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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 09 Num. 29
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 29
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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GLORIA IN EXCELSIS
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[CN transcript of remarks by west coast researcher Dave Emory.]
[...continued...]
As far as the Independent Research Service itself, there's quite
a few sources that document the connections of the Independent
Research Service to the Central Intelligence Agency. I'm going
to read one of them, very briefly, right now.
The book is called (and it's published in hardcover), it's called
*The Espionage Establishment*, by David Wise and Thomas Ross.
Published in hardcover by Random House and copyrighted 1974. In
the [book] there's a footnote, in which a number of CIA domestic
funding conduits and organizations funded by the CIA are listed.
The organizations range from some which are obviously not CIA
fronts but have simply received money from CIA (such as the
National Council of Churches), to organizations like Radio Free
Europe which were not only begun, basically, by the CIA but for
all intents and purposes are CIA fronts and always have been.
And in the list (which is in alphabetical order -- this, by the
way, on page 155 of *The Espionage Establishment*), the
Independent Research Service is listed right there.
Still more information about the Independent Research Service and
just exactly what sorts of functions it performs on behalf of CIA
is carried in an excellent article that appeared in the Berkeley
Barb. (Now again, as I indicated, neither Nip [co-host] nor
myself endorses the ideological underpinnings of a publication
like the Berkeley Barb.)
The reportage here is excellent and essential, and it represents
the deepest investigation into the background of Gloria Steinem
we've been able to come up with.
The following article from the Berkeley Barb is from the issue of
May 30th thru June 5th of 1975. The article is by Gabriel Schang
and it's titled, "Radical Women Won't Be Ms.-led." And it
concerns Steinem and her whole relation with Independent Research
Service.
Gloria Steinem, founder and editor of Ms. magazine and
president of the Ms. Corporation, has an association
spanning ten years with the CIA which she has
misrepresented and covered up. To some people,
particularly feminists, the relationship seemed obvious, if
nebulous and difficult to verify. Others will probably
remain incredulous until Time magazine finally acknowledges
it. And then, there will be people who don't perceive the
implications of such a liaison, and still more who will
simply shrug it off.
A group of women tied-in with the origins of the modern
Women's Liberation Movement and concerned about its future,
who call themselves "Red Stockings," have been able to
piece together enough documentation to convincingly expose
and describe the Ms./Steinem/CIA connection. Moreover, the
Red Stockings have closely examined the financial backing
and contents of Ms. magazine and have arrived at the
conclusion that the ideology put forth by Ms. has been
positively harmful to the Women's Movement.
The first revelations of Gloria Steinem's relationship to
the CIA appeared in the New York Times in 1967, in an
article that stated that Steinem had a part in launching a
CIA front group which was called the "Independent Research
Service." Just prior to this exposure, Ramparts magazine
had disclosed that the organization was CIA-funded.
The purpose of the Independent Research Service seems to
have been to subvert communist-minded youths on an
international basis. The supposedly "Independent" Research
Service was, in fact, totally dependent on the CIA. It is
believed to have been formed in response to the Communist
World Youth festivals occurring throughout the 1950s and
1960s. These festivals were held in communist countries
until 1959, when the festival for that year was scheduled
to take place in Vienna -- neutral territory during the
Cold War. The State Department did its best to discourage
American youths from attending. Some did go, though, and
in the meantime the CIA covertly arranged for the
Independent Research Service to organize an anti-communist
delegation to attend and disrupt the festivals.
In 1967, Ramparts exposed the intricate laundering and
funneling process by which the Independent Research Service
obtained money from the CIA. The funds passed through five
different foundations: the Borden Trust, the Price Fund,
the Beacon Fund, the Edsel Fund, and the Kentfield Fund, on
its way to the Independent Research Service as well as to
the National Students Association and other groups.
The final channeling was accomplished through the
well-known Boston law firm of Hale & Dorr(sp?). This same
law firm produced Joseph Welch as attorney for the Army and
in its confrontations with Joseph McCarthy and, more
recently, James St. Claire as Nixon's chief counsel during
the Watergate scandals.
(Excuse me. I was a little confused at first. The law firm
representing Gloria Steinem in her media pressure efforts was not
the same one which was involved... [i.e., Greenbaum, Wolf &
Ernst are apparently not Nixon-related.] I was confusing that
with the law firm involved with setting up the Independent
Research Service in the first place.)
(Of course, it's still intriguing that this organization would be
so very much involved with Gloria Steinem and connecting her to
people like James St. Claire -- Nixon's counsel during the
Watergate crisis. The Watergate crisis and its connections with
Katherine Graham we're going to be looking at, as I had
indicated, a little later.)
No one claims to know why Gloria Steinem was chosen to
found and direct this group. But two early organizers of
the Independent Research Service stated, in a New Republic
article of May 11th, 1959, that "most of the sponsors have
had considerable experience in domestic and international
youth and student affairs."
What in Steinem's past prepared her for this sort of work?
It is a matter of public record that Gloria M. Steinem
graduated from Smith College and then received the Chester
Bowles Asian Fellowship to the Universities of New Delhi
and Calcutta, in India, in 1956 thru 1958. All the Red
Stockings could glean of her activities in India is the
alleged publication of a book in 1957 called, *The Thousand
Indias*. Although the recent edition of *Who's Who in
America* lists the title of the book, all attempts by Red
Stocking to find it in past or current listings of the
Cumulative Book Index listings of the New York Public
Library *Books in Print* and the Library of Congress were
unsuccessful. The very existence of Steinem's book cannot
be determined, let alone its contents or the identity of
the publisher.
According to the recent Red Stocking press release, and a
February 21st, 1967 interview in the New York Times,
Steinem was described as "a full-time Independent Research
Service employee in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1959
until after the Helsinki Youth Festival in 1962." Under
media pressure, Steinem could not disavow her CIA
association. But she gave a distorted view of her
activities at the festivals. Steinem claims all the group
did at the two festivals was establish a newspaper, a news
bureau, cultural exhibits, and jazz clubs. The groups most
important work, she said, was convincing youths from Asia,
Africa, and Latin America that there were some Americans
who understood and cared about their situation. Steinem
emphasized, "I was never asked to report on other Americans
or assess foreign nationals I had met."
[...to be continued...]
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