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• Publication Date: February 10, 1966
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FREEDOM STUDIES CENTER
The Private Freedom Academy
Administered by
Institute for American Strategy
Executive Offices 130 North Wells
Chicago, Illinois 60606
Washington Liason Office 1733 R Street, N. W.
Washington, D. C.
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REAR ELEVATION OF THE MANOR
THE FREEDOM STUDIES CENTER
The Freedom Studies Center is located near Boston, Virginia in surroundings
unsurpassed for scenic beauty yet only 1V2 hours from Washington, D. C.
The everchanging panorama of color presented by the great Blue Ridge
Mountains is in close view from the 671 acre campus.
The present campus is ideal for seminars and week-end retreats. It has a
23 room manor, 2 smaller houses, 4 barns, swimming pool, tenni: courts,
miles of bridle paths and 3 miles of bass fishing on the Hazel River.
Plans for the campus include building a library, classrooms and dormitories
for year-round use.
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The American Legion.
American Military Institute
American Security Council
Bradley University, School of International Studies
Claremont Ments College
Committee of One Million
Cook County (Illinois) Schools
Florida Department of Education
Illinois Institute of Technology
International Association of Chiefs of Police, Inc.
International House
Kansas Department of Public Instruction
Kansas State University
LeMoyne College, Department of History and Political Science
Massachusetts Department of Education
The Military Order of the World Wars
University of Southern Mississippi
National Captive Nations Committee
Nebraska Department of Education
North Central College
Northeastern University
Norwich University
Oregon State Department of Education
University of Plano
C. W. Post College, Long ISland. University
Saint Cloud State College
Saint Procopius College
San Antonio College
Texas Education Agency
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INITIAL COOPERATING AGENCIES
The American Legion
American Military Institute
American Security Council
Claremont Merits College
Committee of One Million
Cook County (Illinois) Schools
Illinois Institute of Technology
International Association of Chiefs of Police, Inc.
International House
Kansas Department of Public Instruction
LeMoyne College, Department of History and Political Science
Massachusetts Department of Education
The Military Order of the World Wars
National Captive Nations Committee
North Central College
Northeastern University
Saint Cloud State College
Saint Procopius College
Texas Education Agency
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ADVISORY BOARD
Senate
Hon. Thomas J. Dodd (D. Connecticut) Co-Chairman
Hon. Karl E. Mundt (R. South Dakota) Co-Chairman
Hon. J. Caleb Boggs (R. Delaware)
Hon. Peter H. Dominick (R. Colorado)
Hon. Paul Douglas (D. Illinois)
Hon. Daniel K. Inouye (D. Hawaii)
Bon. Jack Miller (R. Iowa)
Hon. William Proxmire (D. Wisconsin)
Hon. Milward L. Simpson (R. Wyoming)
House of Representatives
Hon. Dante B. Fascell (D. Florida) Co-Chairman
Hon. Craig Hosrner (R. California) Co-Chairman
Hon. E. Ross Adair (R. Indiana)
Hon. John M. Ashbrook (R. Ohio)
Hon. James F. Battin (R. Montana)
Hon. James A. Burke (D. Massachusetts)
Hon. William G. Bray (R. Indiana)
Hon. Glenn Cunningham (R. Nebraska)
Hon. Edward J. Derwin.ski (R. Illinois)
Hon. William Jennings Bryan Dorn. (D. South Carolina)
Hon. Michael A. Feighan (D. Ohio)
Hon. Paul A. Fino (R. New York)
Hon. Daniel J. Flood (D. Pennsylvania)
Hon. W. R. Hull, Jr. (D. Missouri)
Hon. Richard H. Ichord (D. Missouri)
Hon. Edna F. Kelly (D.New York)
Hon. Clark MacGregor (R. Minnesota)
Hon'. John 0. Marsh, Jr. (D. Virginia)
Hon. Arch Alfred Moore, Jr. (R. West Virginia)
Hon. Thomas G. Morris (D. New Mexico)
Hon. Rogers C. B. Morton (R. Maryland)
Hon. Robert N. C. Nix (D. Pennsylvania)
Hon. Roman C. Pucinski (D. Illinois)
Hon. Dan Rostenkowski (D. Illinois)
Hon. Fernand J. St. Germain (D. Rhode Island)
Hon. Armistead I. Selden, jr. (D. Alabama)
Hon. Robert L. F. Sikes (D. Florida)
Hon. Burt L. Talcott (R. California)
Hon. Edwin E. Willis (D. Louisiana)
Hon. Clement 3. Zablocki (D. Wisconsin)
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ADVISORY BOARD (Cont.)
