CIA INVOLVEMENT WITH A MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY PROJECT IN VIETNAM FROM 1955 TO 1959

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82R00025R000700050009-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 18, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN

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opinion abroad is no soil' iepie50n 13 by
afrairs, but with the
(Hors-Tho Navy Times comments on the specialized in foreign
prop sal to name a nuclear carrier for it demonstrations and teach-ins than is in- reticence displayed by most American
.
Adm. C Ches ster W. Nimitz.) opinion in this country, aea-
17~1'11` y~A i~1d~~oc. 'demlcs they refused to be involved in any
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There is no questl~C>CpUYDy1 1~vQle e p 1nR7 1Y.2[~Uoerican
name a ship for Fleet-'Adnj. Chester Tim. sot f; S d a oIa L ? 7
[From the San Diego, (Calif.) Union, e e p
28, 1960] firm position. TV educational venture called "Spotlight."
Neither view is valid, for informed two or three of my colleagues on the list
Osnes;R roc NIMrrZ from which the BBC eventually got my name
and electronic shops, and a ware Ouse. nection with CIA activities, so that there was ordered to be printed in the RECORD,
It will be the home port for many re- misunderstanding that re-
search and training vessels, which al- could be no as follows:
ready include the Alpha-Helix, an ocean search in the social and behavioral sci- Barrrsn SIIPPOlT ON VIETNAM?
going biological laboratory, and the ence fields, particularly, is unpressured (By James Fletcher)
Thomas Washington, a research vessel, and unconnected with political ends. (NOTE.-In 8 months' time British opinion
Mr. President; I can think of no one I was given the explanation of the on what is going on in Vietnam has changed.
more appropriate than the late Admiral ichigan State University situation sub- Today, they buy the American thesis of COm-
Nimitz, a former regent of the Univer- 'tantially as was stated today by Senator munist aggression.)
sity of California and a great naval of- EVERETT SALTONSTALL, of Massachusetts, One of the tasks sometimes assigned to
ficer, to be honored by the operation of n the Senate. U.S. citizens living abroad by their Embassy
this new advancement in the exploration I will continue to be very much inter- is defending American foreign policy. In
of the sea, which we all know to possess sted in the future in ,he freedom of uni- England, the organizing body is the U.S. In-
vast treasures of unknown wealth, ersity research from political or other formation Service, situated in the eagle-
Also, Mr. Mr.. President, I would like to call xtraneous entanglements. topped cause Embassy in Grosvenor Square. Be-
cause USIS is particularly eager to keep
the attention of the Senate to a column relations between Britian and the United
which appeared in the Navy Times con- SUPPORT IN BRITAIN FOR THE States as close as possible, the number
speak
large. Most London of f theanym i
corning what I feel is an excellent and AMERICAN COMMITMENT IN VIET- week mersap be sent out quite from
ceivo no pay, being recruited for trainfare
timely proposal by Congressman BOB
WILSON, of Sari Diego to name a nuclear NAM to fill engagements which cannot be filled
carrier for Fleet Admiral Nimitz. This ' Mr. DODD. Mr. President, demon- by Embassy officials for reasons of manpower
certainly deserves the consideration of strations in foreign capitals have often or of discretion. A Rhodes scholar may
the Congress and would be a fitting and loft the impression that intellectuals,, address an organization of retired civil ser-
appropriate tribute to this distinguished students, and other leaders of opinion in vants on "The Structure of American Gov-
naval officer. I ask unanimous consent Europe and Asia do not support the ernment." Or a Fulbright lecturer may dis-
that the. attached article be inserted in American commitment in' Vietnam. cuss the race problem before a women's club
Likewise, demonstrations in this coun- in Durham. The operation is a largo one
my remarks at this point. and the results cannot be estimated because
There being no objection, the article try have led observers abroad to believe so many variables are involved.
that opinion here is sharply divided and, . My own initiation into the role of unof-
as
was ordered to be printed 111 the RECORD, in the long run, might stimulate a weak- y
a5 follows: facial spokesman came In late January. The,
nin of determination to maintain a to is was Vietnam and the program a BBC
new oceanographic research facility on versity projec Saigon by saction dismally failed?
Point Loma, off San Diego, after the 1959, which I made in a speech in Okla- Why has the strike ketna on Army continued V
late Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, holn