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More on the return of spies to college campuses

by lorenz on Jun 6, 2005 in politics, University / Academia, ethics

As posted earlier, the CIA is sponsering anthropologists to gather sensitive information during their fieldwork.

The Kansas City Star provides more detailes about the spies on the campus. Among others, they interviewed Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, who leads the American Anthropological Association’s Committee on Ethics. She says:

“It’s the secrecy that runs afoul of our ethical code.When you don’t own up — when you don’t honestly say who you are, and for whom you’re working — then you’re not doing social science. You’re doing espionage.

Furthermore, we read that Felix Moos who defended the CIa-program in Anthropology Today says, that he "has fielded hundreds of electronic letters and interview requests from around the world and that “about 60 percent realize I’m on the right track”. He adds:“About 40 percent feel it’s government intrusion into the universities. You know, the usual suspects …"

>> read the whole article in the Kansas City Star

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"War on terror": CIA sponsers anthropologists to gather sensitive information

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