Governors
Hon. Otto Kerner (D. Illinois)
Hon. John H. Reed (R. Maine),
Hon. William H. Avery (R. Kansas)
Hon. Jack M. Campbell (D. New Mexico)
Hon. Mills E. Godwin, Jr. (D. Virginia)
Hon, Clifford P. Hansen (R. Wyoming)
Hon. Frank B. Morrison (D. Nebraska)
Hon. George W. Romney (R. Michigan)
Co-Chairman
Co-Chairman
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PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
John M. Fisher
President
Institute for American Strategy
Edward L. S. Arkema
Attorney At Law
Dr. James D. Atkinson
President, American Military Institute
Associate Professor of Government
Georgetown University
Dr. John S. Bailey
Assistant to the President.
Northeastern University
Dr. Lev E. Dobrinasky
Chairman
National Captive Nations Committee and.
Professor of Soviet Economics
Georgetown University
Dr. William Yandell Elliott
American University
Alan G. Grant, Jr.
Pre sident
Orlando Committee
Vice Admiral Elton W. Grenfell, USN (Ret.)
Dean M. H. Groves
Acting Dean of the Graduate School
Illinois Institute of Technology
L. Eldon James
National Commander
The American Legion
Frank J. Johnson
Foreign Editor
American Security Council Washington Report
Major General Edward G. Lansdale
Administrative Director, Freedom Studies Center
On leave of absence as Assistant to U. S. Ambassador
Lodge in Viet Nan-i
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PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE (Cont.)
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Luis Ma.-nrara
Executive Director
Truth About Cuba. Commit.t&e
David Martin
Assistant to Senator Thomas J. Dodd
Henry Mayers
Chairman
Cold War Council
Thomas Miller
Vice President
AB C TV
Dr. Nicholas Nyaradi
Director
School of International Studies
Bradley University
Dr. Gordon M. Patrick
Special Programs Director
Indiana University
Rufus C. Phillips, III
President
International Consultants, Inc.
Dr. Stefan T. Possony
Director of International Studies
Hoover Institution, Stanford University-
Dr. William H. Roberts -
Director
Institute of International Law and Re3.aticns
Catholic University of Aniic
The Honorable K. William Sticon Member of C..ongress
Stanley J. Tracy
Former Assistant Director
Federal Bureau of Investip,Ltion
James R. Wilson, Jr.
National. Security Director
The American Legion
Colonel i)ouovan P. US t
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ICAN
ii'uETtTurE FOR AMERICAN! STRATEGY
130 NOV; SI VVEL.L,7, STREET ? GHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60500 STATE 2-2346
John M. Fisher, President
and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. A. L. Schilling
Vice President
John G. Sevcik
Vice President
General Lawrence H. Whiting
Vice President
OFFICERS
Lenox R. Lohr
Secretary
Clarence Perry Oakes
Assistant Secretary
Henry Reenery
Treasurer
Charles H. G. Kimball
General Counsel
BOARD
Or. James E. Alien, .Jr,
Commissioner of Education
State of New York
Admiral Rawson Bennett
Retired Senior Vice President
Sangamo Electric Company
Dr. Myron Sloe, President
Florida Institute for Continuing
University Studies
Willard W. Brown, President
University Circle Research Center
Senator Thomas J. Dodd
United States Senate -
Harold F. Falk, President
The Falk Corporation
John M. Fisher, President
Institute for American Strategy
Patrick J. Frawley, Jr. ?
Chairman of the Board
Eyersharp, Inc.
Fred M. Gillies
Retired Chairman of the Board
Acme Steel Company
Or, Waiter H. Judd
Former Member of Congress
Ambassador James S. Kemper
Chairman of the Board
Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company
and Affiliated Companies
Governor Otto Kerner
Governor of Illinois
John B. Kilroy
John B. Kilroy Co.
Charles H. G. Kimball, Partner
Ashcraft, Olson, Beach,
Alexander & Edmonds
Allan B, Kline
Former President
American Farm Bureau
The Reverend Daniel W. Kucera, O.S.B.
