CIA AND GEORGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100210048-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 48
• Publication Date: March 11, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE GEORGETOWN VOIC
(GEORGETOWN UNIVERS
11 March 1980
The. Hilltop Connec
By Philipp Bornrski
Georgetown University's special posi-
tion within the political establishment ofl
this country is not any hot news. Nixon
kept referring to Kissinger and his political
circle as the "Georgetown-Set", and , . in
these days it has almost become a , com-
monplace to speak -of _ the SFS-faculty
and the GU-run "Center for Strategic and
International Studies" (CSIS), sprinkled as
they are with former high government-
officials, as a (republican)" government in
exile". What strikes, however, is the
"special relationship" GU seems to enjoy
with a particular part of the political es-
tablishment-the CIA, or, more accurately,
the "pre-Carter-CIA".
"Unholy alliance". or "Entente
cordiale"? These terms appear to charac-
terize the respective viewpoints of the two
camps in which the GU-community is split
over the issue and who all too often fail
to' discuss it seriously. This article is meant
to shift the debate somewhat from, emo=tional or self-righteous mutual accusations,
based on moral and political principles,
to a more objective approach toward the
matter, based on the availalbe, for a
oice-reporter naturally limited informa-
`Y
tion--
To the student-observer, the mentioned
"special relationship" presents itself mainly
in the form of personal bonds, on the aca=
demic level-, between the, CIA and CIA-re=
lated private organizations- on the one side
and GU on.the-other.Beyond-that, how
ever,?,these. "CIA-academicians" do engage
in 'open--political activities; chiefly- in- the
context of the current efforts to beef up a'
supposed ly'impotent'ClA and-of the Bush-
campaign: ? Finally; -the cCIA. qua : CIA
operated and presumably still operates on
Campus-both " oveitly -and-. covertly. It is'
those:. three-: points-academic, relations;
political activities and- CIA=operations on
Campus-that ".are--wot h"illuminating--
GU's 'CI.A-connection''w ' "x"
g
associated to
sive. It even includes two retired Directo
of Central Intelligence, James Schlesinge
now senior adviser and chairman of
:study-group with the- CSIS, and Willia
'Colby, a "friend, of the School of For ii
,Service". In the "Second rank" one fine
names of CIA-career-officers who he
:crucial positions during their time of acti
duty: Cord Meyer, formerly station chi
in London, now senior research associa
at the SFS; Jack Maury, formerly stati,
chief in Athens till shortly after the co
'of the colonels in April 1967, then leg
.lative counselor to the CIA, now memb
of the MSFS-faculty; Ray Cline;-forme)
deputy director for intelligence, now e)
cutive director of the CSIS; George Carv
formerly station chief in Saigon and W,
Germany, now senior fellow at the CS..,.
-And . Allan Goodman, professor of inter-
national politics at - the SFS, is also an
active CIA-officer, serving on Turner's
presidential briefing staff.
'To-be sure,. there remained a gray-zone
between the politically oriented research-
interests of retired CIA-officers and the
limits GU could possibly go. to in offering
these individuals facilities for teaching and
publishing, without compromising its repu-
tation for academic freedom and practiced
Catholic ideals. This gray-zone was filled
gout -by the. National Intelligence Study
Center, founded and organized "by Ray
Cline,. and the Consortium for the Study of
'Intelligence,: with Cline as a prominent
member and Roy Godson,. professor of
government ' at GU, aschief-coordinator.
Comprised of former CIA-people, other re-
'tired government-officials and scholars ofl
some of the country's top-universities,
these organizations, according" to Cline,
"serve the' purpose of encouraging serious
study and,writing on the role-of intelli-
t,a[ver utu rive ptcc uue Litt pusatutniy,
that some colleagues of his "may privately
engage in classified research". But who
else except some "good old friends" being
still on the government-payroll can turn up
'the necessary sources? . -
In the eyes of Father McSorley, well-l
known on Campus for his pacifist opinions,:
all. these facts are simply a "disgrace".
According to McSorley it is "harmful for
GU to have persons on Campus who repre- I
sent an organization guilty of severe vio-
lations of law, morality and human digni-
ty". Only if they disassociate themselves
from the values embodied by the CIA,
he said, may they teach here. One may well
assume that Father McSorley does not
stand aloof with this view on our Campus.
In= defending their presence at GU the
persons in:,question themselves usually
cite' its high academic calibre. and advan=
tageous location as reasons for their de-
cision to join it. "Most retired CIA-people
want to stay in-D.C., because they cannot
.do without- their.-daily fix of interesting
infromation' and-political action", -Cline
says..``When:L-started- to look about for a
place with -the right ,atmosphere, adminis-
trative- support_and'good research: facilities,
=.L-discovered-'that-.Georgetown,.in,its kind
,of-curriculum -faculty and students .came
closer.to~my-ideas Than any:other.institu-
tiori 11n:so;fac;CIine,:sees-".a natural-aff ni-
ty; :especially-.between sthe4,SFS: and the
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