CLOAK-AND-DAGGER PROFESSORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100120003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 13, 2003
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: May 25, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

NEW TIl~S
Approved For Release 2003/1~OI~~P7.5-0000
STAT
~AiP:RiCA'S Ccntt'al Inlcllircnco
Agency has" come 8n for soma ,
very scalping crilicisnt and expo-
~~~ ' "~~` up by iVashinglon :,std why, rcmain-
? cd more . or less a 'mystery, I3am-
sure. Several publications, includin;; .`? ~?hia lil?Ilc~-knuwn? 'aspect of .CY.r~~~;. ~fltarta now tells the story.
Iiantparts magazine, the New '1'or7c activity w~as?rat:-huitcd-info the piub-.'";;'-And rho story gees back to 100,
'd'unes and Newsweek, have cart?icd tic vision- tril.h% thc?~ appo~u?an~?' off,,`:','when tht: French were still despc-
? documented surveys revealing soma the April ishi:e..of'liamlharts: ??'~'t'atelyflghtingtohold on to Vietnam.
of the seamy aspects of U.S. inlcl-
ligcnce operations. '
13amparts;~ fouttided~~ in I06~ ~~by'>;:?One evening a Michigan University
Edward ICeatlitg ~itnd? ?published ~in.~'~scientlst, Wesley Fishel, met Dicm
Why this attack on rho powc-?fui San T'rancisco in ,on]y 2,GOb.?col~ics,+';= in a Tokyo teflhouso. Diem had
CIA? One o[ the reasons ?is its sac- ?' was little known .4o the'.Anterican :' quarrelled with his French masters ,
cession of rcvet?scs, in Vietnam, the ~ ? t?cadcr. The CYA exposures raised:.:'., and was looking about for apower-
? Dominican Ytepublle and other parts its circulation to 30,000." " ~: ful backer to help him acturn to ,
' of the world. Another, suggested by bast summer it published an arti-:' Vietnam. The Americans were look-
? 4he U.S. press, is the rivalry betttrcen' ?cio about 4ic `Vietnam ? lobby in?''? ~ ing about for a pliant tool to further ;
America's Intelligence outfits, of . ? Washington.. In I'ebruary, it had an ?~,' their own aims In Southeast Asia.
which lhet?e are several. And still , "article by Donald "Duncan, :Speclal?;`' And Diem, If anything, WAS pliant.
another is' the t?ivalry between the Forces Hasler Sergeant,'r~bout Amer-`'.~' A rabdd. anti-Communist and a rab-
. ? potvcrful monopoly ge?oups far con- lean atrocities in Soul.h, V)etr+um:'.,";~ ld hater of the I'rcnch, ,an exile, .~
trot of rho CYA. This battle flared ".The articlq reused riuitc a stir.`7Che '';?. he was lust tho thing the CIA need-
up with thG,~ appolnttnent of the 13 pares in ~ the A.bir.il )ssuc ex`iasin~ ~? ed for its ,'man in Vietnam." 'Diem',
nett' CIA 'chief; William ? 13aborn, a ~ CIA cantaets : tv;th~`Michiyan Univ~'~`"~ eves invited, to the United States.
Texan. ~ ' crsity caused?;a~full-elress ?sensalion.?.`;r~'`:? . ~Of(icially, he was the guest of `
Dut whatever the reasons for tiro ~ ? These ai?~' thv 'facts; ?.'as :given by;_',: ?Michigan University in Ann Arbor.
,?'prescnt press campaigti;"thc`fact.s it f3a-nprrris.,rront 1D53~io I03D Mlch{-..;''Writes Itantparts: "On the Michigan i
~" ?1 ~R ~'?Stato cam us D1em found kinshi
has brought. to light era worth con=*`gan Univcr.,ity served as `a G?ont.','.:... p ~ p
' aidcring: I'or?one thing,'thc u?evela-.
?; lions concern CIA ?activities within
-rho United States, though it ,fs sup- ,
posed to function? only 'outside; the
''?.. and su
fot?~;.hc CtA: Its cigcvtts wcro put on'?; pport among both faculty and
the Unives~sity 'staff, some, in fact, ?-'.~?administratian-a relationship which
tverc made ~?fa~~Aty ntcmbers. They ::..later developed Into. the university's.
~vcro suppiosed to bo~.vorking oes the ? , ~.; extensive aid pro~ect? to . Diem's
United State', The Cl
A hris,it;nored `Vietnam. aid programnio :;;actually ?~~' government, where a team of same
?
;; that artd main ins4branclt offices In '' thoy wet'o engnred in espionage and?"~'~ 20? professors did. overything from
thirty cities, Thefr Joh;is?,to, recruit' : ?sulyversion:. - ~ ~ ~ :?~? drafting pia budgets to training his
? schoolteachers, businessmen, ?~ stu- ~ Mavf arcoiints ,~t~"the' Vfatnnttn war; :.. aect?et polic~.or ,
dents, or iust? iordinary ?.i,t0urlsts. ~ stat?t~ with~? If159,'~~talton Ngo ~ Dinh,,;;,:,;' dlnd it was tins team of Michigan
And through thatta the CIA ?ontacte .:: Die~~t 'r~eturttcil;:`:~to~:'~aigora;. after-"'; ~[Jniversity professors; 'led by Fishel,
other lnstitutiona, newspapera,,busi-, .. 17 yonrs~in`extla~ With Washington's";~~~ ?that 'broughr:?.Dtem 4o the notice of
' Hess. firmer, sresenrch lnatltutes, "unl-??;~ suppot;t 1io ~becurne'-b'riMo'~Miriiste~~.~? Washington~ They lput him Into
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