CIA SPY- SCHOLARS HURT WORK ABROAD, SAY ANTHROPOLOGISTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100320003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 27, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

NOV ~~ 7 196
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Ia~telligence Agency spies
-.have been operating abrowd
disguised as sociolor,ists and
`anthropologists, ~ conference
i of the American Anthropological
:Association -was told here last'
wcelc. ?
br. Ralph Beals, who spent the
last year _studyino the effect of
Government-sponsored social re-
search. a~oroad, Charged that
Government agencies sought. to
carry on political intelli~ehce, acid
.counter ' revolutionary work
under the; cover o_f scholarly re-
?search. ,
' These activities have been' un-.
.covered by scholars in countries ` '
where .they were bperating, ,be-" .
cause of their lack of technical
knowledge.
.ti .
"In. fact," he added, "in some ;
areas like the Middle Fast, they ,-
prefer the 'anthropological espy' ~~ .
because he is so naive and they
can feed him false information."
? Beals cited last year's Opera- +
Lion Camelot, the U.S. A^my-
,financed study, allegedly of social .~
change in Chile. This university"
project for espionage ;purposes
was exposed in ;June, 19fr5,?.by"; `
deputies in the Chilean Congress.
Sen. J. W. Fu~bright .(D-Ark,),
charged ~ in the Senate,~_ bhat;
reputation , of American-'schol-. , .' Beals told the conference that ; '? ~ameiot-type" projects were at:; .
(ars in other countries, Dr. ~ Beals '? some CIA agents,, posing as an- ? .'that time also ? under. , wavy. an~'~
? ;.
~?said ,. thropologists- were easily dis-~-~'~blombia, Peru`?-,and Venet~aela:'~
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