SPECIAL REPORT 'I.U. AND THE CIA'

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" STATES GOVERNMENT
emorandum
Director,
suBJECT: Special Report "I.U. and the CIA"
1. Enclosed is a copy of the Spectator of 5 November
1968 purporting to "expose" CIA activity on the I.U. campus.
As you can see, it's a tempest in a teapot, but we thought
you would be interested in seeing it anyway. We have not
heard what action Dr. Sebeok plans to take in regard to the
evident theft of letters from his file. So far he has made
no statement.
2. Dr. Robert F. Byrnes, whose unlikeness appears on
page 8, tells us that the Spectator is the voice for the
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), an anarchist group
which at I.U. has a membership of a minimum of 50 and a
maximum of 300. Byrnes states that in his opinion there is
an evident reaction on campus to the disruptive activities
of these people and he expects it to become much stronger
in the next year. The former editor has been convicted of
being a draft dodger. We do not know where the Spectator
gets its funds, although part comes from special events
which SDS sponsors, and part from sales. The group at I.U.
profess to hate Communism, but also profess an admiration
for Chairman Mao. We do not know how they reconcile the
two views.
3. Our estimate of the effect of the "report" on
Agency activity at I.U. is that it may actually help our
relations since most people will think the attack on Sebeok
and the theft of his papers is reprehensible. Certainly
the report will do no damage. Incidentally- ha I1QC n4:
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The SPECTATOR, November 5, 1968
Editor: Mike King
Managing Editor: Jim Lubek
Exchange Editor: .Pane-Dill,,encourt
Literary Editot:'BQb Klawitter
Drama Editor: Chuck Kleinhans
Cinema Editor: Kevin Sheets
Music Editor: Mike Bourne
Layout: Mary Kleinhans, Mimi BardagJy
Production Managers: Charlotte Allison, David Zielinsk.t
Artists: Bob Gaber, Susan Butorac, Mary Connors, Kathy
Connors, Lynn Epstein, Sylvia Smith
Production: Allan Smith, Dave Cahill, John Levindofske,
Doug Falls, Charles Ostrofsky, Larry Bergman,
Karen Goodman Amy Horn
Typists: Charlotte Allison, Elizabeth Erskine, Judy
Talty, Hannah Sard, Bonnie Poillion. Greg Faust,
Mary Hether, Pam Scott , Ann Gardener, Sue Wachel
Contributing Editors: Bob Johnson, David. Cahill, Bernie
Madura, Richard Watson, Jane
Dillencourt, Ann Wagner
Ad Manager: D. Scott Hess.
Circulation Manager: Mark Richter
Editor-in-Exile: James Retherford
Copr. The SPECTATOR, 1968
423 S. Fess
Bloomington,' Indiana 47401
812-339-4995
Material reprintable when
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
HEADITORIALS
IU AND THE CIA
SDS SPECIAL REPORT
BLACK POWER OR DEATH
By OBI EGBUNA
THE CASE OF THE KNOXVILLE
COLLEGE STUDENTS
By SSAC
ROTC - COUNTER-INSURGENCY
By MILLARD FILLMORE
CASE OF PLANTED PIPES
By BERNIE MADURA
DARK BAG
By BOB JOHNSON
MEMORIES OF TRANSIENT SHAPES
By CHARLES ECKERT
PERCY HOUGHTON IS ALIVE?
By KEVIN SHEETS
WAITING FOR THE REVOLUTION
By CHARLES KLEINHANS
DON LEE - THINK BLACK
By LARRY COLEMAN
LETTERS
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JOLTIN'JOE
CLOSED UNIVERSITY
The publication today of the special SDS report on
Indiana University and the CIA serves to underline the
conflict of rhetoric and of act in President Wells'
recent statement on the "open university" (IDS, Friday,
November 1). While indeed it may be clear to the interim
President that IU takes no political stand, and in no
way cooperates with secret government agencies, it is
not so clear to us. The story speaks for itself.
