GOWN AND DAGGER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100320015-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: November 23, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Concern is growing among schol-
ars that the academic gown may
join the cloak and dagger as sym-
bols of spying. The concern was ob-.
vious last week at the American
Anthropological association conven-
tion in Pittsburgh.
Ralph L. Beals, a California an
t.hropologist and former president. of
the association, reported on the-1
alarming infiltration of the spy in-
fluence into supposedly legitimate
scholarly research abroad. He found
that U n i t e d States intelligence
agents posing as arfthropol.ogis)s
were at -work in some countries-
"`anthropological spies," he called
them-and that young scholars who
received government grants later
rw e r e questioned by intelligence
agents for political information.
The amount of intelligence work
conducted under the guise of aca-
demic research is, of course, secret.
1 Enough suspicious incidents have
come to light to be disquieting.
Eighteen months ago, Project Cam- :
elot, an army sponsored study of
revolutionary change in Chile, was i
abruptly canceled after it caused a
furor in that country. A govern-
ment sponsored "technical. assist-
ance" program in Vietnam run by
Michigan State university in the
1950's seems to have used CIA oper-
atives.
The anthropologists decided that
spying was 'a sufficient danger to
academic pursuits to establish a set-f
of "`ethical guidelines" for scholars
`on government sponsored projects.'
,Their concern is understandable, for
the suspicion that spies are mas-
querading as scholars can destroy
the effectiveness of legitimate stud-
ies abroad. As Beals told the an-.,
thropologists, '."constraint, decep-
tion and secrecy have no place in
science: '
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