PROFESSOR JAMES C. THOMSON, JR. -- CIA GUEST SPEAKER ON 'GOVERNMENT AND THE MEDIA'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-03090A000100160012-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2001
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 26, 1974
• Content Type: BULL

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SPECIAL BULLETIN
No. 11-74 26 March 1974
TO Agency Training Officers
SUBJECT: Professor James C. Thomson, Jr. --
CIA Guest Speaker on "Government
and the Media"
Professor James C. Thomson, Jr. of Harvard
University will be the next speaker in the CIA
Guest Speaker Program. His presentation on
"Government and the Media" is scheduled in the
Headquarters Auditorium from 3 to 5 p.m. on
Tuesday, 9 April 1974. Employees planning to
attend should note that the scheduled time for
the Program has been advanced one hour.
Mr. Thomson is Curator of the Nieman
Fellowships for Journalism and Lecturer in
History at Harvard University. His special
fields of interest and expertise are American-
East Asian relations, the history of modern
China, and the government-press relationships.
Born 1931 in New Jersey, Mr. Thomson spent
his childhood in China and received the A.B.
degree in 1953 from Yale. He also holds the A.B.
and M.A. degrees from Cambridge University, and
the Ph.D. degree (1961) from Harvard.
Mr. Thomson was a teaching fellow at Harvard
from 1956 to 1959. After serving as an assistant
to a U.S. Congressman in 1959-60, he was Special
Assistant, successively, to Chester Bowles, Roger
Hilsman, and William Bundy in the Department of
State. From 1964 to 1966 he served as an East
Asia specialist on the National Security Council
Staff.
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Mr. Thomson joined the Harvard faculty in 1.966
al"'..n Assistant Professor of History. He was
appointed Nieman Curator as of September 1972?
He is the author of "While China Faced West:
American Reformers in Nationalist China, 1928-37"
(1969), and of "Communist Policy and the United
Front in China, 1935.36" (1957). He is co-editor
of "American-East Asian Relations: A Survey" (1972).
He also contributed to "No More Vietnams? The War
and, the Future of American Foreign Policy" (1968).
Author of numerous articles and reviews, he received
an Overseas Press Club award for magazine writing
on foreign affairs in 1968 and shared an "Emmy" for
television coverage of President Nixon's China trip
on ABC-TV in 1972
Mr. Thomson will speak on the adversary relation-
ship between government and the media., He will address
such issues as secrecy, deception, manipulation of
public opinion, and offer his views on the unique
problems facing an intelligence organization, such as
CIA, in a free society with respect to the media and
its responsibility to the public.
Admission will. be by ticket only until 2:55 p.m.
at which time admission will be open to all. on a
first-come basis. Tickets can be obtained from
component training officers. Questions regarding
this program should be directed to
Special Programs Officer, OTR, extension STATINTL
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