A FREE PRESS
Largely because of The SPECTATOR, a Faculty Council
committee today is recommending that Council meetings
be open to the press on a regular basis, with only
"executive sessions" excluded. We welcome this long-
overdue step, which was requested by the Student Senate
last year.
Jerry Hicks, editor-in-chief of the Daily Student,
will speak to the Council today on this issue, just as
he did last Tuesday at the "open meeting." We support
what he said then:
There is a great disenchantment with gov-
erning bodies among all students, regardless of
the length of their hair or size of their side-
burns. There is a lack of understanding of
their functions; also, the bodies do not keep
themselves open to public record. It is es-
sential to democracy that government bodies
keep themselves open to the public, or at min-
imum to the press. These bodies deal with
things that affect people's lives, and people
want to know the details of what is done as
well as the final decision.
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In closed meetings the press cannot report
what happened, but just what officials said
happened. Their vested interests and personal
involvement prevent accurate reporting. Most
closed sessions should be opened.
Some argue that the news should occa-
sionally be suppressed. The New York Times
at government request did not print what it
knew about the upcoming Bay of Pigs invasion.
President Kennedy later said "perhaps you
should have stopped it by blowing the story."
The seemingly imminent selection of Dean Joseph
Sutton as Indiana University's new President was
received by the Spectator with a mixture of trepidation
and delight. Fear, because it has always been clear
where Joltin' Joe stands on dissent in general and
the Spectator in particular. And joy, for basically
the same reason. We know who our enemies are.
This is the same Dean Sutton who last year charged
into the Spectator's on-campus offices with an ax, ready
to do his part for IU, God, and The (Carrie) Nation.
At any real educational institution, for such an action,
the good Dean would have immediately been bounced.
His fate seems instead to be promotion to the presi-
dency, for which we can only thank the progressive ideals
of the Trustees.
We congratulate Dean Sutton on his impending vic-
tory, and hope he soon recovers from the health prob-
lem which we understood was the only obstacle standing
in his way. It is going to be a long haul, as we are
sure Mr. Wells will tell him.
As for his future relations with the Spectator,
just wait till we get our ax.
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Center for
nternat io nal Affairs
Preface
By DAN McCORMICK, VIRGINIA KNIGHT, AND RICHARD WATSON
The university is experiencing a conflict of inter-
ests, a conflict between its function as an educational
institution and its obligation to service the needs of
industry and government. In an attempt to combine its
functions, the university has sacrificed its ability to
stimulate critical thinking in students in order to bet-
ter train them to fill the specialized jobs being
created by government and industry. To repeat the
clichC: training is replacing education, while the uni-
versity is becoming an elite vocational school.
The easiest.way to document these charges is to
study the careers of the most successful members of the
faculty of the establishment. The faculty is that organ
of the university most directly involved in the process
of education -- whether it be one of liberation or
manipulation. Therefore, those, professors who have dis-
`tinguished themselves in the university ought to pro-
vide us with a good indication of the traits which are
encouraged and rewarded in the faculty at large. They
should provide us with a base from which to generalize
something about the goals of the institutions which have
rewarded them so handsomely.
These are the assumptions on which rests the
ESPECIAL REPORT
SPECIAL REPORT on International Activities, Area Studies
and the C A at Indiana Un vers t , prepared by an SDS
Specie Research Committee, 30 68; which is being
made public this week. By examining several "Distin-
guished Professors," the Committee reveals some startling
facts about what actually distinguishes those men.
It is our opinion, after reading the report, that
the university community can no longer afford to hide
itself under the cloak of the "open, value-free" aca-
demy, especially when the CIA is sharing the same cloak.
We have a responsibility as members of the intellectual
community to take a stand on the non-educational activi-
ties going on in our midst. The university has commit-
ted itself to policies of dubious educational value at
the behest of administrators and faculty who have clear
ties to government and industry. To permit a small
group of influential men with special interests to
determine the course the university will follow in the
future stakes us'as an act of cowardice and timidity --
an evasion of responsibility on the part of the rest of
the academic community. We recommend that this report
be studied well, for its implications are far-reaching,
both in terms of the nature of the university, and the
grounds on which student activists base their demands
for change.
