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FBI, CIA sought VI faculty information· By DIANNE COUGHLIN and Although the agent was from the CIA, both sides" at the meeting about the abroad. nished a list to the CIA after the people group of scholars which meets every 18 TORI SAYER the lists had been furnished to the FBI. fUrnishing of lists. He said he couldn't "I have never complied with their left." months. Staff Writers Boyd said he found out about the College remember whether a formal vote was requests," Ryan said. Heffner said it was his "impression" Snow said he has made four trips to Copyright 1975 of Medicine's connection with the FBI taken to continue cooperating with the that the CIA was primarily interested in Student Publications, Inc. Ryan said her department has no policy Argentina-the most recent over the from reading the minutes of a meeting of FBI. about faculty members talking to CIA visits to Commuaist bloc countries. Christmas vacation-to do research on The Federal Bureau of Investigation the college's faculty. The faculty had Heffner characterized the CIA requests Eckstein said the college believed it was agents. "It's a matter of individual {aculty contemporary Argentine politics. (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency debated whether to continue its as "open and above board" and as "more furnishing the lists to the FBI , not the CIA. conscience," she said. (CIA) have made several contacts with UI cooperation with the FBI and had decided legitimate than some of their activities He said it was his impression that the FBI Snow said he talks lo the CIA agent "just faculty members and administrators in to do so, Boyd said. Ray Heffner, a former UI provost wbo that are coming to lignt now." was interested in scientific materials like I talk to anyone else" at the the past five years, The Daily Iowan has After reading the minutes of the now teaches in the English Department, being presented at international meetings association's meetings. learned. meeling. Boyd said he contacted Dr. John said he has had no contacts with the CIA at Heffner said he once, at the CIA's of scientists, $!lying that he thought the request, set up a meeting wi th professors In nearly all of the instances, the two Eckstein. dean of the College oC Medicine, the UI but did when he was at Indiana The agent is an historian who teaches at agency wanted "to piece together what at Indiana University who had returned organizations were seeking the names of and "indicated I thought it was not a good University. a Washington. D.C. • coilege, Snow said. scientific breakthroughs" were occurring from traveling abroad. Attendance at the The historian is "very open " about his faculty members who had traveled idea. That we should not be in the bu~iness abroad, and information from them on in eastern European countries. Heffner was assistant dean and then vice meeting was voluntary, Heffner said. involvement with the CIA. Snow said, and of providing names." The practice was president of Indiana University al their return. then stopped. Boyd laid that before learning_about the About a dozen profcssOI'!i showed up. and identifies himself as an agent on the.ar· Bloomington. He said that between HIM ticles he writes about Latin America. See related story page two. Boyd said he has never had any other College of Medicine's tie with the FBI. an and 1966, and perhaps earlier, he had the CIA agent "just explained the purposes contacts with the CIA or FBI. Inquiry he ordered failed to turn up any contacts with a CIA district agent who was of intelligence gathering." Herfner said. Snow reCused to give the historian's Ul President Willard Boyd said Monday In an interview Monday, Eckstein said contacts between the university and the stationed in Indianapolis. The professors were "not surprised" by name, however. "It would probably be all Ihlthewas visited in either the Fall oC 1970 the practice of furnishing names to the FBI CIA or the FI:II. anything that happened at the meeting and right but I'd rather not now," Snow laid. 01' 1911 by a man who identified himselC as "was in operation" when he became dean The president said he had ordered the lIeCCner sa Id he would get .. a routine regarded It as "routine," he added. Snow said he has friends both in the CIA a CIA agent. in June 1970. He added that he bP.lieved it inquiry because "I heard it was going on in request" from the agent for lists of 'acllity Heffner said he did not know how many, and in "Argentine intelligence." Some of The agent wanted to discuss Boyd's had been goinG on for "at least a year some places. I Wfl~ quite curious because I members traveling abroad 80 the agent if any, of the professors subsequently the latter, he said, "probably work for the decision to have J.he VI College of Medicine before that." had never