BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MY APPEARANCE BEFORE THE PRINCETON GRADUATE SCHOOL FORUM, 2 MARCH 1966.

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• Document Release Date: July 6, 2005
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• Publication Date: March 3, 1966
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3 March 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Brief Description of my Appearnace Before the
Princeton Graduate School Forum, 2 y-'l"{&'C,G
1. I though this went off well, and the audience -- which
was full house, perhaps 150 grad students with a smattering of
faculty -- seemed genuinely interested in that I had to say on
estimates, estimating, and how all this fits into policy-making
problems. Questions from the floor after my talk were all cour-
teous enough, and most of them actually related to the subject
of my remarks -- that is to say the intellectual process and
problems involved in our line of work. There is clearly, in this
generation of students, a widespread composite image of the CIA
man as politically reactionary, non- or anti-intellectual, given
to overthrowing governments at the free-wheeling whim of the
Agency, and free to spend much of his time drinking martinis in
bed with blondes. I think an exposition of an intellectually
respectable process, such as I gave, with emphasis on the fact
we deal in intelligence and not policy, and that we serve rather
than dictate to the duly elected executive branch of the govern-
ment helped correct this image. At least I was so assured by a
number of the audience and by the Master of the Graduate College,
Mr. Blum, after the proceedings.
A few pointed questions about operations were asked, and I
had no difficulty in giving evasive answers, referring the ques-
tioner to respectable published works (e.g. Abel's Missile Crisis)
or simply saying I -was not prepared to discuss the subject.
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