THE UNIVERSITY AND THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400190047-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2000
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: April 19, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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1 8-The Post & Times?Ster
Cincinnati, Tues., April 19, 1966
The Cincinnati Post
and Times-Star
A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER
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DICK THORNBURG SHIEL DUNSKEP
Editor Business Manager
?Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way
The University and the CIA
We are not sure what Sen. Fred Harris of'Okla-
homa is talking about because we are not sure he
knows what he is talking about.
The senator in a home-state speech said categori-
cally there should be "no use or- infiltration what-
soever" by the Central Intelligence Agency in uni-
versity research projects sponsored abroad by our
government.
This flap all stems from a revelation that in 1959
some CIA employes were used by Michigan State
University in fulfilling a government contract to
assist the Vietnamese government in beefing up its
police.
The government frequently hires university people
to advise foreign governments which request. the
advice.
Now if the CIA fellows could provide the best ad-
vice, there is nothing wrong with that.
If the CIA people are as expert as they are cracked
up to be they should be used anywhere they can do
the job. It would be a mistake to send CIA agents
into a friendly country to re-arrange the local gov-
ernment. But when a friendly country asks for
help we should provide them with the best, whether
the people come from the CIA or a university or
anywhere else.
Sen. Harris said the CIA should be forbidden to
use any university mission as a "cover" for its op-
erations abroad. It is by no means clear this was the
case in Viet Nam. But if it is necessary and useful
to obtain pertinent information, we see nothing
wrong with the CIA using whatever "cover" is con-
venient and effective. Otherwise it wouldn't amount
to much.
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