THE INSTITURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100670044-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 12, 2011
• Sequence Number: 44
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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n unusual organization has been eel;
prominence for some years. Its member
lows" --have published many articles u
York Time, and have app~caered on television:
identifizs the organization only as "a research
lion based iu Washiagton, D.C.," while Jim L
Chaztnel I3, the "educational channel" of
City, refers to it as a "liberal research outfit.'
?tiore:ovcr a new novel, TIu Spy, has just a
written by two weIl-known commentators on.
fairs, Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert doss
widely assumed to be based on this sane ors
Ia the novel it is the channel through which t
Union hopes to take over the Unifed Scaces_
Piaialy,. this "liberal research outfit" woulc
deserve some attention. What, in fact,is the In:
Policy Studies?
Though the subject of a 1971 article in ~
itwo-pa.-t series in Baryon's in 1976, and a 1978
?'he 1'Ve-.u York Post, the Institute has received re:
little attention in the major media, w1^.ich,
frequently publish the writings of its Fellows.
Institute represents an unprecedented suca
the achievement of the New Left, after its
demise, in shaping United States policy. .
The Institute for Policy Studies was founde
20 years ago by of arras Raskin and Richard B a
were to remain its directors for I5 years. The
had met while attending a White House: State
meat disarrnaraent conference on April 14, 1'
kin was on the staff of the National'Security C
an aide to McGeorge Bundy, and Barnet wa
I}irector for Political Research of the U.S. Arms Control fundamental for IPS: the need for total dis:trinamenr,
and Disarmament Agenry. Barnet noticed Raskin's the abandonment of existing alliances; the need to en-
alienatiort -his contempt for and hostility toward "the courage revolutionary change in the underdeveloped
whole military=Industrial establishment sitting there at world. Several contributors to the Liberal Papers were to
one table."" As Barnet later told an interviewer: "V1arc play a part in IPS. David }tiesman (with Barnet and
and I both grimaced at the same moment -and knew .Raskin) was one of the three trustees listed in the certifi-
we didri t belong here." Within two years Barnet and care of incorporation in ~iovember, 1962; tifichael ytac-
Raskin had put together the necessary funding, per- coby,and Arthur tiVaskow were to become Fellows of the
sonnet. and prggramming: the Institute began work in Institute.
1963.
But the roots of IPS go back earfier. While Barnet's
prior activities gave no hint of the path he was to take ~ he distinguishing marks of IPS have been iu choice
of audience, its methods, and iu ideas. To begin with the
R.~-EI. JF.~#.~i IS.~1C is rh. euthos of I~rse! Divided (fohns Hopl~es least imaginative oEthese -the ideas -they have been
_ .ate-t....vo..,.ed :'. r},. vnl-~m,nni~a w^ti31(T~S Of the IPS
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