SUPPORT FOR THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SOVIET AND EAST EUROPEAN RESEARCH

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• Publication Date: September 16, 1985
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CONFIDENTIAL
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DDI 404583-85
16 September 1985
NOTE T0: ADDI '
D/BONA
NIO/USSR
FROM Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT: Support for the National Council for Soviet and
East European Research
I received the attached letter last Friday. NCSEER is on
the hunt for money again. I'm inclined to think that this is a
worthwhile investment -- at least up to a oint. Please con
the ched. I will schedule a meeting
to discuss where we go with this.
Attachment:
As stated
DDI/RMGates
DISTRIBUTION:
1 - each addressee
1 - DDI Registry
1 - DDI Action Log
1 - DDI Chrono
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THE NATIONAL COUNCIL
FOR SOVIET AND EAST EUROPEAN RESEARCH
Edward L. Keenan Suite 304
Chairn~an, Board of Trustees 1755 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Vladimir I. Toumanoff Washington, D.C. 20036
Executi~cae Dirertar [phone]
September 11 1985
The Honorable Robert Gates
Deputy Director
The Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505
This letter is about Soviet studies in the United States. I
am moved to write by the support you have given that field, in-
cluding major contributions to this Council since 1981 for both
its national research program and the Soviet emigre survey. I
also remember well our breakfast discussion with you and Admiral
Inman about the "Soviet-Eastern European Research and Training
Act" when that legislation was introduced by Senators Lugar and
Biden and Congressmen Hamilton and Simon, and your help in
getting the bill passed. What prompts this letter now is the
Council's experience in the first few months of work under that
AC t .
Congress appropriated $4.8 million for the Act this fiscal
year, and of that sum the Department of State granted the Coun-
cil $1,150,000 for postdoctoral research projects. In response
to an announcement that gave only short notice to the profes-
sion, the Council received 148 proposals from 102 institutions
in 33 states. The total value of the proposed research was some
$13.4 million, $9.6 million of which were requested from the
Council, with the balance contributed in cost-sharing by the
applicant institutions. By careful selection an8 draconian
budget cuts, we have managed to fund 28 projects, but have had
to turn down 120, with an estimated total value of nearly $11
million. The gap between opportunity and resources under the
Act is manifest, and disturbing in several ways.
It means that a great deal of useful research by competent
scholars and graduate students will not be done, published, or
taught in the classrooms of the country. That rate of rejection '
also puts at risk the Council's continuing ability to mobilize a
BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Herbert J. Ellison; Sheila Fitzpatrick; David Joravsky; Allen H. Kassof; Edward L. Keenan (Chairman); An
Korbonski; Herbert S. Levine; Leon S. Lipson (Vice Chairman); Paul Marer; Alfred G. Meyer; Marshall D. Shulman; Vladimir I. Toumanott;
Laura D'Andrea Tyson; Richard S. Wortman
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The Honorable Robert Gates
September 11, 1985
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national academic research effort on the USSR and Eastern Europe
on an agenda developed with the Government. What is most
disturbing is that the scale of disapointment is so high and so
widely spread across the country that it is likely to discourage
more gifted people from staying in the field, or from entering
it, than the awards are likely to inspire commitments to it. To
the extent that is the case, the net effect of our first round
under the Act may be the opposite of its principal purpose.
The picture is not as bleak as the raw numbers. Not all, by
far, of the proposals and applicants were worth supporting. But
if we assume, correctly in my view, that half were on signif-
icant topics by serious scholars, and if their budgets could be
cut by 25$, the Council and the profession could have put to ex-
cellent use some $2.5 million more than were available. If we
assume further that next year the Council will receive only 100
proposals instead of 148, the opportunity and need will still be
for $1.5-2 million more than can be hoped for under the Act.
This fiscal year the Central Intelligence Agency's contribu-
tion to the Council's national research program was discontinued
because funding under the Act was expected to be sufficient.
Our expectation has turned out to be mistaken, and my request,
on behalf of the Board of Trustees, is that the CIA resume its
support in Fiscal Year 1986. I have enclosed a list of the
projects we had to turn down, not because I think very many of
the better ones could be revived next year, but as an illustra-
tion of the national potential.
I should add a few words about what may be obvious. When
all granting institutions and government contracts seek to fund
only "the best", a few well known scholars are stretched too
thin, while the field of Soviet studies as a whole declines
further. Like any other profession, to survive it requires a
competent critical mass, many workhorses for every jumper. The
Council, with federal funds, bridges two worlds, the consumer
institutions seeking the best possible and most useful written
research product and the academic field at large which sorely
needs investment in its intellectual capital through support for
research. The Government and the academic community jointly
created the Council to make that investment on a national scale,
as well'as to provide a research product.
