INFORMATION GATHERING BY THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800010021-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 21
• Publication Date: June 8, 1962
• Content Type: OPEN

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Intormauon-Gathering by the CIA
(13 Apr 'i? 63 ]
tepresentatfvt '
Bence Agency'
direction beln
`scientisl9'an
ogy,, becacts `
rc to the govern
'on the ^p t of every colleague att1
in which `his work may be p publish
We thus come to a nrartleal d '.tii ,i
rd" I the in the application o his tPz nc
oreign hs eall + be sure that no, collcag e
I tit too the United States Government?
3ho64.,: asonahly
purpose he`intends to use the:.intorma - The only effective wa}? to pres?rvc se=
tion, a professor being required to re :curitywould he to refrain from talking
main in? a position to. ss' t is copse about his work to anyone or, on the
quences of his profes n, and (ii) a ttssumptlop that the Central intcllig n
consequence of h relationshi" .with the Agency and other government agencies
are as subtle as he believes, to re-
CIA ,would be to IfAt the freedom of
discussion between ,American and for- train from'doing any scientific worjc..at
cign colleagues by' Increasing the danger all.
that American a dentists will be regard- But this is not the end of the prob-
ed as government agents. Wall says that lam. 1 was once consulted by a gentle-
if a colleague had asked him for this man who was oppressed by the con-
information he would' have replied with- sciousness that the Federal Bureau of
out hesitation. Investigation was telepathically prying
Wall could deal with the situation, lnto his thoughts. This raises the ques-
although perhaps somewhat deviously, Lion of whether, in addition to refrain-
by disclosing the requested information rng from talking about scientific:
watt
thinking about it. As a fellow wyto
eign colleagues, some of whom he char- ' '
~ 't
acterizes as' certainly part-time intelli- Sometimes puts himself to sleep at night
11 8 out simple topological Prob-
gence agents. This would minimize the by *orkin
hazard of ...... .. the .......fly free is lens in his heaA T wnull {.e.:...t.- `_
exchange and" argument of a scientific 4 adopt a policy which would conti mn
discussion Which he ,,properly prizes ' ?'me l ,wakefulness during my nbriw
uon.
Not all of us can. $b are Wall's con-
viction that undisclosed purposes of the
United States Governtmept are evil.
Even he probably does ngt,. in;order to
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to avoid the issue. But sccrrcY,proykiea
lc good will and good iitte4t of i 6'r." little practical protection. The wide.
t is in question is the price we tiro' CIA rs ndOrzo well knowif"Lh tft'1 no
g for the CIA's questioning of act, longer possible to hide ittc. general ex-
its. It is generally agreed that settl'et' istence. The apeci }c norrnsiqihand-
sification of projectsnd wirep 1 --_ in
ata- ,deed, ? main core.
uld he limited, since they !bc g but the needs
of society Change, grid
trust and suspicion and dimirkisb . we have at liven yesterdt#jr'; st eret 6es
ped that the good sense. of the a`(!4~>'R dance. Cing ey's #ecottd `ptisvt- r 'to the f
CIA information gathering, because'we~. sonal re ponsibility no -;r exists. i
are paying a price for it, too. The goo- am relieved to learn there; because oth-
rnment has tremendou's in-house capa.' era are willing to hand on h:formation,
ilities for collecting information front; it is therefore all right for Me to do so
he many very able government scien=` It is ironical that Kingsley sltodd write
sts. Only when this .source is exhausted; his letter on Patriots' Day; since nos
td thin' only after careful consldera. examine his conscience xhgn asked to
~tt,n of the price paid for the Informs. become an informer.
M t~ep a secrecy O[ rrPaF cuts . rst~tir o9 r u otr
ions with the CIA as a "devious" ws ' Cmnhridge