HOW THE CIA KEPT AN EYE ON CAMPUS DISSENT

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VIE CHRONICLE OF 11IGHCR EDUCTION
5 December 1977
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By Philip W. Semas
WASHINOTON
The Central Intelligence Agency engaged
in extensive monitoring of campus radicals
during the late 1960's and early 1970's, ac-
cording ;-'
to papers made public last week..
In two of the papers, Richard Helms, then.
the Director of Central Intelligence, ac-
knowledged that the agency was engaged in
activities that fell outside its charter.
The documents were released by the Cam-
paign to' Stop Government Spying, a coali-
tion of civil-liberties, church, and other activ-
ist organizations.
A suit. under the Freedoin of Information
Act, brought by Morton I-Ialperin..a former
White House aide who Chairs the campaign,
and John Marks of the Center for' National
-Security Studies led to the papers release.
The suit sought 67 documents provided by
the C.I.A. to the House and Senate intelli-
gence committees and to a Presidential com-
mission chaired by Nelson A. Rockefeller,
who was Vice-President at the time.
Many of the documents were denied to
Mr. Halperin and Mr. Marks. Others had all
or virtually all of their contents deleted. The
denied and expurgated documents included:
10-.A memorandum on "travel of students
and faculty abroad and of foreign elements to
U. S. campuses. 11.
. .
' A memorandum on "Activities Involy.
ing Foreign Students in the U. S."
I- Several letters from C.I.A. officials to the'
Senates special committee on intelligence on
the agency's relations with U. S. academic
and research institutions.
.- "Regulations concerning operational use.
of individuals within the academic communi-
ty,
Mr..Haiperin and Mr. Marks said they
would continue to seek the documents they
were idersied.
3 Reports to the White House
The documents that were obtained include
three reports on student unrest sent to the
tohnson White House and one sent to Henry
'(issinger, President Nixon's national securi-
y advisor. They indicate that the C.I.A.,
apparently at the urging of the White House,
:ought unsuccessfully to find ties between
U.S. dissidents and Comri1unist organiza-
ions in other countries.
A Nov. 15, 1967, memorandum to Presi-
'ent Johnson on "International Connections
If the U! S. Peace Movement" says the
tidy "involved extensive research and ex-
mination of the Agency's own files as well
s access to data in the hands of the Federal
ureau of Investigation and the National
ccurity Agency."
The report says that the C.I.A. was unable
find "any source of funds for the costly
Report on Student Meeting
The C.I.A. also sent the Johnson White`
House a report on the U. S. National Sri)-
dent Association's 1967 convention. which
was the group's first meeting- after its past
ties to the intelligence agency were revealed.
According to a covering memorandum
from Mr. Helms, only two copies o1? the
report were being circulated outside the
C.I.A.-tO Walt W. Rostow, then President
Johnson's National security adviser, and John
W. Gardner, then Secretary of Health, Fdu
cation, and Welfare. Mr. Helms said he was
limiting distribution "because the Agency
should not be reporting at all on domestic.
affairs of this sort.' - -
Mr: Helms said he had asked "the Agency
I officer who has dealt with youth and student
avt'ltschedules of prominent peace move-
ent coordinators, many of whom are on the
ing almost constantly," or any evidence of
?ontact between the most prominent peace
ovement leaders and foreign embassies.
ther in the U. S. or abroad."
A note on the report indicates that Mr.
alms took the original to the President.
Iris a Sept. 4, 1968, memo to President
?hnson, Mr. Helms says, "I am disappoint-
.?
as perhaps you will be. by our
inability to be more precise about the motiva-
tion and direction of this worldwide move-
ment."
Because of this lack of information, Mr.~.i
affairs 'in recent years" to prepare the report
"because I was interested to learn what wen',
on at the recent N.S.A. Congress now that
agency has no N.s.A. ties."
The report itself is a straightforward de-
scription of what happened at the conven-
tion. "Unexpectedly:' it says, "the matter (if
the U.S.N.S.A.-C.I.A. relationship did not tna?-
terialize as a major Congress issue."
However, the report adds, "Ilse C.t'.A. con-
troversy should be regarded as a net gain for
N.S.A. . In fact, it appears that the rr.s.A..
leadership has successfully exploited both the
c.I.A. publicity and the national media's lire
occupation with what students are doing to
emerge as the more or less official spokes-
man for student activists."
Helms makes "a suggestion which lies?out=. The report also discusses various ra.s?r
side the range of.my responsibilities"t that leaders. It says Ed Schwartz. who was elect-
the President consider having the F.B.I. "use ed N.S.A. president that year. 'ht not a
more advanced investigative techniques in radical, although he occasionally allows him
dealing with this problem." - self to be influenced by the New Left for
in the memo.. Mr. Helms also reminds political reasons rather than out of ideological
president Johnson of "the peculiar sensitivity weakness:'
which attaches to the fact that C.I.A. has
prepared a report on student activities both
here and abroad."
in a 1969 report called "Restless Youth:'
which dealt with "student dissidence world-
wide," the s.c.i.A. Included a section on
American student activism. In an accompa-.
nying memo to Mr. Kissinger. Mr. Helms'
said, "This is an area not within the charter.
of this Agency, so I need not emphasize how
extremely sensitive this makes the paper.
Should anyone learn of its existence it would
prove most embarrassing for all concerned."
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By Al Larkin Jr. .
Globe Staff
Last September, white, testifying
before a Senate- subcommittee in
Washington, CIA ' director Stansfield
Turner said his .agency no longer sought
to sponsor secret research at the nation's
colleges and universities.
Today, Turner and his aides are
working quietly to soften the effect of a
set of Harvard University guidelines .
designed specifically to..Iimit. such
work.
The guidelines, which were' drawn
I up earlier this year"in response to. CIA
disclosures that.. it 'secretly sponsored
millions of dollars worth`of research at?
American campuses, are' expected to
serve as a model = for- universities'
ry:
throughout the count
Harvard officials said receritly,that,
shortly after the guidelines were made
public in May, Turner, complained that
1 they were toe'.stringent and could
violate the individual. privacy' of uni-
versity professors who serve as consul-
tants to the agency. {
Harvard's general counsel,- Daniel?
Steiner, ?s-aid yesterday that discussions
between the CIA and-the university are:
"ongoing;" adding that "there. are sig-
nificant differences between us that we
hope we'll be able to resolve." ?
The dispute is the latest in a series
of incidents. that have strained the once -
cordial relationship between the
nation's academic community and the,
'IA. __ . '.
Since World War II, the CIA and.
other intelligence agencies have spon--
sors:millions? of dollars worth of ree
search at American campuses much
of it. classified work - after discover-'.
ing that the expertise found there was
McCarthy fell into disfavor, the Cold
War was taking.shape and, with it, an
urgency to develop new technology and
new ideas to combat the. threat of com-,
that university-administrators learned
that, -in addition to hundreds of proj?:
ects they had ;approved;. there 'were.
hundreds of others that never received
their approval. :'?'i ,i. . ,`:'.'
In September,: California's Stanford
University--finally informed of its role
by the CIA-sent a 900-word message
across the country detailing its involver
ment in $400,000 worth of such work
during the 1950s and early'60s.'
The news was neither surprising nor
alarming, much of it having been previ-
ously reported, but-a few hours later
Stanford sent another message, this one
just 20' words long: ,?;'l . y ,:>' :~'.
~-,t-gtanford outlawed secret -research
in 1969, and there: is no evidence.'that
current faculty is involved in any CIA.
research."
The mood had changed. College ad-
ministratori. everywhere wanted it.un
derstood that. they were the unwilling
victims in this. CIA scheme. And they
wanted to. prove that, it :wouldn't,
couldn't happen again.
Stanford wasn't alone: Eighty-six
universities and 'hospitals across the
country had been .used unwittingly by
the intelligence agency. The amounts
S'spent in New England were small,
among them was the most controver-
sial-the Use o? LSD on unsuspecting
volunteers at the Massachusetts Mental
Health center...
Details of other local projects still
haven't been disclosedr, but Harvard,
? MIT and other local institutions have,
.:as Stanford, already taken steps to ban
all classified research-some because of
antiwar protests in the 1960s and others
because of the most recent disclosures
=about the CIA.. ;:. , .
But nearly everyone admits that de-
spite the..efforts at regulating secret.
research;-: the very nature of such re-
search makes it difficult to uncover , and
abolish
` ?' "And since not every college oruni-
versity has taken steps to stop classi-
fied research; agencies like the CIA can
.simply -move- elsewhere: with .their
work," 'explained Robert' Beyers, P.
."activities on campus came only after
the extent of the CIA involvement was I
'made public. t ': f
..But Harvard general counsel Stainer:
explained in a recbnt .interview'
that the university hasn't 'accepted
classified research "for years and years;
primarily because the basic rationale is,
that the university is in the business of
developing knowledge and information
for the public.
'-'Classified research provides highly
limited access, which is contrary to that
rationale," Steiner said.
Coupled with those constraints is
the CIA's recent assurance to Stanford
officials that "it is contrary to agency'
policy (now) to obtain unwitting ser-
vices of any American staff or faculty:
member of US institutions.';.
`...'But the statement:noticeably ex
eludes contracts with foreign nationals
working at US universities and fails to
resolve the problem of nonclassified re'
search that the CL 'intends to use for
purposes other than those stated pub-
?Iicly.
Anthony Wiener, a former guest
researcher at MIT who now teaches at
-the New York Institute of Technology,
had one such experience with the CIA
while at MIT in the late 19503.:
In 1958, Wiener solicited a'. $12,000
grant from the Society for the Investi-
gation of Human Ecology only re-
cently identified as a conduit for CIA
funds -- to continue a study'of the so-'i
ciological aspects of scientific research
in the Soviet Union '? ;_ ~~s ..
