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MORI DocID: 1451843

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7 May 1973

MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence

VIA                : Deputy Director for Intelligence

FROM              : Director of Current Intelligence

SUBJECT          : Activity Related to Domestic Events

1. In late spring of 1968 Walt Rostow, then
Special Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs, tasked the DCI with undertaking a survey of
worldwide student dissidence. Confronted by tumult at
campuses like Columbia and mindful of the violence
accompanying student outbursts at Berlin's Free University
and elsewhere, Rostow sought to learn whether youthful
dissidence was interconnected; spawned by the same causes;
financed and hence manipulated by forces or influences
hostile to the interests of the US and its allies; or likely
to come under inimical sway to the detriment of US interests.

2. The paper was prepared by [REDACTED] of OCI
with the assistance of the CA and CI Staffs. The DDI,
D/OCI, and [REDACTED] met with Rostow to elicit the reasons
for his or the President's concerns and to agree on the
sources to be examined, the research methods to be followed,
etc.

3. Written during the summer of 1968, the most
sensitive version of Restless Youth comprised two sections.
The first was a philosophical treatment of student unrest,
its motivation, history, and tactics. This section drew
heavily on overt literature and FBI reporting on Students
for a Democratic Society and affiliated groups. In a sense,
the survey of dissent emerged from a shorter (30 page)
typescript study of SDS and its foreign ties the same
author had done for Mr. Rostow at the DCI's request in
December 1967. (We no longer have a copy.) 00190

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