HARVARD ANNOUNCES PROGRAM ON INTELLIGENCE AND POLICY MAKING

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• Document Release Date: September 19, 2011
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• Publication Date: December 14, 1987
• Content Type: MISC

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 14, 1987
Harvard Announces Program on Intelligence
and Policy Making
Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government announced today
a new program of research and training on intelligence assessment and policy.
The three-year program, ~vhich is sponsored by the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency, will be formally inaugurated at a kickoff dinner in Washington on
Monday, December 14, 1987.
Professor Ernest P. May, Charles Warren Professor of History at Harvard
and a distinguished military and diplomatic historian, is the program
director. Professor Richard E. Neustadt, Dr. Gregory F. Treverton and
Associate Dean Peter Zimmerman are other I~arvard faculty participating in the
research.
"This is a path breaking venture for both ~~arvard and the intellig?nce
community," Professor May said. "In the modern world, our very lives depend
on effective assessment of foreign intelligence. We hope our research will be
illuminating to intelligence analysts and policy makers alike."
Professor Neustadt said, "The overall purpose of this program is to help
those who prepared assessments of foreign events an~i those who make foreign
policy decisions better understand one another's needs, interests, cultures,
and perspectives. In our country, the gap between them has often been wide
with had effects on foreign policy. Our hope is that our research can make a
modest contribution toward narrowing that gap."
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The program has four components including: preparation of a number of
case studies examining how intelligence assessments were made, how they were
communicated to policy makers and with what results; meetings with current and
past officials to discuss possible lessons of these cases; the conduct, twice
a year, of a one-,reek executive training session for senior analysts seeking
to make the work of the intelligence community more useful in policy making;
and the porgram will bring to the university a senior intelligence analyst,
who will participate in the project and who will be one of the school's
research associates in national security. (As previously announced, an
experimental executive training session Seas held in March 1987 and was
repeated in PJovember.)
The program will he launched at the inaugural meeting of the program's
steering group which will advise on the research agenda and serve as a
resource for the program. The group includes a number of current and former
^~embers of congress, cabinent officers and other government officials with
oversight, policy, and intelligence resoonsi5ilities.
More of the work associated with the program will involve any classified
information. The work is consistent with university policy and the principles
of academic freedom. All research products and rase studies will he freely
availahle for use at Harvard and else~rhere.
"As with all other research at this university, the ultimate aim is
increased public understanding," said Professor Neustadt.
Other national security seminars offered by the Kennedy School include the
eight-week program for Senior Officials in rational Security, and the two-week
program in ~lational and International Security. The School also conducts a
short Defense Policy Seminar in Washington twice a year.
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