PROJECT RESISTANCE

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01435017
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: January 17, 1975

Approved for Release: 2017/01/18 C01435017
17 January 1975
Project RESISTANCE
This project involved obtaining clippings of campus newspapers,
radical "underground" publications and of other press media pertaining
to campus protests and demonstrations. The activity covered the period
from December 1967 through June 1973 and was both initiated and approved
by the DDS. It was intended to provide information relative to potential
threats to Agency personnel, installations and operations., and was
initiated upon the specific observation of the DDS that various campus
radical groups had begun to develop an alarming degree of organization
and coordination.
The OS Field Offices were given responsibility for collection. The
instructions to the field at the inception of the project and as reiterated in
1971 were that existing assets were to be utilized and no attempts were to
be made to recruit informants or sources in support of the endeavor.
The project generated voluminous information, none of which was
transmitted outside of the Agency. There is no indication that any threat
was surfaced as a result of the project. The project was terminated in
June 1973. Although OS files do not document the reason for termination,
it seems likely it was concluded that either the perceived threat had
diminished or that the project was unproductive.
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