AGENCY LINKED TO CIA GIVES MSU GRANTS

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By`SUE.STEWARD The five-AID grants accented by the
$l, mid :accepted b the board' majoragricultural economics research pro-
sram tine agencyyp-' The Sahel region, which suffered a major
y h the dur$ng the Vietnam countries of Chad, Senegal, Mali. Upper
A two MSt trustees and several MSU agricultural economics faculty
I pa t an present, have expressed concern tries through AID contracts since 1972,
.the large amount` of AID grants according to Carl K. Eicher, agricultural
?1pted for research at MSU. economics professor on leave this year.
"Any AID project is a natural for infiltration by CIA agents... "
Eicher is working with AID in Washington,
D.C., on a-Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.
But Trustee Patricia Carrigan, D-Far-
mington Hills, questioned at last month's
hoard meeting the number of AID grants
which MSU accepts, saying they make her
"nervous."
Trustee Jack Stack, R-Alma, later com-
mented, "Any member of the board during
- C. Patric "Lash"Larrowe
the Vietnam War will remember that
subversive activities of the CIA were
channeled through MSU by AID.'
Ramparks.Magazine in 1966 published a
story accusing MSU of cooperating with the
CIA in undercover activities in an extensive
MSU technical aid program to South
Vietnam from 1955 to 1966. The introduc-
tion to the article was written by a former
MSU economics instructor and member of
the MSU program, Stanley K. Sheinbaum.
Sheinbaum charged that everyone in the
project knew about the CIA`invofgement,
including former ;,+nwersity President: John
Hannah.
Sheinbaum, now residing in .California,
said he remains suspicious of many current
AID programs.
"I, personally, and many, many others
hold many AID programs in suspicion," he,
said. "So much e` the economic aid overseas
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is really military aid."
"The CIA is continuing to use
governmental agencies
abroad," he said, "and despite
all the noise, most Americans
see nothing wrong with it."
Sheinbaum said he could see
where there might be problems
with the AID money accepted
':by MSU. "Once a university
begins to contract out, whether
to industry or to government,
the university loses indepen-
dence. The priorities of other
institutions begin to dominate
priorities the university should
be setting for itself," he said.
C. Patric "Lash" Larrowe,
professor of economics, came to
MSU In 1956 --? at the time the
University was becoming in-
volved ? lit the aid' program to
South, Vietnam.
"When the French left South
Vietnam they left a vacuum in
the area of civil service," Lar-
rowe said., "The South Viet-
namese were suddenly without
persons trained in areas such as
police protection, fire` protec-
tion and tax collection.
"The University. president at
that time, John Hannah:, had
been assistant secretary of
defense for the' Korean War,"
he., said. "So, it was fairly
natural for the State Dept. to
ask MSU to set up a National
Institute for Public Administra-
tion in South Vietnam."
Larrowe said that after the
program had been going far'
about a'.year with approlu
matet tY fac r.~ttrem
bers seMng in South Viet-
nam. at any one time, the South
Vietnamese government said
one area in which it needed help
^badly was counter intelligence.
:MSU did. not have any
trained faculty in that area, but
Arthur Brandstatter, head of
the Police ? Administration
;School had been a colonel, and
general in the reserve Military
Police, Larrowe said.
"Brandstatter had' some
friends at the Pentagon so. he
brought them in,"he said'. ""'Se
Pentagon saw this a; a golden
opportunity to plant some. CIA
because of oppression.
"Any AID project is a natural
for infiltration of CIA agents,"
he said, "or what is even more
corrupting is for a faculty
member to become involved in
a project and then to be asked
by a CIA agent to help them
(the CIA)."
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VIEWPOINT: BRAZIL
Regain respectability
By MILTON TAYLOR
Whatever else may be accomplished by
President Clifton R. Wharton's recent trip
to Brazil, this mission at least has drawn
our attention to MSU's project in that
country, and has provided an opportunity to
open a dialog on our continuing large-scale
involvement. This is all to the good, because
if we can have some open debate, perhaps
we can clarify the moral and political issues
involved.
When the State News (Jan. 28) made
note of Wharton's departure to Brazil, I was
quoted as referring to that country as being
fascistic. This term is a convenient place to
begin, because its use has offended a
Brazilian student (State News, Feb. 3), but
it also represents one of the principal
reasons why we should not be supporting
the present military regime in Brazil.
Because of the lesson taught to tis by the
Nazis, Americans have a tendency to
equate fascism with ethnic or religious
persecution. Actually, this was a German
variant. Basically, fascism is a political
system representing severe economic and
social regimentation, together with a sup-
pression of the opposition. It is a system
that is ostensibly implemented for the good
of the state; in actual practice, it benefits
the ruling capitalist class and exploits the
mass of the proletariat.
What is particularly repugnant, then,
about Brazil, and this seems to escape the
whole of the MSU administrative hierarchy,
is that the Brazilian military dictatorship
does not even have the saving grace of
being 'nationalistic and having popular
support. Instead, it is rightist and exploits
the masses for the benefit of the ruling
oligarchy. The economic miracle of Brazil is
a miracle only for the rich, while the
military is simply the internal policy force
for the capitalists.
To argue, under such circumstances, that
our program in Brazil is apolitical, and that
it will rebound to the benefit of the average
Brazilian, is sheer sophistry. Quite the
contrary, our program there o,lly serves to
perpetuate an AID-CIA linkage, of which
we are all too well aware of from bitter
Vietnam experience. Even more important,
our program serves to make the present
regime in Brazil even more efficient in its
exploitation of the mass of Brazilian people,
and to perpetuate its existence.
The program also serves, of course, the
goals of American imperialism. Brazil is
clearly an American puppet, made all the
more strategic to the U.S. multinationals
because of the threatened loss of South
Africa. At all cost, Brazil must be "saved"
from socialism so that we can continue to
extract as much surplus value as we can
from the world.
These realities of geopolitics are so
apparent that it is incomprehensible that
they should not be evident to President
Wharton, Dean Ralph Smuckler of Interna-
tional Programs and Prof..John Hunter of
the Latin American Center, each graced
with the credential of a doctorate. Espec-
ially, these realities should be evident
because they exist also with slight variation
in other parts of MSU's international
empire like Iran and South Korea.
But let us say, just for argument, that
these elementary propositions are not
persuasive. There is still another` and
compelling reason why we should not
support Brazil, and why we should ter-
minate our involvement as soon as possible.
