumble, we're talking about the National Student Association and how it was at least the leadership was funded and they paid expenses for people to trav…
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And basically painted them all with the hippie brush and tried to discredit them. And they were infiltrating the National Student Association. They did all kinds of domestic operations. The CIA did domestic operations because they could not…
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year before we go into the 68 election. Lots of turmoil going on. West Coast magazine Ramparts revealed that the CIA was secretly funding the ostensibly independent American student organization, the U.S. National Student Association, via a…
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And this was being set up exactly like the National Student Association. And they had another organization called the Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs, which acted as a conduit for the CIA to fund these things. The same Midtown terr…
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by a CIA front organization called the American Committee for Cultural Freedom was used not only by that organization, but also the National Student Association. You know, basically they're all hanging out in the same building. All of the l…
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of secrecy before disclosing covert associations with the society to include the National Student Association. Thereafter, she and AMSEC officers would meet with CIA case officers in hotel rooms, usually in New York, but also in Washington,…
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asset team to go on that tour of Africa that we talked about. They are also the ones that operated inside the United States with the National Student Association, the Women's Lib through Gloria Steinem. They have been intimately involved in…
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To remove that right was the National Rifles Association, the NRA, which to me I call negotiating rights away now. But anyway, what we have seen over the course of this really long period of time as a result of what you talk about is the De…
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It's remarkable how contemporary 1964 seems in comparison to 2024. 60 years later, we're still talking about how the CIA and the national security state has too much power, but never anything is ever done. Another quote. Three years later, …
▶ 54:57
But of just those programs the CIA selected, the agency would offer only a few documents to amplify oral presentations. Again, that could be read only at Langley. Everything pertaining to the President, 40 Committee, and the like would be r…