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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00985R000300150041-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 2, 2001
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: January 17, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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Approver Reel spt QQJ//,03/06 IA-RDP86B00985R00030015
Washington, D.C. 20505
[phone]
Herbert E. Hetu
Assistant for Public Affairs
17 January 1978
STATINTL
Academic Coordinator
NFAC
Brian,
We have no problem with your letter to
President Woodin, indeed it is very im ressive.
Would suggest you show it to of
OGC who follows the academic relations area.
We have not seen the staff work on the proposal,
and would appreciate being kept informed.
Herbert E. Hetu
STATINTL
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Dear President Woodin:
Since its inception, the Central Intelligence Agency has sought
and benefited from extensive relationships with scholars and academic
institutions throughout the United States. Leading academics and some
of their best students filled the top ranks of the American intelli-
gence community during its formative years, and have been succeeded by
equally vital and skilled analysts from later academic generations.
They have brought a high degree of intellectual energy, curiosity, and
integrity to our profession and have made sure that our research and
analytical efforts take account of the best work of the same character
available in the private sector. Indeed, they have organized many of
the components and practices of the Central Intelligence Agency on
models they brought or have subsequently adopted from academia.
In recent years, however, the Agency and the foreign intelligence
profession have been subject to intense criticism in academia. Although
much of it was generated by false allegations and by practices and
isolated abuses that have been prohibited by the reforms of the last few
years, doubts about CIA's mission, standards, and record remain. A
climate of suspicion and mistrust now all too often clouds our relations
with the academic community.
One of my principal objectives as Director of Central Intelligence
is to restore a high degree of mutual respect and understanding between
the academic and intelligence communities. My own experience is filled
with examples where cooperation between professionals in the two fields
has been mutually beneficial both to the individuals and the communities
at large. CIA desires the freest possible access to the intellectual
resources of Amerjca's institutions of higher education to enhance our
research and analytical efforts. Conversely, the academic community can
gain unique insights, conclusions, and data about foreign areas and
international affairs from open exchanges with the Agency. I look forward
to the day when a cooperative spirit between the two communities thrives
once again.
In pursuit of that objective, I am writing to invite you to be my,
guest-at CIA Headquarters on March 10. I would like you to join me and
several other university presidents to visit CIA facilities, meet with
officers from a variety of the disciplines and functions that constitute
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our profession today, and to hear about some of the new analytical
techniques we have developed. We want to be as candid as we possibly
can in describing the Agency and its work and in responding to questions
about foreign intelligence activities that may have arisen at LSU.
my invitation further with you and to help make arra
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ngemen
s if,
as I hope, you will be able to accept.
Yours,
STANSFIELD TURNER
Martin D. Woodin, President
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803
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