It is indisputable that Brazil is one of the
principal countries of the world that
tortures political prisoners as a matter of
public policy. The source for this informa-
tion is not Moscow. It has been documented
by Amnesty International, and has been
reported by the New York Times and thel
London Times. The political torturing has
even evoked a protest from the Catholic
hierarchy in the United States.
Again, why don't our administrators
know this, or if they do, act upon it? Do they
have to see and -hear the torture? Or do
they see only what they want to see?
Why we enter these contracts with such
shabby regines is truly a conundrum.
Perhaps it is our ideological love affair with
capitalism, maybe it is stupidity or insen-
sitivity to the poor, or maybe it is the 60 per
cent overhead that can be earned on a $7.5
million Brazilian contract.
Whatever the reason, it is time to call a
halt. Th^ bell is tolling, and it is tolling for
the members of our board of trustees.
Apparently, they are the only ones that can
help us regain our respectability as an
academic institution.
Taylor is o professor of economics.
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COMMITTEE STUDYING HARASSMENT IN STATE
Bullard asks for F81 documents
for use in political spying probe
Rep. Perry Bullard, D-Ann Arbor, chairperson of the state
House Civil Rights Committee, has asked FBI Director Clarence
Kelley for 25 bureau documents he plans to use in a committee
probe of bureau political spying and harassment in Michigan.
Bullard said Tuesday that as far as the information requested
goes, "the real question is how do we effectively stop political
spying, and possibly worse activities, by police agencies.
"That's the question that the legislature must work on."
Bullard said Monday the report of the U.S. Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence Operations details a number of
questionable operations conducted by the Detroit FBI office in the
1960s, including inducing Detroit newspapers in 1960 to attack
then-Wayne State University President Clarence Hilberry for
allowing a man with alleged Communist connections to speak on
"The question of possible state and local police activities in this
sabotage activity is very important," Bullard said.
Bullard used the Senate report as the basis for his request which
was filed under the federal Freedom of Information Act. The act
requires federal agencies, under certain circumstances, to produce
heretofore secret documents.
Bullard said other FBI activities in Michigan listed in the Senate
committee report include sending out anonymous letters attacking
a 1965 Detroit city council candidate, attempting to discredit a
college professor in 1966 and mailing anonymous letters to the
press and government officials attacking a black member of the
Democratic party's state central committee in the same year.
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Not surprised
Being a foreign student at MSU, I like to
keep my ears open . to everything that is,
said which concerns my country.
When I read Friday's State News and
what MiltonTaylor had to say about Brazil,`
I was not just surprised.,I concluded that
there are more irresponsible people in this'
world than we may imagine,
First, the contracts for agriculture pro:
grams MSU has signed with' Brazil do not.
have anything to do With the =current'
political situation. Taylor `was riot thinking
when he complained 'about the lack of
campus manifestations inst the Univer';
sity's involvement with azil Taylorr also'
used some "repulsive" terms to' refer to.
Brazil. I v,m sure when he talked' to the.
reporter, he was not aware of what he was
doing.
If his affirmations did not bother,; Brazil
itself (it is too far away to be upset), it did
hurt the feelings of more than 100
Brazilians that, like me, left their country to
VIEWPOINT: BRAZIL JOURNEY
Lash's secret mission
By C. PATRIC LARROWE
I'm leaning against the newsstand
out at the airport leafing through
Hustler, this guy I'd last seen when
he was campus coordinator for Spock
for President comes up to me.
"Where ya off to, Doctor?" he asks.
"You must be freezing in that safari
jacket. And that pith helmet sure
can't be keeping your head warm in
this weather."
"I am. a bit chilly," I smiles, "but
I'm on my way: to Rio. It's summer-
time down there now, you know."
"Rio!" he yelps. "Gee, Lash, every-
body I know thinks of you as the
conscience of; the campus. I sure
never thought you'd sell out, jointhe
Brazil Projectl"
"I haven't officially joined the
"I've been promised a Secret Service
escort. Anyway, you haven't told me
what's so bad about Brazil."
"It's all right here in this report
from Amnesty International," he an-
swers, tapping a pamphlet he pulls
out of his pocket. "Here's what
happened to a student handing out
leaflets on a street corner in Rio: for
three months, she was beaten and
whipped, tortured on the electric
table and suspended for seven-hour
intervals."
"Sounds like an isolated case to
me," I says. "Anyway, she was
probably a troublemaker. But I'm not
going down there to leaflet against
the generals. I'm going down there to
help out President Wharton."
"I can see that," he says, looking
"I didn't know it was that bad.... but after our Brazil Project
has Americanized the. Brazilians, they'll grant amnesty to their
political, dissidents, way we've done with all our Vietnam war
resisters. "
project yet," I says. "Actually, this is down at my Adidas. "But if you think
only my first trip to Brazil, and the that's an isolated case, listen to the
reason I'm going now Is to help rest of the report:
President Wharton out of a jam he's "Brazil has 12,000 political prison-
gotten himself into down there." ers, and in few countries are political
"What kind of a jam?" he wants to opponents suppressed so ruthlessly.
know. It names the names of 1,081 torture
"All I can say is," I tells him, "an victims, Lash, and not only that, it
hour ago I got this frantic phone call, says 1,300 other Brazilians have been
he says he's in trouble, I gotta get murdered by death squads - bands
down there right away. ., _ of right-wing vigilantes who go
"I dont know, Lash,",, he says, around wasting dissidents with the
looking worried. "Maybe you don't knowledge and silent approval of the
realize'it,` but Brazil's a scary place for government."
"What makes you say that'?" I asks
For starters," he begins, "Brazil's
a police state, bad as Iran. Second,"
he goes on, counting on his fingers,
"this Brazil Project of yours is
bankrolled by AID, and you know
what that means."
"No,,I don't,"I says.
"A lot of ,AID projects," he ex-
plains, "are. a cover for the CIA. You
go down to Brazil, couple years from
now ft',il come out the CIA picked up
he tali for this` little junket of. yours.
"What's wlroug with that?" I a0 s;
if Unele. dam is paying the bill,
nobody can say my trip ? came out of
student fees."
"Never thought of it that way," he,
admits '- ' ut I still think its danger-
ous for you to go down'there, Lash,"
m not worried," I assures him.
"I didn't know it was that bad," I
says, "but after our Brazil Project has
Americanized the Brazilians, they'll
grant amnesty to their political
dissidents, way we've done with all
our Vietnam war resisters."
While I'm talking, I notice he's
staring at the golf bag propped up
against-my suitcase. "Hey, Lash!" he
bursts out. "Now I know why you're
going to Brazil! Look at those initials
on there! CRW! Those are Clifs clubs!
