CIA RELATIONSHIP WITH ACADEMICIANS ENGAGED AS CONSULTANTS OR INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00985R000100110019-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 16, 2005
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: January 1, 1977
• Content Type: MF

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INIMRANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA : -Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
FROM
SUBJECT
REFERENCE
John F. Blake
Deputy Director for Administration
CIA Relationship with Academicians Engaged as Consultants
or Independent Contractors
Attached Routing Sheet Comments Concerning
STAT
1. Action?Reauested: That-you reaffirm current Agency practice which requires
academicians or independent contractors to obtain prior university approval.for
their association with CIA.
2. Back-
a. This memorandum, together\with attachments, contains the past and
current practice regarding CIA obtaining assurance from an academician that his
university is aware of and has no objection to-his association with CIA.
b. Our present practice requiring an academician to obtain prior
university approval for his association with CIA dates from 1967 when President
Johnson, moved by public and congressional concern over the 1967 disclosure of
the Agency's covert funding of the National Student Association and other
domestic. private institutions, established the Katzenbach Committee. The Committee,
chaired by the then Under Secretary of State, Nicholas Katzenbach, directed it,
investigation primarily at the CIA's covert funding of American educational and
private voluntary organizations.
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c. On 12 July 1967, Director Helms approved guidelines with reference
to CIA contractual relationships with U. S. educational institutions. The
approved guidelines were in three major areas: (1) contracts with institutions,
(2) grants to institutions, and (3) consultant and other personal services con-
tracts. Attachment A is a copy of the guidelines approved by the DCI in July
d. The guidelines for consultant and other personal services con-
tracts-stated:, "Consultant and other types of personal services contracts with
professors or other staff members of educational institutions within the United
States will be held to a minim th and employed only when necessary. Additionally,
such contracts will, as a general rule, be made only after assurance is obtained
that appropriate management officials of the institutions concerned are aware
of the proposed relationships."
e. Between September and December 1967, a case-by-case review was
made of each consultant or independent contractor with a university affiliation
to determine whether university management was aware of the professor's relation--
ship with CIA,. Action was taken by the Deputy Directorsca ave appropriate
university officials made aware of the consultant's relationship with. CIA. The
contractual relationship with a few consultants was terminated prior to 31 December
1967; in certain cases a Deputy Director believed it prudent not to make a uni-
versity are of the relationship and specific approval not to do so was sought from
the Deputy Di:rector for Support.
f. The matter of academicians obtaining approval of their university'
prior to entering into a relationship with CIA was re-ex