(SANITIZED)FROM PAUL V. WALSH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00985R000100160019-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 10, 2008
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: May 6, 1975
• Content Type: NOTES

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OFFICE OF THEI DD/I
State Dept. review completed.
6 May 1975
Re the attached, I am sorry I didn't
t a chance to meet with you, but you might
e the following position:
a. Ever since the Katzenbach
report, we have been operating on a
policy of not contracting directly
with universities and colleges to do
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b. We do contract with individual
professors as you know, but on the
condition that the head of their school
is aware of the relationship.
c. This policy was reinforced a
couple of years ago when Columbia
made us back off from a contract
arrangement with it to do economic
research on Communist countries.
Your position should be that in view of
our practice, we obviously would have to get
a new policy signal from the Director. Even
so, we are certain that if we participated in th
joint endeavor, one of the conditions would
have to be that CIA involvement be publicly
known. This might kill the whole program.
Given all this, if the FAR is still
interested in our participation v i
pursue the matter.
Paul V. Walsh
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28 April 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: Associate Deputy Director for Intelligence
SUBJECT : Special Meeting of the USC/FAR
1. The attached memorandum from Bill Hyland is self-
explanatory. It talks in the third paragraph of a task which
requires the establishment "for FY-1976 a jointly funded program
of at least $2 million." The memo brings up certain questions
relating to the Agency's position on this for which I ask your
guidance.,
a. Does CIA want to be identified and involved
in funding the activities of university research
centers in. the United States? Such funding would in
my judgment have to be overt and this could cause us
public- relations problems,
b. The Preliminary Prospectus attached to Hyland's
memo is unclear as to how this program is to be managed.
Page 4 refers to an "executive agency" but does not fur-
ther define it, nor is the Prospectus clear as to what
authority the agencies providing funds will have in regard
to making awards. And finally, it does not specify any
criteria for the studies to be undertaken.
2. You will note that I am summoned in my capacity as Agency
USC/FAR representative to a meeting on 7 May. I would appreciate
a chance to talk with you about this before that meeting.
CIA Representative
USC/FAR
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
USC/FAR Doc. No. 39
April 16, 1975
MEpDRA.NDLM FOR: (See Attached I.,ist of Addressees)
SUBJECT : Special Meeting of the USC FAR
sentatives will come to this meeting prepared to Indicate.
-- how their respective FY-1976 and FY-1977 research
goals can be restructured to support the new program;
-- the magnitudes of the FY-1976 and FY-1977 funds they
can earmark for this interagency effort;
-- refinements they believe it essential to make in the
attached "Preliminary Prospectus.''
The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
has instructed me as Chairman of the USC/FAR to strengthen govern-
ment funding of academic foreign affairs research along the lines
set forth in the attached "Preliminary Prospectus."
I have accordingly scheduled a special meeting of the USC/FAR.
for 2Q Q m. on Wednesday, May 7, 1975, in Roan 6320 of the Main
State Build r . This meeting wig consialf a response to Mr.
Mssii ger's directive that the government establish significantly
stronger intellectual links with university research centers on
matters of central concern to U.S. foreign relations, and to build
this new emphasis into our forward planning for fiscal years 1976
and 1977.
Our initial task is to establish for FY-1976 a jointly funded
program of at least $2 million. State plans to devote $600,000,
nearly 3/4 of its entire FY-76 external research budget, to this
program. It will be helpful if USC/FAR Member and Observer repre-
r
Wi:'.1 !.am G. Qyland
Chairman, USC Subcarnnittee on
Foreign Affairs Research
Attachment :
Preliminary Prospectus.
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USC/FAR MEMBERS:
STATE
DEFENSE (Co-Rep.)
DEFENSE (Co-Rep.)
ACDA
USIA
NSC STAFF
USC/FAR OBSERVERS:
HEW
OMB (Co-Rep.)
OMB (Co-Rep.)
CIA
NSF (Co-Rep.)
NSF (Co-Rep.)
Mr. William G. Hyland, Chairman
Director, Bureau of Intelligence
& Research
Mr. Robert Ellsworth, Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International
Security Affairs
Lt. Col. Henry L. Taylor, Military Assistant
for Human Resources, Office of the Director
of Defense Research and Engineering
Dr. Miloslav Rechcigl, Assistant
Director, Office of Research and Insti-
tutional Grants
Dr. Amrom H. Katz, Assistant Director,
Plans & Analysis Bureau
Mr. James Moceri, Chief,Research
Services, Office of Research and Assessment
Mr. Jerry Dargis, Staff Officer
Mr. Thomas D. Willett, Deputy Assistant
Secretary for Research and Planning
Mr. Jonathan C. Menes, Director, Applied
Research Division, Office of Economic
Research
Mr. David E. Hohman, Deputy Director, Office
of International Affairs Management
Mr. James F. Barie, Chief, State/USIA
Branch, International Affairs Division
Mr. Robert E. Howard, Branch Chief/Air
Force, National Security Division
Deputy Director,
Office of Political Research
Dr. Russell C. Drew, Director, Science &
Technology Policy Office
Dr. Howard Hines, Director, Division of
Social Sciences
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Preliminary Prospectus for
A PROGRAM OF GOVERNMENT--FUNDED
RESEARCH ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
DRAFT - 4/15/75
NOTE: In the interest of brevity, this paper is
more assertive than analytical. It is
nonetheless meant to invite attention to
matters that need to be resolved quickly,
not to suggest that alternative resolu-
tions are beyond consideration.