Why, you're nothing but an errand
boy. for Wharton!"
"That may be the way you see it,
bub," I snaps. "But there's the free
world to'think about. How is Clif
going to stay up with the generals if
he keeps slicing into the woods with
those borrowed clubs he's been using
down there?"
Larrowe is a: professor of economics
and faculty grievance officer.
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Secrecy clouds national intelligence un I
By JOE SCALES
State News Staff Writer
A cloud of controversy has arisen from recent investigations into
a previously little known and questionable organization called the
Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit (LEN).
The cloud is also moving a little closer to home as the Michigan
State Police, the Michigan attorney general's office and at least
=her Michigan police departments are reported to be
meters of the LEIU.
A ng to a recent copyrighted article in Penthouse` magazine,
the LEIUconsists of a vast network of intelligenceunits throughout
the United States and.Canada, which gather and exchange dossiers
and des compiled on individuals who have been investigated by
vario LEJU police intelligence squads.
The legality o these files has been questioned.
Themenibers of the LEIU
-am
entire police
departments or
s'`o es. andsomeof these member departments,
Slide Pdiea and the Detroiit Police beet.,
halve b ued for conducting questionable investigations or
keepingillegalfiles on noncriminal people:
The Michigan State Police and Detroit Police Dept. were-sued in
April 74 by'theMichigan Assn. for Consumer Protection in
Detroit which saysit was legally investigated, and information on
it was- ntered into the now defunct subversive activities (Red
State of Michigan has connections
with nationwide computer network
The fate of these files is'unclearat this point, astheywere asked
to be destroyed. But George Corsetti, an, attorney for the
association of consumers, said they .cannot be destroyed because
they are evidence in his case. This case is st pending in Wayne
Atty. .Gen.. Frank Kelley, also an LEN member, who is ac ing as
defense attorney for the state police, has,a that; the film be
been wonderingif the subversive a were pat into the
LEIU fries, perhaps making them, a l14to other LEIU
members.
Paul Emery, an aide to Rap. Perry Bullard,;-D-Ann Arbpr, said
the'state police told him, the so-called "Red Squad Fiies", were not
entered into I:EIU. Questions: directed to the state police
concerning t eLEIUhavebeen er edtooffi elsint edive
"We do not know if the old subversive files were sent to the
LEIU," said Emery. "I would assume they :were."
06rsetti said that they.-have received some files on members
named in the suit, and' there were notations on. them `saying
portions hadbeen entered into the Law Enforcement Information
LEIN is *-state computer system that;st bout
vehicle regration warrants bnil h sad other`
ri
publicecord.nfarmatiear the state of n on y, .
The i system isalepconneetedto other outside.state
computer systems through teletype terminals ':tl-e
Only cleared information can go into LEIN, bi>t '
information is stored in the LEIU files is not as well known t
crib" type of organization and therefore not subject to
Information (FOI) acts and privacy lawst government
s
are
ubject to.
Charles Marlon, a legal director for the AThericanCivil
,Union (ACLU) in San Francisco, said "That's bullshit:" 11
Intelligence (OCCI) branch to disc the
The OCCI is'adivision of the Ca De . dl
operates oat of euaij
dsaitinJuly`1976. , , ti
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Report
cites FBI efforts
against
political figures
LANSING (UPI) The FBI apparently attempted to use the It quotes a 1966 Detroit FBI memo as stating that in view of the
right-wing Breakthrough group in the 1960s as part of its activist nature of the group. and its lack of experience and
campaign to harass political figures it . viewed as subversive, knowledge concerning the local Communist party, efforts should
The report of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence i be made "to take over their activities and use them in such a
Activiti
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etailed efforts by the Detroit office of the > BI to
instigate actions against political candidates, antidraft activists
and alleged Communists.
Though the report does not name the organization which the
FBI used, Breakthrough leader Dona, Lubsinger. said activities
described in' the committee's report 'almost ce involve
Breakthrough operations.
The controversial Lobsinger stressed, however, that Break-
through never has consciously worked with the FBI and said he
could not specifically remember the man reportedly used by the
FBI to contact his organization.
The Senate committee report quotes 1966-67 memos from the
FBI's Detroit bureau which describe a plan to use a "militant
anti-Communist right-wing organisation" in its harassment and
spying operation.
The report states that a fictitious person named Lester Johnson
was the bureau's contact with the :organization:. It said Johnson
communicated with the group via letters and phone calls and
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manner as would be best calculated by this office to completely
disrupt and;neutralize" the Communist party without the group's
knowledge.
The report further stated that on the basis of FBI memos that
the fictitious Johnson used the group to distribute fliers and
letters opposing the candidacy of a "lawyer running for a.
judgeship."
That lawyer apparently was Recorders Court Judge George
'Crockett Jr., who was elected in 1966.
Crockett also apparently was the victim of FBI harassment in
his unsuccessful 1965 campaign for,the Detroit Common Council.
He reportedly was targeted for FBI harassment because he was
one of several National Lawyers Guild attorneys who defended
leaders of the U.S. Communist party leadership in a McCarthy-era
trial in New York.
THROUGH THE
1111 Mm
"Through the looking Glass," not to
be confused with "Alice in Wonderland,"
is a first run engagement. "Through
the Looking Gloss"
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takes $6 million more' from Brazil
By ED LION
State NewsStaff Writer
ISU Board of Trustees agreed to
an additional $6.1 million Friday
e Brazilian government to cover the
sts of a controversial University-
-ed agricultural education program.
trustee action came amid criticism
averal professors that the project
;ping to strengthen the right-wing
regime there. A meeting was set
ear both sides of the issue.
four-year Brazil Project involves
up six graduate and library centers
-!cultural training in the United
`a boost the nation's food output.
dy the University has been paid
lion from Brazil. The remaining $6.1
accepted by the trustees will be paid
in monthly installments through the pro-
ject's completion in mid197. Brazil obtain-
ed the money for the project from a U.S.
loan from the Agency for international
Development.
C. Patric Larrowe of the Fcor?mics
Department denounced the project as being
supportive of a right-wing military ttrnme
"which systematically suppresses twit 'Jib-
ertles ..
"I don't think MSU ought to be involved
there," he said. "All it does is shore up the
military government there. I think the
administration is there for the bucks."
Bob Repas of the School of Labor and
Industrial Relations said that the Univer-
sity's contention that the project is non-
political and helps the plight of the regular
Brazilian by increasing food output is
won-;.
"Brazil is not the type of country where
an increase in food production would be
fairly distributed to everyone," he said. "I
see this project as only being beneficial to
the ruling government."