A corollary of that broad purpose is that, like other
capital investment, some of it yields remarkably (a Boris
Rumer), most of it performs respectably, and some of it is
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The Honorable Robert Gates
September 11, 1985
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lost. I know that both the Council and the Government have been
disappointed in the quality of some of our research reports (al-
though subsequent books and articles are better), and few of
them measure up to the product of the best in-house research ins-
titutions such as the CIA or Rand. Unlike these, our work is
done by individuals, many of them young and unknown, scattered
all over the country. We are sustaining and training a national
cadre, the best of whom can be, and have been, picked up and
honed by the Government and the Rands. We cannot duplicate
their in-house quality control procedures, and our reports will
rarely measure up to the standards they set. Resumed funding by
the Agency, however, would permit the Council to employ a re-
search director whose sole function would be to ensure the
quality of our reports. He would work directly, and through our
Trustees, with the scholars we fund, from the design of their
projects right through to their end products. That is a
"luxury" we have never allowed ourselves in the face of the des-
parate need of the profession for research funds. With stable
funding for larger numbers of projects it would become a neces-
sity.
I have spoken
about all of this, and would be glad to work with any or all of
them if you think this course is worth pursuing.
Sincerely yours,
Vladimir I. Toumanoff
STAT
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PROPOSALS NOT FUNDED UNDER TITLE VIII
IN JUNE 1985 COMPETITION
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Anatomy of Soviet Jurisprudence: Questions of Legality and
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Appearance and Reality: Contradictions in the Reform Process in
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Art of Solidarity Exhibition
Atlantic Alliance and Eastern Europe
Bibliography of Soviet Philosophy on Computer
Career Path of the Soviet Naval Officer
Causes of Change in the Industrial Production Patterns of GDR
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Central Asia: The Military/Strategic Dimension
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Conference "Soviet Education Policy in the Ukrainian SSR"
Conference and Volume - 1956 and East Europe
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Database of Soviet Scientific, Industrial, and Military Personnel
and Institutions
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Eastern Europe and the West
Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union: The Intrabloc Diversity
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Economics of the Soviet Defense Sector
Effect of Subsidies on the Measurement and Assessment of the
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Effects of Domestic Reforms and External Disturbances on Economic
Performance in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia
Effects of Economic Reform on Industrial Production in the USSR
Empirical Analysis of Soviet Policy Priorities: A KU Databank
Encyclopedia of Communist Atrocities
Engineering-Economic Analysis of Case Studies of Innovation and
Technical Adaptation in Soviet Railway Freight Transportation
Experimental Production in the USSR
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Future of Sino-Soviet Relations Amidst the Transition in
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Independent National Consciousness in the USSR and Some East
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Intervention for and against Communism in the Third World
Laser Disc Information Source for Instruction in Russian Culture
Legal Status of Foreigners under Soviet Law
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Migration, Ethnicity, and Religious Allegiances in Yugoslavia's
(Political) Future
Models of Early Childhood Education in East European Countries
Motive Forces in Soviet Politics
National Conference on the Status of the Study of Czechoslovakia
Nationalities Papers
Nature and Economic Consequences of Cooperative Sectors in
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Nazi-Soviet Non-Agression Pact of 1939 and Its Historical
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New Developments in Soviet International Communication
Nuclear Escalation Management in Soviet Military Policy
On the History of Genetics & Darwinism in the U.S.S.R.
Organization of Scientific Research and its Application in the
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Oscar Jaszi Memorial Confrence: Nationalism, Minorities and the
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Pakhtakor Affair, The
Patterns of Local Implementation of Public Policies in Post-Tito
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Patterns of Stability in Soviet Society
Poland: The Military Solution
Policy-making in Communist States: The Politics of Manpower
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Political Succession and Dynastic Socialism: A Study in the
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Politics of Force: Soviet and American Military Intervention in
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Pricing of Soviet Weapons: Learning Curve Adjustments
Problems of Risk as Mirrored by Soviet Culture
Propaganda vs Journalism: The Press in Poland Based on the
Experience of the Weekly Kultura
Pushkin's Black Heritage
RASP (Russian Works on Asia and the Pacific): A Data Base
Recent Soviet Developments: The Dissemination of Research on
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Research Using State Standards Information to Analyze Soviet
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Role of Soviet Research Institutes in Policy Formulation: The
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Role of the KGB in the Soviet Political System
Russian Civilization Media Resource
Second Economies in Eastern Europe: An Anthropological Approach
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Social Stratification in East Central Europe: Processes, Trends,
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Soviet Economic Experiments
Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1980's: Problems and Perspectives:
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Soviet Interbasin Water Transfer Projects
Soviet Military Buildup in the Far East
Soviet Perceptions of Long-Term Soviet-American Relations
Soviet Policies in Asia
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Stalin Question & Soviet Marxism, 1953-1969
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Summer Institute: Internal Problems of the Soviet Union
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Textual Analysis Facility for Soviet & East European Studies and
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Transition from the Party State to the Military State in Poland
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U.S.-Soviet Economic Relations
U.S.S.R. Bilateral Scientific and Technical Exchanges and their
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