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A comprehensive investigation of intelligence-related activity shows that the CIA is alive and well on the UF campus. Although it has been almost year since the United States Senate's "Church Committee" revealed CIA operations on more than 100 college campuses in the United States, overt and covert-CIA activities are still going on here at UF. The investigation flatly refutes the CIA's claim stated M a Feb. 23 letter to The Alligator that the CIA only seeks "the voluntary and witting cooperation of individuals who can help the foreign policy procurer of the United States." Some of the major findings which will be detailed in this series are: The CIA is regularly provided with advance, and/or final drafts of research papor, books, speeches, and reports prepared by faculty members. Sometimes the information is made available Without the author's Imowledge by several academic departments. At least one faculty member was contacted twice by the CIA for information dealing with travel and research in Africa. The CIA claims it only wants "volunteers," but the professor was approached even after his first refusal to cooperate with the CIA. Along with the many American and foreign students studying nuclear engineering at UF, there are eight Iranian students in the program. Some, or all of them are being paid
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provides information on the personal as well as the academic lives of students and teachers in his college. Dr. The Chairman of the Department of Anthropology Paul Doughty said he has been forced to readjust his teaching methods away from sensitive areas. research and He blamed this on years of CIA harassment both at UF and at Indiana University. UF President Robert Marston does not rule out the need in certain cases for classified intelligence projects on campus, and notes his longtime personal friendship with the current director of the CIA. of The former CIA chief for Florida attacks the lack patriotism on the part of professors who refuse to cooperate they are hurting national with the agency and claims security. Although UF denies the existence of secret projects, officials still refuse to release details of certain medical research projects which most have security clearance. They would also not discuss a long-standing military project funded since World War II. The main CIA interest on campus in terms of ,recruitment is focused on graduate students and faculty. Some foreign students who are preparing to return to their native lands are recruited. The CIA -also uses informal recommendations from professors who are on the lookout for likely prospects for careers in intelligence gathering. * * * * John Marks, director of the Center for National Security
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He shrugged, "bomb technology is common knowledge. Any nation with high technology can build a bond.. There is no trouble communicating on the frontiers of science." Marston also related a variety of his experiences in medical research as examples of peace-time research applied in times of war. MARSTON EXPLAINED, "I can't say to prohibit (secret research) because if the university is the only place where the work can be carried out, or in instances of great national concern, it can be done. It should be considered." In general, Marston said, research that cannot be published should not be conducted on campus. "The university is not a fruffful environment for doing secret work," Marston said. "Unpublishable work leads to less than optimal use of data." The results of secret research are limited because they cannot be taught and do nor involve other colleagues, he said. Marston, who worked in medical radiation research in conjunction with atomic bomb tests, still has renewable security clearance. He , did not disclose any reasons for maintaining his security, standing during his term a; OF president.
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"But we don't have much information on teachers and students," Chen said. Despite the warnings of Halperin and others. Chen said the role of his department could be viewed as providing an ordinary job reference. "We have an obligation to people seeking jobs in responsible positions," Chen said. "Otherwise we will find out all things wrong with the person after they have been given the job. We invade the privacy of persons in high public positions to protect all the rest of us," he said. Other than inferences for graduates or faculty seeking government jobs, Chen said he has never come across either the CIA or the FBI on campus. He defined the mission of the
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