ACADEMIC RELATIONS - DDI

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Approved For Release 2006/10/05 CIA-RDP86B00985R000300070006-6 ACADEMIC RELATIONS - DDI ""M f) o., 1 ) 1. In 1966, the Deputy Director for Intelligence established the position of Coordinator for Academic Relations. The incumbents have been (1966-1970), (1974-present). (Tab A) 2. There were two basic reasons for the creation of this position: a. Especially important was the need at that time to develop strong ties with China scholars. Government interest in China was growing, and governmental expertise was not as strong as it should have been. In fact, we did not have adequate knowledge of the location and quality of China scholarship available in the U.S. b. Second, it had been a bad year for Agency/academic relations. The National Student Association controversey had repercussions not only for the operational side of CIA, but we found that we had trouble sustaining the solid, professional scholarly contact which is necessary to our work. DDI analysts cannot function properly if they are isolated from non-governmental scholars, and the gov- ernment cannot afford to do without the substantive insights of the scholarly world. Thus, one task for the Coordinator was to rebuild the non-operational, professional colleague-to-colleague ties that we needed. 3. About 1970, the Coordinator intensified the Directorate's ties with specialists in Soviet/East European affairs, as well. We needed to make certain that the subjects to which we gave our attention, and our Approved For Release 2006/10/05 . A-RDP86B00985R000300070006-6..- analyses, stayed on the mark. We must always avoid the prospect of the development of a conventional "government line" on any subject of major national security interest, and contact with scholars helps us in this area. 4. In the process of building ties and gaining substantive insights, the Agency has exchanged a good deal of information with its scholar contacts -- in the form of intellectual interchange, the supply of refer- ence aids (Tab B), and occasionally by critically reading the draft of an article, a chapter, or a book at the request of a scholar. Many of our analysts are recognized authorities in their fields, and have contributed chapters to anthologies being edited by academic colleagues, or have written books on China, the Soviet Union, and other subjects, fully acknowl- edging their CIA employment. 5. The type of contact with academics in which we have engaged has taken several forms. For example: a. The Coordinator annually sponsors two or three seminars on subjects of particular interest to Agency analysts. From ten to twenty academicians may attend each one of these, along with two to four CIA analysts and possibly specialists from other agencies of government. The analysts will present a series of hypotheses and then sit back and let the academicians debate them. It is a learning experience for both sides. The academicians are usually not paid, though they may be given a dinner or be reimbursed for travel and accomodations. It is a purely voluntary exchange of views in which they see continuing value. Approved For Release 2006/10/05 : CIA-RDP86B00985R000300070006-6 b. Directorate for Intelligence analysts are encouraged to attend professional meetings in their area of specialization, and to participate as members of panels at such events (Tab C, D). They also engage in external training at colleges and universities in order to broaden their approach to intelligence analysis. In 1974, ten DDI analysts were full-time students, and in 1975 eleven are engaged in full-time study. It is DDI policy to have every such participant or student acknowledge his Agency affiliation, so that there can be no question of covert surveillance or penetration. Only rarely, and usually because of the presence of some particular foreigner at a professional meeting, will an analyst cover his Agency employment. Occasionally an analyst will be asked to attend a meeting but the sponsors will want him not to announce his place of employment. DDI analysts are respected members of their professional associations, and by all reports add substantially