THE PROFESSOR & THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400380030-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: February 27, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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CIO leadership were a direct continuation' of the AFL
up to 1905 would constitute the "early days." Yet ~dur-
or.
American imperialism. Gompers was a vice president
and to demand full independence for Cuba.- . Y - .
general strike of the Cuban workers for an eight-hour
tiny, the AFL convention, Detroit, Dec., 1899, condemned
the action, and the delegates applauded Gompers when he
can foreign policy. This shift .:. coincided with Gompers'
ryes of the house of Morgan,.' Gompers and his associ-'
olicy of imperialism. But the early anti-imperialist'tradi-
rank and file
Desa SIRS: In his article, Henry W. Berger refers to
me as "associated with the AFL." Since the other names ?
he lists with _ . . ... . . .
Burlington, Vf.
.CPYRGHT;'.
DEAR Stns: I regret that I ? left 'the impression that Mr.
}tcrling was employed by' the AFL which he was' not, as
I well know' and as he has made clear. Mr. Herling was,
however, the head of.the Labor Relations Division of .the
Office of Inter-Amtrlcan Affairs and aptivel solicited the
C PYRE HF (Continued on page 2 6)
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The Pz?ogessor F3 the CIA
For twelve years Dr. Evron M. Kirkpatrick has been
executive director of the American Political Science As-
sociation, a prestigious fraternity which has about 16,000
professors in its membership.
He has also been, for the last ten years, executive di-
rector of Operations and Policy Research, Inc., an organi-
zation established to help the United States Information
Service. the government's propaganda arm, distribute
more persuasive broadsides and magazines and books both
in this country and abroad.
Dr. Kirkpatrick (formerly University of Minnesota,
.. formerly OSS, formerly State Department) sees no con-
flict in his dual role. Indeed, to create and polish the
government's propaganda Dr. Kirkpatrick has said he em-
ploys on a part-time basis more than 100 professors, many
of them members of his campus organization, the APSA.
Where does the money come from? In the early years'
of its existence, Operations and Policy Research, Inc.,'
was supported solely by USIA funds. It still gets nearly
1, $60,000 a year from USIA, but now also receives money,.
from the Pentagon, the State Department and other gov-
ernment agencies. It will never lack for money ties, l?e-
cause one of Dr, Kirkpatrick's close friends is Vice Presi-
~1 rey; and Max M. Kampelman, vice president
.
nd a n for Kirkpatrick's outfit, is one of Washing-
ton's leading Establishment liberals.
Even more significant, considering recent disclosures
about the Central Intelligence Agency's fiddling with cam-.
pus affairs, is the fact that OPR, Inc., has received large
grants from the Sidney and Esther Rabb Charitable Foun-
dation, 'one of the foundations identified as a conduit
for CIA funds to feed the National Student Association..
The Rabb Foundation gave four times as much to Dr.
Kirkpatrick's professors as it gave to the students. .
Another foundation helping to pay for Dr. Kirkpatrick's
work is the Pappas .Charitable Trust of Boston. In the ?
last two years, OPR, Inc., has received' more than $120,-
000 from Pappas. It may or may not mean anything, but.
Pappas also supports the International Development.'.
a CIA front since it was launched with a grant of $187 -
685 from the CIA-connected Radio Free Europe and '
by Congressional, investigators as having put money into
another CIA-conduit foundation,' the Kaplan Fund. In
1964 alone, Pappas gave the International Development .
oundation $102,000.
Dr. Kirkpatrick says it is "very likely" that these two
oundations transmit CIA funds, and acknowledges that
n 1963, 1964 and 1965, OPR, Inc., received CIA money, .?-'
'principally" for studies' of Latin' American elections. No
trtngs, ne says, were attached to .these grants.
THE NATION / February. 11, 1967