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Show fprises NSA Delegates ;: -GT0N, D.C Feb. 14 m staff members or ;JifteU.S. Nation-T Nation-T Association are re-, re-, Inprise and dismay : :.S the Central Intelli- ,4e officers received a 'iam today: "Say it - ay. a very few were aware of ; and in the past - .je officers and staff ' : ; who' had signed se- - jeements with the CIA 'mis year's administra-ig administra-ig est to many years in which no one has signed such an agreement. Ex Staff Member The story broke with a full-p full-p a g e advertisement for the March issue of "Ramparts" magazine in Tuesday's New York "Times" and Washington "Post." The main author of the article, which was advertised as exposing CIA infiltration of student groups, is Michael Wood, who was fired as an NSA staff member last September. In a release Tuesday afternoon, after-noon, NSA confirmed the financial finan-cial connection, .and the State Department added its confirmation confirma-tion of the 12-year affiliation at a press conference. A former NSA staff member, Vance Opperman, commented the he was "very, very ashamed that I might have had any part in CIA activities." Opperman, currently a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, charged that the International Commission of the Association had always been "secretive," and that "a few people had control con-trol of the money and of the staff and they were able to be almost Self -perpetuating." Hurt Credibility Howard Kaibel, president of the University of Minnesota Student Stu-dent Association and a member of NSA's National Supervisory Board, said that the disclosure "is drastically going to hurt our international . program it's going to hurt pur credibility in international : programming." A move to sever the Association's Associa-tion's ties with the CIA apparently appar-ently began five years ago, when the officers attempted to find other sources of financing. Those attempts failed until about a year ago, when open grants began coming in from foundations founda-tions and government agencies such as the Office of Economic Opportunity. Sever CIA Ties When new officers took over last September, they resolved to sever all remaining ties -with the CIA without- publicly revealing what they were doing. NSA President Eugene Groves talked 1 about that decision : "It's an awesome moral choice to face when one is first told all 1 the details. If we had immediately immedi-ately revealed the connection, it could have harmed a hell of a lot of innocentjpeople. First we had to get the Association in a : position of independent financ-' financ-' ing," he said. NSA officials claimed that only : $50,000 came from the CIA at the t beginning of this academic year; : $25,000 has been expended, the ' rest was turned down. As ol Jan. 1, all subsidy was ended. Probation For Nude Posing GAINESVILLE, FLA. A 19-year-old University of Florida Flor-ida coed, Pamela Brewer, was given what her defense at-tornies at-tornies termed "an academic slap on the wrists." Miss Brewer was placed on academic academ-ic probation Tuesday for the next two years after being found guilty of violating university uni-versity rules. A demonstration by 100 Florida Flor-ida students Monday in her behalf was labeled "peaceful and orderly," although campus cam-pus police were on hand all night to maintain order. Miss Brewer's case came to attention when it was discovered dis-covered that she was being tried for posing nude for an off - campus magazine. Her parents were aware of her activities at the time. |