to the intellectual interchange when they undertake full-time studies. c. We are often asked to provide speakers for college seminars on various aspects of foreign policy or special area studies. Within budgetary constraints, we try to respond to such requests (Tab E,..F). Reports from our professor contacts indicate that such assistance adds immeasurably to the content of a course, and gives the students a picture both of the foreign policy environment and of the role of a professional researcher which cannot be conveyed by textbooks and more traditional teaching approaches. d. For the past several years, usually in the spring, student groups visiting the Washington area as part of their coursework have requested briefings about CIA and its relation to the foreign policy community. When time has permitted, such briefings have been presented at our Headquarters (Tab G). 6. In addition to these formalized academic relations, many analysts in the DDI components have maintained their own personal ties with colleagues with whom they have attended graduate school, or with their professors. The only constraint placed upon such contacts is that security considerations be respected by the analysts. We believe that the Agency and the Government draw a significant benefit from these relationships. The quality of research is improved both in the governmental and non-governmental research worlds. 7. Inevitably, all academic contact leads to the recruitment of very high quality professional analysts, either by referrals from professors, or due to interest stimulated at professional meetings. In addition, as part of the Agency's Affirmative Action Plan for the last two years, repre- sentatives from state schools and minority colleges have been invited to the Agency for generalized presentations on the opportunities for employment in'the intelligence profession. In 1974, ten minority schools visited the Agency for this purpose and in 1975, representatives from 23 publically funded schools were invited. 8. A growing number of unclassified publications produced by DDI offices are made available to the academic community through the Document Expediting Project of C ngress. DOCEX provides its subscribers with U.S. Government publications that are not available for purchase at the GPO or at the issuing agency. Certain CIA publications, primarily atlases prepared by OGCR, have been reprinted by GPO and are available for sale to theSTATS P EC These are of great assistance to academicians in their research. Approved For Release 2006/10/05 : CIA-RDP86BOO985R000300070006-6 /pproved For Release 2006/10 : CIA-RDP86B6NSfaboDoO07000 4 1. The Coordinator for Academic Relations is the DDT's principal advisor on academic affairs and is specifically charged with the development and active coordination of the Directorate's overall relations with the academic community. His general. objectives are to broaden and to improve relations between the Agency and appropriate elements of the academic community. He will seek to further communi- cations and mutual professional respect between members of the intelligence and the academic communities, to devise ways to attract. qualified professional-level people from the academic community to careers in intelligence, to facilitate academic research on subjects of possible interest to intelligence, and, in general, to improve, attitudes among academics toward the Agency. 2. The coordination and advisory functions of the Coordinator for Academic Relations include: . a. developing a diversified series of Agency- Academic seminars on substantive questions both at Headquarters and in the field; b. developing new programs for the interchange of ideas between members of the intelligence and the academic communities and for the improvement of the Agency's overall image; c. facilitating the release of selected unclassified research material to the academic community, and helping to locate materials which should be declassified and disseminated externally; d. developing guidelines and procedures to govern contacts between the Directorate and the academic community; SECRET E2 IMPDET CL BY 006965 Approved For Release 2006/10/05 :li C-RDP86MtQ$&b0Tb300070006-6 e. assisting the DDI and Directorate offices in the selection and use of academic consultants; f. coordinating Agency responses to specific academic requests for Agency materials; g. advising the DDT on requests for DDT employees to lecture or to teach in universities; h. maintaining liaison with non-DDI offices that also have regular contact with the academic community. 