It wasn't until two months ago that.
jfWiener found that the money actually'
'came from-the CIA' and that the agency
actually hoped to use his reports to,
'determine how to locate Soviet scien
tists who might be?convinced to defect.
spokesman for Stanford University.
Beyers said.- Stanford's decision to
ban classified research as early as 1969,
:like MIT's, was a direct result of cam-.
pus antiwar protests rather than any'.
j us knowledge,- of unethical, relation
r
And ' Harvard's decision earlier this
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December 3, 1977 6:17 P.M.
CIA Feeling Economic Squeeze
WRC Radio
Washington, D.C.
MARGE KUMARKI: The Director of the Central Intelligence
Agency says universities are misguided if they pass regulations
requiring students and professors to notify university officials
if they have any contact with the CIA.
Stansfield Turner says such a regulation at Harvard
University singles out the CIA unfairly. He also said the CIA
works under guidelines which permits it to effectively gather in-
formation that's vital to the United States security.
He did agree, however, with the principle of proposed
congressional charters that would prohibit the CIA from hiring
clergy or journalists for undercover assignments. Turner said
the CIA,.like other government agencies, is feeling an economic
squeeze these days.
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THE PROGRESSIVE
December 1977
Curbing the CIA
The CIA has been back in the news with disclosures that
U.S. academic institutions and their faculties were hired
during the last twenty years to carry out secret experi-
ments in such intellectually stimulating areas as the
development of mind control drugs, truth serums, and
chemicals that would allow subjects safely to ingest large
quantities of alcohol.
The Campaign to Stop Government Spying, a coalition
of groups opposed to covert operations abroad and politi-
cal spying at home, is asking leading universities to set up
new standards that would prevent CIA infiltration of high-
er education. The proposed standards would require,
among other things, that all CIA contracts with univer-
sities or individual professors be matters of public record,
and that the CIA halt undercover recruiting of students.
The suggested guidelines reflect a healthy concern for
academic freedom, recognizing that CIA contracts and
undercover recruiting inhibit free discourse and distort the
relationship between faculty and students. Such subver-
sion of our academic institutions is clearly not within the
scope of the CIA charter.
Still, the guidelines are likely to have only limited im-
pact; without a rigorously enforced legislative ban, the
CIA would still have many ways to circumvent the rules.
And even a legal prohibition would probably have
minimal effect on an agency whose principal purpose is the
subversion of radical political action at home and abroad.
The CIA's record makes itall too clear that the agency is
rarely deterred by laws or democratic forms in its in-
defatigable efforts in behalf of the profits and investments
of U.S. multinational corporations. Without a major
change in the goals of American foreign policy and a
reassertion of democratic commitment at home, the CIA
will remain immune to periodic displays of public outrage
and occasional slaps on the wrist.
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26 id1t; , CH 1977
The APSA resolution
on the question but, at the same
meeting, referred it to the Association's
Committee on Professional Ethics and
Academic Freedom which will, I am sure,
in due course bring in a more carefully
FO ilte rdlhir5:
The resolution of the American Political
Science Association referred to in Diane
Ravitch's article on the Selzer case at
Brooklyn College ("Brouhaha in
Brooklyn," TIN, i1, far. 12) has faults
which I hope will be corrected. I can
perhaps put it in a more favorable light
by saying that the resolution did
recognize "the importance of the
academic community's participation in
the conduct of government and for
mutation of government policies" and
did not condemn all participation by
political scientists in CIA or other
government intelligence activities but
asked only, that such participation be
fully disclosed
The resolution failed to define with
any precision the kind and degree of
involvement that should beavoided and,
especially to be regretted, said nothing
to insure due process for accused
individuals or (in your words) to "warn
against a relapse into civil-libertarian
myopia.". I should also point out,
however, that the Council did not
regard this resolution as the final word
Samuel 11. Beer
President
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ON PAGE
NEW YORK TIMES
20 March 1977
Professor s Employment by CaTa.L a.
Draws Cornell Students' Protest
8N-1a1 to The New Yak T1mea
ITHACA, March 14---A Cornell Univer- i The professinial group also declared its
sity professor of government, on leave
this year at the Central Intelligence Agen-
cy; has sparked a protest by graduate
students in government here who believe
-faculty members should not be working
for the Central Intelligence Agency In any
capacity. .
The controversy comes at a time when
colleges and universities across the coun-
try are examining ties and suspected ties
to the Intelligence agency In the wake
of the report by a Senate committee last
spring that the agency's links to the
academic community were widespread
and covert.
The students at Cornell recently
charged that faculty involvement with
the C.I.A. "undermines the trust neces-
sary for the survival of the academic
community and basic academic free-
doms." They also said it had a "chilling
effect" on the free expression of opinion
on campus. . - . .
Involvement Is Opposed
The professor, Myron Rush, a specialist
in Soviet internal affairs, was invited last
summer. to be a "scholar In residence"
at the C.I.A.'s headquarters in Langley,
Va. He accepted the offer last fall, in-
forming his colleagues and several of his
students, according to Dr. George H.
Quester, chairman of the government de-
partment at Cornell. Dr. Rush is currently
on leave without pay from the university
while he is with the C.I.A.
This notification was In accordance
with guidelines established last June by
the American Association of University
Professors. The guidelines call on "all
academics associated in any capacity
with a governmental agency to disclose
the nature of this association to profes-
sional colleagues, students and others
who are affected by it, as well as in publi-
cations resulting from" the association
with the agency.
finn opposition to any initiative by gov-
ernment agencies to involve academics in
"covert Intelligence operations under the
guise of academic research."
As word of Dr. Rush's appointment
spread, the,g'aduate sadents h.came in-
bate they approved a resolution two
weeks ago condemning any faculty In-
volvement with the C.I.A. or other organ-
ization' engaging In "illegal activities."
They also urged Cornell to adopt policies
prohibiting faculty ties to such agencies.
The response to the graduate students'
resolution has not been favorable. Several
government professors have called it
"McCarthyism of the left." .
Although no names were mentioned in
the resolution, the students behind it ac-
knowledge that it was Dr. Rush's involve-
ment that triggered it. In fact, they say,
his name was mentioned in an early draft
in which several students urged that he
be dismissed from the department.
The controversy at Cornell Is unusual
in that Dr. Rush has not been particularly
secretive about his role with the C.I.A..
He denies having had any ongoing rela-
tionship with the agency, as some stu-
dents fear, and defends his use of classi-
fied researci material that is unavailable
to other members of the academic world.
There are problems with using classi-
fied research, Dr Rush said, "but the solu-
tion to the problem is not willful igno-
rance." Dr. Rush is presumed to be ana-
lyzing the question of who is likely to
succeed Leonid Brezhnev as leader of the
Soviet Communist Party.- since this is his
special area of concern. . ' ? .
Dr. Rush also said he did not believe
he was violating the intent of the stu-
dents' resolution because, he said, Presi-
dent Carter has asserted that the intelli-
gence community is currently not en-
gaged in any illegal activities.
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The Director of Central Intelligence
Jun, D . C.20505
Washin,
18 March 1977
Mr. Cullen Murphy
Associate Editor, Change
NBW Tower
New Rochelle, New York 10801
Dear Mr. Murphy,
Thank you for your note of February 17 and the attached clipping.
I want to assure you that I am concerned about the Agency's xelation-
ships with the academic community and that I believe, as you do, there
are important questions of principle involved.
Certainly, it seems to me, one of the most important principles
involved is that there should be no inconsistency between the objectives
of the academic community and the Central Intelligence Agency -- the
search for the truth in regard to world affairs and the need for the
U.S. Government to benefit from the knowledge of the scholarly insti-
tutions of this country. To divorce the Agency, which provides advice
and analyses to the highest levels of our government, from scholars
and their product would seem to me to be the height of folly. I
believe our mutual objective should be to strengthen that relationship
on basds that are agreeable to both the government and the academic
institutions.
To that end, I assure you I will give the matter my attention
and that we will, as you suggest, examine the matter with care.
One final point: your editorial indicates you may not have seen
the reply of my predecessor, Mr. George Bush, to Professor Van Alstyne.
I am therefore enclosing, for your information, both Professor Van Alstyne's
letter and Mr. Bush's reply.
Incidentally, I am intrigued by your deduction from the Amherst
Student report that we shared the same room. at the Chi Psi house.
l cc~anelieve that the pipes and the radiators were the same, but
!
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that mattress was already 30 years old when I was t
Yours sincere
STANSFIELD TURNER
Admiral, U.S. Navy
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DCI,
Recommend that response to
the Center for National. Security
Studies be handled by letter
from me, in order not to expose
you to the continuing sterile
confrontation with this outfit.
The DCI should not join battle with
askers of "have you issued
directives to discontinue wife-
beating?" type of questions. IG,
as you know, is working on a brief
for you on the Marks testimony in
your hearing. We will also have
a brief on the questions raised by
Macy. The whole question of
largely externally-inspired
"strong concern" in universities
has been handled by us in parallel
with the now essentially settled
matter of relations with the media,
and you may wish to discuss its
various aspects when have time.
Andrew lkiewicz
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Can a Free and Open University Maintain Associations with an
Organization that Undertakes Clandestine Activities?
By NANCY K. BEREANO
Authors Victor Marchetti and John Marks
note in their book, The CIA and the Cult of
Intelligence, that the following inscription is
carved in the marble-walled lobby of the CIA
headquarters in Langley, Va.: "And ye shall
know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free.
In spite of this biblical admonition, the
CIA has not been characterized by its
reputation for veracity. Most observers
agree, in fact, that the disclosures made
during the recent Senate inquiry headed by
Idaho's Senator Frank Church, coupled with
several highly publicized accounts of their
exploits written by defectors from CIA
ranks, reveal only the tip of the intelligence
operation's iceberg.
