SPY AGENCIES HELD DANGER TO RESEARCH

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100320010-8
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 18, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Spy Agencies Held
Danger to Research
By HENRY RAYIIIONT'
spect&r to The New York Times
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 17
last year studying- the effect of
_ ,...~ _ sponsored social These examples, Dr., Beals
science researcn in MI - -b.?i that the information gathered
countries. be used against the
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efforts by some Government ? countries, he said that some,
AAmeAcan scholars had alreadyi
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gist warned tonight that se-,; He, said there had been in "Anthropology Is particularly'
crecy and pressures by United stances when Young scholars!. concerned with these restric-
States Intelligence agencies were I tions," he said, "for they en-
were offered generous Govern-pdanger the future development
eroding the effectiveness and meat assistance ostensibly for. of the discipline and its poten-
.prestige of American scholarly academic work, only to be dues-''tial contribution to national
research abroad. ~tioped later by inte.i1Fence'well-being and human welfare.
The warning was, contained Ex ansion and refinement of
agents for political informa P
e of diverse peoples
led
k
g
now
in a report delivered by Dr. 'lion. our
and cultures require interns-.
Ralph L. Beals at the copening ` In what sound?d like a new 1 tional cooperation and' under-..
d ?chool It
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tweeting of the American An-
thropological Association, at-
tended by more than 2,000 an-
thropologists.
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thropologlsts at the,Plttsburgh- They were easily discovereu?Aity to disseminate and to dls-?
California and former prestdentlbY scholars in the - countries cuss openly the results of
edge and academic relerences
apparent[- the independence and in.
,he said with some app tc .it of anthropology cannot
ng.
twist to the James Bon s . istand
of international intrigue, Dr. In an apparent allusion to
Beals disclosed he had foundisonie of the Government-spon
reports that some inteliigencesored research, he called on so-1
osing as anthro-cial scientists to make every)
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iexpressed by o er tp
scientists, Dr. Beals said-pan-I. -DetailsjrofhDr. BedcP~ Arica
in ac ,
!smile, "in some, areas like the'dial action expected to be red
Middle East they prefer the. ommended by the association at
'anthropological spy' because; its final session Sunday, Dr.
he is so naive and they can"Beals said it was essential that'
'feed him all sorts of informa- scholars make a full disclosure
t1on." "not only of their support and
Echoing a concern recently sponsorship but also of the
h behavioral urposes of their research."
Obo Naive In what some observers in.
f It he added with a'terpreted as a forecast pf reme-?
satisfaction. 4be maintained.'
of a farranging study of rev tons
tionary processes in various the final plenary sesslonSunday,
d
m
last year over operation a I y e
.lot, an Army-financed study of anthropoligical association. The .
social change in Chile. ,board members, are expected tot
The project, which was part make a series of recommenda-
olff- that they will submit. to
cnropolog1- I,-- r -
larly hurt by the furor caused closed session Saturday evening,
r4
e- b th executive board of the
parts of the world, was cancele
at the request of Secretary of
State Dean Rusk after the
Chilean Government made a
formal protest.
In Venezuela,'Dr. Beals said,
a; number of research projects
by the Massachusetts Institute'
of Technology almost had to be+
'that the institute had accepted,
contracts from the Central In?.~
Fteliigence Agency.'..
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