Student leaders help CIA files

Organisations such as the ISC and the USNSA have large staffs whose job it is to know about student movements in foreign countries. Undoubtedly their information on activities in such countries as South Korea, the Philippines, Spain. Nigeria and so on comes in useful for CIA officials.

• After all, one of the CIA's many roles is the collection and collation of security information. Student leaders who travel throughout the world are in a good position to help them, and there have been many cases recently where prominent student leaders have been paid by "foundations" to obtain information on student organisations and political developments in different countries-including New Zealand.

On a lower but still effective level, the CIA achieves much through subsidising student activities. American officials in the State Department and the CIA have a fanatical belief in the value of the "American way of life." Student leaders go to the United States for guided tours; cultural and political seminars are organised in developing countries to transmit this American culture.