Covert Action Information Bulletin, Number 38 - The Subversion of Higher Education

Washington DC. 1991. Fall 1991. Covert Action Publications. Magazine. Very Good In Staple-Binding. 67 pages. magazine. Cover; Anti-CIA demo; Northwestern, 1988. (Matt Eggemeyer), and M. Richard Rose at work, Langley, May 1991. (Jim Harmon/Reporter). Back Cover: Anti-CIA demo, Northwestern, 1988. (Eugene Garcia). keywords: Magazine Politics. DESCRIPTION - IN THIS ISSUE CIA/DOD ON CAMPUS - RIT: A CIA Subsidiary? By Jean Douthwright. Rochester Institute of Technology president Richard Rose spent the Gulf War taking care of business at Langley. His secret work precipitated a full-blown scandal and an ongoing CIA investigation of pervasive and longstanding RIT-CIA ties; A MARRIAGE MADE IN LANGLEY by Steve Judd. Activists deal with shredded documents, the administration with shredded credibility, as the RE community fights back; HARVARD AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE by Jack Trumpbour. The Author of How Harvard Rules looks at the history and current involvement of the Ivy League bastion in shaping the agenda and serving the interests of the National Security elite; CIA ON CAMPUS: THE COVERT HAND by Ami Chen Mills. From faculty and student recruitment, to influencing research and curriculum, Mills traces how the Agency uses U.S. universities to further its unscholarly ends; REV. MOON'S ACADEMIC INTRIGUE by Dan Junas. Moon and his Unification Church have been an important link between academia, intelligence agencies, and the political Right - from Asia and Africa to U.S. colleges; ON THE FRONT LINES BOMBS, LIES AND BODY WIRES by Johan Carlisle. The environmental movement is now the object of state and corporate terror, infiltration, and disinformation campaigns. The attacks echo COINTELPRO'S assault on the social change movements of the 1960s and 1970s; CIA THE UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY (Centerfold Collage). Isn't it about time? CovertAction gives the Agency center stage to speak for itself. Aerial photo: CIA; THE TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF ARIF DURRANI by Lawrence Lifschultz and Rabia Ali. Arms dealer Arif Durrani claims to be the only man in prison for the Iran-Contra scandal. Did this man take the rap for North and the CIA? COVERT FUNDING OVERT VIOLENCE by Ruth Elizabeth Tomaselli. The goal is the perpetuation of white minority rule. The means are covert action. Newly-disclosed documents prove that black on black violence is part of a coordinated program of state terror against the ANC; CIA/DOD OFF CAMPUS - THE MEDIA AND THE MESSAGE by Deborah Crawford and Ami Chen Mills. In the last five years, more than 80 campuses nationwide have organized against the CIA. Two activists document how the media and administrators try to divert and misrepresent the struggle to kick the CIA off campuses; THE RIGHT-WING ACADEMIC AGENDA by Sara Diamond. Big business influence in academia is not new, but rightwing corporate organizing since the 70s has become pervasive and sophisticated. Diamond follows the money back to its sources; CAP AND GOWN AS CAMOUFLAGE by Rich Cowan. At MIT, opposition to Star Wars research galvanized an organizing effort and exposed long-hidden links between the school and the DOD; MILITARISM IN ACADEMIA: A GUIDE by Rich Cowan. Detailed information about the quiet alliance between the National Security State and higher education. Any names you might recognize here? DATABASE FOR DEMOCRACY by Gerard Colby. Former CIA officer Ralph McGehee's CIABASE offers personal computer users new access to information and the power that it brings; TARGETING INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS by Vernon Elliott. The CIA has recruited approximately 6,500 international students as spies. Elliott reveals Agency techniques and the dangers they pose; THEY NEVER SLEEP by Louis Wolf. More on the Agency PR offensive, a glance at the ongoing BCCI revelations, and a colossal RENAMO massacre. inventory #47884.…