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THURSDAY:
Campus Characters
FRIDAY:
Explained
Spying on 'U'
In 1960s, CIA used students as informants
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The flurry of political activity on
campus throughout the 1960s makes
for an interesting historical marker
on South University Avenue. It also
made for a lot of controversy back
then. Protests and left-wing move-
ments drew national coverage and
the attention of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency.
Ann Arbor became a center for
Students for a Democratic Society
- a liberal student movement advo-
cating participatory democracy and
civil disobedience - after its first
meeting was held in Ann Arbor in
1960.
In June 1973, a Michigan Daily
investigation found that a founder
of the Weathermen, a radical SDS
splinter group, was an undercover
FBI informant in the late 1960s and
1970s.
The informant, who has since
changed his name, was found to
be in direct communication with
confessed FBI informants in 1969
while establishing the Weather-
men.
In 1978, the CIA released docu-
ments revealing that the agency had
used a handful of University profes-
sors to recruit promising students
since the mid-1960s.
Then-University President Rob-
ben Flemming told the Daily nothing
surprised him about the recruitment
methods mentioned in the letters,
adding that the agency's networking
is often informal.
The Daily obtained more than
200 CIA reports, including corre-
spondence between Harold Ford,
CIA coordinator for academic rela-
tions, and professors in the Center
for Chinese Studies and political sci-
ence, history and economics depart-
ments.
About three-fourths of the letters
concerned the Center for Chinese
Studies.
In one letter, a University Profes-
sor wrote he couldn't find "a woman
(preferably) who could read Chi-
nese and handle military analysis,
both personnel and strategic," as the
agency had apparently requested.
Anywhere between eight and 42
professors were also believed to
have received CIA support in the
form of CIA research assistance
and small CIA-sponsored semi-
nars.
In response to faculty ties to the
CIA, a Washington-based group,
the Campaign to Stop Government
Spying, lobbied for increased regu-
lations for intelligence agencies on
college campuses.
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Carilloneur student Steven Ball playsthe car
top of Burton Tower yesterday afternoon.
CRIME NOTES
Trespasser
caught napping
WHERE: Tisch Hall
WHEN: Tuesday at about .
4:45 a.m.
WHAT: A subject unaffiliated
with the University was found
asleep in a classroom, the
Department of Public Safety
reported. The trespasser was
waked up and escorted out.
Jeans stolen
WHERE: Central Campus
Recreation Building
WHEN: Monday at about
9:40 am.
WHAT: Someone who had
placed theirjeans on a"wall
ledge" inthe CCRB reported
that the jeans and the items
inside the pockets, including an
unreported amount of cash, a
wallet, and miscellaneous cards,
hadbeen stolen, DPS reported.
A disposition is currently pend-
ingon thetheft, DPSreported.
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Skateboarders
refuse to leave
WHERE: Lot N-8, 900 Huron
St.
WHEN: Monday at about 3
p.m.
WHAT: A caller reported
four skateboarders in the
lot who refused to vacate
the premises, DPS reported.
Officers checked the area
but were unable to locate the
skateboarders anywhere in
the area.
Chairs removed
from building
WHERE: Samuel Trask Dana
Building
WHEN: Monday at about 11:30
a.m.
WHAT: Chairs were miss-
ing from a waiting room,
DPS reported. The staff
has not yet filed an official
report.
Lecture on
Hawaiian
female identity
WHAT: A lecture discuss-
ing the disappearance of the
Hawaiian female identity and
an understanding of colonial-
ism through sexualized and
gendered forms
WHO: Prof. Lisa Kahaleole
Hall
WHEN: Today from noon to
1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Room3512, Haven
Hall
Blood donation
drive kick-off
WHAT: The Second Annual
Big Ten Blood battle, a blood
drive competition between
seven Big Ten schools
WHO: The American Red
Cross
WHEN: Today from 2to 8
p.m.
WHERE: The Michigan
League
Seminar on
Epidemiology
WHAT: A speech titled
"Pharmacoepidemiology's
Role in the Vioxx Withdraw-
al and a View of Current
Opportunities and Momen-
tum in Pharmacoepidemiol-
ogy
WHO: Catherine S. Sigler,
senior epidemiologist at the
United Biosource Corpora-
tion
WHEN: Today from 5 to 6
p.m.
WHERE: Lane Family Audi-
torium, Room: 1690, School
of Public Health Building I
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Fifty-five Greek nuns have
fled to avoid E400,000 in
debts from traveling to
fashion shows all over Europe.
The nuns were running a secret
knitwear company and attend-
ed the shows to keep up with
the current trends, The Sun
reported.
The White House hired
a new executive pastry
chef, Bill Yosses. The
First Lady praised his "origi-
nal and delicious creations,"
the Washington Wire blog
reported. Yosses is also the
author of the book "Desserts
for Dummies."
3 Morgan Wilkins, the Col-
ege Republicans intern who
proposed "Catch An Illegal
Immigrant Day" at the Univer-
sity this fall, is running for the
chair of the Kentucky Federation
of College Republicans.
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