CIA AND GEORGETOWN

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: March 11, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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THE GEORGETOWN VOICE
(GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY)
11 March 1980
CIA and.G~brgetovvn
The:HiIItop Connection?
By Philipp Borinski - I
Georgetown University's special posi-
tion within the political establishment ofI
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
'Voice-reporter naturally limited informa-
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
supposedly impotent CIA- and -of the Bush-
campaign. -, Finally; - the?.cCIA. qua . CIA
operated and presumably still operates on
Campus-both overtly -and=: covertly. It is
those - three points-academic relations,
political activities and- CIA-operations on
Campus=that' 'are"'worth "illuminating' iri
GU's "CIA-c6 nriection'~
The list of former high CIA-officers now ! genre in the American society and thus
associated to GU/CSIS ' isaindeed impres- ..represent an educational and constructive
sive. It even includes two retired Directors 'long run-effort". Yet again, with Cline
of Central Intelligence, James Schlesinger; and Godson as the respective heads, a
now senior adviser and chairman of a direct conrection to GU is established. On
study-group with the CSIS,' and William top of that Cline helped to organize the
Colby, a "friend, of the School of Foreign- Association of former intelligence-officers,
,Service". In the "Second rank" one finds in his words a "public interest-group" with
names of CIA-career-officers who held -3000 members: --
crucial positions during their time of active Whatever the role of all-those institu-
duty: Cord Meyer, formerly station chief "tions and no matter whether Cline distin-
in London, now senior research associate guishes himself in them in his capacity as
at the SFS; Jack Maury, formerly station a former CIA-officer or as a scholar at'
chief in Athens till shortly after the coup Georgetown, by virtue of their eixtracurri-
of the colonels in April 1967, then legis-
cular activities alone people like Cline and')
lative counselor to the CIA, now member Godson cannot help providing for a certain
of the MSFS-faculty; Ray Cline,.formerly intimacy between Washington's intelligence
deputy director for intelligence, now exe- community and GU. This aspect'applies
cutive director of the CSIS; George Carver, even more to the staff of the CSIS. In a
formerly station chief in Saigon and West Voice interview CS[S senior fellow George
Germany, now senior fellow at the CSIS. Carver did not preclude the possibility
And.Allan Goodman, professor of inter- that some colleagues of his "may privately
national politics at - the SFS, is also an engage in classified research". But who
active CIA-officer, serving on Turner's else except some "good old friends" being
presidential briefing staff. still on the government-payroll can turn up +
To- be sure, there remained a gray-zone the necessary sources?
between the politically oriented research- In the eyes of Father McSorley, well-
interests of retired CIA-officers and the known on Campus for his pacifist opinions,
limits GU could possibly go. to in offering all these facts are simply a "disgrace".
these individuals facilities for teaching and According to McSorley it is "harmful for
publishing, without compromising its repu- GU to have persons on Campus who repre-
ration for academic freedom and practiced sent an organization guilty of severe vio-
Catholic ideals. This gray-tone was filled lations of law, morality and human digni-
out by the National Intelligence Study ty". Only if they disassociate themselves
Center, founded 'and organized by Ray from the values embodied by the CIA,
Cline, and the Consortium for the Study of he said, may they teach here. One may well
Intelligence, with Cline as a prominent assume that Father McSorley does not
member and Roy Godson professor of stand aloof with this view on our Campus.
government at GU, as chief-coordinator. ; In defending their presence at GU the
Comprised of former CIA-people, other re- in question themselves usually
'tired government-officials and scholars ofl cite its high academic calibre- and advan-
'some , of the country's top-universities, tageous .location as reasons for their de-
these organizations, according to Cline, vision to join it. "Most retired CIA-people
"serve the' purpose of encouraging serious want to stay in. A.C., because they cannot
study and. writing on the role, of intelli- do without- their: daily fix of interesting
infromation' and- political action", Cline
says.,"When.I started to look about for a
place with the right atmosphere, adminis-
trative' support, and good research. facilities,
I -discovered' that-Georgetown,. in itt kind
of 'curriculum;.faculty and students,.came
closer to'my-ideas than any other.institu.
tionW':In'so faCline'sees"a natural affmi-
ty; .especially-.between the-r$FS-and the
intelligence-community'
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However, both he and George Carver
denied any institutional connections or
even affiliations between GU and. the CIA.
