EAST-WEST INSTITUTE GIVES U.S. JITTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100500015-9
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: April 5, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ON PAGE D
NEW YORK
5 APRIL 1982
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DESPITE A RECENT WARNING
by the C.LA. that this coun-
try is sharing too much
in- formation*!with Soviet bloc
academics, a New York or
ganization "is?-' planning a
controversial' new. step to-
ward East-West scholarly
cooperation:
"We7t provide the first
place where senior advisers
.to foreign-affairs and de-`
fense ministries in the NATO
;.and Warsaw-pact countries
can study andwork on proj-
ects together,.'said.Michael
.;;Neiditch, vice-president of*
the new Institute for East
"A year gives a guy from a
Communist country an op-
portunity to do a lot of
things besides sitting
around. and . discussing
pressing political and secu-
rity issues." .
. According to Neiditch,
some intelligence and State
Department officials have
gotten "very uptight" about
the risks the institute pre-
sents. "But I told them that if
we feel our system is supe-
rior, what do we have to bs
afraid of if we have six or
seven.'-people here to
study?"
BY SHARON CHURCHER ? ..;
West Security Studies and a
former aide to New York
Representative Beh Rosen-
thal.. . -. .
''The. institute,, which
opens in Manhattan this
April, is being funded
mostly by local philanthro-
pists. Poland, Hungary, Yu-
? goslavia, and Romania will
participate during the pro-
gram's first year. The Soviet
.Union, which is expected to
take part next year, is con-
fributirtg 50,0`00 books to the
institute's library.'.:
` "Oh, . jeep" : sighed one
State Department- source.
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