LETTER TO(Sanitized) FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00985R000300150030-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 2, 2001
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: February 9, 1978
• Content Type: LETTER

Approved For Release 20i1+~`/03~~J i~1~~~6B00985R00~300150030-1
~ FE8 197
13 ens
Dear President Woodin:
Since its inception the Central Intelligence Agency has sought
to maintain effective relationships with scholars and academic
institutions throughout the United States. Over the years these
relationships have been of inestimable value to the intelligence
community. T hope and believe that the relationship has been of
mutual benefit. In the wake of the considerable public criticism
over the past several years of our nation's intelligence operations,
this relationship has become somewhat tender, I would like to ask
,your help and advice in determining how best to restore a useful but
proper connection between academia and the world of intelligence.
Clearly there are limits beyond which we in the intelligence
world should not go in dealing with members of the academic community.
I da have very express rules with respect to that today, but how we
are operating within these rules is not always clear to others. -Today
there are also many new opportunities to use unclassified informatian
derived through the collection of intelligence for the benefit of
academic research. I do not believe that we have the proper mechanisms
today to insure the adequate provision of such information to academic
institutions,
Accordingly, I would like to ask you to join with several other
university presidents and me here at the Central Intelligence Agency
(Headquarters on the 10th of March. The objective v~rould be to have a
free_flowing exchange of ideas on how to reestablish the academc-
inte7ligence relationship on a sound and proper basis for mutual
advantage, This will be a quiet, private meeting of ten to twelve of
ius, during which we will take the opportunity of asking you to visit
our C]fA facilities and meet with a variety of our Agency officers
representing a diverse group of intellectual disciplines, My hope
would be that in your spending a day wii:h us our relationships might
improve to our mutual benefit, taking into full account the problems
of the past and the attitudes of the present,
Approved For Release 2001/03/06 :CIA-RDP86B00985R000300150030-1
 Approved For Release 20~A/03/06:CIA-RDP86B00985R0(~00150030-1
STATINTL~,,lould be most grateful if you could take the time to do this. '
to deliver this letter personally so that he can be available to dis-
cuss my invitation further with you and help to make arrangements if,
as I hope, you are able to accept.
Yours sincerely,
~ s~ Si:ans~i?ld '~'~r~~~~
STANSFIELO TURNER
Or. Martin D. Woodin, President
i_oui s-i ana State University
i3aton Rouge, Louisiana 70803
Approved For Release 2001/03/06 :CIA-RDP86B00985R000300150030-1