LET'S IDENTIFY CIA SCHOLARS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68B00432R000500010008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 3, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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MAY 3 1966
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Carver is a,..pil-time analyst for the Central In
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and author of "Aesthetics and the Problem of
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Let's Identify CIA Scholars
A STUDENT of poll 61-th'eoty'and Asian affairs
wrote the lead article in the current issue of Foreign
Affairs magazine, entitled "The Faceless Viet Cong.
But George Carver Jr. is more than that. And he
Is more than the other descriptions of him given by 0,
the magazine-holder of degrees from Yale and Ox-i.
i. ford, former officer in the U.S.aid mission' In Saigon's
The merit of articles.- by Carver or otherr 4 ?~ + '`'
'employes is not the point at issue here. What is In-
volved is the right of the general public, to whom such,1
magazines are made accessible, to know salient facts
about the author. Certainly the fact that a writer deal
Ping with. fiscal problems is connected with the U.S. 4 t y S' N
Treasury Department would be an important piece of, { ,~ b 9" ? .,
information in assessing the article. No one will deny
that the CIA is quite directly concerned in its operas
tions with -conduct of the war in Viet Nam; to publish
Writings, by its employes without noting the connec-~
tion is a disservice to the reading public.
Sen. iaulbright is inquiring into the practice
we ,hope that 'out of the inquiry will come some new lines #' x
of policy .which will include proper identification of
writers of such articles as. ma a ear In the ublic'~
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