REQUEST TO ATTEND AGENCY SEMINAR AND ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01495R001100080039-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 19, 2005
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: February 3, 1975
• Content Type: MF

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3 February 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: Associate Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT . Request to Attend Agency Seminar and
Annual Conference of Association for
Asian Studies
1. Since November I have been working with the
Coordinator for Academic Relations on the Agency sponsored
seminar which is now being planned for the two days prior
to the opening of the annual conference of the Association
for Asian Studies. I request permission to take part in
this seminar and to attend the conference.
2. Both at the Conference and in the off-the-record
seminar discussions, I will not discuss classified in-
formation nor will I touch on any aspect of U.S. policy.
As in earlier professional association activities, I will
be identified at this conference as an employee of CIA. I
am a member of the Association for Asian Studies.
Office of Political Research
International Functional Staff
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_ .. January l5, l975 ;
You are cordially invited to attend the 27th Annual. Meeting of the Associa.tior..,;?
for Asian Studies. This year the meeting will be held at the San Francisco,
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Hilton Hotel in San Francisco from March ?24-26..:
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The Program: ,Committee, ably chaired ,by Professor David Titus, feels confident ?
that it has prepared a series of panels which reflect a balance: between the
humanities and social sciences and between the pre-modern and modern. -- Several
panels are inter-disciplinary. There will be panels i for example, dealing-..'
with "Pollution in Japan,": "Love in Traditional Asian Literature, it "South
Indian Temples and Goddesses," "Early Chinese History: The Archaeological.
Record. in. Tombs and on Bone and Stone," "Women in Buddhism," "Businessmen In
Asia," "Chinese Political Culture in the Early Modern Period," "The Green
Revolution in Southeast Asia," "Popular I'isconceptions' about the Population
. is India: Demography for . the- Non-Technical Listener," !'Asia and the 33omb : ;.. :.
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Styles of ,Leadership in Liberated
I'.ications of Nuclear Proli.feration,
Korrea:.. atriots, Populists, and Revolutionaries," and ."Toward A .Definition.
of Modern Japanese Poetry."
Professors Richard Kozicki and Kenneth Logan, Chairperson and Vice- Chaixperso
respectively, of the Local, Arrangements Committee have done an excelleat,job
in organizing special events for AAS members attending the San Francisco
meeting. Special events currently planned include a cocktail-reception. at the
Asian Art 'Museum (Brundage Collection) in Golden, Gate Park on Tuesday, March 25th.
This event, made possible by the generous assistance of the Asian Art Commission,
The Asia Foundation, the University of San Francisco, and various Asian-American
organizations in the San Francisco Bay area, will be held in conjunction with
a special Southeast Asia art exhibit at the museum..- On Sunday, March 23rd,
there also will be a South Indian and Southeast Asian? (Indonesian gamelan)
nusic and dance performance arranged. by the Center for World Music and Related :._
Arts of the American Society for Eastern Arts.
The following details are provided for your information.
XNNU_AL ELECTION
The ballot for the annual election of the Association's Vice-President, Board
of Directors, and Regional Council members is enclosed. PLEASE RETURN THE BALLOT
BY MARCH 14.
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Included with the ballot is a biographical data sheet on the candidates, as well
as inforaat~klr4aY~~xri~t~iR~52~ict9if~~RSd~Q"I~Ql~~3fla~1 Councils.
We hope you find this information helpful in making your candidate, selections.