John Hunter, director of the project,
however, said, "We're not engaged in
supporting the military, but wt- are in-
volved in the long-run job o` teavhing
peep!" how to improve agricultur_a'.'jutout,
I don't see anything but good coming from
that."
Hunter also said that the education
fostered by the project could ultimately
help in bettering the Brazilian political
situation. "I don't know of any cases of a
military government being toppled without
)uae:ltion,' he said.
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Brazil Project from its start in late 1974, but
criticism recently flared anew following a
visit earlier this month by University
President Clifton R. Wharton Jr. to monitor
the project's progress.
At Friday's trustee meeting Trustee
John Bruff, D-Fraser, called for a meeting
between the trustees and both the project
critics and proponents to hear their view on
the project. The other trustees agreed, but
the date of the meeting has not been set
yet.
Hunter said the Brazil Project was aimed
at helping the government achieve its
target of an annual 6 per cent growth rate
in agricultural output. Currently agricul-
tural output in the South American nation
of 100 million people grows annually at 4
per cent.
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Burden of proof
Archibald Shaw responded on Wednes-
day to Milton Taylor's viewpoint on MSU's
Brazilian activity by expressing skepticism
concerning Taylor's assertions that there
exists "an AID-CIA. linkage" and that
"Brazil is clearly an American puppet."
While I share his skepticism, I am equally
skeptical of the view attributed to Ralph
Smuckler in the State News of Feb. 4, that
the MSU project will "improve the average
citizen's lifestyle."
It is easy to document Taylor's statement
that "the economic miracle of Brazil is a
miracle only for the rich." (See Albert
Fishlow, "Indexing Brazilian Style: Infla-
tion Without Tears? Brookings Papers on
Economic Activity, 1974, No. 1). And as
Taylor says "It is indisputable that Brazil is
one of the principal countries of the world
that tortures political prisoners as a matter
of public policy."
So even if there is no truth to the
allegation of AID-CIA linkage and to the
characterization of Brazil as an American
puppet, we must still weigh our repugnance
at Brazil's internal policies toward its
citizens in the political sphere against the
possibility of improving the economic lot of
these citizens. In view of the Fishlow paper,
this possibility seems very remote. The
burden of proof is clearly on Smuckler and
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Red Squad snooping results in citizen lawsuits
By MIKE ROBINSON
Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO (AP) - Can a successful,
iddle-aged physician find happiness by
gibbing an explosive device into a hot dog
Land?
"If Ibombed it," says Dr. Marvin Rosner,
Pad of gynecology and obstetrics at a
hicago hospital, "how come it's still
here?"
And yet there it is, right there in the files
the Chicago police intelligence unit,
Town for years as the Red Squad. Secret
es -recently unveiled by federal court
.-der allege that Rosner is a bomb thrower.
"If f. did it nine months ago, as they say,
ow cone': they didn't arrest me?" asks
osner, who can still walk from his office to
ie hot dog stand, which remains intact.
In Chicago, New York, Detroit and other
ties across America, citizens groups and
Heir lawyers have been suing local Red
quads lately, with surprising results.
In New York, the police department's
ureau of Special Services kept spy files on
ore than 100,000 people and paid inform-
rs to worm their way into numerous
olitical and community groups. In Detroit,
ttorneys say they have sworn testimony
at judges and elected officials were
.rgets of snooping. Red Squad files also
,ere handed over to a major employer,
hrysler Corp.
In Chicago, Rosner was far from the only
respected resident to be named in Red
Squad files. The Rev. James W. Montgom-
ery, Episcopal bishop of Chicago, also was
snooped upon. His file accuses him of
belonging to an organization to help black
families move to the suburbs.
Attornery Albert Jenner, counsel to
House Watergate Committee Republicans
and a leading figure in the American Bar
Association, had a long file dating from
1953. One of the entries noted the birth of
one of his children.
Numerous such surprises were swapped
as attorneys from around the nation who
are involved in suits against local Red
Squads met at recent Northwestern Uni-
VOLUME 71 NUMBER 35 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22,1977
versity law school for a national conference
on Police Spying.
A count by Morton H. Halperin, former
staff member of the National Security
Council and now director of the Project on
National Security and Civil Liberties in
Washington, shows 28 suits around the
nation against local Red Squads and
national intelligence-gathering agencies.
Most were filed during the last five years
amid disclosures about domestic spying by
the Central Intelligence Agency and the
FBI.
Halperin's own telephone was tapped for
21 months as Nixon Administration officials
attempted to plug leaks in the Watergate
case. He is one of many of the spied upon
who has taken his case to court.
Many of the entries in Red Squad files are
perplexing.
Chuck Marson of San Francisco, a lawyer
with the Northern California Civil Liberties
Union who has filed a police spying suit,
says his court action turned up a file on
Communist party spokesperson Angela
Davis. It had only one entry:
"Has hired flamboyant attorney to at-
tract attention to her cause."
Marson's suit is aimed at the law
Enforcement Intelligence Unit, a national
organization through which Red Squads
trade information. Or misinformation.
ggl
Since before the days of the antiwar
movement, Red Squad members have been
periodically spotted at the edges of demon-
strations, taking pictures and writing down
names of speakers. They often have had the
image among "movement" people of being
slow-witted. But the stereotype is false, say
lawyers who have been fightf,ng the court
battles.
"I think they want people to think they
are all buffoons," says Val Klink, a Chicago
attorney whose suit recently resulted in
the release of the names of thousands of
persons spied upon, including community
organization leaders, public officials and
newsmen.
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"The image of the Keystone Cop is not
reflected by the reality. Some of them are
rather brilliant"
Just before Klink's group, the Alliance to
End Repression, sued to obtain the Chicago
Red Squad files, the Police Department
burned an estimated 100,000 such recor&
but many were kept and finally ordered
released by a federal judge.
Attorney Dick Soble says his suit has
resulted in sworn testimony that Detroit
Red Squad records were turned over to
Chrysler Corp., which kept them in a "plant
security file," which was stored-separately
from regular employe personnel Cam.
Red Squads are nothing new in America,
The New York version was founded in 1912
and Chicago s goes back at least 50 years,
They were most active in the union-organ-
izing days of the 41930s, the anti-Communist
redhunt era of the early 1950s and-* the
civil rights and antiwar movements. The
names have changed but the job is always
the same; attorneys with -a hi cakbent
say.
