LETTER TO MR. CULLEN MURPHY FROM STANSFIELD TURNER

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2004
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: March 18, 1977
• Content Type: LETTER

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Washington, D. 0.20505
18 March 1977
Mr. Cullen Murphy
Associate Editor, Change NBWW Tower
New Rochelle, New York 10801
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Dear Mr. Murphy,
Thank you for your note of February 17 and the attached clipping.
I want to assure you that I am concerned about the Agency's relation-
ships with the academic community and that I believe, as you do, there
are important questions of principle involved.
Certainly, it seems to me, one of the most important principles
involved is that there should be no inconsistency between the objectives
of the academic community and the Central Intelligence Agency -- the
search for the truth in regard to world affairs and the need for the
U.S. Government to benefit from the knowledge of the scholarly insti-
tutions of this country. To divorce the Agency, which provides advice
and analyses to the highest levels of our government, from scholars
and their product would seem to me to be the height of folly. I
believe our mutual objective should be to strengthen that relationship
on bases that are agreeable to both the government and the academic
institutions.
To that end, I assure you I will give the matter my attention
and that we will, as you suggest, examine the matter with care.
One final point: your editorial indicates you may not have seen
the reply of my predecessor, Mr. George Bush, to Professor Van Alstyne.
I am therefore enclosing, for your information, both Professor Van Alstyne's
letter and Mr. Bush's reply.
Incidentally, I am intrigued by your deduction from the Amherst
Student report that we shared the same room at the Chi Psi house.
I can believe that the pipes and the radiators were the same, but
that mattress was already 30 years old when I was there!
Yours sincere,
STANSFIELD TURNER
'fiAdmiral, U.S. Navy
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