3. To rationalize the Directorate's approach to relations with. the academic community and to provide those relations guidance and order, the Coordinator will organize and chair a DDI Academic Relations Committee. Each office of the Directorate will nominate an Academic Relations Officer (ARO) as its repre- sentative on the Academic Relations Committee. Nominees with extensive and recent contact with the academic community would be desirable. The ARO will keep track of Agency-Academic relations in his office and assist the Coordinator for Academic. Relations in developing, monitoring and coordinating relations between the Directorate and the academic community.. Although the activities of the Coordinator will abet the recruitment of professionals, the responsibility for hiring remains with the operating officials of the Directorate and the individual offices. Likewise, the actual placement of external research contracts is outside the purview of the Coordinator, although he should be informed of them by the contracting office. I EDWARD W. PKUUIUR Deputy Director for Intelligence SECRET E2 IMPDET CL BY 006965 30 September 1974 Coordinator for Academic Relations (CAR) Objectives 1.: To establish in FY 1975 regular meetings with office academic relations officers and, through this mechanism, to coordinate and expand meaningful DDI-wide relationships with academia--both faculties and students. 2. To carry out a program of seminars with academic colleagues, to exchange substantive views and enhance the. reputation. of CIA by building respect for the quality of DDI analysts and their work. To effect the procedures necessary to coordinate the seminar activities with similar programs being conducted under NIO auspices to avoid any possible Approved For Release 2006/10/05 : CIA-RDP86B00985R000300070006-6 Approved For Release 2006/10/05 CIA-RDP86B00985R000300070006-6 `w TOTAL 18 China/Asia Aids 30 China Specialists 15 Soviet Specialists 13 Soviet/EE Aids 15 Soviet Specialists 10 China Specialists 7 Ad Hoc Requests were responded to which are not included in the above total of reference aids sent periodically to standard recipients (academic con- tacts). P to attend neetings of academic and professional organizations 25X1 sc ssion: Employees in the Intelligence Directorate are encouraged. meetings at Government expense as staffing requirements and budget limitations permit.. employees to attend meetings at their own expense with no charge to annual leave, and, to approve attendance at. Office heads.are hereby delegated authority to permit ln. approving a.t'tendajce at academic--aizd professional 2. Guides for Approval ATTE`MA`CE AT ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS It will be the. responsibility of office heads to insure that the DDI is made aware of attendance-at academic and. professional meetings and to coordinate this attendance consuming. Some meetings are usually held in alter- nate years in the Western and Eastern United. States. A one year delay in these cases. will save money and time. (a) Location in relation- to value or need: Tra.rei to meetings on the t',est Coast is expensive and time (b) Repeated attendance at annual meetings.- Some meetings are o value to an individual only once in C 0 N F I D E N T I A L E2 I MPDE T CL BY 25)(1 1a 0 0 N F I D E N i I A L -approved For Release 2006/10/05 :alA-RDP86B00985R000300070006-6 a several years. If this is the case, some other in- dividuals should be offered the opportunity to attend. (c} mbershio, Does th in.di:ic al s:,o nouyh interes,to--E)yactive or to retain nembershin in the society sponsoring the conference? - (d) Benefit to the Agency and individual as an Agency employee. by the Ag .Attendance at conferences of an academic nature should be approved by office heads or their designees and forwarded. to the DDI Coordinator for Academic Relations with an in- - fornatior--copy to ODDI Admin Staff. Attendance at iJtternatiior>al conferences should be approved by office heads .or *their-de:si.grrves and notification made . in"accordance with A 25x1. Cap" Cf this notifi__ -_. sn __ _ _ _ .