ADDITIONAL REQUESTS FROM HPSCI ON CIA'S RELATIONSHIP WITH ACADEMIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001200090011-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2004
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: August 30, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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NFAC #3749/78
30 August 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR:
Chief, Congressional Support Staff, NFAC
FROM : Associate Coordinator for Academic Relations
and External Analytical Support, NFAC
SUBJECT . Additional Requests from HPSCI on CIA's
Relationship with Academia
The following is provided in response to requests made by
Loch Johnson on 21 August 1978:
1. The Academic Relations Staff is charged with stimulating and
facilitating professional contacts between NFAC and the US academic
community. The Deputy Director for Intelligence established the
position of Coordinator for Academic Relations in 1966. There were
two basic reasons for the creation of this position. First, the need
at that time to develop strong ties with China scholars. Government
interest in China was growing, and governmental expertise was not as
strong as it should have been. In fact, we did not have adequate
knowledge of the location and quality of China scholarship available
in the US. Second, it had been a bad year for Agency/academic relations.
The National Student Association controversy had repercussions not only
for the operational side of CIA, but we found that we had trouble
sustaining the solid, professional scholarly contact which is necessary
to our work. In about 1970, the Coordinator began expanding ties with
specialists in Soviet/East European affairs, as well.
2. In December, 1976 the position of Academic Coordinator, which
during the preceding ten years had been a part-time responsibility of
one officer, was broadened and upgraded. Two full-time officers were
assigned the portfolio which was augmented to include the coordination
of relationships with private research centers. Later, with the
formation of the National Foreign Assessment Center, the program was
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additionally upgraded. Two full-time, middle management officers formed
the core of the new Academic Relations Staff. They conduct a number of
independent programs and coordinate the expanding efforts of NFAC officers
to improve their ties in academia. In addition, the staff acts as the
secretariat for the NFAC Senior Review Panel and the Scholar-in-Residence
program.
3. The Senior Review Panel was envisioned to provide the Director
of NFAC with an independent review of major intelligence products,
especially those focusing on problems that have serious policy implications;
i.e., National Intelligence Estimates and Interagency Memoranda. The
Senior Review Panel will consist of up to five highly-qualified generalists,
recruited from outside the Agency and serving full time. The members of
the panel, like other senior NFAC managers, will make use of academic
consultants on an as-needed basis.
4. "Notes from the DDI Coordinator for Academic Relations and External
Analytical Support" was a newsletter designed to explain to Agency employees
the various functions and missions of the Academic Relations Staff. Only
two issues--April, 1977 and June, 1977--were published.
5. Attached are seven enclosures requested:
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Restrictions on Intelligence Activities, Chapter I,
Academic Relations.
nsibilities of Coordinator for Academic Relations,
DD/I 12 April 1966.
Res onsibilities of the Coordinator for Academic Relations,
DD/I 22 May 1970.
Res onsibilities of the Coordinator for Academic Relations,
DD/I 17 June 1974.
Draft of new guidelines in Academic Relations and External
Analytical Support, August, 1978.
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Notes, April 1977.
Notes, June 1977.
6. Questions on the role of the Information Science Center should
be directed to the Office of Training.
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Distribution:
Orig - Addressee (w/atts)
2 - NFAC/CAR (w/atts)
1 - NFAC Registry (w/o atts)
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Chapter I provides information concerning CIA relationships with
the academic corrununity.
STAT Chapter I is the first chapter published in ~ Restrictions
on Intelligence Activities. Other chapters will be added as appro-
priate.
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RESTRICTIONS C>N INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
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