ANTHROPOLOGISTS WARNED IN SPYING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100320009-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 18, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
Approved For Release 2000/08/0A0f1li1 ff 6-00149R000100320009-0
SCIENTIFIC STUDIES SEEN ENDANGERED
Anthropologists Warned i
CPYRGHT
Z tI h d overnment'
sa
An important group of social scien-
tists was told here last night that at-
tempts to do part-time undercover work
for the government could work against
the long-range interests of the United
States.
Prof. Ralph Beals, an anthropologist ' pen
with the University of California at Los
Angeles, said he believes some anthro- 'line
pologists may have done part-time intel- resi
ligence .work while retaining their po- ; of 1
sitions as university faculty members. B
But. he added: poly
der
"I can't prove that." froi
Beals has completed a nationwide
study of the relationships between his the
profession and intelligence operation's.' ern
mQetip of 2500 to 30l() ar tabrnpol4gists
--stietitists who study human c ltiires,
mankind's remote past, and racial char-'su
acteristics. a$'
His report is expected to serve as a
basis for guidelines to be drawn up by ?
the American Anthro ological Associa- c,
tion during its fouriday annual meet- h
by the group are to be made public c;i:
-late tomorrow or Sunday.
'In an interview, Beals said his report '`do
t anthropologists because of restrictions
on their work overseas.
:.Ile said the social scientists are ham-
i , g
.onsequen y, e
should also give more, support to an-
thropology in the area of basic re-
search. training, and by "not doing
things than, hurt anthropologists" (such,
as restricting their access to other
by regulations controlling ais- countries).
nation and discussion of research Solution in Changing Titles
ngs, disclosure of the identities of The entire problem was brought into
arch sponsors and even disclosure focus last year when the Army's $4 mil-
ie purposes of the research. lion project Camelot, a study of how'
als said he believes some anthro-:
ists are being "seduced into un Communists capitalize on revolutionary
over work" by offers of . grant? change in developing countries, was'
phony foundations-"from organi- widely criticized and eventually can
c eled.
ns'who need information, although, - The
roject to have been carried out
p ,
are not necessarily related to gov- in Chile, was described as a study of
sent." "insurgency and counter-insurgency."
ch actions, he said, are creating Beals said he thinks part of the
icion of anthropologists in many problem could have been solved by
seas countries. changing the project's description to
We have to have the confidence resolution."
the people 'we're studying, and we
't get it if they think we're spies," Few anthropologists were involved in
declared. Project Camelot, Beals said, but he
ted
it
b
represen
lems
added that the pro
als said, he found hints that some are of interest to all universities doing
men had posed as anthropologists, research, in social science fields over-'
add of thai `much of this is in the, seas.
rumor." A similar problem cropped up last
eals noted that the United States April when Michigan State University
'ernment uses information obtained was linked to CIA operations in Viet
anthropologists and hires