SPIES ON CAMPUS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100190012-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 2010
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: October 1, 1979
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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PENTHOUSE
ARTICLE APPEARED October 1979
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The secret alliance between
cc'~ege professors and administrators and the CIA
has destroyed the independence and integrity of
the American academic community.
BY ERNEST VOLKMAN
n the early spring of 1976, Harvard University President Derek
Bok began reading a 651-page green paperbound book with the
forbidding title, "Foreign and Military Intelligence: Final Report of
the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with
Respect to Intelligence Activities" (more popularly known as the
Church Committee Report).
Like most other prominent academics, Bok was aware that for
years some members of the academic community and the CIA had
joined together in a secret relationship to turn many of America's
university and college campuses into virtual espionage centers. He
was aware that a number of professors and administrators were
secretly working for the CIA, recruiting prospective agents among
students, spying for the agency while overseas, sometimes helping I
to spy on "troublemaking" students, and using the cover of research
institutes and other projects to gather intelligence.
And, most important. Bok was aware that people at Harvard were
'involved. He did not know how many or who they were, but he
wanted it stopped.
Because the Church Committee had spent more than a year in
investigating the CIA's domestic operations, including involvement
with academia, Bok carefully read through the committee's final
report, looking for facts-facts that would allow him to write up
guidelines for the university to set strict limits on such work for
anybody who worked there.
But the report was a disappointment. On page 189. Bok found,
instead of facts, this general statement: "The Central Intelligence
Agency is now using several hundred American academics, who in
addition to providing leads and, on occasion, making introductions
for intelligence purposes, occasionally write books and other mate-
rial to be used for propaganda purposes abroad. Beyond these, an
additional few score are used in an unwitting manner for minor
activities: _
"These academics are located in over 100 American colleges,
universities, and--related institutes.".
The report went on to recommend that the universities and col-
leges themselves "set. the professional and ethical standards of its
members," and that federal legislation prohibiting CIA activities on
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that his group included some Harvard
heavyweights with extensive Washington
experience. Among them was Archibald
Cox, ex-Watergate special prosecutor, and
Don Price, then dean of the university's
Kennedy School of Government and an old
Washington hand. (Ironically. Harvard's
School of Government has provided many
of the most infamous presidential advisers
on "national security" affairs.- including
Henry Kissinger, who was in charge of ail
covert operations for most of the Nixon
years; McGeorge Bundy. a Harvard dean
who performed the same function for John
Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson: and
Samuel Huntington, now on Carter's Na-
tional Security Council.)
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