Cornell University, an- academic institu-
tion dedicated to "free and unfettered
inquiry," as one supporter commented, is
once again begin asked to examine its
relationship to the CIA. This time the
challenge comes from within the university
community in the form of a resolution passed
by a vote of 27 to 5 several weeks ago by the
government department's Graduate Student
Organization. -
The resolution was prompted by the fact
that Mvron Rush, one of the department's
senior tenured faculty and a member of its
Soviet Studies Program, is on a year's leave
of absence while serving as a professor-in-
residence with the CIA. The Graduate
Student Organization has asked Cornell to
go beyond its present policy of leaving it to
the discretion of individual academics to
decide what they believe to be an appropri-
ate use of their private professional time.
The resolution reads in part: "We .
believe that the involvement of faculty and
istudents, including those of our department,
with organizations which engaged in illegal
'ictivities undermines the trust necessary for
the survival of the academic community and CIA complicity last ~eptemoer, vv. voiiaiu ~~ -
Cooke, vice president for research replied: colleges, universities, and related institu-
basic academic freedoms. We denounce this "Cornell has no projects funded by the CIA lutes."
involvement in the strongest terms ... We . Additionally, Cornell has a The minority report of the Church
urge students and faculty in all departments ion - standing policy prohibiting classified Committee, signed by three members of the
research. Nor do we accept any research committee including then Senator Walter
and the university at large to adopt policies 9-
preventing such ties." unds which prohibit full publication of the Mondale, concludes that "the discussion of
one te . graduate results of research findings." Cooke also the role of U.S. academics in the CIA's
Jeoranparnon, dizing Credibility?
Thomas B tt the that he was not aware of any "secret 'clandestine activities has been so diluted
students led, e nstrumental in hattththree principal CIA presence on campus or otherwise under that its scale and impact on the American.
ed that within rigroup the auspices of Cornell." academic institutions is no longer clear."
positions oadopted,
oao wire passage: "People in the group - Academic Involvement While no one has come forward with any
were represented l
who favored to be with thhe CIA in thought A much bleaker picture is painted in the evidence linking Rush to either long-term
it general, wrong who thought h it was the report of Senator Church's Select CIA connections, undisclosed research or
be both, anopca who chard involved wwrong Committee to Study Governmental Opera- recruiting of graduate students for the CIA,
with aC academic and were ~ word tions with Respect to Intelligence Activities. a number of students have expressed their
that the CIA and people who weafraid With an editorial note explaining that this fears. One of them, Wendy Mink, talked
wet their fpaude professional credibility particular section has been -substantially about "the chilling effect of the (CIA) associ-
Alt ou jhopush was abridged at the request of the executive ation itself."
Although Rush was not available not agencies, that document asserts:' "The Harvey Fireside, chairman of Ithaca
comm off in been pat in his y see Lanabout he his has not Central Intelligence Agency is now using College's politics department and a Soviet
been particula academic rly secretive year. several hundred American academics ('aca- Studies specialist, spoke in general about
George the 1Quest o. the ove n- demics' includes administrators, faculty the relationship between the university and.
George uemer, chairman of the govern- members and graduate students engaged in the CIA. "The university is not a fit place for
meat department, Rush told his class last teaching), who in addition to providing leads cloak and dagger work," he said. In a more
phof the and, on occasion, making introductions for caustic vein he noted, "There should be no
spring out his intentions. Quester
clearance c time as part a Quester the intelligence purposes, occasionally write fusion of secret activities and academia.
Called out forms at
assumes ecurity Rush's work at the ibooks and other materials to be used for - Once you've lost your virginity to the CIA,
assuthat Rush's wote CIA is ur oses abroad. . . . These you're available as a whore."
concerned with"Succession- ion-what will hap- propaganda p P
pen when Breshnev is no longer the head of -
the U.S.S.R.-since this is Rush's area-of
specialization.
Quester indicated that he has "no
concern" over Rush's activities since they
conform to existing university policy. Byron - -
Saunders, dean of the faculty, reaffirmed
this stance. "The university should not be in
a position of dictating one's private life as
long as there is no criminal or moral
turpitude," he stated.
When John Marks, a former Cornell
student and currently a staff member of the
Washington-based Center for National Se-
curity Studies, levelled charges of Cornell-
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A resoitYtion, written by gov-
crnlitetlt graduate students, de-
nouncing any faculty involve exit
in the CIA or in otht~,r organira-
tions eng;ag4ptg in illegal ',activities
has been sharply criticized by
seine government professors as
"l cCarthyisail of the left."
The. resolution, passed recently
loosely knit org:aniza
by a new,
tion of government graduate stu-
dents by a 27-5 vote, has trigyger-
ed a growing controversy a ios6g
`Ll . Soviet lea er
department.
t cu
The controversy focatsesnot succeed
id I3re went
IllcStt. I*,------- - -
licct:ed with the CIA, but also on
the procedural question of the
students' motives and tactics in
presenting the condenlYaiclp reso
lilti6Y1. A +. have been
S
charged, by some professors with
practicing "MIcCart:hyism of the
Left," because, although 00
names were menltioned, it ap-
pears the resolution was directed
toward criticizing Prof. Myron
Rush. govetnnhent. Rush is a
renilinalog;ist who is working for
the CIA while on sabbatical this
semester.
He is widely known ' as an
expert on changes in the leader-
ship of the Soviet Union and
Eastern European nations, and it
ki
ng
believed that he is now wor
leaking the vague, open-e11GEAl
resolution to the press, the stil-
dents are really making unsub-
st~intiated charges against Rush
and implying; 'guilt by assocla-
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might benu ful to his in o foreign put together with other information
o country, might be helpful to those who had to deal
what should he do? Should he share the In-
formation with those in his government to mwith ind the Soviet Union. It never crossed m f
whom it may be useful? Or should he re- my mind that were foreign affairs officia be
fuse? country were somehow ?'enem:es" to to be
nalfsts or political scientists Valone- i Today, at least in some quarters, that
knowledgeable businessman travelling attitude is considered immoral and it may
abroad may gather information about In. even get a poor college professor fired.
dustrial production methods that would be That's because in many intellectual circles
highly useful n understanding economic
development in that country. So might a intslthence garnering agonies, ti th tf
banker about Impending currency deve!op- this CIA has brought an itself with ity
menu or an airline pilot about the sta_e of rather strange covert activities. But by
aeronautical technology. some alchemy that criticism has been con-
verted Into the idea that it Is wicked for a
Sometimes even an ordinary tourist who citizen to do anything to help those In his
has a local friend, or perchance strikes up government better understand what Is
an informal acquaintance, may glean from going on In the countries with which it
conversation some clues as to the mood of must deal.
ture developments. Rarely Is such informa-
tion meaningful by itself. Put together with
a mosaic of other information it might be
very useful In understanding social, eco-
nomic and political developments In the
country,
Certainly there were no "secrets" un-
covered in that Soviet visit of long ago; we
saw nothing and heard nothing but what
our hosts allowed. But we did spend two
and a half hours with then Premier Khrush-
chev, many hours with the editors of
Pravda, Izvestia and local editors from
Georgia to Uzbekistan. We saw farms and
factories, talked with peasants, university
professors, young students, actors, musi-
cians and poets.
Whether any of that was helpful to those
whose task It was to better understand the
Soviet Union, I cannot say. I doubt whether
those journalists who later made similar
visits to Red China, including Robert Bart-
ley of The Wall Street Journal, can say
that this or that piece of Information they
came upon was a revelation to those seek-
ing to understand that inscrutable country.
But that is not the question
really
The
,
.
question, rather, Is whether the journalist-
or the businessman or college professor or
casual tourist-having had the. experience
is acting Improperly if he shares his Infor-
matron, Impressions and judgments with
Interested officials of his own county.
I confess that 15 years ago the question
never occurred to me. Neither I nor any-
one In the group had stolen secret Russian
papers, bribed any informants, taken any
Perhaps so. But while I cannot speak for
my colleagues, I confess that I do , of cease
! being a citizen of my country because I am
a journalist and I do not think that, as a
citizen, it is immoral for me to share with
my government such Information as I may
a h
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Michael Selzer is a professor of political science at Professor Selzer's tribulations raise questions about the
Brooklyn College who has been 'doing research on terror- relationships between college faculty members and agen-
ism. Last year, Professor Selzer called the Central Intelli-. - ties that engage in covert activities and whether a faculty
gence Agency to ask whether it had any unclassified mater- member should be disciplined for personal beliefs...
jai in its files on the-psychological testing of terrorists. If Professor Selzer accepted payment from the CIA for
CIA officials said they had no such information, and his activities on its behalf, his dismissal would be warrant-
asked Professor Selzer..what he was up to: He. told them of ed under regulations of the New York City Board of Higher
his research; and mentioned that he would be traveling to_., .' Education which prohibit full-time faculty members-from
Europe in furtherance of his project.. The CIA officials, accepting paid employment: outside the -City University
asked him to do them a favor and let them know if he came: community.- Professor Selzer's dismissal then would be--
up with anything interesting. come merely part of an internal bureaucratic dispute- If.
