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lif ne OeNnTOne IE Pe OA Pon P| (00 | A 9 0 6 . a SE OED OST DEERE a a rai -€00819114 | / ls ANEW POLICY \ The yesrs immediately alter World War If saw a surge of communist activity | in organiz.tions throughout the world. Students, scientists, veteraas, women and professicaal groups were organized into international dbedies : . * which spoke in the cadences, advocated the pclicies, and furthered the interests : ef the communist bloc. Muck of this activity was organized, directed, aad : financed covertly by communist governments. . : American organiszadcns reacted {scm the fIrat, Thea young men acd womea who founded the United States National Student Associaticn, fer example, did 80 precisely to give American youth the capacity to held their own in the international arena. Et the Impcertance of students 23 a force ia international eveots bad yet to become widely understocd aad NSA found it difficult te ’ attract private support for ite international activities, Accordingly, the United Siates Government, acting through the Central intelligence Agency, provided support for this overseas work. ee et We have taken NSA as an exan pis. While no useful purpose would be served by cetziling any other C1A programe of aszistasce te private American voluntary organizstiona, ons funczmental point shouic Se cieacly stated: such assistance wae given pursuant ts National Secursty Council policies beginning in Octeber, 195i and with the subsequent concurrence of high-level senior inte rdepartmestal Teview committees in the las: four Administrations. in December, 1960, ina Classified repert submitted after a year cf stucy, a pubiic-private Presidentiat Committee on Information Activities Abroad specifically excorsed both ovest __and covert programs, including those assiated Sy CiA, ‘ _—— nee ne ee ee