"Some people are afraid of social ebange,"
says Klink, "any kind of social change. The
Red Squads are designed as a farm of
repression to stop social cha "
While attorneys hope their.,; suits will
bring abuses to light and public pressure on
government to curb the RedSgaads, few
believe that they have cut down an police
spring very much.
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Shady CIA dealings just go on and on...
Menacing CIA activities con-
iue at a deplorable rate. Assas-
cation plots to kill Cuban Pre-
ier. Fidel Castro, fabricated
oriel, concerning Lee Harvey
?swald's participation in the Ken-
~dyy assassination, Ashland Oil
ampany's use of CIA money for
el; litieal contributions, and
mail-opening operations
3mp.only a small part of the
idles list of unthwarted and
rparently unimpeachable CIA
M ntly this was shown
with the disclosure of monetary
payments given to Jordan, Kenya,
South Vietnam, Zaire, Guyana and
West Germany.
.Due to CIA payments totaling
millions of dollars to Jordan's King
Hussein, agents have been allowed
to operate freely in that country.
This is briber, of the lowest
caliber.
Former President Gerald Ford
knew about the annual cash
payments to Hussein, made for a
period of 20 years,-throughinfor-
mation received by the Intelli-
gence Oversight Board. The board
regarded them as improper, yet
Ford failed to mention the matter
to President Jimmy Carter.
Carter has, at this time, stopped
the payments and advised CIA
Director Adm. Stanfield Turner to
report any further action that may
be discovered. However, what is
discovered and what is reported
are often horses of a different color
with the CIA.
Even the Senate Intelligence
Committee, formed last year, was
not completely informed by the
Ford Administration; about the
large payments made to, Hussein.
And if the supposed "supervisory
group over the; CIA has been
ill-informed, imagine the degree of
misinformation or noninformation
that exists among the American
public of large. ,
The payment ..of government
money to top foreign officialsis one
horrendous action, to make these
payments for the purpose of
Hussein's assistance in gathering
intelligence,in the Mideast is yet
another unjust action.
John W. O'Connell, Washington
lawyer and former U.S. intelli-
gence officer, has records that
indicate his law firm has received
$333,000 in legal fees from the
Jordanian government for four
years. Perhaps this money is
representing Jordan's best in-
terests in Washington.
Carter's intentions for improved
intelligence operations are hon-
orable, but so were Gerald Ford's.
While the CIA continues to exist
- an unfortunate probability
Carter: must designate,,. and en-
force, stronger standards for its
monitoring. The intelligence gang
should! be made to shake in their
spit-polished black oxfords at the
thought of withholding informs-
The State News
Thursrlay, February 24, 1977
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tion `abut their ' dealings.
With the ;multitude of intelli-
gene-gathering agencies within
the government and in the armed
forces, there is no logical reason to
continue financing and supporting
the CIA. W.e,. have, witnessed
enough of its shady 1maneuverings
to last us through another century.
Our supposed protectors who
oversee the CIA are only pseudo
watchdogs.
Before this country's govern-
ment and citizens are jeopardized
even further by this runaway
agency, the accusations against it
Trust be investigated and acted
upon, not just looked at so the
public can feel appropriately hor-
rified for a short while.
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CIA-AID
Archibald Shaw urged Taylor to clarify and
justify his statements concerning the fact
that "Brazil is clearly an American puppet"
and about the "perpetuation of the CIA-
AID linkage,"
A puppet government, Prof. Shaw, is a
government that carries out the interests of
the imperialist nation that it is dependent
upon for its continued existence in power,
and that represses nationalistic forces
opposing foreign domination and domestic
exploitation'. Read about"fhe'" O1A afid
military participation in the military coup in
Brazil in 1964. See the Wall Street Journal
article of Nov. 9, 1976, that documents the
increase of corruption there since the coup.
Inform yourself about the growing Ameri-
can and West European domination of the
Brazilian economy and natural resources,
about the denationalization of the in-
dustrial, agricultural and commercial sec-
tors.
Read the New York Times of Aug. 16,
1976, to understand that the Brazilian
"economic miracle" has been miraculous, for
the most part, only for the well-to-do
(distribution of income is worse than ever,
real wages have decreased since the coup).
If there has been an agricultural miracle,
why do nutritionists estimate that 40
per cent of Brazilians are suffering from
malnutrition, that in the state of Bahia
malnutrition was cited as the indirect cause
of 80 per cent of the 17,000 child deaths in
1974?
While some prefer "to wander in a thicket
of diatribes," tens of thousands of political
prisoners in Brazil will remain in their
torture chambers; thousands of innocent
people will be murdered each year by the
right-wing death squads; the-vast majority
of Brazilians, will become poorer, while the
beneficiaries of United States "aid" pro-
grams get wealthier; American business in
Brazil will continue to thrive at the expense
of balanced economic growth; the native
Indian population will be completely ex-
terminated because of the "need" for more
land; and the national capitalists and
"apolitical" MSU professors and officials
will continue to participate in the $7 million
rip-off.
Barbara Thibeault
East Lansing Peace Education Center
1118 S. Harrison Road
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Paper says Helms
mar finger Kissinger
Chilean overthrow
INGTON, Del. (AP) Former days, his Washington office said.
CIA Director Richard M. Helms has told
and others that if he is indicted
4.perjury .charges he will name former
ecretary of State. Henry Kissinger as the
man. who ordered him to he, the Sunday
'.News Journal reported.
Helms could not be reached for comment
parttaant and State Department, said the late Allende.
1 elms vow,Cs the reason pressure is Helms and Geneen both denied to
plied to=prevent a multiple count committees that the CIA and ITT had
i t by- a-federal grand jury, the worked together for such purposes or that
newppper reported. inn copyright article. money had been sent to Chile to undermine
The grand jury has spent a year Allende.
investtgatm alleged , perjury before a
Senate it tee by Helms; Harold
Geneen, chairperson of ITT; and other
present and former CIA and ITT officials,
according td ews Journal.
The testimony involved charges that the
United States played a role in the over-
throw of the Marxist government of former
Chilean President Salvadore- Allende.
According to---these sources, Helms first
warned during`a 1974Justice Department
Kissinger's, ITT's =and`former President
Nixon 's Chilean involvement.
Then Atty. -Gen, William Saxbe and
Helms' attorney, Edward Bennett Williams,
reached an agreement that Helms would
officials told the News Journal Saturday.
tram a reporter, and Williams has been
unavailable for comment for the last two
The ` grand jury has been probing
testimony before the Senate subcommittee
on Multinational corporations in 1973 and
the Senate's Select Committee on Intel-
ligence in 1975.