()n his return from Europe, Professor Selzer called the t ,r
rT A and ho nnvar}hotacc Aiq't+nroPd it ":.
f th
e
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CIA and, ne says, spent 1J minutes telling an
for- - wq d raise the question of his academic freedom. .
his i
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or
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his European trip. He claims he wasn
ahouldn't he be permitted to lend his talents to the CIA
t hi
ke
r
s
ep secre
tried to
oration. He also claims he neve
_if he believes it is a necessary agency to protect the integ-
impromptu connection with the CIA.
rity and safety 'of the United States? Shouldn't his activity
Several months ago, '20 members of the, political on behalf of the CIA be treated with the same tolerance as
science faculty at Brooklyn College, after two meetings -- the membership of another teacher on a committee sup-
ore of which Professor Selzer was asked to-.,attend porting Angela Davis, or the Black Panthers, or any other
pared a resolution asking that he be . dismissed because of peaceful cause in which an instructor may believe?
his "covert activities for the CIA," as the resolution put it. President Kneller will have to wrestle with.these ques-
A -three-member faculty committee ;appointed by tions before he makes a decision on Professor Selzer's con-
i
i
ng
nterest
Brooklyn College President John W. Kneller has just com- tinued presence at Brooklyn- College. It will be
pleted an investigation of the.allegations against Professor to see how Mr. Kneller answers them, for his reply may
Selzer, and is ready to make its report.-The findings-should indicate whether a double. standard of academic freedom
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FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY
1000 River Road, Teaneck, New Jersey 0766
r. George Bush, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
gton, DC 20505
Dear Mr. Bush;
We believe that it is in the general public interest that all past and present
contractual arrangements or agreements and personnel relationships between the
CIA and Fairleigh Dickinson University be made public under the statutes of the..
Freedom of Information Act. This letter is such a request for .the_ above name
unwitting on'the part of the researchers), and training contracts or agreements,
and recruiting agreements with rairleigh Dickinson University.
By contractual arrangement or agreement we mean research contracts (witting or
By personnel relationships, we mean any person thn.t is in the employ, of. the CIA.
or receives funding from the CIA (witting or unwitting), and persons who (paid
or unpaid, witting or unwitting) "provide the CIA with leads, make introductions
for intelligence purposes, occassionally write books and other material for
propaganda purposes",' collect or disseminate information on a regular or non-
regular basis, and engage in "spotting" and/or. recruitment of foreign nationals
who are students at Fairleigh Dickinson University. This category would also
Personnel includes non-academic staff, research assistants, teaching assistants,
include those activities that are unknown to us and not mentioned above.
graduate students, professors, undergraduate students, administrators, student
athletes and coaches.
By Fairleigh Dickinson University, we include our three major campuses:-
Teaneck, i:ew Jersey; Rutherford, New Jersey; i,.adison, New Jersey.
As the Act requires, we request a response within 10 working days..
appreciate the fair anA expedient handling of this matter.
Yours truly,
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reful. Da not become involved with the-CIA. ..Q~f his government? Our. government on all
avily an the academic com
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raws
levels
For if you,do, you may end up out on the street_ munity to fill policy-making positions, to con-
jot) hunting
That a least is the message coming,from .suit, and to do research.` Should the CIA be
that talen? pool?
in
g
By Coge i Nw Ykh Michael exludedfroin tapp
rooklnlleneor , were c. professor of political The integrity of a professor's scholarly work
r>
..; a 36-yea,
Selze
it is as much (or little). threatened .by the quest .
Prof Selzer
bl
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,
e
rou
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is in
science ; ; seems, agreed last year prior to undertaking a. for federal funds as by'. contact with the CIA. ,
"threat" are'.we talking, .
f
d
o
trip to Europe that he would report to the CIA But what kin
a- .any, information that:. might be of interest. about? The threat is nothing more or less than
According to the professor, who is well known support for our government in the sense that if
government's
way on the
an
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l
t
,
y
n
ua
for his psychohistorical research, his ac
you are. reporting upon his return' consisted of nothing payroll you may lose your academic objectivz-
' more. tnan a Drier telepIIUiG I:UIJ V V L Oc Lwu. < r -J ? + . " ..
olitical science To assume that kind of inevitable cause and
th
s i
e p
n
t his "colleague
Bu .department do not care about-the extent of his effect. is to give little credit to the academi_.
And it ,overlooks the well known:
such cians:
t "a
th
,
ny
a
They say
CIA involvement. i
and academic nay sayers during the McCarthy and
rit
te
mic
d
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g
n
e
connection threatens.aca
< =4
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.uspension or Vietnam eras
val
.
,,
hence is :ground for _ remo
otherdisciplining. They cite recent resolutions For-a university department to attempt toy
from ,the` American, Association of University- `tell its members what they may or may not dor
g
f their own will in dealin
e
ti
o
m
their own
Professors and the American Political Science on
a
s
. ..
.3 Beal a
understood as. an, acknowledgement of a Comment by College'spokesman
'
C.LA, connection:
-A college spokesman said many faculty
-r Asked about
Professor such a connection by - members In the political science depart-
reporteI, Professor Selzer, who is a sppee meet felt that Professor Selzer had "mis-
?cal eto psychological "At no of ol poinio-t represented" himself In gathering Infor-
:c ev ever said thatdeclar.I declared: have or have had mation that they assumed was for Profes-
;1ix?~e I ever _
-' any association with the C.I.A." :.. sor Selzer's own research, but = vWas - al-
An ad -hoc committee has been formed legedly actually for the C.I.A. Prof. David
by Prof. Morton Berkowitz, the depart- Abbott said that Professor Selzer- was
ment chairman, to study the propriety of using his academic credentials to seek
ni,t r nn tnrtc ahrnad_
a . u . . a ........
and the C.I.A. It is slated to make Selzer .with the C.I.A. has been called
,~ ,recommendation regarding Professor to the attention of President John Knell-
Selzer on Wednesday. - -' + - er," the college spoltesman said, adding:
Recommendation to Be Studied "Dr. Kneller intends tQ . meet with
The committee' will study the recom- Professor Selzer and other faculty mem
snendations of professional organizations bers to determine the course of action.
and the American Civil Liberties. Union Dr. Kneller, who only recently learned
and the findings ofa Senate committee of the reported affiliation, deplores any
_ report on the C.I.A., according to Profes- possibility ofemisrepresentation by any
'.Professor Selzer aknowledged a connec said:
lion with the C I:A. ? at the departmental "I have had extensive relationships with
meeting and also said that Professor Selz- other governments in the course of .my
er had asserted that he had cleared his research, but not the C.I.A. .:-
position with a member of the. college _"I have heard that ..a member of the
..administration. political science department has called
Professor Berkowitz said that Professor one of my contacts overseas and instruct
.Selzer had refused to submit a copy of ed him" not: to deal with me because I
A he statement that he had delivered at am a 'C.I.A. agent.
the departmental meeting, even though - Professor Kahan, referring tb himself,
be had been asked to do so on three said he had he waited- until.November
senaraate occasions. to make known to the department Profes-
],asl October, Professor Selzet received sor Selzer's;alleged C.I.A. affiliation, be-
cal a he was - trying to "talk him out
orif-he is my brother-in-law. "
Professor Selzer, a graduate of Oxford
University and the City University of
New York, is a co-author of a book about
Nazi war criminals that uses projective
psychological tests as the basis for inter-
preting their characters.. - .. -
According to Professor- Kahan, the
book, "The Nuremburg Mind," was com-
pleted before Professor Selzer began his
alleged association with the C.I.A., al-
though some faculty members speculate
that Professor's Selzer's alleged connec-
tion with the agency involves some kind
of exchange of information pertaining to
Professor. Selzer's ongoing psychohistorl-
cal research.
.- Professor Selzer said: -'This -Is McCar-
thyism of the left. There is no way I
can prove that I 'am not a member of
the C.I.A. If I am dismissed or denied
tenure on these grounds, I'll fight them
for as long as it takes.'
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PROFESSIONAL OUTRAGE
Faculty members of Brooklyn College are investi
;.ating what some regard as a heinous offense by one of
tr'their number, Prof. Michael Selzer.
'''F` ? What Selzer apparently did was cooperate with..;
s:-the-CIA. He gave--the agency information developed..;
during research overseas in return. for its aid in fur-
no
ent
anyo
d
t
,
.a.+^+
ag
a pai
-~--
,?_, ?L11e pro C,sso YY sn
suggested that he permitted the CIA- connection tc ,,.
;net associating with the -CIA is-deemed a .perfidious"
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ovv.1'A ci January 1977
The spy asencies have been
ordered to behave themselves.
But as ?hei e sensational,
top secret schemes make
painfully clear, it's business as
usual in t; to land of dirty tricks.
BY.-FAD SZULC
These five items. touching upon the whose
spectrurn of United States intelligence ac-
tivities, are among the many subjects
about which Americans have not been told
despite three separate investigations of the
in' efligence community conducted in 1975
and 1976.
In some instances the inveslinators sim-
? Ine unaeo ~ta,es anti the Noviet Union ply were not informed about highly sensi-
are engaged in a top-secret "satellite five operations. The intelligence agencies
war" in outer .space. The aim is to de- volunteered very little and, as a rule. were
- stroy each other's intelligence surveil- responsive to questions only when the
lance satellites rithlaser-beam weapons. committees developed independent leads
Thus tartrre scgre is 2-0 for the Russians. or stumbled upon information (as in the
Wrrshin;.'on r,: in alas total silence about case of the cover-up by the CIA and the FBI
this war 10-IVOFd public complications in of crucial facts pertaining to the assassina-
the riego at ons for a new strategic-arms tion of John F_ Kennedy).
pad! feint joscow. - In other instances the intelligence agen-
a Foreign insur:enl groups are being se- cies invoked "national security" as a rea-
cretly friin& d: in guerrilla operations by son for denying investigators access to
rriilitary ir~tefli ,erce agencies and the CM certain material- Finally, there were corn
: in out-ot-iife-';vay locations in the western promises: the Senate Select Committee on
--United States. The trainees include Lao- Jntelfigence Activities, for Example, negoti
flan, Cambodians, Afghans, Kurds, and aced the extent to which information would
even Russians. This, presumably, por- be "sanitized" by them-censored, of
lands new covert operations, to be run course, is a better word-before appear-
mainly by the mi nary, all over the world.
