Monday, May 3, 1976
CIA presence here unsubstantiated
By MIKE THIESEN
There appears to be little evidence of Central Intelligence Agency use of University of Karass professors as intelligence sources.
Several professors who have traveled in the Soviet Union and China said last week they had had little contact with personnel from any U.S. intelligence organization.
A report released last week by the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said the CIA was using several hundred American university administrators, professors and graduate students for intelligence and propaganda purposes.
According to the committee, most of those university contacts were "purely for the purpose of asking an academic about his expertise in a particular subject on subjects of the academic's expertise."
The committee said those contacts posed no danger to the integrity of American politics.
But one KU professor, Gerald Mikkelson, associate professor of Slavic language and literature, said Friday that intelligence and academics should be kept smart.
Mikkelson said he had never been
Canoe racers bow to K-State
In their second year of competition, the KU civil engineers won second place for the construction of their cement canes on dayday's canoe competition in Manhattan.
In racing, KU's men's entry placed fifth and the faculty team placed second among the 22 participants. The men's entry didn't place.
Only students who had helped to construct the two-man canoes were eligible to participate in the 500-yard-long race, run on a fishing pond near the Tuttle Creek Dam, according to Mike Harding, Burlington sonoborem.
In other canoe action, KU canoe teams finished second, fourth and fifth in the annual KU-State race on the Kansas River yesterday.
The Kaw River Rivalry, sponsored by Miller High Life, began on the river in Manhattan and ended a half mile upstream in Massachusetts Street bridge in Lawrence.
KU was represented by four canoes. The best finish was by the Sigma Omega Gepas. The second best was by the Sigma Omega Gepas.
Only 9 of the 22 entries completed the race.
questioned by any government intelligence agent concerning what he saw in the Soviet Union, although he had been there six times in the past 10 years.
He said he wouldn't cooperate with any intelligence agency, except to refer them to whatever he might have read or written on a subject they were interested in.
George Bush, director of the CIA, said in a lecture last week at KU that he believed it was the right of college students and professors to voluntarily help the CIA.
University Dally Kansan
In a telephone interview Friday, a CIA spokesman in Washington, D.C., said there was a domestic collection division within the CIA, responsible for interviewing citizens who wish to volunteer information to the CIA.
"If we went overseas to collect the information we can get from professors about their travels the cost would be much greater." he said.
The agency spokesman said this sort of treatment was supplied a tremendously useful source of energy.
The CIA has about 35 domestic collection offices across the United States, the country where they work. They open only and if only the interviewer agrees to the interview, the CIA formerly had a domestic collection office in Kansas City, Mo., according to the CIA spokesman, but it was not used by the CIA.
Chu-Tsung L4, professor of art history, said he had never been questioned by any government intelligence agents concerning visits he has made to China.
Li went to China two summers ago and said he wasn't asked to look for anything in China for the U.S. government before he left.
Robert Burton, lecturer in East Asian studies, Eastern civilization and Oriental studies. He was tracted by someone from the CIA about 10 years ago, when he studied Chinese Com-
Burton said he had been in China before his conversation with the CIA man.
The CIA man called and asked if he could speak to him, Burton said. The two met and discussed what Burton might know about particular Chinese officials.
"I haven't seen them (the CIA) for years," Burton said, "probably because my knowledge is old—about the early Communist movement in China."
William C. Fletcher, professor of Slavic and Soviet Area Studies, said he had never seen any such case.
Fletcher, who is leaving with the Warsaw Exchange Program in a week, said the department had all student exchange participants sign a statement saying they wouldn't accept any assignment for any intelligence agency, from the United States
"We've never had a problem with this in the past but we wanted it in our program," he said.
or any other country, while a participant in the program.
Mikkelson said the International Government Exchange of Faculty and Students, with which he is connected, also required participants to sign an oath.
Mikkelson said that in the early years of the exchange program with the Soviet Union, during the late 1980s, he was told that Russia had been forced to the Soviet Union were contacted by the CIA.
By the time he got into the exchange in 1967, Mikklson said, a part of the contract was signing an oath saying a participant agreed to give the government agency while in the Soviet Union.
Mikkelson said that the first time he returned from the Soviet Union he was asked by the FBI whether he had any ties to Russia, and when a government tried to use him in any way.
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Mikkelson said he had been in the Soviet Union five times since the FBI talked to him and hadn't any other experiences with any intelligence agency.
"I told them no and I haven't heard from anyone since." he said.
Chae Jin Lee, associate professor of political science, said that as a general policy, CIA personnel visit with those who go to China.
Lee was in China in December 1975 and said he was later interviewed by a CIA agent. He was he asked for an assess- mentation of his situation because of his expertise in the area.
He also said that he only told the CIA what he had already said publicly in classes, and he never made any comments.
Llee said the CIA agent wanted to review slides that Lee had taken in China, but he refused to let the agent see then because he didn't think the CIA needed to see his personal belongings. The agent didn't insist on seeing the slides. Lee said.
The CIA no longer actively recruits at KU, according to the agency spokesman. The agency now recruits through University placement offices, he said.
"We don't come where we're not wanted," he said.
Fletcher said that when students in Slavic or Soviet area studies ask him where they could work, he advised them to look into any books on the subject, including the GIA or military intelligence.
The CIA spokesman said the number of requests for information about possible employment opportunities with the agency were a cent ahead of other government agencies.
In 1967, the KU chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society organized a protest against the CIA's recruiting and internment camps for employment with the agency.
"Maybe all this adverse publicity has helped us," he said.
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A retirement dinner was given Saturday night by the aerospace engineering department in honor of Ammon Andes, who has been at KU for 30 years.
Professor honored for service
Andes, professor of aerospace engineering and former chairman of the aerospace engineering department, came to the University in 1946.
A social hour, attended by about 80 people, on the Kansas Union Terrace preceded the Candlelight dinner in the Wattkins Room.
Jan Roskam, chairman of the aerospace engineering department, served as the host for the special presentations ceremony in the Forum Room.
Speeches and presentations were made by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes; William Smith, dean of the School of Engineering;丹Durenberger, Lawrence senior; and Don Durenberger, Warren space engineering, who spoke on behalf of engineering faculty and students.
A plaque, including three aircraft models, that bears an inscribed brass plate, a portable radio television and a citizen's radio were among the gifts given to Andes.
The distinguished speaker was John Brizendine, president of the Department of Engineering at the student institution.
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