been approached." could "inte.rrogate them" about conditions discussed their travels abroad with the CIA. They're double agents." stop providing names of faculty memba's Eckstein said he learned of the practice Marleigh Ryan, chairwoman of the UI in the countries they visited. CIA. When he goes to Argentina he may be traveling abroad to the FBI. from a faculty member who complained to East Asian Languages and Literature "My practice," said Heffner, "was not to Peter Snow, UI professor of political asked at a bridge party by an Argentine The agent asJ..ed "whether I would him ancl that th e matter was sub· Department. said she was visited last notify the CIA before a person left for a trip science, said he has talked to a CIA agent agent "what I'm doing here. I get much change my mind (about the decision) and I sequently debatt'd at a faculty meeting. Spring by a CIA agent who asked for the to protect his position as a scholar, as he several times at meetings of the Latin more information from them than they do sal~ no," Boyd said. Eckstein said there "was sentiment on names of department people traveling could be accused of beinll: a spy. I fur- American Studies Association, a national from me." Vol. 107, No. 129 Unsafe storage practices cited at VI Radiation Protection Office R~' MAHK PJo:SSES and see that we do. There are rules and The RPO is the receiving and storage roentgens per hour. JOAN TITONE regulations. and they will be adhered area for all radioactive materials At the highest radiation level Starr Writers to. All appropriate precautions will be delivered to UI for the approximately recorded from the waste storage Copyright 1915 taken involving these materials." 300 researchers on campus who use the barrels. direct physical contact with Student Publjcations. Inc. The Dl 's investigation concerned the materials. the materials In excess oC five hours In response to an investigation by The UI Radiation Protection Office (RPOl, William E. Twaler, director of the might prove potentially harm Cui. Daily Iowan. the regional director of 311 Grand Ave ., and the storage of RPO, told the DI Monday, "I'll have to Direct contact ror less prolonged the federal Nuclear Regulatory potentially hazardous radioactive admit that it was wrong. I have spoken periods of time probably would result in Commission (NRC) said Monday that materials in areas easily accessible to to my people concerning these things in negligible exposure levels. his office may investigate cbarges of the public. the past. The situation is in the process Df radiation counts for the waste possible violations of safe storage Following a period of observation and of being corrected." materials were confirmed by Twaler procedures for radioactive materials at radiation monitoring. violations or As of Monday afternoon, the barrels Monday afternoon. the Ul. radiation saCety standards at the HPO containing radioactive materials were "I would like (the RPO) to be in a Jam~s Allan, director of the Chicago were documented by the OJ in the being removed to radioactive storage different building," Twaler said. He O/lic~ (Region Three) oC the NRC's following instances : facilities at the VI Oakdale campus. VI said he has repeatedly asked the Regulations Operations Office. said. -;Storing .animal carcasses treated maintenance personnel were also at univerSity for more staff and better "We certainly will be looking Into the with radioactive isotopes of cerium and work repairing a broken window in the facilities to handle rapid increases in lituatlon." adding that investigators scandium in improperly sealed garage of the RPO. the use of radioactive substances in should arrive In Iowa ('ity next week. barrels: When checked by the DJ Saturday research and treatment at the UI. The NRC is the new licensing and - Permitting at least one of these 23 morning, at least one container stored Twaler said that when the RPO regulatory commission established by barrels to emit radiation levels high in the RPO driveway was emitting moved into its present facility in t969, it President Ford last Wednesday as a enough to warrant storage in a radiation at its surface at a rate of 0.72 was adequate Cor the amount of ex· successor to a section of the former restricted area: milli·roentgens per hour. This is perimentation being conducted at that Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)' - Permitting vials of carbon 14 and slightly above the maximum radiation time. He said use of radioactive Duane C. Spriestersbach, VI vice tritium (heavy water) to be left level of 0.6 milli·roentgens per hour materials has increased at a rate of at president for Educational Development unattended in an open garage adjacent which the UI has established for areas least 10 per cent per year since then.

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