CIA ACADEMIC RELATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91M00696R000600120005-3
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: June 17, 1976
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
or or Academic Relations
FROM
SUBJECT : 'CIA Academic Relations
1. An NIO review of subject paper has resulted in our con-
clusion that the paper really needs to go back to the drawing board.
First, it is not clear to us what the purpose of the exercise is.
Two possibilities come to mind:
A. Some form of public declaration, for
cosmetic purposes, concerning CIA's future
Simon-Purity in its dealings with academe.
B. A serious attempt to establish in-
ternal guidelines (a DCID ?) covering CIA
contacts with the academic community.
2. If we are interested in the former, the present decla-
ration is far too specific, legalistic and inelegant. What we need
for that purpose, it seems, is some well-chosen language, explaining
in a general way CIA policy and practice toward American universities,
that might be incorporated in one of the DCA's upcoming commencement
addresses. Such language should be as non-legalistic, but reassuring,
as possible.
3. If the latter is intended, we need a very different kind
of document, covering the following five points:
A. Formal contractual relations with a
university for a research project.
B. Formal contractual relations with an
individual consultant employed by a university.
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C. Informal exploitation of academic ex-
pertise by CIA analysts directly or through
DCD.
D. CIA recruitment policy at universities
carefully, balancing the needs for candor and openness against the
requirements of our intelligence interests.
4. Specifically addressing your draft, there is considerable
confusion as between organized, structured, or "team" projects, on
the one hand, and individual relations with consultants on the other.
Some of the observations apply to the first part, not the second,
and vice versa. We would suggest that a new draft make this dis-
tinction clear. For example, paragraph A on page 1 is clearly
talking about organized projects done in the institution or in co-
operation with the institution; paragraph C on page 2 could be
talking about individual consultants. Both are lumped together,
though different principles surely apply. The same could be said
of paragraph D on page 3.
5. We further urge deletion of a certain amount of gra-
tuitous matter. Thus the last sentence of paragraph D on page 3
promises the CIA will not seek to affect the content of a teaching
course. Similarly, paragraph E on page 3 says it will not try to
influence the results of research. Do these disavowals really have
to be made? They create impressions of evil intent, the avoidance
of which should go without saying. A similar effect arises in
paragraph F page 4; does anyone think the CIA would try to force a
university or an individual into this kind of service involuntarily?
6. Our next comment is more of a question and relates to
paragraph C page 2. Do we really want to ask the President's office
of every university to pass on every Agency relationship with every
professor. There may be cases where both sides desire this, but
there also may be cases where neither would want it. We can well
imagine some professors and some college administrators wanting very
much not to subject themselves to this kind of discipline. If any-
thing has to be said on this subject, it should be much looser and
more optional.
Guidelines covering these five issues will have to be drawn ver
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REMARKS:
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