HARVARD ANNOUNCES PROGRAM ON INTELLIGENCE AND POLICY MAKING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP97-00418R000200150011-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 2, 1987
• Content Type: MISC

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John F. Kennedy
NEWS
School of Government
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
FOR IMMEDIATE' RELEASE: CONTACT: Steve Singer
Wednesday, December 2, 1987 617/495-1115
HARVARD ANNOUNCES PROGRAM ON INTELLIGENCE AND POLICY MAKING
CAMBRIDGE--- 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, which is sponsored by the
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, will be inaugurated at a dinner in
Washington on Monday, December 14, 1987.
Professor Ernest R. 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 Harvard faculty participating
in the research.
"This is a path breaking venture for both Harvard and the intelligence
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 policymakers
alike."
"The overall purpose of the program is to help those who prepare
assessments of foreign events, and those who make foreign policy
decisions, better understand one another's needs, interests, cultures, and
perspectives," said Professor Neustadt. "In our country, the gap between
them has often been wide, with bad 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, haw they
were communicated to policymakers and with what results; meetings with
cu rent and past officials to discuss possible lessons of these cases;
twice a year. one-week executive training sessions for senior analysts
seeking to make the work of the intelligence community more useful in
policymaking; and an intelligence analyst, who will participate in the
project and who will be one of the school's research associates in
national security.
The program will be 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 members of Congress, cabinet officers and other government
officials with oversight, policy, and intelligence responsibilities.
None 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, and all research products and case
studies will be freely available for use at Harvard and elsewhere,
according to program officials.
"As with all other research at this university, our ultimate aim is
increased public understanding," said Professor Neustadt.
The three-year program is funded at approximately $400,000 per year.
Other national security seminars offered by the School include the
eight-week Program for Senior Officials in National Security, and the
two-week Program in National and International Security. The School also
conducts a short Defense Policy Seminar in Washington twice a year.
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