Abbott, St. Procopius College
Lenox R.'Lohr, President
Museum of Science & Industry
The Very Rev. James F. Maguire, S. J.
President, Loyola University
General Howard T. Markey
Partner, Parker & Carter
Merrill C. Meigs
Former Vice President
The Hearst Corporation
The Very Rev, Comerford J. O'Malley, C.M.
Chancellor, DePaul University
OF DIRECTORS
Captain Clarence Perry Oakes, USNR (Ret.)
Special Projects Director
Institute for American Strategy
Ray Page
Superintendent of Public; Instruction
State of Illinois
Dr. Noble J. Puffer
Superintendent of Schools
Cook County, Illinois
Gordon W. Heed
Former Chairman of the Board
Texas Gulf Producing Co.
Henry Regnery, President
Henry Rognery Company
Henry Salyatori
Chairman of the Board
Western Geophysical
Company of America
Dr. Carl A. Sauer, President
American Institute for Foreign Trade
Richard M. Scaife
Vice President
T. Mellon and Sons
Or. A. L. Schilling, President
North Central College
John G. Sevcik, President
Burton-Dixie Corporation
John Slezak
Chairman of the Board
Kable Printing Company
Leonard Spacek
Managing Partner
Arthur Andersen & Co.
General Delmar T. Spivey
Superintendent
Culver Military Academy
D. A, Sullivan
Retired Conference Chairman
Institute for American Strategy
Orville Taylor, Partner
Taylor, Miller, Magner, Sprowl and Hutchings
General Douglas L. Weart
U.S. Army (Ret.)
General Lawrence H. Whiting
Vice Chairman of the Board
American Furniture Mart
Benjamin C. Willis
General Superintendent of
Chicago Schools
General Robert E. Wood
Retired Chairman of the Board
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Administrative Director - Major General Edward Lansdale *
Special
Special
Consultant to the President - Dr. James D. Atkinson
Assistant to the President - Dr. Brutus Coste
Major General Joseph H. Harper
USA Ret.
Special Projects Director - Clarence Perry Oakes
* on leave of absence as assistant to Ambassador .14.Q.616i.3idi Viet Nam
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EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY
Chairman
Dr. Myron Blee, President
Florida Institute for Continuing
University Studies
Dr. James E. Allen, Jr.
Commissioner of Education
State of New York
Professor Bower Aly
University of Oregon
Dr. James D. Atkinson
Professor of International Politics
Georgetown University
Thomas D. Bailey
Sept. of Public Instruction
State of Florida
Professor Frederick C. Barghoorn
Department of Government
Yale University
Lynn M. Bartlett
Sept. of Public Instruction
State of Michigan
Dr. Frederick Bellinger
Engineering Experiment Station
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. George C. S. Benson
President
Claremont Men's College
Or. Anthony T. Bouscaren
Deportment of History
LeMoyne College
Francis X. Bradley, Jr.
Asst. Dean, Graduate School
University of Notre Dame
Dr. Samuel M. Brownell
Superintendent of Public Schools
Detroit, Michigan
Professor Zbigniew BrzexInski
Director
Research Institute on
Communist Affairs
Columbia University
Dr. Kenneth D. Colegrove
Professor of Political Science
Long Island University
G. E. Cornwell
Director of Instruction
Danville, III., School System
Dr. Glenn S. Dumke
Chancellor
California State Colleges
Dr. J. W. Edgar
Commissioner of Education
Texas Education Agency
Professor R. Barry Farrell
Department of Political Science
Northwestern University
Dr. John H. Fischer, Pres.
Teachers College
Columbia University
Professor Ralph T. Fisher, Jr.
Director of Russian Language
and Area Studies
University of Illinois
Dr. John S. Gibson
Lincoln Filene Center
Tufts University
Lewis W. Gilfoy, Director
Secondary Schools Service
Indianapolis Public Schools
Dr. Richard P. Gousha
Supt. of Public Instruction
State of Delaware
Dr. M. H. Groves
Acting Dean, Graduate School
Illinois Institute of Technology
Dr. Ernest van den Haag
New York University
Dr. Harold F. Harding
Department of Speech
University of California
Dr. James R. Hayden
Asst. Sept. of Schools
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Reverend Cletus Healy, S. J.
