LIAISON WITH ACADEMICS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80M00165A000800080008-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 24, 1977
• Content Type: MEMO

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24JUN1977
FROM: Sayre Stevens
Deputy Director for Intelligence
1. The Intelligence Directorate has been distributing unclassi-
fied publications since 1966 as one means of obtaining and improving
our liaison with academic specialists. Individual office components
and the DDI Academic Coordinator regularly review their lists of
recipients to ensure they are reaching the top professional scholars
in our areas of interest.
STAT
3. Analysts also are aware of the importance of keeping abreast
of research being done on their specialties in the academic community.
Attending and participating in professional meetings enables them to
maintain their productive ties with their academic colleagues and to
acquire recent monographs and research papers. (In 1976 286 analysts
attended 136 such sessions.) Analysts also obtain academic papers
through various Agency channels and other professional ties with
their academic associates. We will actively pursue the possibility
of increasing our access to such papers and of providing unclassified
comment where it can be constructive. Such an approach would indeed
work to strengthen our relations with the academic community.
STAT
Sayre Stevens
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Subject: Liaison with Academics (Memorandum to DCI from DDI)
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(23 June 1977)
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Intelligence
FROM: Director of Central Intelligence
I particularly enjoyed reading Bob Gates" memorandum on
academic work in the Soviet Union. It prompted a number of
thoughts in my mind:
a. A suggestion that we do better at
obtaining liaison with academics who receive
our documents makes me want to expand our
voluntary distribution of unclassified
publications whenever we have them. Would
you start with the forthcoming document on
Let's send it to all the people
w o were at the conference which we sponsored
recently and any otherlxperts..
b. I wonder also if we could not attempt
to gain copies of monographs, dissertations,
etc., produced by the academic community on
Soviet, Chinese and other affairs of concern
to us. Yes, we are going to have difficulty
breaking through the crust of suspicion. If
we can gain access to their publications,
however, and then comment sensibly on those
publications to them, could we not.open some
doors?
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Iut:elligeace
in the Midwest.. ' I.thougtlt. you m1.gnc 7_.Luu 10.- ul.
The attached memorandum was prepared by Bob Gates
formerly of our Center for Policy Support, now seconded
to the NSC Staff. _It represents a good rundown on Soviet
work being. done in universities on the Pacific Coast and
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Attachment-- DDI-2123-77
Subject: Research on Contemporary Soviet Problems Underway at
Academic Institutions and Attitudes Toward Cooperation
with CIA.
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