PLANS FOR THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION MEETING IN NEW YORK, AUGUST 31 - SEPTEMBER 3, 1978

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• Publication Date: December 2, 1977
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA : Director, National Foreign Assessment Center
FROM : Coordinator for Academic Relations
SUBJECT : Plans for the American Political Science Association
Meeting in New York, August 31 ? September 3, 1978
1. Action Requested: Guidance as indicated below.
2. Background: You will recall that in July I obtained your approval
to explore a possible appearance by you at the APSA annual meeting next year.
By memo dated 2 November I informed you that I had been in touch with Professor
Morton Kaplan a` - ie`University of Chicago, who is in charge of the international
relations part of the program for that meeting, and with Evron Kirkpatrick,
Executive Secretary of the APSA, and that I would soon have a report for you on
their recommendation.
3. We considered two possibilities: a luncheon appearance before a small,
select group of leading political scientists (who for administrative reasons
would be invited and asked to pay for the lunch in advance of the meeting) and
a larger meeting in the late afternoon open to all registered attendees at the
meeting. After consulting together, Kaplan and Kirkpatrick recommend the luncheon.
Evidently they are a bit uneasy that an open meeting might prove an irresistible
stimulus for demonstrative action on the part of the minority of activists in
the Association.
4. The luncheon would be sponsored by the University of Chicago's Center
for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies. As noted above, attendance would be
by invitation and prepayment only. Kaplan, Kirkpatrick, and I can put together
a list of the leaders of the profession, not necessarily all of whom would need
to be known friends of the CIA, though all responsible and sober scholars.. We
could shoot for a small luncheon of around 25 (which Kirkpatrick favors) or a
rather larger luncheon of between 40 and 50 (which Kaplan suggested). The latter
is about the largest group that could be handled in this format effectively.
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SUBJECT: Plans for the American Political Science Association
Meeting in New York, August 31 - September 3, 1978
5. The meeting begins on Thursday and proceeds through Sunday
morning. Kaplan says, and I agree, that the first and last days are the
worst. So the best choices would be Friday or Saturday, 1 or 2 September.
6. The questions, then, are:
a. Whether you consider it worth your time to make a commitment
to so small a meeting in New York eight months from now.
b. Whether you have any preference as between a maximum of 25
at the luncheon (which would be small enough for some genuine give-
and-take) or the maximum of 50 (which would reduce the interchange
to questions from the floor).
c. Whether you wish to select a day at this early date. That
decision could be delayed, of course, until about six weeks before
the meeting (there must be time to get out the invitations, get back
the money, and make the arrangements with the hotel -- the New York
Hilton).
7. 1 am disappointed that Kaplan and Kirkpatrick chose the luncheon rather
than the open meeting (or perhaps both, which we also discussed). But I am
compelled to bow to their more intimate knowledge of the state of the discipline.
I do recommend the luncheon appearance. We would get most of the stars of the
profession and the word would get around to the remainder at the meeting. But
whether the effort is worth your time, I cannot determine.
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1. Action Requested: None at the moment, this is mainly for
information.
?~- i unaerstand from that your capacity for these visits
is probably exhausted for year thought you'd want to-.know, though,
of Mort Kaplan's wish to be h;Ilnfso7
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GEORGETOWN U N I V E R S I T Y
WASHINGTON, D . C . 2 0 0 5 7
EDMUND A. WALSH
SCHOOL OF FOREIGN SERVICE
Admiral Stansfield Turner
Director
CIA
Washington, D.C. 20505
December 1, 1977
I am writing to express my appreciation, and that of Dean Osgood,
for your participation in the recent meeting of deans of professional
schools of international affairs. It was generous of you to meet with
us and to give us an opportunity to consider our respective programs in
light of your remarks. We were both well informed and stimulated by the
presentations and are most grateful to you for contributing so effectively
to them.
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