Central Intelligence Agency. Freedom of Information Act Release to the University of Southern California Library. February 27, 1981. 90 pages.

In 1978 I filed an FOIA request with the CIA for all documents pertaining to the University of Southern California. But the CIA wanted to charge me exorbitant search fees, so instead I encouraged the university library to file the request. The library's request was considered in the public interest, and all fees were waived for them. Almost three years later the CIA sent 50 documents, portions of which were blacked out, and denied another 34 documents. The library made the package available to the public.

Most of the material concerns CIA recruitment efforts, some of it consists of chatty letters between international studies scholars and the CIA, and there is a 1969 list of every Students for a Democratic Society chapter on American college and high school campuses. (My personal CIA file includes a portion of the same list, as well as an additional document which shows that the CIA also had a list of members in the USC chapter.) Most of the names indexed from these documents are from letters signed by CIA bureaucrats and recruiters. -- D.Brandt

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