THE MARKET FOR POTTED EXPERTISE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400160012-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: November 11, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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Article appeared 11 November 1978
on page 489
..COVERT SCHOLARSHIP ?
developing "programs'aesigned-to disseminate poll-'
tical ".,knowledge' and- increase its - application .'to'
:public policy."-For reasons of, expediency=-or poss'i-'
bly subterfuge-.these services were rendered chiefly:
by' :four OPR subsidiaries: the-Institute fors' the.
Comparative - Study' of _ Political. Systems -(George
Demetriou. director): the Institute for Cross-Cultural:
Research (Theodore Stoddard.-director): Independ
ent Research- Associates (William R. Hamilton,`
ALLEN BOYC president); and Editorial Advisory Associates (Car-
?nelIus Vahle. director).
A great. deal can be said:for the contract.. The' Institute -for the ?- Comparative Study of
and grant system. whereby agencies of the. Political System' s,,-an, operation launched with -a
=federal government draw '6pon:the.knowl $110,000 grant from a CIA conduit, (the Andreasr
.edge and skills of. private groups, scholars. Foundation), produced research and monographs on
,?and specialists'Bait-ail--:too? often "mischie "all phases of. elections both in the United States and,
vous consequences f1G%4,: from.:-symbiotic - Latin America [based on] investigation of voter)
relationships tha develop: between con -r- behavior and :.: the political and legal contexts ofl
tractors, grantees ands"tile government erections." The Institute for Cross-Cultural Research,
This danger has become. acute; since 1950; on the other hand, focused on "the changing cultures
. vhen:_Operations. and -,-Policy' :Research of ethnic ' groups --throughout-.the world"--.because of
Incorporated (OPR) entered the--picture.... -the need.*=`-topromote better understanding of these
:?:?The- original stated-aim- of OPR was "to people as they attempt. to cope with' new'-economic,1
conduct and -encourage- basic and applied political, religious and technical situations." .- --
research, participate in' educational activi- Over the years, roughly half of OPR's income came
ties, and advise on matters relevant to all from USIA contracts involving- book :and "other-;
phases of -government and private policy publication activities quietly =carried out for the
formation -:and operation." ?What_ this:' agency by-Editorial Advisory-Associates and In.de--I
: meant was put more specifically-,when. - pendent' Research:, Associates. Some ~ books! were i
OPR, applying for 7tax-exemption a written., to order: for, the ,agency= and some .were
nonprofit:.. group, notified the .Treasury created jointly:byUSIA and OPR.`"Planting" such
Deparrtment that its purpose.was':"support:`; books with :commercial publishing:`:.houses was
of_an'd actual conduct. of research: and* definitely--one' of OPR's most .valued services,
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OPR's first few years-itwas7denied tax ,. ?exemption status on the ground that it was rick; executive- director of the American
-.engaged _ in: commercial: pursuits:` but in Political- Science Association; and Max Kampelman,
1959IRS ;decided- t =.quaI ed -for: > a prominent lawyer: and!. intimate- of-Sena Hubert
= exemption as an 'educational/charitable -Humphrey :Kirkpatr?ick_ brought. to?. OPR's -presi-
> -} ~-~ dencynot only_the~experience he had acquired in ten
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. =OPR's stated -aims concealed. much more years of--'employment- in 'the! federal=-intelligence
'than they revealed.`Iastead of leaving it to -community.: (initially as. assistant director of research
the -government- to enlist :the services of . and intelligence=in the Office of-Strategic Services
academicians in am aboveboard fashion, it' and 'later' as=deputy-as;State Depart-
."provided the bureaucracy' ;.with- . an ment's Office of- Intelligence : Research)-but also the
essentially.'_covert