INTELLIGENCE CHARTER HEARINGS, 18 JULY 1978

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000200060042-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Sequence Number: 42
• Content Type: MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

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OLC--78-0399/104
7 August 1978
SUBJECT: Intelligence Charter Hearings, IS July 1978
1. On 18 July 1978 the undersigned attended an SSCI intelligence
charter legislation hearing at which. the following individuals testified.
on the issue of intelligence activities on canvuses:
-Derek Bok, President of Harvard University
- -Nlo tton' Baratz, .Secretary General of the Oir ri.can
Association of University Presidents, and
--Richar(l Abrams, President of the University of Cal.ifo-lnia
2. In general all three witnesses echoed the same theme calling
for "public notice" whenever CIA's activities would take the Agency on
An rican campuses and decried any covert recruitment on campuses. Listed
below are specific points made by each witness.
Mr. Bok of Harvard made the following points:
--'I"he relationship between U.S. foreign intelligence agencies
and universities must be structured in ways that protect the
integrity of universities and the academic profession and
safeguard the freedom and objectivity of scholorship.
?---Harvard presently governs itself v-is-?a-viis the issue
of relationships between Harvard and the CIA within the
framework of the following guidelines:
4) -Harvard may enter into research contracts with intelligence
agencies provided that such contracts conform with Harvard's normal
governing contracting with outside sponsors and that the existence
of a contract is made public in the usual manner by University
officials.
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