Marquette University H. S.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Dr. E. E. Holt
Supt. of Public Instruction
State of Ohio
Dr. Erling M. Hunt, Chairman
Teaching of Social Studies Dept.
Teachers College
Columbia University
Dr. Owen B. Kiernan
Commissioner of Education
State of Massachusetts
Dr. Evron Kirkpatrick
Executive Director
American Political Science Assn,
Or, Joseph Leese
Professor of Education
State University of New York
Dr. Kurt L. London, Director
institute for Sino?Soviet Studies
George Washington University
Thaddeus J. Lubera
Associate Superintendent
Chicago Public Schools
Dr. Jack Mears, President
Cerritos College
Norwalk, California
The Reverend Brian McGrath, S.J.
Academic V.P.
Georgetown University
Rt. Rev. Msgr. William R.
McManus, Superintendent
Archdiocese of Chicago
School Board
Chicago, Illinois
L. S. Michael, Superintendent
Evanston Township High School
Evanston, Illinois
Dr. Floyd A. Miller
Commissioner of Education
State of Nebraska
Dr. Leon P. Minear
Supt. of Public Instruction
State of Oregon
COMMITTEE
Dr. Gerhart Niemeyer
Department of Political Science
University of Notre Dome
The Very Rev. Comerford
J. O'Malley, C. M. Chancellor
DePaul University
Dr. Stefan T. Possony
Hoover institution on War,
Revolution, and Peace
Stanford University
Noble J. Puffer
Superintendent
Cook County, Illinois Schools
Dr. Max Rafferty
Supt. of Public Instruction
and Director of Education
State of California
Dr. William J. Reid
Coordinator of Civic Education
School Committee, Boston
Professor Julius Reeler
Graduate School
Loyola University
Dr. Angus B. Rothwell
Supt. of Public Instruction
State of Wisconsin
Dr. Edwin P. Shahan, Director
Institute on Communism and
Constitutional Democracy
Vanderbilt University
Dr. James H. Smith
Deputy Superintendent
Chicago Public Schools
Dr. Paul B. Smith, Secretory
International Relations Com.
National Education Association
Molar General Delmar T. Spivey
Superintendent
Culver Military Academy
Adel F. Throckmorton
Sept. of Public Instruction
State of Kansas
Dr. D. W. Tieszen
Dean of Instruction
Central Missouri State College
Dr. Richard L. Walker, Chairman
Dept. of International Studies
University of South Carolina
Dr. Kenneth R. Whiting
Research Studies Institute
Air University
Dr. Lee Wilborn
Asst. Commissioner of Instruction
Texas Education Agency
Dr. Benjamin C. Willis
General Sept. of Schools
Chicago, Illinois
Or. A. M. Woodruff, Dean
George Washington University
School of Government
R. Burl Yarberry
Supt. of Public Instruction
State of Hawaii
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I. FREEDOM STUDIES CENTER
The degree of Communist successes in the Cold War can be traced in
large measure to a serious gap in our own educational processes. The
Communist Bloc operates more than 6,000 schools which teach psycho-
political warfare. The United States has not even one comparable school.
Thus in the Cold War struggle a revolving number of at least 150,000
specially trained Communist professionals are ranged against a relative
handful of informally trained amateurs (and. a few qualified professionals
who have learned on the job).
Since 1959, every session of Congress has considered establishing a
Freedom Academy to turn out finished professionals in psycho-political
warfare just as the United States ..Military Academy provides the nation
with professionals in military warfare. It is hoped that a Freedom
Academy Bill will eventually be passed, but there has also been growing
hi-partisan awareness that the private sector must help close this edu-
cational gap whether a government operated Freedom Academy is estab-
lished or not.
To meet this need, representative educational institutions and national
organizations are establishing a private freedom academy as a joint venture
under the administration of the Institute for American Strategy. It is called
the Freedom Studies Center and will ultimately involve 1) a graduate school,
2) concentrated schools for leaders from all segments of society in the free
world and 3) continuing research into how both the public and private sectors
of the nation can best mobilize to deal positively with the Cold War- and the
challenge of emerging nations.
The Freedom Studies Center will be located on the 671 acre estate-campus
described at the beginning of this binder.
