SOME SECRECY RESTRICTIONS ON SCHOLARS TO BE RELAXED, CIA OFFICIAL SAYS IN SPEECH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100030026-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: February 14, 1986
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BOSTON GLOBE
14 February 1986
Some secrecy restrictions on scholars
to be relaxed, CIA official says in speech
CAMBRIDGE - The head of the
Central Intelligence Agency's ana-
lytic wing, in a rare public speech
last night, announced that the
CIA would relax some secrecy re-
strictions it has in the past Im-
posed on scholars who consult for
it.
In a move designed to make the
agency's "intensified effort to
reach out to the academic commu-
nity" afore palatable to scholars,
Robert M. Gates said the CIA
would hendeforth permit written
disclosure of CIA funding for re-
search projects unless the scholar
requests that the funding be con-
cealed or if the CIA determines
that disclosure would harm US re-
lations with a foreign country.
Speaking before an audience of
100 at the John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Gates. the
deputy director for intelligence,
said the agency would lifts its re-
quirements for prepublication re-
view of research results except
where classified information has
been used by the scholar.
Gates also said participants in
conference sponsored by the CIA
must be told ahead of time about
the agency connections.
The new policy was reached
as a result of the controversy
here at Harvard," Gates said.
He was referring to a Harvard
professor, Nadav Safran, who last
year failed to notify participants
at a conference on Islamic funda-
mentalism that it was being fund-
ed by the CIA.
After hearing Gates speech. Jo-
seph S. Nye. Jr.. professor of gov-
ernment and acting director of
Harvard's Center for Internation-
al Affairs, said, "You've just heard
a bureaucracy move."
Gates said the CIA has recently
redoubled its efforts to avail itself
"of the good counsel of the best
scholars in our country." and
heatedly rejected arguments that
doing research for the agency
compromised academic freedom.
Noting that scholars do a wide
range of consulting for other agen-
cies in government, and for pri-
vate industry, Gates complained
that for critics of CIA-dcademic
ties to "single out the CIA" was a
"double standard if not outright
hypocrisy."
Since 1982, he noted, the agen-
cy has sponsored 300 academic
conferences in the United States
and sent more than 1,500 CIA an-
alysts to conferences sponsored by
academia and the private sector.
He also characterized the agen-
cy as "an important and useful
supporter of area studies as well
as language studies in the United
States."
"We are looking for people to
challenge our views, to argue with
us. to criticize our assessments
constructively, to make us think
... In short, we don't want schol-
ars to tell us what they think we
want to hear. That would make
our effort pointless."
Gates spoke as the debate over
ties between CIA and Harvard in-
tensified with the disclosure yes-
terday that another professor,
Samuel P. Huntington, acknowl-
edged doing research for the CIA
without notifying university offi-
cials until one year after began
the project.
- RICHARD HIGGINS
STAT
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