SECRET ROLE FOR SCIENTISTS IS DEPLORED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000101090001-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 12, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 18, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release @ 50-Yr 2014/03/19: CIA-RDP73-00475R000101090001-6
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. Se i Such actions, Ile said, are
ecret.Rot .
:creating suspicion of '
;scientistsin many overseas,
.For Sdentists 'countries. "We have havd.
the confidence of the people
? . we're studying ? this is ob-
is Deplored .sp.lutely imperative ? and we
:can't get it if they think we're
? ? By Henry W. Pierce /spies," he said.
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, "In some e o r i es," he
i sneciai.to The washinzten rc:.: :added, "you can't get per-,
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 17?A mission to do researth unlessi
university social scientist you are affiliated with one of ?!,? ;
'charged today that many their own research organiza-, ..;
!members of his, ? profession tions."
?"are knowingly ,or unknow- He pointed out that for the?
?Ingly acting in full or part- United States Government to
time as Government intelli- :hire anthropologists to pro-;.
? ..gence agents." ? vide data on cultures was? ????,,.?
He warned that it could do i"perfectly acceptable." But
.long-range harm to the profes.! called for disclosure of the
.sion as foreign countries re- sponsoring group and even ??
strict field work:. -disclosure of the purposes of
The scientist, anthropoln- the research. ?
gist 'Ralph Beals of the Uni- The entire problem was
'versity of California at Les brought into focus last year: ?
, ?Angeles, recently completed a when the Army's controversial.
Nation-wide study that is ex- $4-million Project Camelot, ?
pected to serve as a basis for .study of "insurgency and count-.
:discussion by the American ter-insurgency" in Chile, was
? 'Anthropological Association widely criticized and eventually;
at its four7clay .meeting here., canceled. ?
? Guidelines to be drafted by Project :Camelot, which was'....'
the group are to be made pub?to be implemented by the Soo, ;1-?
:lie late Saturday or Sunday. cial Operations Reserch
Beals, said he believes some ganization?centered at Atner1.,'
anthropologists are being "se- ? can University in Washington,i
? duced into undercover work"; was designed to show how
.by offers of grants from :munists capitalize On , revolua.';'?
phony foundations?"from or-; tionary ? ehange;;In;. deVeloping:
garilzations who need informa-;.countries. ,;:f.k ?
tion, although they . are not.
:necessarily related to govern-
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;merit." And he said it is not;
just the Central.. Intelligence..
Agency they are ?working for,
. ;although he ,de.elined.,to:name,:
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