Word: coverte
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...engages in three types of activity on campus in the U.S.--the recruitment of Americans, recruitment of foreign students (both carried out with the cooperation of various academics) and the use of scholars to analyze, collect or even publish information for the agency. A fourth activity, covert support of "moderate" students' groups, gradually wound down after revelations in 1967 showed covert funding for the National Student Association...
...Turner reiterated the agency's determination to ignore the guidelines. University of California students sought relevant files on secret recruiting under the Freedom of Information Act last year but the courts deemed them non-releasable (Gardels v. CIA). In an affidavit, however, the agency did reveal it had covert relations with faculty members. Now Brown University is applying pressure to Turner in an attempt to end covert recruitment...
...Covert recruitment has in effect been admitted, but does that make it proper? Illogical and unfair as it may at first seem. I believe covert recruitment of American students, yet not of foreign students, should be permissible...
This is not, I hasten to add, because I am a foreign student. With recruitment of American students in a covert manner, the moral and academic dangers are either insignificant or outweighed by the necessities of intelligence. This is not the case with foreign students...
...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...