Appropriate congressional committees
apparently have not beerAinformed of it
.despite legislaliva requirements.
With the surreptitious aid of American
professors, Third World students at United
States colleges and universities are being
recruited by the CIA as future "agents of
influence" for the day when they assume
leadership in their countries. Currently,
the CIA has its pick of 250,000 foreign
students attending our institutions of
higher learning- Such a program clearly
degrades our American educational
system.
The CIA still secretly uses 1n a variety
of ways American -news. organizations
abroad as intelligence "covers" and in-
upt-1 a--:a,
are now being used ttOr SUCH
purposes as rraldng introductions for intel-
ligence purposes'
The Church committee also compro-
mised to a significant degree on the ques-
tion of how the CIAs collection of intelli-
gence. a legitimate pursuit. often becomes
entangled with covert operations, which
was a matter of substantial concern to the
investigators. In the year-long tug-of-war
between the Senate committee and the
agency over what materials could be made
available to the senators. the CIA often re-
fused to discuss any number of covert ac-
tions on the grounds that intelligence-
collection activities could have been com-
promised in the process. This also applied
to "black" propaganda. the CIA's planting
of provocative dr erroneous information in
foreign news organs with the aim of achiev-
ing specific political gains.
The agency's argument, forcefully ex-
pressed by its outside attorney, Mitchell
Rogovin. was that disclosures of all types
of covert actions-including political
p
formation sources. This is being done
to surface in the final report. The burden
despite the CIA's public pledge to keep lies chiefly on Sen. Frank Church, the Idaho
its hands off United States news media: Democrat who served as the committee's
a Shortly before the 1973 Vietnam peace chairman, and who, despite his many pub-
seltlernenl, United States military intelli-- tic pronouncements of indignation over
gence agencies secretly organized an CIA operations, tended to be rather reluc-
elaborate "stay-behind" espionage. net- Cant to embarrass the intelligence
vrork-linked to a parallel plan for resurn- commu-
nity.
ing American air operations in Vietnam if i
the Communists violated the cease-fire-
including covert penetrations by special I
teams frori7 abroad. Thus the United
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ing in public reports. _
Perhaps the most important area of such
compromise on the part of the Senate
committee, which engaged in ' the most
exhaustive investigation of all the groups
looking into the intelligence scandals, con-
cerned the CIA's use of American news
media and the involvement of university
professors and administrators-the "aca-
demics"-in the recruitment of foreign stu-
dents by the agency. The majority of the
academics, some 60 percent of them, were
"witting" (they knew that they were used by
the CIA to finger prospective recruits);
some were paid for their talent-scouting:
others acted out of their perceived sense of
patriotism.
But it's not entirely the CIA's fault that this
tion of the recruiting process failed
descri
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENC
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
Mr. Peter L. Danner
Department of Economics
Marquette University
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233
This is in response to your letter of 8 November to our Director,
informing him of the views about CIA of the members of the Association
for Social Economics.
As Mr. Bush stated in his May letter to William Van Alstyne of
the American Association of University Professors,
"The Agency has several kinds of relationships with
scholars and scholarly institutions. They include
negotiated contracts for scientific research and
development, contracts for social science research
on the many matters that affect foreign policy, paid
and unpaid consultations between scholars and CIA
research analysts, contacts with individuals who have
travelled abroad, and other similar contacts that
help us provide the policymakers of our government
with information and assessments of foreign develop-
ments."
We seek conscious and voluntary cooperation from people who can -
help the foreign policy processes of the United States. We do not
seek to embarrass your profession, to interfere with or betray academic
freedom, or to obstruct the free search for and exposition of truth.
We fully appreciate the benefits of professional scholarship, and freely
admit to you that both the CIA and the government would be less able to
act wisely in foreign policy if scholars felt that they should isolate
themselves from government or government from the fruits of scholarship.
In sum, we think our academic relations are strong and that they
must be sustained. Our problem is to be certain that the relationship
,of scholars to CIA is understood on all sides. I hope that this letter
is helpful in that way.
1 Si rely, fe-
n rew I. a i ewi cz
Assistant to the Director
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14r. George Bush, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
PRESIDENT
Warren J. Bilkey
School of Commerce
The University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Stephen T. Worland
Department of Economics
University of Notre Dams
Notre Dame. IN 46556
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
Robert W. Faulhaber
Department of Economics
De Paul University
Chicago, IL 60614
SECRETARY - TREASURER
Peter L. Danner
Department of Economics
Marquette University
Milwaukee. WI 53233
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
1976
Thomas J. Hailstones
Xavier University
Cincinnati, OH 45207
Kendal P. Cochran
Department of Economics
North Texas State University
Denton, TX 76203
Irving J. Goffman
Department of Economics
University of Florida
Gainesville, FLA 32601
George F. Rohrlich
School of Business Administration
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
1976-1977
Donald J. Curran
Department of Economics
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH 44115
Helen C. Potter
School of Home Economics
Purdue University
Lafayette, IN 47907
Francis X. Quinn, S.J.
School of Business Administration
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY
EDITOR
William R. Waters
DePaul University
2323 North Seminary
Chicago, IL 60614
[phone]
The members of the Association for Social
Economics have gone on record at their annual meeting,
September 18, 1976 in Atlantic City, in joining with the
American Association of University Professors in oppos-
ing the practice of the Central Intelligence Agency of
covertly using members of the academic community when
they are engaged in stuying, consulting and doing; research
in foreign countries.
The resolution further cites these reasons as bases
for opposing such practices: they are a cause of embarras-
sment to academic People and programs; they betray academic
freedom; and they compromise the free search for and ex-
position of truth.
Sincerely yours,
STAT
Peter L. Danner
Secretary-Treasurer
Association for Social Economics
Copy: Joseph .fey,
General Secretary
American Association of
University Professors
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throughout the country. We can suP1
more information from the Cornell C
reer Center, 14 East Avenue, Ithaci
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President Corson: As a 1965 graduate of
Cornell, I am greatly concerned about
the possibility and the extent of covert
relations between the Central Intelli-
gence Agency and the university.
In its final report issued in April, the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
reported that the CIA carries on clan-
perhaps unique to our years, such as destine activities on over 100 American
clandestine pot parties where everyone campuses. The committee stated, "It is
was smiling and friendly, or the yearly the responsibility of private institutions
demonstration over some pressing issue and particularly the American academic
just before finals in the spring (with the community to set the professional and
result of many cancellations), and the ethical standards of its members." As an
surprise when nothing happened our alumnus, I call upon you as university
senior year. - President to accept this responsibility
There were many experiences, mostly and to take action to end any secret CIA
good, some bad; enough to fill more than presence on campus or otherwise under
a single column, and some that cannot he the auspices of Cornell.
put into writing. But, they are there, and I do not know if there is currently any
I have to confess that we are glad to have such CIA activity at Cornell, but I am
aware of considerable covert cooperation
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shared
Deborah Cheney Lazar'70 in the past. For example, the New York
New York City Times on February 26, 1967 wrote how
the Industrial and Labor Relations
Internships Sought school had received S289,500 from 1961
to 1963 from foundation conduits for the
Editor. The Cornell Internship Program CIA. Additionally, I am aware from my
(CIP) is revitalizing student interest in own research of considerable interlock-
finding educational summer employment ing relationships during the 1950s be-
while. affording employers the oppor- tween a CIA proprietary organization,
tunity to take advantage of the skills of the Society for the Investigation-of Hu-
talented Cornellians. Because of the di- man Ecology (later the Human Ecology
versity of Cornell's academic offerings, Fund) and the Cornell Medical school in
.the program encourages the development New York.
of opportunities in all career-fields. -The Senate Intelligence Committee
In brief, the program. is designed to did not mention activities as specific as
refer to employers only those students these in its report but did reveal a wide
-ideally suited for the specific employ- range of CIA operations which raise im-
meat opportunity.. The program also _ portant questions as to the independence
rocure housing in the and integrity of American universities.
tudents
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area of employment. Financial arrange- For your information, I am enclosing a
meats between the student and the em- - copy of the relevant passages from the
ployer are flexible in order to meet the Senate report, which you will note were
needs and requirements of everyone in- "abridged" at the CIA's request.
volved. In the past, according to the report,
The greatest need for the Cornell In- the CIA secretly funded individual pro-
ternship Program is to make contacts . fessors and even whole departments to
with employers willing to take advantage carry out secret research and to otherwise
of this nearly inexhaustible resource. perform covert missions for the CIA. In
??:'rd alumni participated his Executive Order of February 18,
h
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last year. The Cornell clubs of Washing- 1976, President Ford gave the CIA au-
ton, New York City, and Philadelphia . thority to contract for secret research-
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OCTOBER 1976
Li Y 11 C! J
President Richard W. Lyman has strongly condemned any secret spying
on campus organizations and '. i.': he was not aware of any secret CIA-
,.r.~j `V 7 at Sn` provost in Ianu.ir. 1967.
_:,c :ccc..:riit{r:c u:i ! ....
