TEN STUDENTS A DAY HAVE 'FILES PULLED'

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000300090004-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 22, 1967
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federal security agencies to see students' files The records in the Registrar's..., could get all the in#ormation ex-
nith: ut. the students' permission or knowledge, a Of11ce include a student's grades, cept the study lists -- by getting
University official said yesterday. courses and degrees. . students to send agencies a tran?
llis office, Registrar Clinton Gilliam said yester-
day', allows agencies like the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) to see students' grades and other
information. -
It. was also revealed yesterday that the campus
admissions office has allowed federal agencies to
see e;tudent admission records without the students'
permission.
lh:wever, the practice in the admissions office
is tilw under review, a spokesman said. "It has
" he claimed.
beery in abeyance since Monday
,
There had been a "general policy" over the -seen by investigators, Gilliam said,.; byhigh schuo: counselors a
- years,_ the spokesman said. allowing police and because the University doesn't`.i' other `informal" records.,
Last week Jerry Rubin, left. wing candidate fore ULLe11. L11Cy d1C Au,111Cl DLuueU . ,.ctes which use the files in the l
,l,.. i*o~Uoin.? ,mr.,nrnliio .horsed th,lt III. TT....?.r- Mrs. Dewing said that often;. istrar's Office would include:
;?. .
'University- records Sometimes as many as Federal
records on individual students, in-
'eluding records of grades, are not available to per. fice looking, for information,- she '. ton, Immigration Service, nt ri
sons or agencies outside the University unless in- mat Revenue Service, Military In.
dividual students give specific authorization.". I added. telligence; Naval Intelligence,f-
ents ask
she eon-
Often the a
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g
fice of Federal Investigation, Tr a-
The spokesman said. yesterday that Cheit was ;
glued, for records of psychiatric Department, the Post Office,
not aware of the admissions and registrars offices' sury.
e,..,
"in cases where students or former, students are
applying for. federal jobs that require security
clearance."
The reason the federal agencies look at the files,
Gilliam. said,, was to "verify statements made by.
'All intelligence agencies of the government nay
see the student files in such cases, Gilliam said.
In other than security cases
Gilliam said
only
,
,
-."public information" is given.
Asked how his office knows that the federal re-,,
searchers arv only checking statements and only;
in cases involving security clearances, Gilliam said:.
"We trust them.
"They have agreed that they will gather the in.
formation only for that reason. We have no way\
to check on them." -
Gilliam said he had never heard of a govern-,
mental hearing where the information was used;
f6r any other purpo.m..
Judy Dewing, a secretary in the
Registrar's office who "pulls the
o I files" for, the agents when they..;
come in, said that study lists of
students and former students are
also made available without the
students' permission.
Agents may see only ill "last''
t?< o" study lists, she said, iccept
fhe FBI which may sr~? ;'ail of
i i getung , a job today,"
noted. "and soma nnnnli?
ortant
illiam
Falsify
student has been suspended or dis- . She doubts that the only tine'
missed for academic reasons. federal agencies look for informal
The records also indicate indi?.. tion is in cases of a person lookin,-,;
rectly that a student has been dis- for a job.
ciplined the student's record:, Previous to her present job, Mfrs
may say that he has been dismiss. ,Dewing worked In the admission:.,
ed and needs approval of the Dean office where information also was
of Students Office, thereby imply- ' given to federal a cncics ,withou t
ing disciplinary problems. ' - ;students' :nowtc.dF c.
The Registrar's Office doesn't.',- Recores there, -:ne said, oftep
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