OPPOSITION GROWING TO AID FOR CIA GANGSTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000201150053-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 19, 2010
• Sequence Number: 53
• Publication Date: May 7, 1981
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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CHEVRON
University of Waterloo (Ontario, Canada)
7 May 1981
The fight to block a move
by the UW administration to
give a computer program,
the C370 compiler, to the
U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency, went to the Board of
Governors meeting on April
7. Outside the meeting a
demonstration by UW stu-
dents and faculty took place
to oppose this move. The
demonstration was organized
by the Canadian People's
Defence Committee.
Inside the meeting the stu-
dent representatives on the
Board of Governors present-
ed a motion prepared by UW
science student Steve Harvey
to prohibit any aid to the CIA
or Soviet KGB. The motion
was defeated, with only three
student reps, Jone Kama,
Alex Kostiw and Joe Mac-
Donald, supporting it.
This issue arose last sum-
mer when Steve Harvey was
working for the computer
centre on a revision of the
C370 compiler which is used
on large IBM system com-
puters. Harvey learned that
Joseph Hinds of the CIA's
Data Processing Research
division had wrjU p Bonney
Wbfte of tire VC`~sm3t
Services on December 4.
1979, requesting the pro-
gram when it was ready. .
Harvey strongly objected
to having this program go to
aid the criminal subversive
activities of the CIA, and on
August 25 he published an
open letter to the university
community advocating that
the CIA's request be denied.
He also made copies of
Hinds' letter available to the
media.
In response to this action
Paul Dirksen. Director of
Computing Services, said i
that UW had established no
ethical criteria on which to
.deny such a request and
hence the program would be
available to the CIA. Bruce
Uttley, Harvey's immediate
supervisor for the program-
ming work, said openly that
the program should be sent
to the CIA. He also said it
would not be the first one
sent to that organization
from U W .
On August 29, less than
one week after Harvey's
open letter was posted on
bulletin boards across cam-
pus, his work contract was
terminated by the computer
centre and his access to a
computer account was cut
off. Dirksen later said the
computer centre would have
a hard time finding a job for
taiVe F-au*q be
~?a(wh Afo pt' )r anc e'Fio'~se
where the programs go to.
He does not want to work on
something that is going to
the CIA."
On September 17 Harvey
was evicted from his office in
the bMAth 'and Computer
building, and when he pro-
tested by picketing the uni-
versity near the main en-
trance to campus two days
later carrying his office con-
tents in a box. he was
stopped by UW security
police and told he needed a
permit from the bookings
office to demonstrate on
campus (an outright lie!). He
was then taken to the secur-
ity office and grilled about
his relations with the Anti-
Imperialist Alliance and oth-
er organizations.
Harvey carried on his
struggle with a petition
against aid to the CIA and
KGB, and on February 3 he
took his case to the Board of
Governors meeting for the
first time and presented a
motion in the form of a
document entitled "Towards
a Code of Ethics in the
University's Contractual Re-
lationships." This was the
same motion which was
presented on April 7.
The motion put forward
four demands:
1) That the University of
Waterloo refuse to co-oper-
because of their violations of
human rights such, as :ater-
ference in the internal affairs
of other nations, contrary to
the charter of the United
Nations.
2) That the University and
its affiliates refuse to aid or
abet the activities of the
secret police of any nation
by refusing all prospective
contracts or requests from
them or from any of their
known conduits.
3) That an ad hoc commi-
ttee be struck to propose
various policy amendments
that would better ensure that
University facilities are not
used to undermine human
rights.
4) That such a committee
should be open to submis-
sions from any member of
the public, and, that its
meetings be open to the
public.
At the Feb. 3 meeting no
sponsor could be found for
the motion, so the -Board
merely received it as "infor-
mation". At that meeting
D. P. Robertson, Director of
Academic Services, said that
the C370 compiler would
indeed be given to the CIA
when it was completed. The
April 7 decison of the Board
confirmed this policy.
The Canadian People's
Defence Committee is con-
tinuing its work to block any
form of aid to the CIA or
KGB, including the C370
compiler. In a statement
handed out at the demon-
stration the CPDC pointed
out that the universities are.
centres of military and rela-
ted research which is used by
the rich of Canada and the
United States for the sup-
pression of people at home
and abroad.
.For example. the aid given
by UW to the CIA includes
more than one computer
program. Steve Harvey un-
covered a direct link between
UW and the CIA via an
organization known as
"Share Inc." whose head
offices are In Chicago. This
company is set up to facili-
tate the exchange of informa-
tion about the latest devel-
opments in computer soft-
ware. The division manager
for the Basic Systems Divi-
sion of "Share" is UW's
Romney White, and a project'
manager in his division work-
ing on the VM/370 system is
David Farnham of the CIA,
Washington.
The CPDC is demanding
the withdrawal of UW from
"Share" and is calling on the
UW students and faculty to
support this demand and
oppose any other activities
Qrt the campus which assist
the Canadian state or that of
the U.S. to suppress the
rights of the people any-
where.
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