GUIDELINES FOR CAMPUS APPEARANCES OF DDI OFFICERS - - DRAFT PROPOSITIONS FOR DISCUSSION

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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2005
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: April 12, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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12 April 1972
?+ZEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Paul V. Walsh, ADDI
SUBJECT Guidelines for Cam us A
DDI Officers -- Draft PPopositionsof
for Discussion
THE PROBLEM
To examine the purpose, benefits, and hazards
of campus speaking engagements by DDI officers; and
to fashion guidelines concerning the rationale of
such practice, the organizing of specific engagements,
and the instructing of participating DDI officers,
~xrept w ere otherwise noted in this memo
"speaking engagements" refers to discussions of
substantive (Soviet, Latin American, etc.) questions,
and does not apply to speaking engagements on CIA
or the role of intelligence in American foreign policy
decision-making.
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1. For the past few years, DDI officers have
been permitted to accept occasional requests from
academia for campus appearances. From 1969 to date,
,there has been a total of 58 such occasions: of
these, 38 to April 1971, 20 since that time. There
have additionally been 13 similar speaking engage-
ments by ONE officers since January 1971.
2. To date the rationale permitting such
campus appearances has recognized that the academic
community also comes into contact with the Agenc
through many other ways: e.g., public media, STAT
recruitment, books and articles written by DD
officers, participation by DDI officers in the programs
or meetings of various learned societies, and the
existence on some campuses of CIA retirees or resignees.
But, as far as speaking engagements are concerned,
the principal rationale has been that occasional,
low-profiled appearances of quality officers will
enhance academic and public respect for CIA. Results
to date clearly justify this rationale. Certain
problems or potential hazards nonetheless necessitate
a careful examination of this practice, and an
according establishing of more definite guidelines.
3. The principal benefits of campus appearances
have in general been these:
a. Virtually without exception, speaking
engagements have gone well: there has been constructive
feedback, and the DDI officer in question has invariably
felt that he has definitely struck some positive blows
concerning public perceptions of CIA.
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h. There have been numerous definite informal
trade-offs, by osmosis and after the fact to oche
CIA intere e.g,, recruitment,
STAT
s c. The speaking engagements have provided
p ychic income to the DDI officers concerned,
to broaden the perspectiveseofatheeDDI officersved
concerned.
e. Costs have been modest.
4. At the same time, certain problems or
potential problems exist:
a. A few outings in recent months have
demonstrated the occupational hazard of CIA not always
being confident thatthe DDI speaker on campus will in
fact be confronted with what has been bargained for.
No major flap or embarrassments have occurred, and DDI
officers have acquitted themselves well when confronted
with unexpected situations. But there have been a few
occasions where the DDI officer has had to fend off the
press, TV, questions about CIA this and that, and even
on-the-spot requests to give plenary speeches on CIA
and intelligence. A chief operative factor in every
speaking engagement, whether embarrassing or uneventful,
has been the individual point of contact on campus for
each particular occasion, and the care with which prior
arrangements have been made between such professors,
Deans, etc., and CIA. Where such contacts have been
prior known commodities, there has been little strain,
b. There i5 such a thing as too much
success, per certain recent embarrassingly lauditory feed-
backs; successful speaking engagements do indeed give
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rise to too many req~zests fvr too many speakers.
This ancillary practice should not be permitted to
detract in any major way from the principal mission
of DDI officers: to do their jobs well, here.
c. A potential hazard could arise, if
there are too many engagements, or if CIA officers
do not display caution with respect to the initiation
of such speaking engagements, or if there should
occur possible public misunderstanding or
misrepresentation of the campus speaking practice.
With respect to the latter, it is possible that a
hostile, or notoriety-seeking, or careless newsman
or academic figure could claim that CIA has begun a
new PR program, throughout the country, in an effort
to con the public's attention away from CIA's more
nefarious activities throughout the world. The odds
of such a contingency may not be great, but it cer-
tainly is a future to be avoided.
