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MORI DocID: 1451843

SECRET

19 September 1978

MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT: Dissemination of CIA Paper on Student Dissidents

1. Dissemination to the Cabinet and within the
Intelligence Community--The paper discusses both the perspective
likelihood of a student unrest, the use of the likelihood
that public exposure of the Agency's interest in the problem
of student dissidence would result in considerable notoriety,
particularly in the university world, and because pursuant to
Mr. Rostow's instructions, the author included in his text
a study of student radicals in the United States therein
according the Agency's charter. We have omitted the paper
for dissemination to the members of the President's Cabinet
and within the Intelligence Community by eliminating alto-
gether the chapter which discusses Students for a Democratic
Society (SDS) and by striking from the Prospects section all
mention of SDS.

2. Outside the Community but within the Government--
We believe that the basic text should be further edited for
the purpose of eliminating even the most casual reference
to the domestic scene--lest someone infer from such a oblique
reference that the original paper had contained a section on
American students. The nineteen country chapters in Part II of
Radicalism Youth can be disseminated within the
Government, provided that the controls appropriate to their
classification are observed. To do this editing and reprinting
required would take several days at least.

3. Release to the academic world or to the public--
For the reasons set forth above, we believe that release of
the basic text would harm the Agency. The country chapters
could not be released without first being rewritten to
eliminate all classified information. Once this was done,

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