The alleged perjury concerned charges
that ITT funneled $350,000 to opponents of
Detroit figures harassed
By CHRIS PARKS
LANSING (UPI) - Detroit Recorders
Court Judge George Crockett Jr., the clerk
of Detroit's Court of Common Pleas and a
prominent black minister were reportedly
among the targets of FBI political spying
and harassment campaigns in the 1960s.
Information contained in the reports of
the U.S. Senate's Select Committee on
Intelligence Activities indicates that
Crockett was the victim of an anonymous
letter-writing campaign carried out by the
FBI's Detroit bureau when he ran for the
Detroit Common Council in 1965.
Crockett lost that election, but was
elected to the Recorders Court bench the
following year.
The letters implied that Crockett had a
"communist background."
The Senate committee report, which was
based on FBI documents, does not name
Crockett or any other victims of the FBI
operation. But Crockett said it is evident
from the description of the incident that it
involved his campaign.
Another apparent victim of ,inonemou,
letters sent by FBI agents was Willie
Baxter, a former member of the I)em cratic
State Central Committee who now is clerk
of the Common i leas Court.
A somewhat different tactic was taken
with a black activist minister. According to
the committee report, FBI agents sent the
Detroit minister a death threat designed to
look as though it had come from mobsters.
State Rep. Perry Bullard, D-Ann Arbor,
and chairperson of the House Civil Rights
Committee, has filed a formal request under
the Freedom on information Act for release
of FBI documents upon which the Senate
committee report was based.
The Senate committee report states that
the FBI obtained a conservative mailing list
and sent persons on it a letter which
t:erred to the "communist background of
by FBI
a common council candidate and branded
him as a "charlatan."
According to the report, the FBI also sent
a fictitiously signed letter to a television
station-suggestin? questions the candidate
should be asked when he appeared on a
show the station was producing.
Baxter said he had no idea back ia 1966
that his appointment as secretary r i the
Detroit bus system hoard had triggered a
volley of mail to the reporters, politicians
and others smearing him as a
communist."
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18Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan
friday, February 11, 1977
Brazil Project controversy still boiling
ByKARLA VALLANCE
State News Staff Writer
-MSU President Clifton R.
Wharton Jr.'s recent trip to
Brazl1has touched off a spate of
controversy over MSU's in-
volvementin the Brazil Project.
Wharton s nine-day trip trig-
gered strong reaction from
several faculty members who
are adamantly opposed to MSU
being involved in any way with
a country whose government is
oppressive, as is Brazil's.
According-to Amnesty Inter-
national, an organization which
monitors human rights of gov
arnments worldwide, Brazil
as over 10,000 political pris-
mers, and regularly tortures
opponents of the regime. The
woman Catholic Church is
bout the only group to take
firm stand against the "ruth-
ass oppression" of the govern-
aent.
"I don't see how MSU could
,hically be engaged in training
ersonnel who are part of the
overnment regime," said Zol-
,)n Ferency one of the three
ISU faculty members who
ent on record at this week's
?ademic Council meeting as
:icing opposition to Univer-
.y involvement with Brazil.
"This is no two-bit issue,"
A MSU economics professor
Iton Taylor. "It has been
completely overlooked on this
campus.""
The Brazil Project, one of the
largest foreign projects in MSU
history, has a quiet back-
ground. In 1975, MSU signed a
contract with the Brazilian
government that, according to
an informal report written by
project campus coordinator
John Hunter, cooperated with
it in the expansion and im-
provement of education and
agriculture, particularly at the
graduate level."
The project is funded by a
$7.6 million loan to the Brazilian
government from the US.
Agency for International De-
velopment (AID). Hunter said
MSU has 11 long-term consul-
tants at seven locations, numer-
ous . short-term people, plus
about 100 Brazilian graduate
students studying here on the
MSU campus, with another 50
students at other campuses
across the country.
This project differs from
most international programs
MSU is involved with in that no
direct U.S. government aid is
involved, but the project works
for and with the Brazilian
universities, Hunter said.
It was Hunter that developed
the necessary contacts and
nursed the program along until
the contracts were signed with
the Brazilian government.
MSU brainpower has been
helping Brazil with soils survey
teams, library development,
veterinary medicine and gen-
eral coordinating of graduate
agricultural education.
Though the program has
been in full swing since 1975,
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there has been little protest
about the program except for a
critical article written by C.
Patric "Lash" Larrowe soon
after the Brazil Project con-
tract was signed.
"When an American univer-
sity enters into a contract with
a foreign country, it lends
respect or credibility to the
regime," Larrowe said.
"There is an honest dif-
ference of opinion of whether or
not a university's participation
condones or abets an undesir-
able regime," said Homer Hig-
bee, director of the MSU Inter-
national Studies and Programs.
"Some believe strongly one
way, and some the other."
C
Higbee explained that the
international projects that
MSU embarks on must be first
approved by a committee, and
fall within the guidelines set
up for University participation
in sensitive areas.
"If the country falls within
the guidelines, which it does,
and if we raise the level of
graduate education in Brazil, I
think we should," Higbee said.
"We are not dealing with he
political institutions of the
country, but with the univer-
sities which will be able to do
something for their food pro-
duction.
"If the academic community
cannot continue communicating
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with each other; then there are
real problems. Over the long
run, we hope to maintain com-
munication with the academics
in these countries and continue
a dialogue, on the important
problems," he said.
But faculty members like
Larrowe and Taylor do not feel
it is morally right for MSU to
support the Brazilian govern-
ment in any way.
"If a country is criticized for
their treatment of political pris-
oners, they can simply point a
finger at MSU and say, 'But
they're not criticizingus,' "Lar-
rowe said. "It ties the country
to the U.S. I would funnel all
the AID programs through the
United Nations."
Our silence on repression
there in the face of what we
know makes us share the blame
for the erosion of human
rights," Taylor said. "The U.S.
continues to pour in U.S. tax
dollars and MSU helps to spend
the money. Is this what makes
President Wharton proud,"
Taylor asked, referring to a
statement Wharton made about
the Brazil Project being "ex-
citing," and how "proud" he
was that MSU was involved.
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ID money funded MSU building boom
The construction boom enjoyed by MSU in the last decade was
fueled in part with funds obtained from a U.S. government agency
whidi.haa been linked in some circles to the CIA, the State News
has Ined
About $3.6 million in grants received by MSU from the Agency
for International Development (AID) between 1957 and 1967 was
placed in a general building fund. This money was part of an
overall $14.5 million fund drawn from various project grants that
the University used to finance 17 construction projects over the
10 year period..
