FREEDOM STUDIES CENTER -- A BIG STEP TOWARD CLOSING COLD WAR EDUCATION GAP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200670010-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 3, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN

CONGRESSIONAL RECOED
OCT 3 1966 '
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[From the Washington (D.C.) Sunday $t&I ' Department's opposition, the bills regularly
October 2, 19661 .7 went to s:ecp in committee.
A GREAT CONCEPT: FREEDOM STUDIES CENTER' Then the Idea developed-and it was a
(By James J. Kilpatrick) better idea in every way-for the proposed
Academy to be brought Into being with
BOSTON, VA,-The tiny community of urivate funds. The Institute for American
uap in small groups at nrst-25 or 30 at a time--'
for seminars of a few days or a few weeks.'
EXTENSION OF REMARKS Twenty-eight congressional aides came as r.,
from Culpeper. On to the west lie Scrab-., organizations offered their support. To date!.
ble, Woodville, Sperryville, and 'Little Weal' nearly $000,000 has been donated or pledged
ington," and beyond Lllern lie the Blue Ridge by leading foundations, corporations and in-
Mountains. Boston thus Is situated in the dividuals. A long-range goal has been set
midst of the most beautiful 200 square miles - of $11 million. The land and the manor
in the world, if not in the universe, but until house are bought and paid for. The Center
last Sunday this wide space on Route 522 is now an institution in being.
had no other distinction. The congressional aides who came here for
Now Boston, Va., is on the map. If plans the shaked Iwn seminar heard a dozen cold
of the Institute for American Strategy come war experts-Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Dr. Eleanor
to fulfillment-and these plans already are Dulles, Walter Judd, Allen Dulles. They.'
far along-the Institute's now "Freedom heard Dr. Frederick Barghoorn, of Yale, on..'
Studies Center" at Boston one day may be- "Soviet Propaganda with Special Reference
come as well known in its field as the Naval to Peace and Disarmament Themes." Two
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11 emy at West Point. The Center, dedicated a Maritime Union gave them Insight on the-'
week ago, has but a single purpose: It is to' cold war at sea. By the time the seminar
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now as much of the ended,. their heads were bursting with new
tactics and strategy of communism as pros- understanding of the pivotal struggle of this
strategy of naval warfare. -~ +
., Not one nickel of "CIA money," or any
Toward this end, the Institute for Amer-.1 other government money, has gone Into Io
lean Strategy some months ago acquired a ) 'Freedom Stitilics Center, T Is ntenc1 o
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671-acre tract of land in Culpeper County,. 1 the voluntary contr ution of a voluntary
-a mile or so from the wide "space known as society toward its own survival. The scholars
Boston. The property includes an impres-.? and officials who are Invited to come here will
sive atone mansion that risen out of the hills , come at their own expense, or on Founda-
as naturally as a granite boulder. From its , ?tion grants, And because the Center is not
I courtyard, one may look to the Hazel River, an agency of government, it will be free to
i plunging over rapids far below. In the pursue the study of freedom and communism,,
middle distance
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green mountain meadows. On beyond are it is a great concept in terms of the total
the soft and silent mountains, slate blue and struggle between West and East as solid'
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dark blue, and still darker blue. Here the ' ,
the distant mountains, as cleax'and cold as
".crateiy as any ?rnorcau at Walden Pond. ~
They could have established their Freedom
Studies Center smack in the middle of Big
Washington or In some glass hutch on the'
Hudson. But their conviction is that men
who would master great ideas need some
measure of great tranquility to grasp them
HON. DANTE B. FASCELL such group may be chosen from industrili
leaders, then from professors of history anrl_
OF FLORIDA political science, In time, as a prospective'
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES building program moves ahead,. most of the
full-time students (about 400 i
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Monday, October 3, 1966
graduate students chosen from participating;.'
days ago, I had the privilege of partici- It is, why the West must preserve It, how the'
gating in the dedication of the Freedom . East would twist freedom into slavery. .
This is training in psycho-political war-i
Studies Center: a novel and important fare. For those closest to the project, it is
educational institution being established a dream coming true.
near Boston, Va. More than eight years ago, a group in
Sponsored by more than 50 leading' Orlando, Fla., headed by Alan G-. Grant, Jr.,.
educational and other organizations, the perceived the need for an academy that'
center is an embodiment of an imagina-. would train key men In government, in the
tive private response to an urgent pub- armed services, in academia, And in private
lie nprd, life in certain non-military aspects of Com-s
munist aggression. They envisioned a gov-
The purpose of the center, its goals and ernment-financed academy, patterned genet-
its program, are described eloquently in ally after West Point and Annapolis,
day in Washington's Sunday Star. and Senate bills, sponsored by members of:
Mr. Speaker, I believe that Mr. Kil- Congress from across the political spectrum:.
article will Senators FoNa, Keating, DovoLAs, PRORMIRE,'.
patrick's prove of consider- LAUSCrI>c, DODD, HlcrcENLOOPUe, Goldwater,
able interest to other : Members..,of .MUNDT. The range was as wide In the House.
Congress: But. under the wet blankets of - the Stats
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