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Infiltration of campus organi,3-
tions "for the purpose of spying on
or using individuals or groups with- "Thus the kind of arrangenh nt
out their knowledge" is "wrong in described in the (Senate) report and
principle and corrosive of academic your letter could only have existed
valaes," L !an declared. at Stanford secretly and contrary' to
"I know of no circumstances- University policy. That is, of
and I explicitly include the years of course, possible, but I have no
Vietnam protest-in which that reason to believe it happened.
kind of secret activity was justified- "I believe our policy is sound
"Indeed, the experience of 'those and that any attempt to circumvent
years demonstrates vividly both the it would be met with vigorous
futility of ghat sort of meddling and action by the University."
the i_-nposiibiiity of separating Secret sponsorship by the CIA
timate' counterintelligence from of books written by individual
the simple repression of legitimate scholars is "deplorable and should
poll*_:61 dissent. be resisted and exposed when it is
"There is no circumstance, no done," he added.
matter how pressing it may appear "The worst examples that one
to be, in which secret spying would could cite of `hired' research had to
not undermine the practice of free confront vigorous and open conflict
expression v,hich is the foundation of views in the intellectual ma;ket.
of dthe university's value to socie- That does not excuse efforts by
ty," government agencies secretly to guarding against it at a heavy cost
Klaus noted that "in the past, manipulate opinion on important of regimentation, intrusiveness, and
the CIA has secretly funded individ- matters.... inhibition of personal and profes-
ual professors and entire depart- "The real protection against sional responsibility. In this case as
meats to carry out its research and such abuse, though, is to assure that ' in so. many others, the institution
gal: er inte iigence. ' A recent exe- 'genuinely free debate is kept alive.. consciously chooses the former.
cutive order by President Ford per- That is more likely to be the case if . "I do not believe that it is the.
snits such con tracts to continue we do not mistake evidence of the University's proper business to tell
with knowledge limited only to abuse of that process for proof of its faculty that its members may
"a^ rC'p e senior officials of the its death." - -not do work for the CIA, General
-`i- Pe; ^:ap s the most ct ff::..:it prow'- Motors, tile united Far ri Workers,
and to n.or
?_~ officials.' _in amcidr.:iC institutio S face s Or any eth.'.rgloiiu that t!: -:iJivid-
. Ly.m.anYreplied: "If it is true, as what policy to adopt concerning in- ual believes is'relevant to his profes-
claimed, that CIA-sponsored activi- dividual faculty who choose to sional interests, so long as the
*::.. nov, en to 'a ppso- work for, or in cooperation with, nature and extent of the work: do
ty on campus was
priate senior officials,' then there intelligence agencies, he continued. not infringe on the rights of others
has been no such activity at S:an- "Stanford's policy is similar to and are consistent with University
ford during my tenure, first as pro- that of most other leading institu- policies.
vost and then as president, unless tions: Faculty are permitted; sut,- "I can imagine that particular
one includes the holding of job in- ject to time limits, to consult for academic disciplines might reason-
tervi_ws at the Career Planning end pay with business or government ably adopt standards of conduct
Place :lent C;r,ter-and these were agencies. that would preclude certain kinds
advertised p l.blicly, of course. "We do not ordinarily know, nor of employment; I cannot agree that
"Indeed, even before classifier? do we seek to control, the identity , a university would want to impose
research was ended at Stanford (in of the organizations for which the and police such restrictions."
1909),. it was the policy of the Uni- . individual works. Lyman heads the Council of
versity not to accent funds for re- "As in so many other areas of Federal Relations of the Associa-
search unless the sponsor was prep- . university life, we are here faced . tion of American Universities, 4n
ared openly to acknowledge the with a choice between allowing the organization of the nations Ieadirtg
fact of sponsor-hip. possib:lit ' of abuse of privilege or graduate institutions.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASH INGTON, D.C. 20505
2 4 SEP 1978
Mr. John William Ward
President, Amherst College
Amherst, Massachusetts
Dear President Ward:
This is in response to your letters of 17 May 1976 and 2 August 1976
to the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) requesting, under the Freedom of
Information Act, information concerning "paid or unpaid contacts between the
CIA and any faculty member, student or employee of Amherst College."
As you can appreciate, this Agency receives many requests for
information under the Freedom of Information Act regarding confidential
relationships between the CIA and various foreign and American individuals
and institutions. We are obliged, however, to respond to such requests
neither affirmatively nor negatively because the DC1 has a responsibility,
under paragraph 102(d) (3) of the National Security Act of 1947, to protect
intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized disclosure. To the
extent that this constitutes a denial of your request it was made pursuant
to the authority of exemption (b) (3) of the Freedom of Information Act.
This determination was made byl Ic hief
Services Staff. We would hope that the Director's letter of June 5, 1976
and the above findings will satisfy your concern, However, as specified
in the Freedom of Information Act, I am advising you of your right to appeal
this decision by addressing your appeal to the CIA Information Review
Committee, via the undersigned.
I am sure you will understand that we cannot deny the existence of
such relationships in response to one inquiry without being compelled to
.acknowledge them in some others. Accordingly, please understand that this
response should not be taken to imply that Amherst Colle
ge personnel have
been engaged in. confidential relationships with the Central Intelligence Agency.
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_)Y Tom Lewis & John Friedman
77ie corer, relationships bet.+~eett
ttiederal intelligence agencies and
The acedearie ctttttntrttiFV are long-
standing, innnetrsely cotr7pler. and
shrouded in secrecy, Recetttrorl-
;ressiOmal ittlellinenfe ilricsti?a-
lions have Verified that the nt-
,elligence colttmuniry subsidizes the
publication nf,edaicatiatlal books
and academic periodicals. Re-
porters Lerr,is and 1Frieclman here
he
a
of t
cxcrmtihe its detail one are
into'ligence-academic comummttity
coni.e tto,r
On March 29, 1976, asinall
group of political scientists jam-
med into Professor Arnold
Rogow's office at the Graduate
Center of the City University of
New York. They were there not
to talk about European parlia-
ments, but about the sale of a
magazine....
It was an emergency meeting:
Rogow recently had learned of
negotiations between the CIJNY
administration and an obscure
t'vashington, D.C., foundation
for the sale of Com:poratlr?e
Politics, one of the three most
important journals in the field of
political science. For some
months, unknown to Rogow, the
negotiations had been in the
hands of Benjamin Rivlin, a po-
litical scientist who was Graduate
Center Dean for University and
Special Programs. The potential
buyer was the Helen Dwight
Reid Educational Foundation.
Rogow began C-o,nparati 'e
Politk-sin 1968. lie heads the
magazine's five-member
editorial board. He sat somberly
behind his desk, silent through
most of the meeting. Rogow's
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lh ~UNc, ?1 970
search For financial support. -.
1larold Proshansky, president of
the Graduate Ce'~ter, held out
the possibility of.uni=?ersity '-
,money, saying CU1`i'l ,fief not.
want to To ie the magazine, but he,
was forced to renege when New York City's budget crisis nit in
the summer of 1975.
Jr. October 1975, the Helen.
Dwight Reid Educational Foun-
dation wro e tp C;UNY inquiring
if Comparative' Politics was for
sale. The letter wound up on the
If t niantirt Itivlirr. In I=eb-
{ )
foundation was established th " lave c:en m t e to )P1 +n every
and that
ince 1955
,
r but ()lie s
1956. Prior to 1965, its main yea
since 1966, a total of 5621,371
nts
t
iving modest gra
activity was g id to OPR. For the current
to students for graduate work in was pa fiscal year about x80,000 is
foreign affairs:
Reid was killed in Washington budget;,d_
Between 1960 and 1970,
in an auto accident in 1965, and
the presidency of the foundation _ 01 )R, through one of its subsidi-
p passed to Claude Hawle)?, a palit- aries, the Institute for the Coin-
} i ?
ical scientist and a graduate dean parative Study t of Politics, ed a
.at LUNY. Hawley died in 1971 Systems (ICO1 S), publish
and was succeeded at the founds- number of books and pamphlets
'Ilion by Evron Kirkpatrick, ex- art Latin-American political par-
A ., tie, Coups (l c'tat, and elections.
Political Science Association. I. rte nc10KI-. e=re " r ?
r rte in teachi,!z
irigton to pick up the draft . f tion trustee since 1960 and trea-
memoranda cf agreement be- surer since 1963,
tween the foundation and on Kirkpatrick isalso?pres-
CUNY.On March 15. Harold ident of Operations and Policy
oshansky sent a merno de-1 Research, Inc. (011R), a tax-ex-
P
r
sr,-ribing the deal, along with cuipt research company founded
1955 b
y
copies of the draft agreements, to in Washington in
mbers of tite editorial Kirkpatrick and Iw1ax Kampe!-
fi
ve me
the
board. It was the first any of: man, a Washington lawyer and
ing
incl
..
thorn,
-
hrarcl:ol'the negotiations. Ilubert Hum ph rey.'Karnpelman
d
R
'
an
s is now a director of OP
Ill a meeting in Proshansky
office on March 18, the, deal was. I Helen I)wight Reid. Although
: -A r)PR are -
Y' L,L Pli. it .. _
pc?cylmltli. 'Clie fow~datioil's other _ f . legally separate entities an. were
for editorial costs. Tiie founaa-
Lion would assume all printing
and business responsibilities, ,
and assume about $$12,000.19 .;.
liabilities for prepaid subscrip
Lions In practice', control would
. i be in the hands of a newly formed
department-wide publications
i committee, which ensured that '
b
e re
the current editors would
Placed within three years. The
editors left Proshansky's officei n
enlergetCy meeting held I 1 days..
I later "to discuss the situation. Pri-
vately, several editors expressed
their fear that editorial control of
the. journal would pass to the
foundation, even though the
memoranda stipulated that'con-, I
trol would remain with CUNY.
sl
Some questions were raised
about the background of the
foundation, and its ability to
maintain a high editorial stan-.
card, and so far the magazine has
not been sold. For most of the .
editors, the foundation remained
an unknown quantity.
