C.I.A.'S FILES DESCRIBE CAMPUS SPYING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400260074-2
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 5, 2004
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: January 26, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEW YORK TIMES 9 6 JAt'r976
C I.A.'s Files Describe Campus Spying
WASHINGTON, Jan,. 25 (AP);C.I.A. and-the Federal Bureau4n the U.S. Among the partici
The Central Intelligence; of Investigation. The suit al-!pants. ..wera Black Panthers,t
Ieges illegal harassment. The various
Agency collected information Miles were made public by the ' Arab students at Brow n and disenchanted members ofr
about political dissidents atiPolitical Rights Defense Fund,Ithe U.S. Jewish communities."
Utah State University, Brov'n which is financing the party's! Another file was labeled "ra-
University and Boston Umver--lawsuit. dical activity on campus of
sity in 1970 and 1971, accord- A previously released .CLA. Utah State University." The
ing to newly released C.I.A. memo written in 1973, seve memo, dated May 3, 1971, said
documents. months before onhas was re- the campus "is more. politically
The 141 pages of files, the o000000000ooooonfr active than most in the state:
first documents concerning prted to have been terminated. There.is an active chapter of
'"Operation Chaos" that have said the operation "is restricted the Young Socialist Alliance.
been made public, also showed to the collection abroad of in-:A number of small groups also
that the agency followed the1formation on foreign activities iexist but are not as important."
movements of American politi-,related to domestic matters.", In a Sept. 18, 1970, memo to
cal dissenters traveling abroad, It added that the agency - "is a C.I.A. unit chief, whose name
and kept track of foreign visi-I not to be directly engaged in 1was deleted, an agency em,
tors to dissident;-groups in the the surveillance or other action!ployee wrote, "We have at-
United States. 1against'" Americans overseas. Itached examples of leftist ma
A'separate group of 47 doe- But some 50 pages of thetterial being distributed free of
uments showed that as late files that have now become!charge at Boston University;
as November 1974 the agency public showed that the C.I.A.during registration week." 1
was circulating to one of its I regulare!y received informatiol The source who obtained the
overseas stations information ifrom "sources" about the over-'material "also noted that there
about the political activitiesjseas travels and writings of were a variety of Marxist items
of a Socialist Workers Partyi a Socialist Workers leaders 'also being sold such as revolu-!
leader, Peter Camejo. Andrew Pulley, in 1970. ,tionary lapel buttons and a:
The C.I.A. released to Mr. The heavily-censored files in-:variety of pamphlets on social-!
Camejo parts of its dossier as eluded a report on a Brown ism. Malcolm X and women'si
him after he requested the r?.-IUniversity seminar sponsored liberation," the memo said. 1
lease under the Freedom ^111,
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e Young Socialist Alliance
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Information Act: is yough affiliate of the Socia-f
The agency released t'ie list Workers.
Operation Chaos files to tact "According to a source ini
Socialist Workers Party in re- attendance," said the unsigned
ponse to a court order il a i document, "the meeting and
multimillion-dollar damage suitlspeaker were oriented toward
sttA4 by the party against the inciting revolution and anarchy
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