Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recruitment is the issue which has generated the most heat recently. A minority of universities all over the country are starting to take action to control what they see as unacceptable practices on campus after a heavily-censored passage in the Church Committee's report revealed in 1976 that "American academics are now being used for such operational purposes as making introductions for intelligence purposes." It took more than a year before President Bok issued his guidelines for the conduct of academics on campus. Bok asks all recruiters to be public and to gain permission of the individual considered...
Academic integrity and freedom are essential in any self-respecting university which should try as much as possible to remain independent of government control and open about its activities. On the other hand, it is very easy to exaggerate how badly public confidence in academic institutions will be shaken by covert recruitment of American students. If academics observe and then pass on the names of particular pupils, their university is neither subverted by the CIA nor does it become a training ground for dubious covert operations...
...Congressional investigations--Seymour Hersh's allegations in The New York Times--were as exaggerated as some contemporary demands including the total abolition of the CIA. Significantly, the Church Committee concluded the agency was a necessary organization and that on the whole it had not been out of control...
...would have been almost unthinkable in 1979. Many covert operators have resigned as well as members of the 'old guard' who oppose the policy of greater openness initiated by William Colby. Most of the evidence at present points to a CIA with clipped wings, at last under fairly adequate control and concentrating on its major task, intelligence collection. The agency should no longer be thought of as despicable even if it should be treated with healthy suspicion...
...agreement would require a 31 per cent reduction of tariffs among the signatories, who control 90 per cent of world trade...