Gloria Steinem was an iconic leader of the American feminist movement and co-founded Ms. Magazine. In March 1967, Ramparts
magazine broke one of the first major exposes in the CIA’s history.
From the early 1950s until 1967, the international program of the
National Student Association and some of its domestic activities were
secretly underwritten by clandestine funding from the Central
Intelligence Agency.
During the years 1958-67, Steinem accepted a paid position with the
CIA when she went undercover with the “Independent Research Service” as
she infiltrated the student-based NSA, not the other super-secret
NSA—the National Security Agency. In her covert capacity, she attended
the World Youth Festival of Students and Youth, first in 1959 in Vienna,
Austria, attended by 18,000 delegates coming from 112 nations, and
secondly in Helsinki, Finland, attended by 18,000 delegates from 137
countries. While claiming that her CIA collaboration ended in 1962, new
data suggest that her secret work lasted until 1967.
To view a revealing interview of Steinem by journalist Cory Morningstar about her CIA adventures, see link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HRUEqyZ7p8. [↩]
-- footnote to Michael Steven Smith and Heidi Boghosian's "Inside the Organized Crime Syndicate Known as the CIA: Interview with Douglas Valentine" (LAW & DISORDER transcript posted at DISSIDENT VOICE).