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

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100170009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 26, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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NEW YORK TIMES 2 g JAN 1976
C.I.A.'s Files Describe Campus spyii
WASHINGTON, Jan, 25 (AP)iC.I.A. and"the Federal Bureaulin the U.S. Among the partici
The Central Intelligence of Investigation. The suit al-!pants... were Black Panthers
le illegal harassment. The 'various Arab students at Brown
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Utah State University, Brown which is financing the party's; Another file was !abeled "ra
University and Boston Univer-.lawsuit.
ing to newly released C.I.A. memo written in y1973,- seve memo, dated May 3,1971
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documents. months before orhas was re- the campus "is more politically
The 141 pages of files, the o0000000o0ooooonfr 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 the formation on foreign activitiesiexist but are not as important"
movements of American politi-,related to domestic matters.."i 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-t not to be directly engaged In f was deleted, an agency em-
tors to dissident groups in the the surveillance or other actionIplovee wrote, "We have at-
United States. against" Americans overseas. jtached examples of leftist ma--
A'separate group of 47 doe- But some 50 pages of the terial 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."
.was circulating to one of its,regrlarely received infformatiol The source who obtained thel
overseas stations informations from "sources" about the over-'material "also noted that there I
about the political activities seas 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-l
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 on cluded a report on a Brown Ism. Malcolm X and women's;
him after he requested the r::?IUniversity seminar sponsored; liberation," the memo said.
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agency released the l list Workers. 1
Operation Chaos files to thy( "According to a source in'
Socialist Workers Party in re- ( attendance,', said the unsigned
sponse to a court ? order IN a' document, "the meeting and
multimillion-dollar damage suit; speaker were oriented toward
-*.IM by the party against the inciting revolution and anarchy
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