ANTHROPOLOGISTS DIVIDED OVER ROLE AS SECRET AGENTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000101090002-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2014
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 20, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

WASHINGTON POST STAT
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NOV 20 1966
Anthropologists
Divided Over Role
s Secret A cuts
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By Henry W. Pierce
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? I.: PITTSBURGH, Nov. 19?The Nation's anthropologists
were deadlocked tonight over what, if any, role they
. should.-play in -undercover, intelligence work.
????? Members or the Anteriean
? Anthropologieal . Association,
' nearly 3000 of whom are hold-
ing their nnntml meeting here,,
were unable to agree on the
wording of a proposed resolu-
. action is not expected before'
Christmas. .
The organization is attempt-
ing . to draw up guidelines
based on a report by Prof.,
Ralph Beals of the University;
of California at Los Angeles.
Beals said he has evidence.;
that some anthropologists,
have served as undercover,
agents. ?
This is a deterrent to the,
long-range interests of anthrck
pological research, which de-.
ponds ? on close ties witk thel
people being studied, he said.
, "We won't havt their con-
fidence if they think we're.
spies,"'Beals said.
The problem, he says, ap-
plies to all social sciences.
The issue was triggered
about two years ago by Proj-
ect Camelot, a Defense De-
partment.. study of Communist
s capitalizing on
Lion governine anthropologists' revolut methodionarof y change in new
relationships with both Gov- countries.
? ernment and private sponsors. Project Camelot was to have
. In a closed session, the or' been carried out,.in Chile but
ganization's Executive Board was canceled'
referred the resolution back.to
,the Committee' on ' Research
Problems and 1,:thics for fur-
ther tilarifical ion.
After it has. been reworded,
the resolution will go .as a
-
In another, move, the ? an-
thropologists voted to con-
demn the use of extraordinary
military measures in Vietnam,
including napalm, gas, chemi-
cal defollints, heavy. bombing
of civilian centers and the tor-
ture and. 'killing of prisoners
mail ballot to the 1200-mem
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Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000101090002-5