__ .. Adrain - - 4.- Sdcurity When an Agency employee is asked to participate as a member of a panel or to present a paper at an academic or professional meeting, he will also follow the instruc- tions in-.nofficial Public Appearances and C 0 N F I D E ?: T I A L Approved For Release 2006/1644: CIA-PDP86b0'09g5 bOb3(b00f0(oe.?' 25X1 prob&d For Release 2006/1 *IA-R DP86B00985R000300070008'& o (Illustrative List) PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS ATTENDED OPENLY BY CIA ANALYSTS ^ that in addition to our substantive interest, pie a1 0 a`tend such meetings to seek out candidates for employment as analysts.) AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION (AHA) INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (ISA) MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE (MEI), Washington, D.C. AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (AFA), Chicago, Ill.. ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY NATIONAL CONVENTION AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION (APSA) AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION (AEA) AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE INSTITUTE FOR GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION MIDDLE EAST INSTITUTE (MEl) LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION (LASA) AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SLAVIC STUDIES (AAASS) NATIONAL MICROFILM ASSOCIATION (NMA) ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES (AAS) POPULATION ASSOCIATDN OF AMERICA Approved For Release 2006/10/05 : CIA-RDP86B00985R000300070006-6 Approved For Releapg(~ l1jOJQfl: R$6~~R9~ ~~~ AQ i (l) WWI A%001 10/11-12/7' Middle East Inst. Conf DATE MEETING PARTICIPANTS/PURPOSE 10!7-8/74 Food Population Conf 7-OGCP, attend 5-0PR 5-OGCft 10/13-17/74 10/20/74 10/21-24174 10/25/74 10/16-18/74 10/19-22/74 10/30-11/2/74 Amer. Society for Info. 3-CRS Science Inst. for Graphic Communi- 1-CRS cation Conf Law of the Sea Conf 2-OGCR Amer. Assoc for Advancement 1-OPR of Slavic Studies Conf of International 1-OPR Maritime Consult. Org. Conf of Fisheries Committee 1-OPR of the Food & Agric. Org. African Studies Assoc 2-CRS 25X1 11/6-8/74 11/8-9/74 11/11-13/74 11/14-16/74 11/27/74 12/9-12/74 12/12-15/74 12/18-21/74 12/26-27/74 Middle East Studies Assoc 1-OPR attend discussant attend present paper attend attend attend attend Assoc for Computing Machinery 1-OGCR attend National Convention 1-CRS Latin Amer. Studies Assoc 2-OCI attend & 1-WH Div panelists Society for International 2-OPR attend Development International Conf on Auto- 17-OGCR attend & set up nation in Cartography 2 exhibits Sino-American Conf -1-0PR discussant LA Geographers Conf 2-0008 attend attend & re&T,#TSPEC Approved For Release 2006/10/05 : CIA-RDP86B00985R000300070006-6 Approved For Release 2006/10/05rCIA-R DP86B00985R000300070006-6,4k Profession: Meetings and Conferences 4/18-20/74 4/28--5/1/74 5/5-8/74 5/7-10/74 5/15-17/74 6/12-15/74 9/3-7/74 9/3-10/74 :,9/7-16/74 9/10-13/74 9/11-12/74 9/12-15/74 9/18/74 9/23-25/74 9/23-25/74 II a1.tend 2 ~aVKTGPEC contact International Symposium on 4 0CC attend Remote Sensing of Energy Population Assoc of America I--OGCR attend Amer. Geographers Assoc 9-OGCR attend Offshore Technology Conf 1-OGCR attend National Microfilm Assoc 2-CRS attend GUIDE 38 Meeting 3--CRS attend Industrial Graphics 1--OGCR attend International Conf International Design Conf 2-OGCR attend Pan American Inst.of 1--000R chair mtg .Geography Amer Pol. Science Assoc 9-OPR attend & recruit Banff '74 :International 2-OPR attend Slavic Conf International Slavic Studies 2-OGCR attend XIV International Congress 2?