Helen Dwight Reid was a politi-
cal scientist who worked mainly
for the U.S. Office of Education
and the State Department. The
magazine was in serious financial
trouble. It cost S60,000 a year topublishand income covered just
half t he cost. For three years. the
National Science f=oundation had
helped make up the deficit, but in
early 1975, Rogow was told the
e
a legacy
grant would not be renewed un- tth engineer. The
foundation's original assets were
ft to Reid by her
l
tens arsurrcuvrt 4.. +
For the past decade or so, they Kirkpatrick a cknowlcdgeo to
have shared offica,s and have Sherrill that in 11 1963, 1964, and
d It n'.-aged by 1965 OPR, Inc., received CIA
t
been control
e an ? (accorslin
the same small group of people. 1 ' money, `principtilly g
dies of
f
In its first year OPR received
at least o ne contract?f rorn
the U.S. Information Agen-
cy, the government's official
propaganda arm, for editorial -
evaluation of books and
manuscripts. OPR has since had
research contracts with the State
Department but the USIA book
evaluation contract has remained
OPR's basic source of income. A.
USIA spokesman said payments
cad sc+entiSLS, positions at American univer_a..
tteS, some in 1;o`i ernment posi
,tons.
In 1967, Ralttparts created a
furor when it disclosed that a
nurntier or foundations, among
and
Sid
e
----
n
y
ittenltilt
Rabb Charitable Foundation,
had conveyed thousands of dollars
from the CIA to the National
Student Association for
more-than a decade. I ri the Feb-
ruary 27 issue of The Norio,,.
Robert Sherrill pointed out that
the Rabb Foundation gave four .
times as much money to OPRR as
to the student group. Evron
or stu
to Kirkpatrick)
Latin-American elections: `. In a
recent interview. Kirkpatrick said ~
he had made no such statement.
One political scientist closely t
connected to OPR during that-
period said he was told by OPR k
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PAGi' 7 27 Junc 197';
Professors
held used.
by CIA
Santa Barbara, Calif. (AP)
--A former member of the Na-
tional Security Council says the
Central Intelligence. Agency
uses several hundred professors
and others as "secret recrui-
ters" at more than 100 Ameri-
can universities. - -
Morton Halperin, speaking
Friday at the 52d annual meet-
ing of the American Association
of University Professors at the
University of California at San-
ta Barbara, said campus recrui-
ters spot people they believe
can be helpful to the CIA, such
as persons visiting campuses
from abroad or those who plan
trips overseas.
The secret recruiter then
passes along the person's name
to the CIA, which investigates
his background, Mr. Halperin
said.
If the CIA decides a direct
approach requesting help from
the person is inadvisible, he ad-
ded, the agency often covertly
hires the person to make re-
ports abroad on behalf of a pri-
vate firm.
Mr. Halperin said he was the
first person to make a disclo-
sure of the role of CIA campus
contacts. He said the operation
was described in the unre-
leased, uncensored report of
Senator Frank Church's com-
mittee on intelligence activi-
ties.
Mr. Halperin did not identify
campuses where CIA workers
select potential intelligence
agents, nor did he name faculty
members, administrators or
graduates who are undercover
CIA agents.
Mr. Halperin, who is direc-
tor of the Project on National
Security and Civil Liberties,
has sued Henry A. Kissinger,
the Secretary of State, for al-
legedly wiretapping Mr. Hal-
perin's telephone while he
served on the U.S. National Se-
curity Council.
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sae Claims Intelligence Officers Are Used Art inEy to Recruit Ca tors
BY WILLIAM THO"r1BLEY
Times Staff Writer
SANTA LARBARA--A ]eading,
critic of the U.S. Central Intel lig ncc-
-Agency said Friday that. the CL- has
"one or two or. perhaps several secrr't
agents" oil each of more than 10 )
American campuses.
I._orto;l H. Halperin, a former
member of the rational Security
Council, said his information was
based on descriptions he has received
of secret portions of the recent report
trators and graduate students, as He also said CIA agents on campus
well -as officials of private founda- should identify themselves so their
tions, have had Clandestine-ties with students and colleagues would know
the CIA, the FBI and other U.S. ' in v. ith whom they are dealing.
telligence gathering agencies. And he proposed that names of
However, specific descriptions of possible recruits should not be sub--
these ties were deleted from the final initted to the CIA without permission
report at the request of the CIA. of the individuals and that security
Halperin said his speech Friday checks should not be carried out
was the first detailing of just how the without their approval.
Cl,", works on campuses.
He said his information came from
"the secret version of the Church re-
leased in late April, said generally should acknowledge the source of
that hundreds of professors, adminis- their support:
of the Sonata Select Committee on
Intelligence Activities, chaired by
Sen. Frank Church (D-Ida.).
Halperin told the American Assn.
of University Professors, meeting at
UC Santa Barham, that the CIA
agents are administrators, faculty
rnetnhers and teaching graduate stu-
dents who "basically are recruiters."
"They try to spot students or facul-
ty members who might be useful" to
the CIA by gathering information at
international academic conferences
and the like, according to Halperin.
They also "look for other recruit-
ers," he said, "either Americans or
foreigners, people who will go back
to their countries and b-, spies for the
CIA."
Halperin named no. institutions but
said, "I assume it's concentrated in
universities where there are a large
number of. foreigners" as students or
visiting faculty members.
Campus agents generally are
known only to the CIA and to them-
selves but occasionally their identi-
ties are known to one or more col-
lege officals, Halperin said.
Some are paid and others work
"out of patriotism," he stated.
Once a recruiter spots a potential
CIA agent he send the name to the
agency, which conducts a security
check, according to Halperin.
}Talperin also stated, as did the
Church committee, that some scho-
lariy research has been secretly
funded by the CIA.
The Church committee's report, re-
fort" but said he had not reel the'fT
feted material lurrself and would not
sty Zvhere he got the Informat.on.
,I am confident that what I am.
"saying is true but I cannot tell you
where I got it," Halperin told repor-
ters after the meeting.
Ialperin has devoted considerable
time and one g,. in recent months to
attacking the CIA, for its undercover
'ties to journalists, academics and oth-
ors in American life.
He has filed el it against Secretary
of State Henry A. (Kissinger and for-
.xner government officials b:cause, he
contends, his telephone was, tapped
Iior a 21-month period from 7969 to
,1971.
CIA ties with academic figures
.were defended at Friday's inaeting
I)y Gordon D. Baldwin, profess=or
constitutional law at the University
of Wisconsin and former counselor
on international law for the State De-
partme;nt.
Bald;vin arrucd that "foreign intel-
Iigenco g e-in, ' :t.-J to oar cor:
(non ;oe P' and said Thal'-' in .n aj')ri-
ty of C (`; . .there 'wa$ u i v:t:)n ;
lie !;,2,J if the CI h,.d received
more academic "we rr_.^ht it
have.. profited."
Iir, sugg Led t at th re is little
Terence retu:eon a lav firs: asking a
faculty member to recommend a new
employe and the CIA asking special
campus agents to identify possible re-
cruits.
Halperin - replied that scholars
should have the right to publish un-
der CIA auspices if they wish but
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON,D.C. 20505
5 June 1976
Mr. Kenneth Parkhurst, President
Ohio Conference Professors
American Association of University
John Carroll University
4177 Okalona Road
South Euclid, Ohio 44121
Dear President Parkhurst:
Thank you for your letter of 20 May 1976, in which you informed
me of the resolution recently adopted by the Ohio Conference of
idene
AAUP. As you undoubtedly are aware, William Van Aistyne,
of the AAUP, wrote to me clear,gand Iltake the liberty of quoting
that my response to him was I said,
from that letter, dated 11 May.
"The Agency has several kinds of relationships
with scholars and scholarly institutions. They..
include negotiated contracts for scientific
research and development, contracts for social
science research on the many matters that affect
foreign policy, paid and unpaid consultations
between scholars and CIA research analysts, con
tacts with individuals who have travelled abroad,
and other similar contacts that help us fulfill
our primary responsibility; i.e., to provide
policy makers of our government with information
and assessments of foreign developments.
We seek the voluntary and witting cooperation
of individuals who can help the foreign policy
processes of the United States. Those who help
are expressing a freedom of choice. Occasionally
such relationships are confidential at our request,
scholar's
th
e
but more often they are discreet at
bdge by because
those concern
should not be free
badgered by
to make this particular choice.
None of the relationships are intended to
influence either what is taught or any other
aspect of a scholar's work. We specifically
do not try to inhibit the 'free search for
truth and its free exposition.' Indeed, we
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WAS H, N GToN, D.G. 20505
Mr. John wi_lliam ward
President
Amherst College
Amherst, Massachusetts 01002
Dear President Ward:
V
? Tha.s 1s i.n respons y
you levied upon CIA a Freedom of Information Act request concerning
paid or unpaid contact between the Agency and any faculty member.,
student, or employee of Amherst College. This aspect of your
letter has been referred to the appropriate office for handling
under procedures designed to implement the Act. You will receive
that response in due course.
You raised several other issues in your letter, and their
tone suggests that you misunderstand the nature of CIA_contact.._
with the academic community. I note that you sent William Van
Alstyne, President, AAUP, a copy of your letter to me. As you
apparently are aware, he also wrote expressing concerns similar
to yours. I believe that my response to him was clear, and I
take the liberty of quoting here from that letter, dated 11 May 1976.
I said,
?'The Agency has several kinds of relationships
with scholars and scholarly institutions. They
include negotiated contracts for scientific
research and development, contracts for social
science research on the many matters that affect
foreign policy, paid and unpaid consultations
between scholars and CIA research analysts, con-
tracts with individuals who have travelled abroad,
and other similar contracts that help us fulfill
our primary responsibility; i.e., to-provide the
policy makers of our government with information
and assessments of foreign developments..
