AN UNUSUAL ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN EDGING IN PROMINENCE FOR SOME YEARS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00845R000100420002-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 28, 2010
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Yorlt Tines, and have appeared on television:
identifies the organization only as "a research
tion based in Washington, D.C.," while Jim L
Channel 13, the "educational channel" of
City, refers to it as a "liberal research outfit.'
Moreover a new novel, The Spike, has just a
written by two well-known commentators on
fairs, Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Mm
widely assumed to be based on this same org
In the novel it is the channel through which t
Union hopes to take over the United State
Plainly,. this "liberal research outfit" woulc
deserve some attention. 'Ihhat, in fact,is the In_
Policy Studies?
Though the subject of a 1971 article in J
two-part series in Barron's in 1976, and a 1978
The New York Post, the Institute has received re.
little attention in the major media, which,
frequently publish the writings of its Fellows.
Institute represents an unprecedented seta
the achievement of the New Left, after its
demise, in shaping United States policy. .
The Institute for Policy Studies was founds
20 years ago by Marcus Raskin and Richard Ba
were to remain its directors for 15 years. The
had met while attending a White -House!Statt
ment disarmament conference on April 14, 1'
kin was on the staff of the National'Security C
an aide to McGeorge Bundy, and Barnet wa
Director for Political Research of the U.S. Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency. Barnet noticed Raskin's
alienation - his contempt for and hostility toward "the
whole military-industrial establishment sitting there at
one table.' As Barnet later told an interviewer: "Marc
and I both grimaced at the same moment - and knew
we didn't belong here." Within two years Barnet and
Raskin had put together the necessary funding, per-
sonnel, and programming-. the Institute began work in
1963.
But the roots of IPS go back earlier. While Barnet's
prior activities gave no hint of the path he was to take
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fundamental for IPS: the need for total disarmament;
the abandonment of existing alliances; the need to en-
courage revolutionary change in the underdeveloped
world. Several contributors to the Liberal Papers were to
play a part in IPS. David Riesman (with Barnet and
Raskin) was one of the three trustees listed in the certifi-
cate of incorporation in November, 1962; Michael Mac-
coby.and Arthur Waskow were to become Fellows of the
Institute.
The distinguishing marks of IPS have been its choice
of audience, its methods, and its ideas. To begin with the
least imaginative of these - the ideas - they have been
endlessly restated in the voluminous writings of the IPS
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