Some of the buildings constructed in part with the fund money
nclude the International Center, the Cyclotron, the Computer
Center, the Music Practice Building, the Life Sciences Complex
and the Biochemical Building.
AID, a branch of the U.S. State Department, dispenses money
o universities that conduct developmental aid projects in foreign
ountries - and thus is a method by which the United States gives
ndirect aid to allies. Between 1957 and 1967 MSU received over
25 million from AID in return for conducting development
.rojects in such countries as South Vietnam, Thailand, Argentina,
ndia and Brazil.
Critics of U.S. foreign policy said AID-financed projects often
serve as "fronts" for CIA covert operations and often help
support repressive government. MSU's AID-financed Vietnam
Project from 1955 to 1962 was allegedly a front operation designed
to help the right-wing dictatorship combat the communist Viet
Cong.
According to sources, the building fund operated in the
following manner:
?The University would divide all the grant money it received to
pay for various projects into direct money - to pay for direct costs
such as salaries - and indirect money - to pay for indirect costs
such as administration and physical plant expenses. Money for
indirect costs usually accounted for about 15 per cent of AID
grants, or $3.5 million over the 10 years officials said.
?The direct money would be used for salaries and direct
expenses and the indirect money would be funneled to the building
fund;
.State appropriations or other University revenue would then
be used as a replacement to finance indirect expenses.
Setting up such a fund was common practice at the time, officials
said, and was one of many sources of revenue that enabled MSU to
finance 80 construction projects over the 10-year period at a cost of
$198 million.
Officials said the building fund was perfectly legal until 1968
when laws aimed at trimming the state budget were changed,
making such a fund illegal. It was then disbanded, they said.
"There was nothing wrong with the way the fund was set up,"
said Howard Grider, director of Research and Contract
Administration. "The fund was made from many grants - not just
AID - and if you want to attack it you would have to also attack
the National Institute of Health, Ford Foundation and the National
Science Foundation, from where we got most of our other fund
money."
Grider said he thought it "highly unlikely" that the CIA was
affiliated with AID and he said he never saw any evidence "in the
contracts or vouchers to indicate that."
But C. Patric Larrowe, an economics professor who frequently
criticizes MSU foreign projects for helping repressive regimes, has
said that "any AID project is a natural for infiltration by CIA
agents" and he thinks the two agencies have "links of some kind."
"I think many in the University Administration are just
impressed with how much we'll get back from a project regardless
of the morality of it or who we help," he said. "I don't think the
board of trustees gives a damn whether we get money for helping
brutally repressive regimes or, as likely in Vietnam. the CIA.
Some of our buildings are conceivably built on blood shed by
right-wing fascist governments."
Over the last three fiscal years MSU has received over $3.
million in AID grants. At least two MSU trustees have recently
voiced concern that large sums from an agency believed to be
closely linked to the CIA makes them "nervous."
MSU currently is conducting projects in Iran, Brazil, Ethiopia,
Somalia, Indonesia, South Korea and Nepal. Six of these projects
are sponsored by AID. Iran, Brazil, Indonesia and South Korea
have been cited by Amnesty International, a group that monitors
worldwide human rights conditions, as among the most repressive
governments in the world.
Ralph Smuckler, dean of International Programs, who is
currently on leave, has said that the University "does not and
should not" take the political situation of a country into
consideration before conducting a project.
The projects are nonpolitical, he said in an interview last spring,
because they are aimed solely at improving the average citizen's
lifestyle. If MSU wanted to exert some influence on a nation's
political conditions, Smuckler said, a project would give it better
leverage to effect a change.
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18 Michigan State News East Lansing, Michigan
Secret news letter found in :State Police files
(continued. from page 1) '
has thus far been found in Michigan files and one Lawyer's Guild
investigator said it had been found nt CIA, P81 and IRS files as
well.
One Digest notation on a June 17, 1972, issue suggested that
information had been" stolen. it read.
"To protect sources, this material should not be used . in this
format. It is also noted that every attempt was made to restore the
list to its owner, '. without success, as it is realized that under
certain c;rcumstapcesthe publishing ofstslen lists is illegal."
Several times the Digest had notations to subscribers they
could obtain additional ieformatiou.by getting in touch through
previously established contacts.
Digest copies gave lists of addresses,'phonlennmbersand names
of noncriminal people. Meetings and their -roceedings were also
FBI harassed Detroiters.
(continued from page 1)
According 'to the Rebate e'ohimittee t'epott;"; an anonymous
letter was sent to then' Detroit; Mayor Jerome Cavanagh1 with
carbons to two newspapers protesting the use pf"taxpayers' money
in the appointment of &I known communist" to a`well-paid. Job,
Similar letters were sent to various,. the', ) erican
Legion and the''Wayne County prosecutor' while a letter bearing'a
false name was sent` to` bus' system board inefnbers stating`that
Cavanagh had "saddled them with a commie secretary becausee
thinks it will! get him a few'Negro votes.'
According to 'the Senate committee report, the death threat
incident was part of an FBI effort- to create dissension between
black numbers runners and "the Italian hoodlum element In
Quoting FBI documents, the commute deport statid a letter
recorded.
According to some persons watched by the Digest, the only way
certain information could have been known was if agents had
infiltrated the groups. One issue had a notation that said, "NOTE:
Audio Tapes of the (an antiwar organization, name withheld by the
State, News) panel are available on, request."
Lists were made of people who had signed petitions, who had
parked their cars, perhaps unintentionally, near certain meetings,
and even thosee who.had supported such things as the move to stop
the deportation of John Lennon.
A notation ill zone issue suggested how subscribers could funnel
payments through some secret network. "In order to maintain the
confidentiality of the services we cannot appeal for funds directly,"
the issue reported:, "However, each recipient knows how to make
contact with some other person having a direct contact with the
Information. Digest. `
The Nov. 19, 1971 issue, has a note which instructed
subscribers, "Itis requested that you keep the Information Digest
for use within your own organization and do not share it with
others.
"This issue (Nov.; 19) in particular is sensitive and should not,
under any circumstances, be leaked to any organization or
newsman, however. well-established their reputation. If, in your
judgment, material should be disseminated, please do not use it in
I,D. (Information Digest) format; scramble and rewrite!"
In a recent analysis of the SWP Red Squad file by the Detroit
Free Press, it was reported that. information in it had been
exchanged on routine bases with other police agencies, including
the FBI, and had been given out to some private corporations.
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of California (and received as a result of
a Freedom of Information Act request)
states, "It shall be required that any publi-
cation resulting from this contract shall not
be attributable to the Sponsor (the CIA) as
the sponsor desires to remain anonymous."