We seek the voluntary and witting cooperation
of individuals who can help the foreign policy
processes of the United States. Those who help
are expressing a freedom of choice. Occasionally
such relationships are confidential at our request,
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MFMO$~idDUM FOR: Mr. Andrew Fal ki"i cz
Andrew:
To the best of our knowledge, the DDI has
never had any official relationships with the
organizations or individuals mentioned in this
article. The best person to brief you on any
other possible rTA s with these
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5.75 101 EDITIONBIOUS
-,PWij U. Lm HAM
Director, Pdlitical Research
Onlvla h29,1976,asmall
group of political scientists jam-
med into Professor Arnold
Rogow'soffice at the Graduate
Center of the City University of
New York.They were there not
to talk about European parlia-
ments, but about the sale of a
magazine.
It was an emergency meeting.
Rogow recently had learned of
negotiations between the CUNY
administration and an obscure
Washington, D_C.. foundation
for the sale of Comparative
Pulifh-s. one of the three most
important journals in the field. of
political science. For some
months, unknown to Rogow, the
negotiations had been in the
hands of Benjamin Rivlin, P. po-
litical scientist who was Graduate
Center Dean for University and
Special Programs. The potential
buyer was the Helert Dwight-
Reid Educational Foundation.
Rogow began Cotxparalivi
Politics in 1965. lie heads the
magazine's five-member
editorial board. He sat somberly
behind his desk, silent through
most of the meeting. Rogow's
magazine was in serious financial
trouble. It cost 560,000 a year to
publish and income covered just
half the cost. For three years, the
National Science Foundation had
helped make up the deficit, but in
early 1975, Rogow was told the
grant would not be renewed un
less the, format of the jottt~v~
Date 27 Aug 76
office on March .1 g, the neat was
'
presented to the editors as a.rait
nccunrf>(i.'I-he foundation's offer
was 54,000, plus 5500 per year. '
for editorial costs. The founda
tion would assume all printing
and business responsibilities,,
and assume about $12,000 ir..,
liabilities for prepaid subsoil-
tions. In practice, control would
be in the hands of a newly formed
department-wide publications'
committee, which ensured that
the current editors would be re
placed within three years. The
editors left Proshansky's office in
confusion. Rogow then called the
emergency meeting held I i clays,.
later'to discuss the situation. Pri-
vately, :several editors expressed
their fear that editorial control of
the journal would pass to the
foundation, even.though the.,
its main year but one since 1955, and that
modest grants I since 1966, a total of 5621,371
duate work in was paid to OPR. For the current
in Washington
it in 1965, and
the foundation
Hawley, a p'olit-
graduate clean
died in 1971
d at the founda-
kpatrick, ex-
f the American
SSOCiation.
een a founda-
1960 and trea-
fiscal year about S80,00U is
budgeted.
Between 1960 and 1970,
OPR, through one of its subsidi-
aries, the Instituteforthe Com-
parative Study of Political -
Systems (ICOPS), published a
number of books and pamphlets
on Latin-American political par-
ties c?otrps d'i'rrri, and elections.
The books were written by politi-
cal scientists, some in teach'f?g
positions at American universi-
ties, some in government posi-
tions.
In 1967, Ramparts created a
furor when it disclosed that a
number of foundations, among
them the Sidney and Esther
Rabb Charitable Foundation,
had conveyed thousands of dollars
from the CIA to the National
Student Association for
more than a decade. In the Feb--
rua ry 27 issue of The NNarion,
Robert Sherrill pointed out that
the Rabb Foundation gave four
times as much money to OP(L as
to the student group. Evron
Virkpatrick acknowledged to
rick is also.pres-
nsand Policy
PR), a tax-ex-
mpany founded
1955 by. "
Max Kampel
on lawyer and
ant of Senator
ey.'Kampelman
of OPR and
Helen Dwight Reid. Although
the foundation and OPR are
legally separate entities and,were
not always so close, there is now
less distinction between them.'
For the past decade or so, they,
have shared offit:es and have Sherrill that in "1963, 1964, and
been controlled and managed by 1965, OPR, Inc? received CIA
the same small croup of people. -money, 'principally' (according
at least one contract-from.
the U.S. Information Agen-
cy, the government's official
propaganda arm, for editorial-
evaluation of books and
manuscripts. OPR has since had
research contracts with the State
Department but the USIA book.
evaluation contract has remained
OPR's basic source of income. A
USIA spokesman said payments
Latin-American elections.. Ina
recent interview, Kirkpatrick said
'he had made no such statement...
One political scientist closely
connected to OPR during that-
per iod said he was told by OPTS
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memoranda stipulated that'con
trot would remain with CONY. '
Some questions were raised
about the background of the
foundation, and its ability to
maintain a high editorial stan-.
dard, and so far the magazine has
not been sold. For most of the
editors, the foundation remained
an unknown quantity.,
Helen Dwight Reid was a politi-
cal scientist who worked mainly
for the U.S. Office of Education
and the State Department. The
foundation's original assets were
a legacy left to Reid by her
father, a wealthy engineer. The.
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THE C?I?~O~iIC'F of :IT. ~..L {
3 MAY 1976
"The, Central Intelligei
has long-developed cl
I I '1 0 "th the Aurier"
reia,ti.onsnips wi i-can
academic cornmin9g
By Karen J. Winkler
WASHINGTON
Hundreds of college and university profes-
sors, administrators, and graduate students,
as well as private foundation officials, have
clandestine relationships with the Central
Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, according to the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence Activities.
The committee, chaired by Sen. Frank
Church, Democrat of Idaho, released a two-
part report on U. S. intelligence agencies last
week.
The covert relationships with the C.I.A.
"range from academics making introductions
for intelligence purposes to intelligence col-
lection white abroad, to academic research
and writing where C.I.A. sponsorship is hid-
den," the committee found.
It said the C.I.A. was still in contact with
"many thousands of United States academics
at hundreds of U. S. academic institutions.
While most of those contacts are limited to
asking professors about their travels abroad
or to consulting them openly about subjects
on which they are experts, according to the
Senate panel, the C.I.A. also uses several
hundred American university people to write
books and other material to be used for
overseas propaganda.
Influence on Foundations
Both the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. have also had
extensive influence on American foundations
that give money to colleges and universities,
the committee said.
Its report described the C.I.A. influence on
foundations as "massive'" in the 196U's. It
said nearly half the grants made between
1963 and 1966 in the field of international
affairs by 164 foundations that were studied
included C.I.A. funding.
The committee said the 164 donors did not
include the Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller
foundations. It quoted a C.I.A. official as
having called those foundations "a trouble
area in New York City-reluctant to cooper-
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universities."
After Ramparts magazine broke the story
in 1967 that the National Student Association
had received C.I.A. funds, a Presidential com-
mittee chaired by Nicholas Katzenbach, then
Undersecretary- of State., recommended that
"it should be. the policy of the United States
government that no federal agency shall pro-
vide any covert financial assistance or sup-
port, direct or indirect, to any of the nation's
educational or private voluntary founda-
lions."
The C.I.A. broke off most of its contacts
With private instilullons, last week's Senate
committee report said, but it then proc,.eded
to step up its connections with individuals co
the campuses.
At the majority of colleges and unversitics
where individuals work with the C.I.A.., no
one. other than the professor, adrninistr.Aor,
or graduate student. involved is aware of the
"The use of philanthropic organizations
was a convenient way to pass funds" to
projects the C.I.A. considered important, the
report said. "The philanthropic fronts used
prior to 1967 funded a seemingly limitless
range of covert action programs affecting
youth groups, labor unions, universities, pub-
lishing houses, and other private institutions
in the United States and abroad."
According to the committee, the C.I.A.
money had:
d Helped establish a research institute in
1951 at a major American university. The
institute was set up to study worldwide
political, economic, and social changes.
- Partially supported an international edu-
cational exchange program sponsored by a
group of universities.
P Funded a U. S. association of farm
organizations that provided scholarships to
an international cooperative training center at connection. the report said. But at same:
an American university. institutions, it said, at least one. university
The Senate committee did not identify any official knows about the c.t.A. contacts- .0
institutions or individuals by name '"at the In some cases. C.I.A. support has not
request of the executive agencies," it said. meant C.I.A. control, the report said.
Because of the deletions, "the discussion "Funding was primarily a way to
academics in the C.r.A.'S enable people to do things they want-
Sr me role of U
S
.
.
ciandestine activities has been so diluted that " ell to do." 1n other cases, however,
its scope and impact on the American aca- "s ippoil turned into influence," it
demic institutions is no longer clear;' three said.
., is currently "no prohibition
Democrats on the committee charged. They fher
to prevent an increa' e in the oper-
are Philip A. Hart, of Michigan, Walter F. ationat u' e of academics," the corn-
Mondale, of Minnesota, and Cary Hart. of mittce noted.
Colorado. - s It said it was concerned that
youth are upholding the ideals, inde-
d' me and inte rit of Ainrrican
e
The committee report also cited at least "American academics involved in
one instance in which it said the F.B.I. had such activities may undermine public
confidence that those who train our
The text of higher-education-related portions
of the Senate committee's report begins on
Page 7 of this issue of The Chronicle.
attempted to use foundation officials to inter-
vene in the internal affairs of a college.
A "confidential source" in a foundation
that contributed money to a local college
allegedly pressured college administrators to
fire an activist professor at the behest of the
F.B.I.. the report said.
A committee spokesman said that "in most
cases they [the foundations) were witting"
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Nevertheless, the panel did not
recommend that Congress prohibit
the exploitation of contacts in private
institutions such as colleges and uni-
versities.
"The committee believes that it is
the resporcibility of private institu-
tions and particularly the American
academic community to set the pro-
fessional and ethical standards of its
members, 'it said-
"This report on the nature and
extent of covert individual relations.
1 G6G3tn90=1'-3. is intended to alert
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