U EXCHANGE WITH CHILE MAY DRAW CONTROVERSY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201140123-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 30, 2010
• Sequence Number: 123
• Publication Date: April 7, 1977
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DAILY
7 April 1977
exchange,wi th Chile
may. draw controversy
By JANE BEDNAR During the testimony' the council (
also will listen for evidence of CIA in-
A University Senate council next volvement, according to Krueger.
week will hear testimony on proposed Other American institutions such
exchange agreements with three for- as the University of Michigan have
eign schools, including one in Valdi- been embarrassed by discoveries that
via, Chile. the CIA hag been funding their (or-
Only the proposed Chilean agree eign research projects, she said.
ment-with the Universidad Austral Krueger said she is sure the faculty
de Chile-is expected io generate con- involved wouldn't have lied about
troversy, according to Anne Krueger, CIA involvement had they been
Council on International Education asked, but "nobody ever asked the
chairperson. question."
The other proposed agreements are Those ' involved will be asked
with the University of Turku, ? Fin- whether there is anything in the agree-
land, and the University of Besancon,., ments they have not reported to the
France. council.
"We've got to have them tell us,
The council. will decide whether that (there is no agreement with other
each of the agreements meets criteria organizations). If we don't ask the
spelled out in a policy statement re- question, then we're guilty of cover-
cently adopted by the University. ing something up," Krueger said.
Senate, and take that decision to the Discussion of the French and Fin-
senate for approval. ' . nish agreements is expected., to go
Krueger said that on the basis of "fairly easily," she said.
preliminary hearings held last spring The French exchange program, in-
she expects }'outspoken" criticism of volving language training, has been in
the proposed Chilean agreement. existence for some time. However,
The criticism will come from "vari= the French government recently
ous groups concerned about the Chi- passed a law restricting enrollment at
lean regime and whatever they're French universities to French students
doing to human rights," she said. and -students at foreign schools with
However, the policy statement con- which exchange agreements exist, she
tains no explicit human rights criteri- said. There was no heed for. an agree-
on, she said. The main criterion for_ ment before now.
approving the agreement is that all The exchange with Finland would
faculty involved have complete aca- - involve tracing migration from that
demic freedom.
? "Insofar as people today have -an
emotional issue, Chile is it," Krueger
said. Chile is often singled out from
other nations -accused of : human
,
rights violations, she said.' . voived is responsible for deciding
At last -spring's hearings. more ' which of their own resources' they
people testified against the proposal want to commit.
than for it. "Otherwise you could have
She expressed surprise that so few chaos." Krueger said. "You could
people called to reserve time to testify have somebody over in the Institute
Under the new policy statement, no
specific resources are committed by
the University in an exchange agree-
ment. Rather
the University unit in-
at the hearings. The deadline for res- - of Agriculture promising services of
ervations is Friday noon.
The Chilean agreement involves
providing technical assistance to rural
farmers in that country and bringing
Chileans to the University to train
them in agricultural techniques,
Krueger said.
the institute of Technology."
The criteria section of the policy
statement also specifies there must be
"a legitimate area of common aca-
demic and scholarly concern" be-
tween the University and the
exchange institution.
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