The initial participants in the development of the Freedom Studies Center in-
clude 12 heads of colleges and universities, 16 deans or directors of uni-
versity schools, 14 state commissioners of education, 16 professors, 11 top
officials of major school systems and 39 senior U. S. senators and represen-
tatives comprising a balanced representation of the liberal, moderate and
conservative wings of both major political parties.
Most of the principal proponents of a government operated United States
Freedom Academy serve on one or more boards or committees of the
Freedom Studies Center. They see a public and private freedom academy as
being mutually complementary and necessary.
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The Initial Cooperatinii,, Agenelid-; for the Freedom Studies Center range
.froni broad. based organization.s like The American Legion an.1 Th(i.
Committee of One Million to educational institutions like Illinois Institute
of Technology and Northeastern University and schools systelos like the
Cook County (Illinois) Schools and the Massachusetts Depa,rtiment of
Education.
Key cooperating organizations anci institutions will be invited to establish
facilities at the Freedom Studies Center. They also may use Freedom
Studies Center facikitict-, for their ciwn seminars in related subject areas.
It is planned that many t7,il the cooperating institutions will conduct independent
but complementary Cold War educational programs. For example, it is
plann.t.d that sonne, of the cooperating universities will eventually establish
independent regional centers on psycho-political warfare.
The Freedom Studies Center will also continue the Institute for American
Strategy's leadership role in encouraging teaching about Communism in
the secondary schools. For example, it will continue as the consultant
to the Joint Committee of the National Education Association and The
American Legion. See Part V for examples of continuing projects.
A number of senators and congressmen have asked that the first concentrated
schools be for key congressional staffers, governors' aides and other
government officials. The first school for these key men is scheduled for
June 1966. These schools will be similar to the pilot schools for governors'
aides conducted by the Institute for American Strategy under the auspices of
the National Governors' Conference with the cooperation and assistance of
the White House.
Subsequent concentrated schools will be conducted for leaders in other fields
both from the United States and other free world countries. These students
will include journalists, businessmen, labor leaders, executives of
voluntary organizations, government officials, military leaders, educators
and community leaders.
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II. THE EDUCATIONAL GAP IN THE COLD WAR
The following outstanding Americans have played important roles in iden-
tifying the educational gap in the Cold War.
- President Lyndon B. Johnson:* "The great majority of our
citizens, I believe, want to understand the form and fashion of
the challenge posed :Cor us by Communism. They seek sound
information on which they can rely and from which they can draw
their own conclusions and make their own decisions as to the
rightness or wrongness of the paths we pursue in the search for
a peace which preserves our freedoms."
General Dwight D. Eisenhower: "I. believe there is an over-
powering need for a regular and sustained study of this subject....
It is vital that the American people understand the nature of this
struggle--that they grasp the magnitude of the threat posed by
Communism to our free society?that they come to know their
adversary in all his many and devious guises.
"I think the difficulties we are faced with in this protracted conflict
spring largely from the fact that many Americans have never fully
understood the tragic harvest of human suffering Communism has
reaped around the world, and the methods it uses to undermine and
weaken our free society."
Senator Thomas J. Dodd, Dern. Conn.: "Recent events in Vietnam
and the Dominican Republic again drive home the need for the ex-
pansion, on the most urgent possible basis, of our cold war train-
ing program. As I have said over and over again, the communists
have scored so many cold war victories since the close of World
War II, because in the field of political warfare they have been
professionals opposed only amateurs.
"Ultimately, it is to be hoped, the Government itself will set up some
kind of training program for private citizens as well as employees
of the Executive Branch concerned with the conduct of foreign policy.
But, since governments move slowly, it is my conviction that an
effort- should be made on a private basis to make serious cold war
education more generally available than it is today to all those who
can make use of it."
December 11, 1964 message concerning National Governors Conference
School on Cold War Education conducted by the Institute for American
Strategy.
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Dr. Walter H. Judd, former 1Republican Congressman from Minnesota:
"The Communists are winning- the Cold War because most Americans
neither understand nor know how to fightthis kind of war. If we are to
meet the Communist threat, leaders in all walks of life must be educa-
ted as to the nature of the war we are in and how to fight it.
Alan G. Grant, Jr. , President, Orlando Committee: The Soviets are
winning the cold war precisely because Lenin understood sixty years ago
that political warfare is an incredibly complex and difficult art and
science and as such should be. conducted by hi li-d.??r trained professionals--
and then acted on this belief by inaugurating a comprehensive training
and research program which systematically created capacity for total
political war."
