DUKE PROVOST NAMED TO GROUP PROBING CIA

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 24, 2014
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 23, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Washington Post-Los Angeles Timet
News Servito
WASHINGTON ? R. Taylor
! Cole, provost of Duke Univer-
sity, was one of four leading
political scientists picked Wed-
nesday to investigate the Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency's pene-.
tration of the academic com-
munity.
The four scholars were ap-
? pointed to a special panel. es-
tablished by Robert A. Dahl,
president of the American Po-
litical Science Association, who
? said he is "sickened and
alarmed" ;)31 news accounts of
? CIA activities.
Cole Wednesday nig. ht.deelined
to comment on the CIA-student
, organizations situation, but
noted that he had accepted the
invitation to serve on the panel.
The panel will investigate the
CIA's contribution of funds to
' several student organizations
and will also look into the
af-
fairs of a Washington-based re-:
' search firm that received funds
from foundations used by the
CIA.
i Named to Dahl's panel, in ad-
dition to Cole, were Gabriel Al-
! mond, professor at Stanford.
University; C. Herman Pritch-:
?ett. professor at the University,'
' of Californii- in Santa Barbara;
and David B. Truman, dean of
Columbia College, , Columbia
?, University, in New York. ?
The Washington firm is Op-
orations and Policy Research,
Inc., officers of which are both
' officials of the American Po,
Mica! Science Association. !
? They are Evron M. Kirk;
patrick and Max M. KampelJ
: man, president and vice presi
; dent respectively of the re-
search firm, and executive di-
. rector and treasurer respective-
. ly of the political science asso-i
?dation. ,
' Operations and Policy Re-',
up
search, which ?receivet. substan-
tial grants from the United
States Information Agency, re-
portedly has received funds
; from the Sidney and Esther;
Rabb Charitable Foundation
and the Pappas Charitable'
Trust, both of Boston.
C. The Rabb Foundation was
; identified as one which fun-
ached funds to the National
Students Association from CIA
: cover foundations. The Pappas ?
trust has given funds to other
organizations which received
; funds from CIA conduits.
? Kirkpatrick has acknowledged .
receiving funds from the two
foundations but said lie knew
of no, programs carried cat at'
? the behest of CIA.
? Dahl,-.in his letter to the four.
investigating political scientists,1
'c did not mention Kirkpatrick,'
Kampelman. or their private,.
; ,tax-exempt research foundation:
! but it was understood that tha .
political scientists -would look
into its affairs.
Dahl, in Palo Alto, Calif., said '
he had. never heard of Kirk-
patrick's firm but said he has
become .convinced it has no
7 direct connection with the
American. Political Science As-?
sociatiOn.-
Dahl told the panel members 1
? he was alarmed by stories say-
leg "that the CIA has pone-
trated academic and cultural
? circles through foundations and j
pseudo-foundations to wh:cli they
channelled funds. There. zre:
'uound .to ?be evil effects ;an a
such practices."
Even if no improper CIA in
.-
fluence is proved, he said, the.
standing of U.S. scholars, their
relations . with foreign col-?
leagues, and their chances for
research "will suffer griovoiisly
as they did after the sorry 1)tisi-
? ness of 'Camelot,'" ho said.
He was referring ti) "Project
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Camelot," an aborted Defense
Department program of collect-
ing information on Chile's politi-
cal and social situation, includ.
ing the possibility of an ex-
tremist coup against the gov-
ernment.
Dahl also warned that the
academic community must
avoid a ? cCa r ihy ism-in-re-
verse" situation which might
arise if the public views as .
"equally quality of deceit" those
who were willing accomplices
of the CIA and those who were .!
-innocent recipients of funds
from foundations they trusted.
Ile said scholars must find
ways to "Protect the integrity ;
cf our scholarly affairs from
over zealous ' governmental
agencies, particularly the CIA, !
whenever they seek to inspire
conduct markedly different from
and sometimes flatly at odds
with our own codes of profes-
sional, behavior.'
The Washington - based firm
headed by Kirkpatrick and
Kampelman has engaged in
wide-ranging activities varying,
?from the mere packaging of
.books sent abroad for foreign
Ai right scholars to the re-
viewing of books destined for
United States Information Ser- -
vice libraries overseas.
Both ? Kampelman,. now ? a
prominent Washington lawyer,
and ? Kirkpatrick are close
friends and one-time advisers ?
of Vice' President Hubert H.
Humphrey,
m they first ral-
lied around as political science
teachers at the University of .
Minnesota. ?
Kirkpatrick issued a state.-:',
inent? which said in part, "Pro-
lessor Robert Dahl and I . . -
are equally coneerned about the
integrity and welfare of our as-
soriation in its relationship, to
our government.
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"I believe the committee of
former presidents of the Amer.!
icon -Political Scieace Assoeia.;
Lion'. . ;will' perform a useful
and Valuable service." ? ?
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