InternatiOnal Activities, Area Studies
and the CIA at Indiana University
Our research has focused on Indiana University's
government ties. The plethora of international pro-
grams at IU has mirrored the shifting cold war priori-
ties of the US government abroad. The men who have
planned those programs have had intimate ties with the
government and have been influential in creating aca-
demic programs which would efficiently service govern-
ment needs for area specialists and train reliable na-
tive public and business administrators with whom the
US could conduct its business abroad.
What a. S_3t ki?-~Pw J o t se~ceral_of the key
figures indicates that the CIA had its fingers in the
-goulash from the beginning. On the basis of our infor-
mation now, we can place area studies programs and
institutes such as the Russian and East European (REE)
Institute, the Uralic and,Altaic Studies Center, the
Asian Studies Program and most of the other interdisci-
plinary programs in, a new context, one in which scho-
larly research transcends narrow departmental barriers
to form an interdisciplinary problem-solving team, one
that performs the CIA's problem-solving.
The man with whom we are most familiar is Thomas
A. Sebeok, Distinguished Professor of Linguistics, who
might never have set sail for the spicy shores of
Academe had he had his way. In August, 1950, at the
outset of what was to become an illustrious career,
Sebeok wrote to Mr. C. R. Kerlin of the CIA:
I have just returned from the East and
had considerable time meanwhile to think over
the interview I recently had with you. I am
quite convinced that I wish to place at your
disposal whatever expertness I may possess. . . .
I should greatly welcome an immediate
investigation, if this could be arranged, so
as to avoid delay if my services suddenly be
called upon later on.
Please inform me on my chances of employ-
ment with you and kindly keep in touch with me.
But as is often the case, the CIA decided it could use
him better. within the university than in its direct
employ. Sebeok was a scholar who combined his "lan-
guage ability with a thorough comprehension of current
world affairs and background knowledge of (his) lin-
guistic area" to come up with the CIA's formula for
in$tant academic success. (Quoted from a letter of
2/26151, from CIA assistant Chief of Procurement,
Personnel Office, Donald V. Mulcahy, to Thomas A. Se-
beok).
A Hungarian immigrant (he immigrated in 1937),
Sebe9k is_ a ,~specia,lis_t in East-and-Mid-European lin-
guistics. Ae was the founder and first chairman of
the Uralic and. Altaic Studies Department and'the first
Director of-the Uralic and Altaic Language Area Center,
the only one of its kind in the country. "Uralic and
Altaic studies cover a geographical area ranging from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the
Mediterranean. The total speakers for all the Uralic
and Altaic languages is between 110 and 120 million".
(p. 131, 19.67-68 IU Bulletin, College of Arts and
Sciences). This department conveniently includes the
peoples in and on the borders of the Eurasian communist
bloc, from the subject peoples of the Soviet Socialist
Republics, to Korea, the Turkic and Mongolian popula-
tions of China.
The Area Center was established in 1963 by the
National Defense Education Act. The study of these
languages grew out of IU's wartime work with Altaic
languages. It; had a "wartime contract for the crash
training of linguists in the Altaic languages, a scho-
larly designation -- derived from the name of the
Altai mountain range -- for a number of languages
whic'z roughly includes the Turkic, Mongol, and (Manchu-)
Tunguz languages. This led IU to import a number of
Turks as language "informants" and provided the uni-
versity with a sizable group of Turkish alumni -- but it
also provided a postwar base for a strong program in
these esoteric tongues". (p. 226 The University Looks
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Abroad, (ULA), a report from Education and World Af-
fairs).
It also led Thomas A. Sebeok to send some graduate
students abroad as "informants" or intelligence-
gatherers--at least their foreign studies facilitated
intelligence-gathering. While one of his students
was on a Fuibright in Norway,- Charles W. Mathews,
regional CIA agent based in St. Louis, Missouri, wrote:
In your next letter to your student who is
studying under a Fulbright scholarship, you
might suggest that.he pick up any maps or
charts of the area