General David Sarnoff, Chairman of the Board, R. C, A. "We need a
network of schools and universities devoted to training cadres for the
Cold War. The objective is not education in a generic sense, but
specific preparation for the intellectual, technical; intelligence and
similar requirement of the ideological-psychological war."
Dr. Sidney Hook, Professor, New York University: "The greatest lack
in the world today -in the struggle against communism is the absence of
a large trained body of men and women dedicated to the idea of freedom
who are experts in the theory of communism, informed of all its practices
and able to give positive leadership in the struggles against them for a
freer and better world."
Dr. Leo Cherne, President, Research Institute of America: "...there
is nowhere at the present time any training of U. S. Government personnel,
or those persons involved in the exchange programs which could lead to
the understanding of the techniques of organization which are at the heart
of any effective counter-action program. against the Communist cadres."
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P.R.OGR..AMIS
Purpose
The purpose of the Freedom Studies Center is to help close the educational
gap so ably identified by those quoted in Part II of this binder.
The Freedom Studies Center will present a positive, constructive approach
to Cold War problems based on the ,principles of American. freedom. The
Center will devote its primary attention to the cause of freedom and to
expanding its sphere in the world. It will. tints become a focus of research. and
instruction on the positive aspects of Western civilization as contrasted to
the negative approach of Marxism-Leninism.
Since people in many nations seek a practical alternative to Communism for
themselves, the Center will advance those concepts and courses of action
which will assist them in developing their own political institutions. Toward
this end, the Center will assist in developing the leadership potential of
these nations.
The Freedom Studies Center will give practical., realistic instruction in
three areas of study:
A. The principles of American freedom and the moral resources of
the free world, their dynamics and mobilization.
B. The Communist challenge..
C. Defending and extending the sphere of freedom.
The above areas will be related to the nature of Communist psycho-political
warfare and how it may be countered.
School Programs
The programs of the Freedom Studies Center will be organized on the basis
of a multiple-track system as follows:
A. Concentration Programs
1, Long Weekend - An intensive lecture/seminar program of four
days duration (Thursday through Sunday).
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Six. Week An in-depth pr (.1. tur e s and
seminars conel,iding with a one-week worksnop conducted
by studtnats under faculty guidance.
B. Graduate Program
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or toe1'.via etc r 3 degree and .]:.ioc-,-,c,ratc;_.; will be taken
partly on the campus of a cooperating university and partly
while residing at the Freedom Center., In addition,
candidates for graduate d.egrees iiy be required to take
selected non-credit courses at the Center or at the cooperating
unive.rsities.
Scope
The subject matter for the multiple track program will be drawn from a
common course outline. A partial. exception to this procedure will be the
courses for the Graduate Degree Program. Students may substitute ap-
propriate courses offered at cooperating universities for Freedom Studies
Center courses by mutual arrangement between the Center and the Co-
operating University. Additionally, subject matter will be adapted to meet
specific requirements of specific groups of students.
See appendix "A" for course outline.
Students
Students will be drawn from the present and developing leadership of all
segments of society in this and other countries. They will include government
officials, educators, journalists, businessmen, labor leaders, executives
of voluntary organizations, military leaders and community leader e,
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[V. RESEARCH AND ADVISORY CENTER
The Freedom Studies Center is also planned as a continuing source of
expert advice and counsel to graduates, and to institutions and leaders
throughout the world including the organization of advisory teams upon
request for the governments of other countries.
The Center will conduct research under contract with corporations and
institutions of the private sector and also for government agencies.
Further, within the limits of available funds, it will prepare research
papers upon request for members of the congress, the executive branch,
participating educational institutions and communications media.
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EX.12'1221:? z,%. PR IV A a' E If" .1.) ACADIE MY
The Institute for American Strategy was urged to accept responsibility for
administration of the :Freedom Studies Center because of its outstanding
record in the field of Cold War education. Institute activities which have
already helped to close the educational gap in the ColdWar have included:
? Conducting seven National Military Industrial and Edu-
cational Conferences and one National Conference on
Cold War Education, where top leaders from all seg-
ments of society came together to discuss what needed
to I done in meeting the Communist chailenge to
American freedom
? Serving as the consultant to the Joint Committee of the
National Education Association the The American Legion..
