DDI RELATIONS WITH ACADEMIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00985R000300080025-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 14, 2001
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: April 27, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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27 April 1977
MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant for Public Affairs
THROUGH Special Assistant to the DDI
FROM Assistant Coordinator for Academic Relations and
External Analytical Support
REFERENCE Executive Secretary's 20 April 1977 Memo, Topics
for DCI Cabinet Meeting
1. The DDI has developed diverse, mutually beneficial relationships
with academia and is striving to expand those ties. Academics serve as
consultants, providing alternative analytical views, critiques of analysis,-
and suggestions of research areas that warrant attention. Dr. Myron Rush,
a Soviet specialist from Cornell University, is currently with the Agency
as a Scholar-in-Residence, and efforts are underway to institutionalize
and expand the Scholar-in-Residence program.
2. Academics are invited to the Agency to discuss intelligence rele-
vant issues with analysts in informal sessions, seminars, and conferences.
Analysts also maintain their productive ties.with their academic colleagues
by attending and participating in professional seminars and meetings. In
1976 286 analysts attended 136 such sessions. In addition, unclassified
DDI products are made available to academics through a variety of channels,
including regular mailings from the Academic Coordinator and various office
components.
3. The Intelligence Directorate regularly hosts visits by academic
groups, providing both general and substantive briefings. A total of 190
academic visitors have already been briefed this year. DDI analysts also
respond to requests to lecture on college campuses. (Forty-three such
requests were answered last year.)
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4. Pockets of opposition to association with the Agency still exist
in some parts of the academic community. The Cornell student protests
triggered by Dr. Rush's sabbatical and the sm7.i.l--scale Brooklyn College
faculty opposition to Professor Michael Selzer's.brief contact with the
Agency were both well publicized in the media. The right of both men to
associate with the Agency was supported by their respective university
administrations, however. Harvard University's recently drafted guide-
lines regarding faculty relationships with the Agency could be a more
serious problem. If adopted, they could greatly restrict any mutually
beneficial contacts with the Harvard community and serve as a model for
other universities. Senior Agency representatives have discussed the
implications of the guidelines with Harvard officials, and the latter
are presently considering the Agency's concerns.
5. Despite problem areas like the above, the hostility characterizing
the academic community's attitude toward the Agency in the 1960's is
dissipating. It is being replaced by a recognition that both the intelli-
gence and academic communities profit from productive exchanges of views
and information.
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