-OGCR attend of Surveyors 7--OGCR attend Fed. Design Assembly 3-OGCR attend Conf of International Inst. 1-OPR attend for Strategic Studies UN Law of the Sea Conf 1-0PR attend Law of the Sea Conf li-OGCR attend Marine Tech. Society 1--OGCR attend Approved For Release 2006/10/05.: CIA-RDP86B00985R000300070006-6 Approved For Release 2006/10/05 CIA-RDP86B00985R000300070006-6 Professional M tings and Conferences (c:ontinu'!d) DATE MEETING ?/?5-31/74 12/28-30/74 9175 1/19-31/75 2/19-22/75 Amer. i_coa. Assoc, 8-0=1' att`.eIt' P_ re`crai Amer. Historical Assoc 8-OPR attend & recruit Law of i Sea Goo 4-(iG 12 2. ue d Brookings Inst Conf 1-OPR attend International' Studies Assoc 6-OPR attend 2-OGCR. mtg 1-OER panelist 3-OCT mtgs 3-OGCR & 1-OER recruit panelist 3/25-28/75 Marine Pollution Conf I-OGCR attend 4/11-12/75 Amer Aca of Pot & Soc Science 3-OPR attend ADDI Tech. & Social Forecasting 1-OPR discussant Assoc of Amer Geographers 11-OGCR. attend & present a paper 5/9-10/75 Amer Assoc for Adv of attend STATSPEC di Sl St i 6/2-6/75 es av u c World Future Society 8-OPR attend 6/18/75 Cong Stf Sem of Ctr for 1-OPR speak Strategic & Internat'l Studies . Approved For Release 2006/10/05 : CIA-RDP86B00985R000300070006-6 25X41 ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONL GUIDELINES FOR CAMPUS SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS 1. The participation of DDI people in campus speak- ing engagements is clearly beneficial to the Agency and will continue. The purpose of this Notice is to provide guidelines for this program. ,,.2. Participation of DDI personnel should be in re- sponse to requests initiated by the academic institutions involved. DDI officers should not solicit or initiate speaking engagements for themselves or other. DDI officers. 3. Acceptance of requests for DDI speakers will be made on a highly selective basis, having a view to the strengths of a particular university or. college, the atmosphere on that campus, the personal knowledge and confidence of DDI officers in the point of contact on campus, the subject matter of the request, and the availability of qualified DDI speakers. 4. As a general rule, DDI speakers will confine themselves to specific topics or-areas in which they have '.'6. or foreign policy formulation will be the exception rather .than the rule. 5. Requests to make campus appearances will be sub- mitted through the Office Director or Staff Chief for concurrence. The request should then be submitted through the Coordinator for Academic Relations (CAR) who will forward recommendations and the request to the Assistant Deputy Director for Intelligence for approval. Requests should be routed from office chiefs to the DDI Administra- tive Staff for preliminary staffing. ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY Approved For Release 2006/10/05 CIA-RDP86B00985R000300070006-6 Approved For Release 2006/10 5}ASIA-RDP86B00985R000300070006-t-' ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY 25X1 6. In all cases, an information copy of the request for approval must be provided -1the Office of Training. 7. The optimum setting for speaking engagements is the seminar, the class room, the faculty lounge, or. scale gatherings open to the general public will be avoided. 8. There must be an explicit understanding between- The fact that the speaker is not campus groups. 9. In addition, the academic point of contact must be in a position to give CIA a reasonable prior guarantee of minimum publicity, before and after the speaker's app ea nc ante ia-a ~]DT Gskero grrant ate? ess or T interview or ma e andstatements to_^public media uersonne` mien and if a DDI speaker is confronted w h such a situation, he should decline politely and seek the assistance of the academic point of contact in. explaining why public statements are not possible. 10. DDI officers speaking on campuses on substantive issues will inevitably be asked questions about CIA and intelligence, and may be guided as follows: a. Questions concerning CIA activities, sources, methods of collection, or other sensitive issues should be politely turned aside on the grounds. that the speaker is on campus as a substantive - specialist, and that he is not authorized, qualified or prepared to answer such questions. Approved For Release 2006/$1 b. In the case of less sensitive questions-- the general role of intelligence in U. S. foreign policy formulation, employment opportunities in the CIA, etc.