Gi1I~]ELINES
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5. The practice of
DDI~
cam
us
ki
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p
spea
ng engage-
~is a useful one. It should conti
nue, subject
o these guidelines.
6. DDI 's stance should be a res
i
pons
ve one
only: that is, speaking engagements will be considered
upon request from academia. Officers should not
solicit or initiate speaking engagements for themselves
or other DDI officers.
7. Acceptance of requestsfor DDI speakers
will be made on selective basis only, having a view
to the stren
th
f
g
s o
a particular university or college,
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the atmosphere on that campus, confidence in the
point of contact on campus, etc. In each case con-
sultation should occur with the DDI Coordinator for
Academic Relations, t:o determine whether a particular
request seems to w
arrant ,~ favorable ~~-~e~
$ . In those e~c~s~'O-~e-A-s where it does , present
procedures will continue -- rig the office
director or chief and the CAR.,,forward such recommendations
to the ADDI for his approval.`"`~~
STAT
10. The optimum setting for speaking engagements
is the seminar, the class room, the faculty lounge,
any such gathering of scholars and students trading
views on world affairs -- and outside the view of the
general public. This is the setting which should
be reasonably guaranteed in accepting virtually all
speaking engagements. On rare occasions, where CIA
can be reasonably confident that local arrangements ``
are fully satisfactory, engagements can be accepted ,e-''=-
where members of the public will be present. ~'
11. In all instances the academic point of
contact in question is to give CIA reasonable prior
guarantee of minimum publicity, before and after the
speaker's appearance. Additionally, in no instance
is a DDI .speaker to grant a press or TV interview, or
make any statements to public media personnel. When
and if suddenly confronted with any such situation, the
speaker should decline politely, and gain the assistance
of the academic point of contact in explaining why
public statements are not possible.
12. Except on sI~ecial occasions, present proce-
dures will continue -- of confining DDI speaking
engagements to substantive questions only. Where
special considerations obtain, and where
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the particular point of contact is fully known to
and respected by CIA officers, consideration can
be given to engagements on questions of CIA and the
role of intelligence in foreign policy. Even in
such occasions as these, the officer in question:
a. Should be guided by prior study of
existing CAR files of permissible statements and
rejoinders; and
campus onlybafterlheshaskfirstuperformedttherea the en
same day or so) on substantive issues -- and thus
established himself as a bonafide scholar, and not
just a guy who goes out to hawk CIA from campus to
campus.
13. On other, substantive, occasions when and
if a speaker is confronted with questions about CIA
and intelligence, he should be guided as follows:
CIA activi.ties,Isource_sasmethodseoflcollectionnlor
other sensitive items, the speaker should politely
decline, explaining that he is on campus as a (Russian,
Chinese, Latin American, or whatever) specialist, that
this is what he and CIA bargained for in accepting
the speaking engagement, and that he is not authorized)
or prepared to answer the question.
b. In the case of more benign questions
(e?g., the general role of intelligence in US foreign
policy decision-making, employment opportunities in
the CIA, etc.), the speaker should state that he didn't
contraet to discuss such questions; that he accordingly
will not do so in plenary; but that he is prepared to
chat informally (at coffee or whatever) following the
plenary, with any persons so interested.
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14. Even though this memo concerns only DDI
officers, the subject. matter should be of interest
to other CIA components, and in certain instances
there might well need to be coordination/agreement
between CIA offices concerning campus appearances.
As stated above, 0/NE officers are fairly active '
substantive a earances on campus. In addition, STAT
ther officers appear on
-- ere -- are aware of the
differing missions and interests of these various
officers, but to academia all the CIA officers may
in many instances be viewed simply as just the man
from CIA. Thus it behooves each component to be
fully aware of what other CIA offices are doing on
our campuses, and to be fairly confident that
respective roles and procedures have been fully ironed
out in advance.
STAT
Chief, I Special Research Staff
and
Coordinator for Academic Relations
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