NO NEED FOR CAMPUS SECRECY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00587R000100710081-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 27, 2011
• Sequence Number: 81
• Publication Date: January 24, 1986
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HOUSTON CHRONICLE (TX)
24 January 1986
No need for campus secrecy
The purpose of a university is to
collect information and pass on
knowledge to students and the pub-
lic. The tendency of the QAN~s to
collect information and th mark it
Top Secret.
These two opposing roles are
bound to collide as the CIA seeks to
strengthen its ties to academia.
The CIA, stung by intelligence
gaffes such as its failure to predict
the downfall of the Shah of Iran, says
it needs all the good advice it can get
from the nation's professors. That
seems reasonable enough. The na-
tion's security depends upon good in-
telligence.
However, the best advice can be
gained aboveboard and discussed in
Lthe open. There is little need for the
CIA to commission secret research
on U.S. campuses.
In a recent Outlook article, John
Kenneth Galbraith, a former U.S.
ambassador to India, said he never
encountered any official secrets he
had not already learned from public
sources, or would have learned soon
enough. He noted two CIA intelli-
gence analysts in India who learned
far more information by operating
openly than they would have if they
had tried to spy in secret
That is the case with university
professors. If the CIA wishes to avail
itself of their research and acumen,
well and good.-But keeping such a
relationship secret would tend to
taint the information, limit the effec-
tiveness of the professors involved
and pervert the proper nature of the
university.
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