CIA TO FUND K-SCHOOL PROJECT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP97-00418R000200150024-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: December 4, 1987
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release 2011/11/07: CIA-RDP97-00418R000200150024-1
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By' NOAM S. ('OHEN
71nc Central Intelligence Agency
will fund a $4(X).0 00 Kennedy School
of Government research prnjtxi to
assess blow policy makers use the
agcoey s well genm information. the
hehool announced yesterday.
The three-year long pn-jcct, organ-
ized by faculty members Warren
Professor of History Finest May and
Dillon Professor of Government
Richard Ncustadt and K-School
Lecturer Gregory F. Treverton. is
being called a major change in CIA-
university relations, because the
research will be made public and the
intelligence agency will be identified
as the (under of the project.
"The funding is totally above board
and the results will be unclassified,"
Kennedy School Dean Graham T.
Allison '62 said last night. Public
acknowledgement of funding and
unclassified results are "unprecea
dented (for the CIA], but a necessary
condition for University reseanfi,"
the dean said.
In recent years President Bok and
other academics have expressed
concern over the ethics of scholars
agreeing to not disclose their CIA
funding and allowing the agency to
make changes in manuscripts.
According to Kennedy school offi-
cials Ik-k and other top Ilnivcrsity
administrators had in, misgivings
about the recently finalized clouaLl
with the agency.
Under the terms ul this grant. the
pn-ject will fund the publication of
case studies and the training her
senior CIA analysts The grant also
will be used to pay for a CIA analyst
to become a research associate at
Harvard this January.
Kennedy School officials said the
school negotiated with the CIA for
more than a year to convince the
agency to break with its normal
policy of keeping all research
contracts and their results secret. The
agency approved the Harvard
contract on a "non-precedent" basis.
officials said.
Openness the Issue
"In the negotiations (openness) has
been one of the toughest issues,", said
Associate Dean Peter Zimmerman,
who will help administer the program.
it is harder to deal with this policy
because Harvard has an invariable
policy. Eighty percent of the discus-
sions with the CIA were about
openness." .
Under the terms of the agreement.
which will be inaugurated at a
Washington. D.C. dinner later this
month, for two weeks each year
Kennedy ?ch.w,l facndty will hill ' .1
executive training ussiuns," our
senior ('IA analysts. The rest oil the
grant will support the creation o11' o arc
studies.
Ncustadt said he and May will
puNisi- the research in a hunk. Ncus-
ladt said he expects to study such
recent foreign policy intelligence
activities as those in the Phillipines
and in Iran. The former aide to
President Harry S Truman said he did
not think the research would he
completed in three years and that the
arrangement with the CIA may need
to be extended.
"We have hopes that over a long
period of time we will learn enough
and get enough case material declas-
sified to sharply illustrate very simple
questions" about how policy-makers
use CIA fact gathering, said Neustadi.
As an example, the professor
pointed to a famous incident during
the Korean War, where a military
strategist ignored the advice of his
intelligence officers.
"It lead to the longest retreat in
American military history," Neustadt
said.
"Without some people on the inside
saying 'help these people because
they will help the government.' we
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will nee er _e i enough material we
nccd to understand the pruccss;
Ncustadt said.
In recent years. Harvard and the
agency have clashed over traditional
HARVARD CRIMSON,
Friday, Dec. 4, 1987
restrictions placed on research funded be publicly acknowledged.
h% ('IA grants. These restrictions Allison said the K-School's
include pre-publication review of contract was a natural progression
books and a requirement that
contracts must remain secret.
In January 198(1 Albertson Profcs-
sor of Middle liastern Studies Nadav
Safran resigned as director of
Harvard's ('enter tir Middle Eastern
Studies alter his acceptance of more
than 5150.0 (1 in ('IA grants became
public. In one of the-ctntract%, Safr:nt
agreed to give the agency pre-
publication review and the right to
censor his work. and agreed to keep
the contract secret.
Soon after the uproar about the
Safran disclosures. Deputy Director
lior Intelligence Robert M. Gales gave
a speech at the K-School indicating
that the agency had to be more
accommodating of academic rules.
like Harvard's. which require public
disclosure of research funding. He
said that it would be up to individual
scholars whether CIA funding would
from Gates' accommodating
'language in that 1986 speech.
it is an encouraging sign that
Gates came here to take one step and
-.tk-w we have taken another," Allison
said.
According to organizers of the
Kennedy School program, negotia-
tions began with Gates during his
February. 1986 visit.
Prompted by the Safran case, Presi-
dent Ilok wrote an open letter to the
Harvard community in November of
that year, saying that professors had
to disclose, whether a work of scho-
larship was subject to pre-publication
review.
According to Ncustadt l3ok
approved the agreement and "didn't
think that it was a turn-around" from
his earlier statements.
I3ok could not he reached for
comment.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2011/11/07: CIA-RDP97-00418R000200150024-1