LETTER TO (SANITIZED) FROM ROBERT M. GATES

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2011
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: April 21, 1986
• Content Type: LETTER

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The Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
Washington, D. C. 20505
21 April 1986
STAT
I was delighted to receive your letter last month and
thank you for bringing me up to date on what you have been
doing. I especially appreciated your very kind sentiments
going back to Wright Quad. You may be interested to know
that my debt to the men of Wright Quad and Elliot House is
far greater than anyone can imagine. When the unit
planned a hayride in the spring of 1966, I was in
Washington interviewing with CIA and to meet the
requirement that I have a woman counselor as my date, the
unit arranged a blind date. My date that night has now
been my wife for almost 20 years.
Thanks again for writing. It was good to hear from
you.
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March 04, 1986
Mr. Robert M. Gates
Deputy Director for Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
care of Office of Public Affairs
Washington, D.C. 20505
When I picked up the Chronicle of Higher Education last week and saw
the name "Robert M. Gates" and Central Intelligence Agency on the
same page it brought back nearly twenty-year old memories. After
all, how many people have I met, aside from the Wright Quadrangle
(Elliot House) Residence Advisor of 1965-1966, who went by the
name of Robert M. Gates?
I checked with the CIA and they confirmed that you had a degree from
William & Mary AND Indiana University, so you must be the one and
only Bob Gates who lived next to me for the first nine months of
my initial college experiences at Indiana University.
Some of the ideas and study habits I gleaned from you paid off
dearly for me after we all moved from Wright Quad. over to Wilkie
Quad. I stayed at Wilkie for the rest of my undergraduate years at
Indiana. I spent the next two years in married housing while I
was in the MBA Program.
It has been about eight years since I was back at I.U. I believe
that Wright Quad. is now co-ed. The place looks very much the
same as if time had no effect (nor the residents) on the structure.
I have not maintained any relationships with our original crew from
Wright Quad. We scattered upon graduation. Two years ago, my wife
and I looked at the old I.U. yearbooks and had a few hours of
fun remembering the names with the faces, and of course the clothing
styles and haircuts, etc.
Your name and photograph brought back twenty years of now pleasant
memories of my early college experiences. These were life-shaping.
You played a part in this experience. After twenty years,I thought
it should be conveyed to you.
STAT
STAT
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A 6-month index
to The Chronicle
begins on Page 89.
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ew issues have changed the na-
of the civil-rights movement,
)tars say. Story on Page 6.
resident Reagan's proposal to
the benefits of the New GI Bill
met resistance in Congress. Sto-
n Page 14.
ublic colleges in Louisiana are
ig criticism of their programs
governance. Story on Page 14.
he Education Department has
ased its controversial annual
dl chart" of state education sta-
rs. Story on Page 34.
plan to close the University of
)nto's architecture school has
ned faculty members and stu-
.s. Story on Page 37.
hilippine students staged a ral-
'c low) in Manila to protest Amer-
i support for President Ferdinand
-cos. Story on Page 37.
EIRONICLE
ligher Education
`A STEP FORWARD'
CIA Eases Stand on Research Role;
Scholars Cautiously Welcome Shifts
By ANGUS PAUL
The Central Intelligence Agency has
made changes in its policies that could
result in fewer scholars' having to sub-
mit manuscripts for prepublication re-
view and in more scholars' being able to
acknowledge publicly the agency's role
in their work.
"We have decided that our interest in
obtaining the cooperation of this coun-
try's scholars and allaying the misun-
derstan I uspicions that have
out of our earl[ appr ach war-
ms at least some change i our poli-
," Robert M. Gates, the .I.A.'s dep-
pane ussio arvard Universii
ty's John F. Kennedy School of Gov-
ernment.
"Accordingly, C.I.A. will henceforth
permit acknowledgment of our funding
of research that is later independently
published by a scholar unless (1) the
scholar requests privacy or (2) we de-
termine that formal, public association
of C.I.A. with a specific topic or subject
The text of Robert Gates's statement
on the Central Intelligence Agency's re-
lations with academe begins on Page 26.
would prove damaging to the United
States."
Scholars generally welcomed the
shift but emphasized that it did not elim-
inate potential conflicts between aca-
demic freedom and C.I.A.-supported re-
search.
The revisions constitute "a step for-
ward," John Shattuck, vice-president
for government, community, and public
affairs at Harvard, said in an inter-
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Volume XXX!, Number. 24
JOE wRINN
CIA's Robert M. Gates at Harvard:
"The university cannot prosper and
protect freedom of inquiry oblivious
to the fortunes of the nation."
Faculty-Salary Systems Are Strained as Colleges Try
to Hire and Retain Professors in Competitive Fields
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