HELMS CAN'T BE SPOOKED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000200750015-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2010
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: April 23, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ARTICLE AP-7 P~~I.RE~7 NEW YORK TIh~S
ON I'/! C;F ~.~_ 23 APRIL 1-98~
Helms Can't ~e Spooked
The author had? admittedly been
pretty hard- oo hls _sub)ect. Riclwrd
~ielms, the former Director of Central
Intelligence. But when Thomas Powers
was given an award Monday night for
his book, "The Marc Who Kept Se-
crets," Mr. Helms not only attended
but also graciouslyappiauded.
The prize, for "intelligent writing on
Intelligence," was awarded'by the iVa-
tional- Intelligence Study Center; a
group?formed a year ago by some for-
' mer ? American intelligence officers.
Other prizes went to Ralph ?. 'i~/eber
for his, scholarly study, "U.S. Diplo-
matic Codes and Ciphers, l 175 to 19313";
to Dino 8rugonl and Robert ~. ;?nlrier._.
for their retrospective aerial reconnai-
sauce analysis of the Auschwitz-Birke-
nau death camps;. to Edwin ~/arner of:
Time magazine for an article about the ~ ~
C.I.A.. and, in what seems a dernon-
stratian of the award group's own thor-
oughness to Mark L Attanaslo for an
undergraduate essay at Brown Univer-
sity on American intelligence failures-
- in Chile:
Judith- Cummings,
Laurie Johnston;
STAT
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By Phi ipp $orinski
Georgetown University's special post-I
tion within the political establishment ofI
this country is not any hot news. Nixon i
kept referring to Kissinger and his political tilt
circle as the ~"Georgetown~et", 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 aparticular 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 mentioried
`special relationship" presents itself mainly
n the form of personal bonds, on the aces=
iemic level; betweem?the.=CI~1 and-CIA-re=
ated? private organizations on -the one side
and GU on the other.~~Beyorid" that, how-
;ver?theca.".CIA-academicians" do engage
n 'open.:political activities,:;chiefly. in the
~ontext?of.the current~efforts.to beef up a
upposedly?impotent?CIA and: of the Bush=
ampaigri: ? Finally,?'? thi;~:,.CIA.: qua : C[A
operated and presumably still operates on
:ampus--both~overtly_and~.covertly: It is
hose=- three ~: points-academic relations;
ofitical activities and- CIA=operations on
'ampus-that "'are~`worth"illuminating'~iri
. !~_.
BU's "CIA-conriectton''~'~""'?"~ "`" _. _ .
THE GEORGETOWN VOIC
(GEORGETOWN UNIVERS
11 March 1980
e ~ -
The list of former high CIA-officers nog
associated to GU/CSIS~is-?indaed impre
slue: It even includes two retired Directo
of Central Intelligence, James Schlesinge
now senior adviser and chairman o
study-group with the CSIS,--and Willies
Colby, a "friend, of the School of Fortis
;Service". In the "Second rank" one fin?
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 i4laury, formerly static
-chief in Athens. till shortly after the co
of the colonels in April 196, then leg
lative counselor to the CIA, now memo
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 acid W~
Germany, now senior fellow at the CS..,.
-And -Allan Goodman, professor of inter-,
national politics at ? the SFS, is also an i
.active CIA-officer, serving: on Turner's
"presidential briefing staff.
'To- be sure,. there remained agray-zone
betlveerf Ihe. politically orierited ;esearch-
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-lone was' filled
gout ~ by .the National Intelligence- Study
Center, founded and organized `by Ray
Cline,. and th_e Consortium for the Study of
Intelligence`,: with Curie as a prominent
.member and .Roy Godsons professor of
governrrient .at GU; as'chief-coordinator.I
Comprised of former CLA-people, other re-f
'tired government-officials and scholars of~
'some , of ,the country's top?universities,~
these organizations, according to Cline,l
"serve the' purpose of ericouraging~ serious
study and,'writing on the role _ of intelli-I
l.arVCr u1u nee ~tet:~uue rile yu~~iuillCy
that some colleagues of his "may privately
engage in classified research". But who'
else except some "good old friends" being f
the necessary sources?
In the eyes of Father IV1cSorley, well-I
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-;
sent an organization guilty of severe vio-
lations of law, morality grid human digni-
ty". Only if they. disassociate themselves
from the .values embodied by the CIA,
he said, may they teach here. Qne 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,loca[ion as reasons fore 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.facifities;
-1'discovered~that~Georgetown,.in::its kind
pf ~curriculum_facult~r and students;,came
closer?.to-~my:=ideas:than arty:other:institu-
tior-~";In~so;fai:Cline:"sees' anatural-affini=
_ty;':especially,.between tithe:: $FS: and ,the
intellioenre.rnmm~mity~"?: ~-~.~ ~;-;~.{=; -
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