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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100850010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: February 14, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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:wo University of Wisconsin graduate students toil ad
..:i ;istrators Monday that new procedures for public inspection
o: contracts still allowed the university to withhold information
Although the students were allowed to examine ?a contrac
-.,veer, the university and thel
Central Intelligence ?g e n c y
(CA) Monday, they said pro-
cedures for the public inspec-
"on of related documents would
out. information before hand-
Want Student Voice
obert Cohen, Levittown, Pa.,
and John Coatsworth, Madison,
said they would pus for the
establishment of a student-fac-
ulty comnnittee which w o u l d
screen alt such information and
withhold only material of a per-
-
sonal
T he? - new inspection proce-
dures were approvcd Friday
by the 3oard of Regents after
attempts to look at the CIA
Chancellor Robben W. Fiem-
in' told Cohen he would have
to wait for regent approval of
The . regents ruled that the
on reason able request, during
'No i tshing ::xpcditton'
University Pres. Fred Harv
cy Harrington told the regent
Friday that although state lati
documents, the university i
of protecting students an
others. We don't look at th
law as a fishing expedition."
Under the procedures set up
requests for related contrac
information, such as subcon-
tracts, progress -reports, per-
sonnel involved, and the specif-
ic direction of the projects,
must be made in ''writing to
the university,
If t h e : . ?-c reservations
about reic:, . r. ? .-,e
Fleming;-- wis`;c: , t to
regents what can
be rcleasod.
Cohen atu, C,,tswarth would
like to s .i., del;t faculty
dommittc ' f; deter)nin-
ations..
hours, and under proper cus-groups hav.: da;nandcd to in-
?todial regulations, such doeu spect unive.rdty contracts relat-
ments as are deemed sabject to inc, to the Vietnam.
inspection within the mmtent of Cohen P,onday he was
the laws. of the state." consideruig regal,action to open
State law allows contracts and up the co;nplete' files.
related documents to be op cn' '1 Don't A: rust You,
under terms set fourth by tho In a mcetinr, with r'Zonh(,
vice - president and, business]
manager, Cohen said, "I don't,
trust you, I don't trust the uni-`f
versity.At what noint do I gets
public inspection?" I
He said photostatic copies,off
contracts and records could beg
"total shams."
Lorenz told Cohen and Coats-
worth that the university hadi,
nothing to hide but that they
had never run ino a request
for public inspection of. the rec-
ords. He said this may be the 1.
cause for the objections to they
procedure.
Cohen told reporters that ,the
university was operating illegal-
ly" by not setting up inspection t
procedures earlier. He s a i d,
"They show nothing but con-'
tempt for the public." -
The CIA contract inspected]
Monday went into effect in 1962
and was `terminated last year.
Under its terms the, chemistry
department- was to investigate t
East' European. and Russian
scientific?.papers.on.thermal dy-
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Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania (AP)-Calvin Cobb, the 42-year'-old civil
rights worker and disbarred Amityville, L.i., lawyer whose extradition to
the U.S. was refused by,a Tanzanian court last. week, has' described a
plot to kill'50,000 American police, National Guardsmen and soldiers.
lie said the plot was part of the plan his underground movement
-which he refused to name-was to have carried out d ' V
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men
a
egro extremist g k RAMc
,..roupnown as, were acused of
plotting to. poison with cyanide thousands of policemen; firemen and
.private citizens in Philadelphia, Pa., after starting a race riot in the city.
City officials said that the plan was never attempted because efforts to
cause race riots in Philadelphia's ghetto areas failed when
olice moved
p
in quickly to quell minor distrurbances. Under the plan, a chemist was
to have been assigned to place cynnide into food distributed free to
police and firemen n riot duty, and ? into the food of restaurants
throughout the city.)
Cobb, who fled the U.S. in September, sought police protection
here, claiming his life was in danger from U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency gunmen. In court he alleged that the U.S. sought `his extra-.
dition for political reasons and not, as stated, for a breach of parole
arising from his conviction for grand larceny from a Rockville Centre
church.?A Tanzanian judge denied the application for extradition and
Cobb was freed.
Cobb, currently living with his wife and three children at ? a
Salvation Army camp in the outskirts, of Dar Es Salaam, claims he is
penniless. He is negotiating with an unnamed New York publisher for
the sale of his exclusive story, he said. He hopes' to become a Tanzanian
citizien and ultimately practice law here, he added.
/ In the interview. Cobb-referred to' the mass-murder plot as'being
discovered by the CIA and the FBI and said several persons were
y arrested in the U.S. STATINTL:... .
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rebellions in various cities across the U.S. "When the police, Guard-
smen and soldiers were brought into the picture, food and refreshments
supplied them on duty would have been poisoned," Cobb told a local
? newspaper.
(In late September, four members of the Revolutionary Action Move
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