In addition, according to the Church
Committee report, professors "write books
and other material to be used for propagan-
da purposes abroad," Another widespread
activity on college campuses is the use of
professors to "spot" students as possible
future employees of the Agency. The CIA
then, without the student's consent, does a
security check on the student. An uniden-
tified CIA agent interviews friends, family
and professors on the student's life and
background.
A major area of CIA activity is with for.
eign students. The CIA tries to secretly re-
cruit these students-sometimes with
bribes or blackmail-to spy on their col-
leagues and return to their own countries
as CIA agents.
In addition, foreign students who come
from repressive countries are frequent tar-
gets of surveillance and intimidation of
their own secret police, often with the as-
sistance of US intelligence agencies.
Students and faculty alike have recently
started to publicly condemn such practices,
stating that these activities directly threaten
both academic freedom and integrity along
with rights of privacy and human decency.
The annual conferences of the National
Student Association and the American As-
sociation of University Professors have
both passed resolutions condemning clan-
destine CIA activity on campus. Students,
acting under the Freedom of Information
Act, have started to file for CIA contracts
at their own universities. Student govern-
ments and faculty senates like those at
Ohio University, the University of Florida,
and several University of California cam-
puses are in the process of passing resolu-
tions prohibiting secret CIA presence on
campus in any form.
The only way this effort will succeed,
however, is when a majority of campuses
publicly condemn and move to end these
practices themselves. The Center for Na-
tional Security Studies offers information,
educational materials, pamphlets and speak-
ers for those who want to join the cam-
paign to end covert CIA activity on campus.
Please contact us for more information and
ideas on what you can do to organize a-
round this issue.
Write or phone Christy Macy at the Cen-
ter for National Security Studies, 122
Maryland Avenue, N.E., Washington, DC
20002, [phone].
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the system somehow pure unless some
corporate bribe is injected into the system?
Let us all look at this with our eyes wide
open. Payoffs are, not the cause of a corrupt
political system,. but merely just one more
symptom of the corruption that defenes'bur
political system.
Ending payoffs is like taking Contact for
your cold, your nose stops running but the; politics, would be glad to have supported.
virus doesn't die. What tests does he apply to a relationship
Phil Bellfy between nations that can yield a confidently
2]?CeatQr:;at. made classification of this nature? And how
Open Metter ' _.,"
I have been reading in the State News
with more than ordinary interest C. Patric
Larrowe and Milton Taylor's observationis:
on the Brazil Project (and .eaarlier,; interna-,
tional projects.as welly I :'sin le t.'with theme
clear impression that they lord: fr om
more than do the equally able,phistlGed'
and well motivated colleagues ,Who arse
closely associated with the projcet`
A few questions come to mittd as I rem
on their words of riticism and ndvlce p ,
on their lists as being safe enough 'tor"
democracy (North American style) for W U to collaborate with-(and what-should we doff
at bastions of democracy which" we ,'slay
great hrve had the privilege of working` 'with
suddenly or gradually change their
What contractual provisions should be'
required, and whit of bebavj
faculty and studet?s `should be p,
out by the Advisurjr Committee on Inter'
national Programs, which has spent:,lo and
thoughtful hours on these provm~a?;
(Copies of the,,pohcy,are: ava able qt
*What travel rules (mode -f ,travel,
season, etc.) would be prescribed for .;fib
presidential responsibility for intern,, tiQpal
*For Larrowo alone: Are his comments.to
be construed as those of a person Ao freely'`
exercises his right to comment on all mad
without restraint or does, he have a case o
under his official
In a viewpoint on Thursday Milton Taylor.,
presented his views on the relationship MSU
has with certail agricultural and edu a-
tional programs, in. Brazil. Because :111#101.
Taylor, are "graced with the credential of a.
doctorate," I urge him to make public tote'`
basis for just two of the "code-phrases" 'he
used.
His colleagues will be grateful to learn the
evidence he has to justify the clause: ". . . our
program there only serves to perpetuate an
AID-CIA linkage..."
And, "Brazil is clearly an American
puppet, is an assertion that his
colleagues, whose specialty is not geo-
does the America-Brazil relationship meet
these tests?
I propose that only with a clearer
understanding of what Taylor means by
these phrases, and his justification of them,
may we then be able to enter the dialog he
proposes rather than continue to wander in a
thicket of diatribes.
Archibald B. Shaw
Professor
Administration and Higher Education
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Amid the controversy over-
MSU's participation in the Brazil
Project it is most difficult to
understand why the administra-
tion and board of trustees persist
in their involvement. On Friday
ASU accepted an additional $6.1
million from the Brazilian govern-
ment to continue its participation
in the project.
With the Brazilian government
systematically abusing the masses
of its country it is inhumane that
this University would continue to
work with. it. When the project
was begun in 1974, the University
accepted $1.5 million from the
Brazilian government - funds
that originated from the Agency
for International Development
r has been
there is linked h least
a distinct possibility that MSU is
being used as a tool for the CIA
through the Brazil Project.
President Clifton R. Wharton
Jr. should pay strict attention to
what he allows MSU to be involved
in and alter his priorities to place a
greater value on human rights
rather than reaping the profits
made through the project.
It makes one wonder if economic
gains are the primary concern of
Wharton and the trustees, or
whether the rights of the Brazilian
citizenry matter.
Apparently, the administration
and trustees care little about the
views of faculty and students who
have expressed strong dissatisfac-
tion with the University's partici-
pation.
Similar projects are conducted
in Ethiopia., Indonesia, Iran, Ne-
pal, Somalia and South Korea that
must abandon Brazil Proje4
are algo funded by AID. Presum-
ably, the most recent funds Brazil
gave the University are also from
AID.
It is understandable that money
is needed to improve a university.
It is also perceivable that research
helps to better an educational
system. But is. it conceivable to
allow the rights of humans to be
violated by a fascist regime?
With all the' controversy sur-
rounding the CIA-linked Brazil
Project }t would seem logical
and ethical - that withdrawal
should be an immediate goal.
If Wharton wishes-16, continue
working in Brazil he must be ready
to accept any consequences which
may occur. Involvement with such
governments lessens the reputa-
tion of the University while
leading credenc
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preservation o
worldwide is m ened by MSU's
Brazil. The acce
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who justly demo
Project be halter
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' ready $$.1'million only heightens the
which `,outrage of students and faculty
i v~~rt such who justly demand that the Brazil
s ;. repute- eject be halted. The call must be
ri e ltd while' answered.
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