Prominent Trustees ran pl a 4.7 Some persons prominent in recent diplomatic history of the are members of the board of trustees of the foundation. Among these are ASIA FOUNDATION , Edwin 0. Reischauer, former Ambassador to ; Arthur H. Dean, who has held many GOT C. I. A. FUNDS State Department assignments; and , recently named Ambassador to. South Trustees Deny Influence— . Bar Future Hidden Aid The Late AdIal E. Stevenson, United States Representative to the.United Nations, was a trus- By WALLACE TURNER tee, as were Paul Hoffman, once president of the Ford • ' Special to The New York Timers Foundation, and the late J. D. SAN FRANCISO, March 21 Zellerbach, who was Ambassa- — The Asia Foundation, a pri- dor to Italy. vate American philanthropic or- The present chairman of the ganization, said today that It board is Russell G. Smith, re- had received money indirectly tired vice president of the Bank of America. The president of the from the Central Intelligence foundation is Dr. Haydn Wil- Agency, liams, former assistant secre- The foundation's trustees is- tary of defense. sued a press release in which The other trustees whose it was said: names appeared on the press "The trustees wish to state release today were as follows: Robert B. Anderson, former Se- that in the past they. have also cretary of the Treasury. knowingly received contribu- Barry Bingham, publisher of tions from private foundations .The Louisville Courier-JOur- and trusts which have been re- nal. cently named as having trans- Mortimer' Fieishhacker Jr., San Francisco businessman and ridded Central Intelligence philanthropist. Agency funds to private Amer- R. Allen Griffin, publisher of ican organizations." The Monterey, Calif., Penin- The foundation's assistant sula Herald. public affairs officer, John Han- Caryl P. Haskins, president of nigan, explained that the sign- The Carnegie Institute of ers of the release — the trus- Washington. tees — had all known that the Charles J. Hitch, vice president foundation was accepting money of The University of Cali- from the Federal Government. fornia and formerly a fiscal He said he did not know officer in the Pentagon. whether they had been aware Grayson L. Kirk, president of that the Federal money had Columbia University. come from the C.I.A. Mr. Han- Walter H. Mallory, former ex- nigan said he was not aware of ecutive director of the Coun- any explanation of why Federal cil on Foreign Affairs. money had come to the founda- Turner H. McBaine, San Fran- tion through channels that con- cisco lawyer. cealed its source. Robbins Milbank, a retired New The press spokesman declined York advertising man. to reveal the sum of the sub- Mrs. Maurice T. 'Moore, chair- sidy from the intelligence agen- man, Institute of Interna- cy. But he added, in an inter- tional Education. view, that the foundation would Lucian W. Pye, professor of po- no longer accept hidden Federal litical science, Massachusetts Subsidies. Institute of Technology. .Outside Influence Denied J. E. Wallace Sterling, presi- dent of Stanford University. The press release said that While Ambassador Bunker's "all contributions to the founda- name appeardd as a signatOry tion, from whatever source, to the statement, he was de- were accepted on the condition scribed as "on leave." that the • expenditure - of such Mr. Hannigan, the assistant funds • was to be left to the public affairs officer, said he discretion of 'the trustees with- did not know what had prompted out any interference and' that trustees to issue the statement. the funds -be used solely for He said he presumed they the foundation's declared pur- poses." • Wanted to clear the air and get The statement ,described the the information on the record. foundation as ready to seek The statement released by the "open granti" for its programs San Francisco based organiza- from the "departments of the tion began as follows: Federal Government concerned "In view of the recent dis- with international education cussion of relations between the and development." United States Government and The statement insisted that private American organizations, foundation personnel "have not the trustees wish to make the been used or influenced in any following statement to clarify way, directly or indirectly, by the policies and position of the any contributor to the foun- Asia Foundation. dation." More than a month ago, The foundation, according to Ramparts ' magazine, edited its statement of purposes, works here, aroused a controversy primarily in education. It sup- about C.I.A. involvement with ports Asian schools and librar- foundations by a report on the ies, student centers, science agency's ' relationship with the fairs, agricultural extension, so- National:Student Association. cial and economic research, and gives travel' grants to permit Asians to attend international conferences.