This included participation in the development and dis-
tribution of the Joint Committee's Guidelines for Teaching
about Communism which is the most widely used guide in
the high schools oTAmerica.
? Acting as the consultant in developing the sound filmstrip
series Communism: Challen e to Freedom produced by
the Society for Visual Education?one of the largest pro-
ducers of visual aids for secondary schools. This film-
strip is now in use in secondary schools in every state.
? Publishing a basic text on Cold War education, Education
and Freedom in a World of Conflict. The editorial board for
this book consisted of Dr. Samuel M. Brownell, Superinten-
dent of Schools, Detroit; Dr. William Y. Elliott, Professor of
Government, Harvard University; and Benjamin C. Willis,
General Superintendent of Schools, Chicago.
? Publishing with Doubleday & Co. the basic reference book,
American Strategy for the Nuclear Age with sales of over -
80,000 copies. Over 10,000 of these copies were distributed
by the National Committee on Discussion and Debate to its
participating high schools.
? Acting as the consultant to the chairman .of the National
Governors Conference Committee on Cold War Education
and assisting in the preparation of Committee reports.
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Conducting comprehensive national surveys on. the nature
and extent of instruction about Communism in secondary
schools, in cooperation with the chief state school officers.
The Institute's State-by-State Survey of Teaching about Com-
munism in the Secondary Schobls is the only comprehensive
survey of its kind.
Sponsoring the first National Strategy Seminar for Reserve
officers held at the National War College, WashIngton, D.C.
in July .1.959. The Institute also sponsored. the 1960
National Strategy Seminar for Reserve Officers. The
Department of Defense has continued this school as a perma-
nent part of its educational program.
Conducting the December 1964 School for Gubernatorial Aides
(on Cold War education) under the sponsorship of the National
Governors' Conference. This school was conducted with the
cooperation and assistance of the White House which provided
a lecture team of top Cold War experts for two of the ten days
of school.
President Johnson's official comments on this school were
described by the National Governors' Conference Committee
on Cold War Education as the strongest endorsement ever
given any program in the broad field of Cold War Education by
a United States President".
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VI. FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS
It is estimated that the initial annual operating budget of the Freedom
Studies Center will be a minimum Of $750,000 exclusive of the cost of
physical facilities.
Acquisition of the can-ipus, additions and conversions of existing physical
facilities will cost approximately S750,000. As soon as feasible, the in-
vestment in physical plant will be increased to about $3,500,000 to permit
a more adequate level of operation.
To meet the financial requirements and facilitate long range planning, the
goal is to provide a fund of $10,000,000 to finance the development and
operation of the Freedom Studies Center.
Contributions Deductible
Contributions for the physical development and operation of the Freedom
Studies Center are made to the Institute for American Strategy. Such
contributions are fully deductible for income tax purposes.
The Institute is tax-exempt as an educational institution under section 501
(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to the IAS are deductible
as provided in section 170 of the Code. Bequests or gifts are deductible
for Federal estate and gift tax purposes under the provisions of section
2055, 2106 and 2522 of the Code.
See the next page for the manner in which founding contributions to the
Freedom Studies Center will be recognized.
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Contributions for Phabe I of Physical Development
FREEDOM STUDIES CENTER
The Institute for American Strategy has entered into an agreement to
purchase the Longlea Estate located in the vicinity of Culpeper, Virginia,
on February 25, 1966.
On this occasion, the Executive Committee has derided to honor and
commemorate those individuals, foundations and. companies whose
gifts make possible the acquisition, remodeling and furnishing of the
initial land and buildings of the Freedom Studies Center.
The names of contributors of Sb,000 or more will be inscribed in bronze
in the FOUNDERS Section of a FREEDOM HONOR ROLL in the Manor
Reception Hall. The names of contributors of $1,000 to $10,000 will be
inscribed in bronze in the PATRONS Section of the FREEDOM HONOR
ROLL.
A contributor of $400,000 or more will be honored by naming the entire
campus for him or his designee if:
1) the contribution is made before February 15, 1966 and
2) the contributor or his designee is an outstanding citizen.
