Miss Steinem said she had talked to some former officers of the National Student Association, who told her C.I.A. money might be available to finance American participation in the seventh postwar festival scheduled for Vienna in the summer of 1959....

Miss Steinem noted that since the foundation was started in "the post-McCarthy era" the Federal Government could not openly finance the foundation. Overt government support would also have "alienated" youths from other countries who were suspicious of the United States, she said.

http://www.namebase.org/steinem.html
(So, the group she was involved with was illegally taking money from the CIA, and she admitted she knew it was illegal. There is so much information about this on the internet, you really should look. She says she was never asked by the CIA to name names, and that's lawyerly talk for saying she didn't need prompting.)