PUBLICITY ABOUT ACADEMIC RELATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00985R000300080003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 14, 2001
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 19, 1977
• Content Type: MF

NFAC 3089-77
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
THROUGH . Director, National Foreign Assessment Center
Assistant to the DCI for Public Affairs
FROM . Associate Coordinator for Academic Relations
and External Analytical Support
SUBJECT : Publicity about Academic Relations
1. Action requested: Your approval for Public Affairs to invite
the Chronicle of Higher Education to do a feature story on the Agency and
its academic relationships and for the Coordinator for Academic Relations,
the Associate Coordinator, and other appropriate officers to brief a Chronicle
reporter. That you agree to meet with a Chronicle reporter as part of this
effort.
2. Background: The Chronicle of Higher Education is a prestigious
weekly paper that reaches more than 50,000 subscribers in the US academic
community, During the last year or so it has carried stories with CIA
content: the Michael Selzer affair at Brooklyn College, the Harvard
guidelines, MK-ULTRA, etc. These stories were factually and objectively
done, though all lacked depth and perspective on the Agency and on the
real dimensions and objectives of our academic relations program.
3. An article would be consistent with the objectives of our expanded
academic relations program and could give it added impetus and focus. We
would want the story to concentrate on the two major dimensions of the Agency's
academic relationships: 1) our open recruiting on campus; and 2) the scholarly
1AAT TEL milieu, purposes, and friends of the National Foreign Assessment Center.
Appropriate senior officers should be available to discuss these matters with
Chronicle reporters. A meeting with a top spokesman--preferably the DCI--also
would be desirable.
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Subject: Publicity about Academic Relations
NFAC/ACAR Memo to DCT
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