The Executive Committee will also honor other outstanding contributors
as follows:
To be named for contributor
Contribution
Manor
$200,000.00
Dormitory Wing of Manor
75,000.00
Seminar Wing of Manor
50,000.00
Manor Drawing Room
40,000.00
Manor Library
25,000.00
Manor Dining Room
25,000.00
Manor Reception Hall
25,000.00
Auditorium and Administrative Offices
100,000.00
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Estimated Cost of First Two Phases of Physical Development
FREEDOM STUDIES CENTER
PHASE I
Acquisition of Property
,The purchase E.:. grecrriont requires the run
:purchase price to be paid at closing on
February Z5, 966)
285,000.00
* Furnishing, decorating and equipping Manor
for live-in seminars including remodeling of
kitchen 50,000.00
Remodeling and equipping garage and apart-
ment wing of Manor as a Seminar Hall 30,000.00
Construction and furnishing of Dormitory
Wing 01 Manor 75,000.00
Remodeling and equipping 60 x 75 barn as an
auditorium, administrative offices, class-
room and temporary library
Remodeling and furnishing two smaller houses
for maintenance and kitchen staff quarters
Maintenance equipment and tools including
tract or, mowers and jeep station wagon
Maintenance costs for first ten years
85,000.00
10,000.00
7,500.00
200 000.00
COST OF PHASE I $742,500,00 -
PHASE II
Dormitory including dining room and kitchen
facilities $300,000.00
Classroom arid Seminar Hall 150,000,00
COST OF PHASE II $450,000.00
TOTAL $1,192,500.00
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COURSE OUTLINE
The following course outline indicates the broad range of subject material
to be covered at the Freedom Studies Center but is not intended to show
the relative weight given each subject:
A. Economic s , Ideology, Philosophy , :Politica] Theory
.1. The Role of Ideology in Conflict and Crisis
The basic assumptions of theories of democracy and.
totalitarianism and practices based on these assump-
tions. Marxist-Leninist theories of conflict. Articu-
lating the freedoms of free societies in the battle of
ideas.
2. The Competitive Society and the Managed Society
The competitive society is one in which the individual
and the private sector provide the wellsprings of
growth, progress, and direction as contrasted to the
managed society in which the course of society is
plotted by an elite group. The competitive society
accommodates the role of the individual; the managed
society accommodates conformity. Analysis of the
strength and weakness of both societies with special
reference to the potential of the competitive society for
the mobilization of its creative and liberative powers.
3, Economic Surveys
Economic balance sheets of the Soviet bloc, Communist
China, the uncommitted countries, and the free world.
Economic problems of the developing countries.
B. Strategy, Tactics, and Techniques of Struggle
1. Conflict Organization and Management
The development of non-traditional methods of struggle.
Soviet and Chinese Communist non-military forces.
Z. Western Options
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Focal points in conflicn,. The development of strategies
for rendering harmless the new forms of forcible, semi-
forcible, and non-forcible conflict. Psycho-political
elements of non-military strategy. Contributions of
the private sector in information, research, training,
and other areas to We'tern assets.
3. Evolution of Twentieth Century Conflict
The dimensions of new and cont.nning rnss of struggle.
Semantic and strategic problems createa by the obfuscation
of the traditional peace/war line, The moral and psycho-
political impact of nuclear weapons and the exploitation
of nuclear and war psYchoses. On-going patterns of con-
flict: Revolutionary warfare; unconventional warfare; proxy
warfare; sanctuary warfare.
4. Tactics and Techniques
The role of intelligence and counter-intelligence in non-
traditional forms of conflict. Propaganda indentification,
analysis, and techniques. Psycho-political warfare: Pro-
paganda, demonstrations, marches, and organizational
techniques in group mobilization; "professional" students
and educational warfare; organized non-violence. Economic
sanctions, economic pacific blockade, financial operations,
trade offensives, and other techniques of economic compe-
tition or conflict. Tactics and techniques of insurgency and
counter-insurgency.
C. Science and Technology and World Politics
Scientific and technological competition and the world balance of
forces. Scientific and technological aid to the developing countries.
Technological developments for conflict resolution.
D. Area Studies
The Center will not attempt to duplicate the excellent general area
studies programs now being conducted by many colleges and uni-
versities. Rather the Center will focus attention on the problems
and the problem-solving techniques of exploitable conflict situations
in areas such as Africa, ,Latin America, and Southeast Asia,
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