WEAK LINK IN CASE TYING ACADEMIA TO THE CIA

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• Publication Date: November 3, 1985
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BOSTC14 GLOBE
3 November 1985
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Weak link in case tying academia to the CIA
In his article "The CIA's
Charles River link." Jeff McCon-
nell purports to show a connec-
tion between the CIA and the
Fletcher School of Law and Diplo-
macy. The evidence is that CIA di-
rector Casey once spoke at a con-
ference on terrorism here: that
two professors served on non-in-
telligence-related advisory panels
during the 1980 presidential cam-
paign. and that one faculty mem-
ber went on to occupy a sub-Cabi-
net position in the Reagan admin-
istration at the United States In-
formation Agency.
As the last-named individual,
may I ask by what laws of logic or
inference one is entitled to con-
clude said CIA connection - or has
the Globe decided that guilt by as-
sociation is sufficient in Its col-
umns?
To add to the irony, the "guilt"
in my case is that of association,
first with my colleagues, though I
did not attend, indeed was not in-
vited to. their conference on ter-
rorism: and second, and more sa-
lient, with the US government.
The point seems to be that the
US government is masterminded
by the CIA, and that service in
that government, in whatever ca-
pacity, however remote from the
CIA, is therefore sufficient under
the new logic to establish the
point.
It is now :985, not "1984," and
surely the Globe can do better
than Newspeak.
W. SCOTT THOMPSON
Fletcher School
of Law and Diplomacy
Naive views on Castro, terrorism and spying
After reading Ms. Constable's.
Mr. Oliphant's and Mr. McCon-
nell's Oct. 13 articles. It is hard for
me to discern whose side the pa-
per is on.
Pamela Constable devotes 99
percent of her article espousing
Cuba's side of the current icing up
of our relationship with Castro,
and barely two sentences to
America's view. Is she so naive to
think that we can ever make
peace with a lying cheat like Fidel
Castro?
Thomas Oliphant would rather
we stand by hopeless and helpless
as the Arab anti-Christs slaughter
one after another of our citizens.
Jeff McConnell sums up his
views on "The CIA's Charles River
Link" (a lightweight portrayal of
something as important as our
nation's desire to seek the best tal-
ent available to assist in national
defense) as follows: 'At stake
could be the reputations of their
universities and the reiailonships
of confidence upon which aca-
demic ireedora itself rests."
For whom would their "reputa-
tions" be at stake? Pie in the sky
liberals? I know that the rna)o: ity
of Americans would feel quite
positive about "relationships of
confidence" - if that m(,ar)s our
educational institutions' attempts
to help the CIA.
Evidently, the Globe , , not do-
ing much to eliminate its left-wing
bias and continues to sound like a
throwback to the '60s and '70s.
which is all wet in the '8Os.
JOHN C. MORRILL
Lynn
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