FOIA
GOWN AND DAGGER
Document Type:
Collection:
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
CIA-RDP75-00149R000100320001-8
Release Decision:
RIPPUB
Original Classification:
K
Document Page Count:
1
Document Creation Date:
November 17, 2016
Document Release Date:
July 18, 2000
Sequence Number:
1
Case Number:
Publication Date:
December 31, 1968
Content Type:
NSPR
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ST. PAUL, LI,NN.
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Milwaukee Journal
that the academic gown may join the
cloak and dagger as symbols of spying.
The concern was obvious at the Ameri-
can Anthropological association conven-
tion in Pittsburgh.
. Ralph-L. Beals, a California anthro-
pologist and former president of the as-
sociation, reported on the alarming in-
filtration of the spy influence into sup-
CPYRGHT posedly legitimate scholarly research
abroad. He found that United States in-
telligence agents posing as anthropolo-
gists ? were at work in some countries-
"anthropological spies," he called them
and that young scholars.who received
government grants later were questioned
by intelligence agents for political infor-
mation. 4
The amount of intelligence work con-
ducted under the guise of academic re-
search is, of course, secret. Enough sus-
picious incidents have come to light to
be disquieting. Eighteen months ago,
Project Camelot, an army sponsored
study of revolutionary change in Chile,'
was abruptly canceled after it caused a
furor in that country. A government
sponsored "technical assistance" pro-
gram in Vietnam run by Michigan State
university in the 1950's seems to have
used CIA operatives.
The anthropologists decided that spy-
ing was a sufficient danger to academic
pursuits to establish a set of "ethical
guidelines" for scholars on government
sponsored projects. Their concern is un-
derstandable, for the suspicion that spies
are masquerading as scholars can de-
stroy the effectiveness of legitimate stud.
ies abroad. As Beals told the anthropolo-
gists,' "constraint, deception and secrecy
have no place in science."
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