U.S. RESEARCH AID IN SECRET BARRED

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2005
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: December 20, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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H.S. RESEAfiJJJIjLp Federal Agencies Vow to Ent
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~r-oral talks were held as well
21 Agencies Promise to Stop' with leading. academic figures.
Covert Funding of Studies ' The officials declined to name
g o "the scholars who were consult-
on Foreign Countries ed. Officials said the drafting of
the guidelines was not related
B PETER GROSE ..to the work of the committee,
Y headed by Secretary of State
s~e~~t to The Now Y i Times Dean Rusk, that is trying to.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19-I determine a way of providing
twenty-one Government agen-.. ,overt public financing for proj-
,les pledged today to abandon ects previously supported se-
the controversial practice of ;.cretly by the C.I.A. nor, they
said, is the code a result of
providing secret funding for the public disclosures last win-
academic research on foreign.,ter of C.I.A. funding operations.
;ountries. Nevertheless, the code will
The pledge came in the an. have the effect of eliminating
.nouncement by an inter-agency One of the sources of embar-
rassment resulting from those
committee of the State.Depart disclosures - the fact that
ment of a code of procedure. ,scholarly institutions may not
aimed at dispelling long stand. -have known the sources of the
know about the project until!,
it was reported in the Chilean
,press.
Forced to cancel the study,
take steps to minimize any ad-
verse foreign reaction to a re-
search subject, for instance on
sensitive matters of social or
political behavior, and in some
cases will seek permission of
the host government for Ameri-
can scholars to work abroad.
Exact procedures for carry-
ing out the principles have not
been laid down. It is under-
stood that the public disclosure
of each agency's researchcon-
tracts will be made in an an-
nual report of the inter-agency
committee that drew up the
guidelines, the Foreign Area
Research Coordination Group,
The extent of secret' funding
for academic research by Gov-
ernment agencies over the
years has never been disclosed,
President Johnson ordered Sec-.
retary Rusk to set up Govern-.
ment machinery to insure that
research, projects should not
prove embarrassing 'to the,
United States Government.
A foreign, Affairs Research
Council in the State Depart-
ment 11 was the. result, with
authority to coordinate and. ex-
amine.for foreign policy i,li-
cations? all. research projects
proposed by 'other 'agencies.
,The agencies adopting the
research guidelines are: Agency
for International Development;
Arms Control and Disarmament
Agency; Central Intelligence
Agency; Departments of Agri-
culture, Labor, State and,Health
Education : and Welfare, Na-
tional Academy of Sciences;
National Aeronautics andSpace
Administration; National En-
dowment for the Humanities
National Science Foundation;
United , States Information
Agency; White House Execu-
though there are indications
C.I.A. programs in this
that
field State Department contracts
only about $70,000 of the
$35 -million total yearly figure.The Department of Defense
is by far the largest contractor,
through its various military and
civilian branches.
I Project Camelot Recalled
ing uncertainties in the rela~ funds that they accepted under
tions between the academic ,klovernment contract.
Among the other points in
community and the Federal tithe statement of principles are
Government arising from the these:
use of Government money to liThe Government must not
support scholarly research. do anything that would call
Officials said this was the into question the . integrity of
first time that a set of ground .academic institutions.
gAgencies should encourage
rules had been established on
earth, though the "practical
a Government-wide basis for
the disbursement of some $35-
million a year in Government
contracts with universities and
private research institutions.
Among the 14 guidelines laid
down is the statement that "the
fact of Government research
support should always be ac-
knowledged by sponsor, uni-
versity and researcher.
The principles have been ac-
cepted by the Central Intelli-
gence Agency and other intelli-
gence branches, as well as ma-
jor Government departments in-
volved in support of academic
research in' the social a nd be-
havioral sciences.
Projects involving the na-
tural sciences are not covered
by the guidelines
seafph in this cpun_ try that
does' not involve j`o' et n
society or area.
It was the outcry over an
Army research project in 1965
that triggered the present code
of procedures, the project,
called Camelot, was a multi-
million-dollar inquiry into the
sociology of rebellion in under-
developed countries, carried on
by scholars attached to Amer-
ican University here.
The Army's support of the
project was not acknowledged
until it became a political is-
sue in Chile, one of the coun-
tries being studied. Even the
United States Ambassador to
Chile, itaiph 'Dungan, did, not
)
'ern. world" may require some
secrecy.
9Research projects should be
.t`$esigned to advance general
t,knowledge as well as meet im-
4mediate policy needs.
r )The Government agency
E must inform the scholarly in-
The code
~c2ps
legal authority of an Executive
order, nor does it contain any
.provisions for policing the ban
on, secret funding.
C.I.A. Vows to Follow Rules
Officials ex ressed, the be-
11, ef, however, that having pub-
licly, endorsed the code, no
agency copld safely continue
a practice that has spread con-
fusion and resentment in this
country and abroad.
A spokesman for the C.I.A.
said: "We participated in draw-
tive Office, and the Peace
Corps.
The following Defense De-.
partment agencies also parti-
cipated:' Advanced Research
Projects Agency; Defense Re-
search and Engineering Direc-
torate; Office ? of International
Security Affairs; Defense Intel-
ligence Agency, and the De-
partments of the Air Force,
Army and Navy.
Percy Talks With Eban
JERUSALEM, Dec. 19 (Reu-
ters)-Senator Charles H. Percy,
Democrat of Illinois, was
briefed today on the Israeli
position on Middle East prob
lems during a meeting with]
Foreign Minister Abba Eban.
fUUMAfy4SER THE NEEDIEST!
ing up these guidelines and we,
of course, will abide by them."
All the agencies concerned
were consulted in the prepara-
tion of the code, State Depart-
ment. officials said, and infor-
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