SAFEGUARD FOR SCHOLARSHIP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100300049-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 1998
• Sequence Number: 49
• Publication Date: May 3, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Patio Pa0 Paga
,VIINS'lUN-SALEM, NC
;xVPIN CITY SENTINEL
~E. 42,003
MAY 3 1966
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C Saf ezuaul or SchOlal ship
PFI'RGHT ~.
SENATOR FULBRIGHT has certainly mous "Mr. X" article on containment in
raised a proper question in asking . a 1947 edition of Foreign Affairs, the
,whether the Central Intelligence Agency reader was at least forewarned that the
,should let one of its analysts present his author's identity and connections could
views as independent scholarship without not be disclosed. As a result, the article
his CIA connection being noted. could be evaluated accordingly.
With scholars moving in and out of
The case in point is an article in the government service as they do nowadays,
current issue of Foreign Affairs quarter- it may be difficult to assess their inde-
ly by George A. Carver Jr., a specialist pendence with any exactitude under the
,on Viet Nam. The editors of Foreign Af- best of circumstances. But one of the best
fairs do not identify Mr. Carver as a gov- safeguards is that they identify them-
,ernment employe at all, though they men- selves and their connections as fully as
lion his academic background and some possible when doing serious, scholarly ar-
previous connections. ticles for respected and influential pub-
-When George. Kennan wrote his fa- lications
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