--the speaker should state that he did not come to the campus to speak to such questions, but that he is willing to chat in- formally with the questioner(s) after his presentation. 11. In those cases where a DDI speaker is granted approval to speak on the organization. of CIA and its role in foreign policy formulation, the officer in question? a. should be guided by prior study of. CAR files of permissible statements and rejoinders; b. will speak on such subjects on a given campus only if his appearance on the campus also involves speaking on some substantive 0 Deputy Director for Intelligence -3- ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL USE ONLY Approved For Release 2006/10/05 : CIA-RDP86B00985R000300070006-6 Approved For Release 2006/10/05: CIA-RDP86B00985R000300070006-6 Vap, V DATE 1/14/74 2/18-19/74 3/11/74 3/11-15/74 3/12-13/74 3/18/74 4/ 9/ 74 4/10/74 4/10/74 4/11/74 4/17/74 Univ. of Va. 1-OER Michigan St. Univ. 1-OGCR Harvard Univ. 1-OER Univ. of Illinois T-OER Univ in Atlanta 1-OER Villanova Univ 1-OGCR George Wash. Univ 1-OER Harvard Univ 1-OER Strategic Studies 1-OER Institute Michigan St. Univ 1-OER No. Carolina St 1-OER II 5/6-10/74 5/10-11/74 5./"0-11/74 5/25-25/74 6/11-16/74 6/30-8/23/74 7/25-26/74 8/18-21/74 Tulane Univ 2-OER Course George Wash Univ 7-OSR - Seminar Counselor Lecture Discussant Recruit Recruit .Lecture Speaker Conference Discussant Discussant Discussant Speaker Univ of Minnsesota . 1-OGCR Lecture Speaker Conference College in La Jolla, CA 1-OER Recruit Univ of Michigan 1-OPR Summer Frograar Cornell Univ Fed. Exec. Inst. Texas A&M. Univ 1-OER 1-OPR 1-OER Consultant Course Conf & Recruit Recruit 09 r Approved For Release 2006/10/05 : CIA-RDP86B00985R000300070006-6 Approved For Releas~?aDQ~~rs 04~~1iI~PB~& c~98Q P0300070006-6 Sw fall '74 Randolph-Macon Woman's 1-COMIREX Speaker College 9/74 College of William & 1-OPR Speaker Ma ry 9/4/74 Fletcher Inst, Brown, 2-OPR Make/renew contacts & Radcliffe & recruit 10/7-8/74 American Univ Symposium STATSPEC 10/10-11/74 Univ of No. Carolina 2-OER Grain Trade f todel 10/11/74 Yale Univ 1-NIO Seminar 10/13-19/74 Univ in Atlanta, Durham,!-OER Recruit Nashville & Petersburg 10/29-30/74 Univ in Nashville 1-OER Recruit 11/74 Va Commonwealth Univ 1-OER Lecture 11/11/74 Univ of No. Carolina 2-OER Discussants 11/13/74 Columbia Univ 1-OPR Seminar 11/18/74 Johns Hopkins School 1-OCI Panelist 11/29/74- UCLA, Stanford & 1-OPR Make/renew contacts 1/10/75 . Berkeley 12/9/74 Syracuse Uni.v 12/12-13/74 Univ of Kansas 1-OGCR Workshop 1/7-9/75 Tufts Univ Recruit STATSPEC 1/8/75 George Wash. Univ 1-DDS&T Seminar 1/10/75 Univ of Pa. 1-OER Conference 1/22-24/75 Univ of No. Carolina 2/ 3-4/ 75 No. Carolina St Univ International Grain Trade Flows Approved For Release 2006/10/05 : CIA-RDP86B00985R000300070006-6 Approved For Release 2006/10/05 : CIA-RDP86B00985R000300070006-6 ti 4 GATE 2112175 2/12/75 3/3-4/75 3/19/75 3/19-21/75 3125/75 Georgetown Univ Columr.bia Univ Univ of CA - Davis Marshall Univ Univ of No. Carolina 1-OPR Speaker 1-OPP Seminar 1-OPR Speaker 1-OCI Speaker 1-OER Symposium 1-OSR Lecture 4/21/75 5/5-8/75 Auburn Univ & Troy State Univ TOTAL: 57 Campuses, 73 Participants 1-OCI 1-OCI Discussant 14 ProfessoSTATSfN6 Speaker Lecture l--OER Lecture/Present Paper Approved For Rqqape,~gp j1Q~Q PA f{~FL$6 IdD'P }9QIQ006-6 1/10/74 Colgate Univ. Group 1 ('15) 2/2;/74 Colgate Univ. Group (17) /74 Georgetown Grad Group (18) 3/29/74 Princeton WHIG-CLIG Group 1 (26) 4/5/74 West Point German Club 5 (48) 4/12/74 West Point Chinese Club 5 (30) 4/26/74 West Point Russian Club 5 (24) 5/24/74 Syracuse/Maxwell School 1 (27) 1/75 Carroll College 1 (15) 3/5/75 Colgate Univ. Group 1 (14) 3/25/75 Princeton WHIG-CLIO Group 1 (20) 4/5/75 West Point Debate Council and Forum (40) I 4/11/75 West Point German Club 5 (40) 4/18/75 West Point French and Russian Clubs (60) 5 4/25/75 Harvard Senior Fellows 3 (20) 5/2 C%75 Ohio Univ. Group 7 (21) 5/23/75 Syracuse/Maxwell School 1 DATE GROUP _ ~- ---SPEAKER (25)" TOTAL: 17 Groups 460 Attendeees 45 S_ppeakers Approved For Release-2006/10(0 :-et*-R DP86B00O85R0003000700