Objective: To develop and sustain a Government-funded
program of foreign affairs research in U.S. universities
and research institutions. The research effort supported
by the program should:
-- aim to develop analyses and policy concepts con-
cerning aspects of world affairs of central im-
portance to the successful conduct of U.S. foreign
relations in the mid-term future;
-- be institutionally linked to the intellectual pro-
cesses of government that enter into the formula-
tion of U.S. foreign policy.
Supplementary in Nature: The purpose of the program
is to assist existing university research centers wishing to
do so to focus part of their research effort in ways that
will contribute to a productive dialogue between those centers
and the government on mid-term questions of foreign policy.
A number of cautions are therefore in order. The program
should not:
-- be viewed as a source of funding for new centers;
-- have the effect of displacing or discouraging
either existing or additional sources of support
for the centers;
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-- become so central to the work of any center that
the continuing existence of the center comes to
depend upon the continuation of awards under the
program.
Topical Priorities: In principle, such a program could
have topical foci as numerous as the regional and functional
foreign policy concerns of the U.S. Government. In practice,
however, informed judgment will have to be brought to bear
in order to identify topics of central importance. The
following list of five topics reflects State! Department
priorities, though most topics will be of interest to other
agencies as well. Additional consulations, as well as some
of the considerations discussed in subsequent sections of
..this prospectus, may well require modification of the list
before it is accepted as a definitive series of foci for
the initial program.
-- The Political Dynamics and International Relations
of the People's Republic of China.
-- The Political Dynamics and International Relations
of the USSR.
-- Critical Problems of International Interdependence:
Food, Resources, Population, Development, Trade,
Finance, Currencies, Coordination of Policies.
-- The Dynamics of Inter-American Relations.
Academic Initiative: While it is the purpose of the
program to return beneficial inputs to policy thinking in
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the government, the initiative for proposing and conducting
spE~cific research activities is to be in academia. Thus,
within each priority topic:
-- pertinent university centers are to be asked to
propose specific research projects which fit their
capabilities and which they believe will illum-
inate matters that ought to be of important con-
cern to the U.S. Government in the mid-term;
each proposal is to suggest arrangements under
which the researchers can maintain a productive
dialogue with interested government officers on
the pertinence of the research effort and its
findings;
proposing centers are to be encouraged to develop
arrangements with non-resident scholars in their
area for involving the latter in the research
effort proposed;
proposing centers wishing to do so are to be
encouraged to coordinate their proposals with one
another in order to provide more thorough coverage
of the topic;
awards are to be made to those centers whose proposals
are judged most likely to contribute to improved
policy thinking in the government;
-?- procedures for selecting proposals to be supported
by the funding agencies are to include provision
for soliciting the advice of non-competing private
experts;
--- awards are to be made primarily to university
centers in the U.S., however, collaborative re-
search arrangements between the centers and foreign
scholars or institutions are to be encouraged in
appropriate cases;
--- all research conducted under an award is to be
carried out on an unclassified basis with open
publication of results.
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Funding--Sources and Management: At least in its
initial stages, the program will require funding from several
government agencies if it is to achieve significant results
at the earliest possible time.
-- NSD'I-98_ provides the authority and the mechanism--
the Under Secretaries Subcommittee on Foreign
Affairs Research (USC/FAR)--for the planning and
implementation of the program;
-- to the extent permitted by existing legislation,
management of a single, multi-topic, multi-agency
program by an "executive agency" is preferable
to coordination of separate agency programs; in
either case, arrangements are to be made for all
funding agencies to advise on the program and
participate in its benefits.
Size of Awards: Many factors will enter into determining
the size, and therefore the number, of awards to be made in
any year. Given the likelihood that the total FY-1976 fund-
ing will be modest--about $2 million--and that proposing
centers will need some idea of what is feasible, a reasonable
guideline for the first year would be that proposals provide
for 2-3 professional man-years of effort per year.
The Start-Up Problem: Once the program is established,
awards can be made to support research efforts that get under-
way at a time that fits the rhythn of the academic year. How-
ever, the first year of the program presents a special diffi-
culty in this regard.
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Awards cannot be made until funds are available for
obligation. Given the vagaries of federal budget making,
only limited funds will be available in July 1975; total
funding for the program is not likely to become available
until the end of 1975, well after the academic year opens.
If the start of research funded under the program is not to
be unduly delayed, proposing centers will face the challenge
of contingent planning to begin new activities in the course
of the academic year. Funding agencies can ease but not
eliminate the challenge by making funds available in the most
timely fashion possible.
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