Carver even went so far as strictly to negate
a clear institutional line within the CSIS
itself. "All are individuals,. whatever we
write is not going to sound unified, for ins-
tance, that James Schlesinger and I share
the same office and spend some time dur-
ing the day_ talking to each oche does riot
mean at all that we also share the same
opinions on every issue. Ours and some
other people's CIA-background does not
mean anything in itself", Carver stated.
Taking the two irreconcilable position
at face-value we find ourselves in a dead-
lock. It surely cannot be in GU's interest
to have its- name tainted through links to a,
in Father bieSorley's- words, ".club of
assassins, saboteours and coup-directors",
but, all the same, should one ? refuse to
open our gates to a few, without doubt
able, private individuals who happened to
be covert operators or intelligence analysts
and want now to escape their former
anonymity by uttering their views on a
free academic forum?,
The question is whether or not the
trench- between both positions can be
bridged. For his part, Father McSorley
calls for a. "disassociating from values" like
those that were signified in the "Phoenix-
Program" and the overthrow of Allende.
But is it really an implicit set of "values"
that relentlessly drives the CIA in ever new
covert adventures? Notwithstanding a,
deeply rooted professional loyalty to they
agency on part of_ most CIA-officers, ill
was mostly the "crusader-spirit" of other)
people; namely". those on the policy -malting
evel, that gave birth- to, all the well-Pub-
licised `,".atrocities" ; which the CIA'.; then
,was left with to plan-and carryout: More-~
over, -*many of these' covert actions re-
portedly met ; with .:basic disagreements
arrtong,;CIA-officers themselves, as;-in the
case'-of "operation' Mongoose" the Kenne
dybiothers' program "to get rid of Castro!
.(anoutspokeny, order : to kill Castro was
'apparently never. issued)
' :The National : Security . Act:'pf 1947.
clearly. spells .out the respective -areas of
:responsibility; "It shall be the duty' of the
CIA; to perform such. other functions and
'duties related to intelligence affecting the
national security as the National Security
Council may'. from time to time direct,
"Prof. Stearman'the widely respected head
of "th"e "Russian area studies program" at
the.'SFS;' was' a~permanent member of the"
NSC-staff -in charge of Vietnam. He des-
`tribes the CIA-people he came to know asi
"not necessarily conservative". According,
,:io' him; `.`most of `them displayed' morel
liberal attitudes than a good deal of offi-~
calls from other partsof the government" 1
This` is. by no means astonishing. People;)
whose, very job it is to provide the Presi-t
dent with that undistorted and comprehen-~,
sive information; which all ` the other,
`naturally . biased agencies cannot be ex-11
pected to" provide, are likely to disregard
the own official propaganda in their judge-
ments.'? They are 'rather cynics than hot-'
blooded cold warriors, but, according to
Cline, the type of the "sophisticated
analyst" is the most wide-spread. "Within')
the CIA the emphasis always rested 'upon
analysis:-. The. attention paid by the media.!,
'ind'the public'.. to :the more conspicuous
actions always' obscured this fact:.CIA-
people are analysts by nature.
"These ..words by Cline do square with
the impression which the Voice grasped
during my conversations with CU's "agent-
turned-academicians". - These few indivi
duals probably still do' not' represent the
CIA at largo, which has not got into the.
twilight because of incorrect analyses: But',;
after all, there are yet a lot of former CIA
officers going about in this country who
are not employed by G U;' and, It 'surely is
more appropriate toyassess the integrity of
those few?who are,' from their individual
backgrounds rather than tp include them in
,a;wholesalecondemnation of an institution
which.they have quit meanwhile
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