TO PROFESSOR LYMAN B. KIRKPATRICK, JR. FROM EDWARD W. PROCTOR

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• Publication Date: September 24, 1974
• Content Type: LETTER

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
24 September 1974
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Professor Lyman B. Kirkpatrick, Jr.
P.O. Box 1844
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
Dear Kirk,
Bill Colby passed me your letter concerning Professor Alden
Williams' student, and we will be happy to talk with Major Edwards.
I think such discussions are beneficial to our own people as they
try out new analytical tools on our perennial intelligence problems.
As you will see from the enclosure, my Coordinator for Academic
Relations, has been in touch with Professor Williams and
will carry the ball from here.
Sincerely,
Edward W. Proctor
Deputy Director for Intelligence
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23 September 1974
MEMORANDUM FOR: THE RECORD
SUBJECT : Arrangements for Major Richard C. Edwards to
Meet with Certain CIA Analysts to Discuss
Elite Personality Data
1. Because the time seemed to be running so short to
respond to Lyman Kirkpatrick's request that we help Major Edwards
reach a CIA analyst, today I called Professor Alden Williams
at Kansas State University to lay some ground rules for an appoint-
ment for Major Edwards. I asked Professor Williams to have
Edwards send a letter to me outlining, in as much detail as
possible, the kind of information he wanted to discuss concerning
the way CIA organizes elite personality data. Professor Williams
was greatful for the call and said that he would make certain that
Edwards did send a letter as soon as possible.
2. This memorandum should meet the requirement that I
write directly to Professor Williams and could be used to inform
Professor Kirkpatrick that contact has been made per his request.
STA
DD/I Coordinator forAcademiC Relations
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Mr. William Colby, Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D. C. 20505
September 9, 1974
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I am enclosing a letter from Professor Alden Williams at Kansas
State University which I believe contains a reasonable request: that
an Army major working with him on a Master's thesis be permitted to
talk to someone in the agency on the methodology for organizing data
on elite personalities. It seems to me this could be mutually bene-
ficial. If I you agree, could you have it given to someone who would
set up a meeting with Major Edwards through Professor Williams. I
am sure it will help the image of the Agency in an area where there
is a lot of support for CIA.
T>
Speaking of image, I thought the piece in the U. S. News and
World Report for September 9, 1974 was excellent. This type of article
will help overcome the image of spies and dirty tricks.
I hope all goes well. With best wishes.
Sincerely,
Lyman B. Kirkpatrick, Jr.
Professor
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BROWN U N I V E R S I T Y Providence, Rhode Island ? 02912
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August 21, 19714
Professor Lyman B. Kirkpatrick, Jr.
PO Box 1544
Brown University
Providence, P3 02912
Dear Professor Kirkpatrick:
Thank you for the copy of the symposium transcript, "Defense Policies
for the Seventies." You assembled a strong panel and did a lot of good by
somehow getting a lot more substance into the statements than one usually
finds in such public discussions. I don't know exactly what else led me
to read it through before the other things on my desk, but certainly part
of it was wanting to see how skillfully you moderated the question period.
I admired it.
May I ask your advice about a graduate student, currently under my
supervision, who is at a stage where he could profit by talking to one or
two CIA people about his Master's research? He is Richard C. Edwards, an
armor-r naior and 1972 C&SC graduate who is on TDY with us z or his M.A. in
political science. He has had something of an east Asian and Chinese in-
_Is thesis in Sino-Soviet communica-
terest throughout his career and is doing hi
tion patterns surrounding several contemporary ultimatums and crises. That
summary doesn't do credit to his hypotheses, but the point is that he has
become deeply interested in leader personality effects in Riassian and Chinese
policy. We can steer him to conventional sources, and of course his work is
entirely with unclassified material. However, he has come far enough intel-
lectually to be able to take advantage of an hour with an Agency person who
could-tell him something about how the CIA organizes elite personality data.
It would be purely an interview on method, and even that would be for re-
fining Edwards' own analytical categories, and not for print.
I was in. the information gathering business myself, and I think I'm
sufficiently familiar with what an Agency representative can and can't say
about method, and with the thin line between discussing method and risking
substance or sources. With these considerations in mind, I think such an
interview would be both feasible and profitable for a young officer with a
good. mind. 14ajor Edwards will be in the Washington area two or three times
this fall. Could you suggest a direct contact. with whom he could set up an
appointment as well as brief on k)X s spec__fic purpooes and interests?
Perhaps you've already received a copy from Frank Trager, but just in
case you haven't, I'm sending a copy of th recent Modules in Security Studies
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August 21, 1974
which had its origins at the New York meeting too many years ago. Among the
many modules missing, glaringly so, is one on intelligence, counterintelligence,
and national security- which I hoped and still hope you will contribute to.
le'll see what the reaction to this first batch is, and I hope there will be
expansion later.
Aldbn Williams
Associate professor
Modules in Security Studies
(under separate cover)
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