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Stockwell Exposes CIA Dozens of computerized scholarship - search services around the country claim that for about $35 to $60 they will dip into their extensive data banks and produce an individually tailored list of potential scholarship sources for you to contact. Changing Times Magazine decided to give some of these services a try. For an applicant, we enlisted the help of a young woman who was finishing her junior year at a public high school. We filled in the blanks of application questionnaires with information requested: The applicant and her family are members of their local United Methodist Church, where she has been active in the Youth Fellowship. Her father served a few months of active military service in the late ’50s, followed by five years in the National Guard. The family heritage is Scandinavian and Ger- man/Irish. Unsure of her career plans, our applicant reported interest in accounting, computer science, social work and public service, as well as liberal arts. Other questions concerned family income and employers plus the student’s class standing, talents, activities and willingness to enter contests. Late in May, we sent the completed applications and fees to Peterson’s Financial Aid Service of Princeton, N.J. ($45); College Student Financial Aid Services, Inc. (CSFAS), in Gaithersburg, MD. ($40); the Scholarship Bank in Los Angeles ($35 plus $5 for “rush” service; otherwise, the applica tion stated, processing could take four to six weeks). We also applied to Scholarship Search in New York City ($58.50, de scribed as a $10 discount) and to several services around the country that use a data base supplied by Academic Guidance Services in Marlton, N.J. The A.G.S. charged from $35.95 to $45. We had also asked National Scholarship Research Service of San Rafael, Cal., to send an application. However, it arrived too late to be included in the mailing. Four to 24 days later the responses arrived. They were disappointing. The services had built expectations of highly personalized reports. But of the 13 to 42 sources of scholarships, grants and loans cited by the services, typically about half were either inappropriate, inac curate or obvious. We put the handful of aid programs for college upperclassmen in the “inappropriate” category be cause they are nice to know about but no help for freshmen year. Of the remaining sources, our applicant could have identified almost all in standard directories without an over whelming investment of time. Glitches. Keeping informa tion up-to-date appeared to be a problem for all the search services. For example, Peter son’s made a nice match with the Odin Club’s small program of $200 to $250 scholarships for student of Scandinavian heri tage. Unfortunately for our applicant, who lived in Mary land, the club started restricting the awards to residents of the Worcester, Mass., area two years ago. The printout, although flawed,was only one element in Peterson's generally well-con ceived and comprehensive pack age of financial-aid information. However, a few federal-aid details in the packet from Peterson’s needed updating, and most of the information could have been gleaned from free publications and financial-aid administrators. Nevertheless, it was convenient to have it all assembled. CSFAS alone explained that most scholarship deadlines had passed for this school year and said it would update the search in September. CSFAS also printed out the largest number of sources. However, its printout demonstrated two more prob lems. One is the chance that gross misinformation will slip into the data base, as it did when the Northern Trust Co. in Chicago was said to give 889 awards of $1,000 to education and social work majors. According to Northern Trust officials, the company gives no scholarships in these subjects. The other shortcoming is that computer programs sometimes don’t cut close enough to specific data to retrieve informa tion that fits the individual. CSFAS printed out five scholar ship and loan programs related to military service, but the hitch of the applicant’s father did not qualify his daughter for any of them. Scholarship Bank’s response was a sheaf of photocopied sheets rather than a printout. (The cover letter said the service is converting to more advanced data processing.) The items were sloppily typed, repetitious and underresearched. For example, only one of six Maryland foundations said to offer scholarships actually did. Do it yourself? Your odds of latching onto private money locally are probably better than your chances for a national scholarship award. Check out parent and student affiliations - employers, unions, churches, clubs and the like. Expand your search with financial-aid directories. The directories tell you more about each source than search services usually do, and they give you a chance to browse and weigh more than a few opportunities. Request Need A Lift from the American Legion, Attn: Em blem Sales, P.O. box 1055, Indianapolis, Ind. 46206. Price: $ 1 . In the library, look for Financial Aids for Higher Education Catalog, by Oreon Keesler (William C. Brown Col; 10th ed.). A 16-question “program finder” at the beginning will help you sort through thousands of entries. Scholarships, Fellowships and Loans, by S. Norma Feingold and Marie Feingold (Bellman), another standard, starts with a “vocational goals” index. Volume 7 of this continuing series was issued this summer. Chronicle Student Aid An nual (Chronicle Guidance Pub lications) is also useful, as if Foundation Grants to Individu als (The Foundation Center; 3rd ed.). Ask your librarian for help in locating local foundations that give financial aid to college students. Few private scholarships are very large, so budget your time accordingly. Your first priority is the meat-and-potatoes routine of submitting need-analysis forms, making contacts with college aid officers and studying descriptions of college aid in individual college catalogs. Reprint courtesy of Changing Times. by Monica Famlett P A R T 1 (SPS) - John Stockwell exposed the policies that were in exist- ance during his career with the Central Intelligence Agnecy and the top secret National Security Council Monday night, October 11 in Oswego State’s Hewitt Union. Stockwell authored a book criticizing the CIA’s tactis after leaving the agency in 1977. He was sued by the CIA, and the profits from the book were impounded by the government. The ex - NSC and CIA man testified on the floor of the Senate that the List of Agents would not hurt CIA men in the field. He said fellow agents discredited him on the floor of the Senate “because they didn’t want someone reading the truth in the record.” Stockwell’s lecture thesis was an updated version of his book, that the policies of the CIA “Depend on the existance of enemies for them to work,” that it sets out to increase global tensions by supporting military dictatorships and “picking fights” in the third world, and that it would be in the best interests of the people of the world that the agency be disbanded. Stockwell compared the func tions of the CIA with those of the KGB in the Soviet Union, and declared the two agencies at present to be similar in nature and purpose. He said in an interview before the lecture, “I personally am not fond of living in a society that has an active KGB functioning.” S>A 1 B Wittier Wnnifrrlani) Ittuter Battre FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1982 AT THE SHERATON INN The CIA was formed in 1947 for the purpose of analyzing overt information that is obtain ed in order to prevent another Pearl Harbor from happening. According to Stockwell, this has gotten out of hand to the point where their main purpose is to “Subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,” namely the USSR and Communism.” Stockwell said tht when he was hired by the CIA in 1964, he was working for the “best and brightest men” of the Kennedy administration. Stockwell said that during this period “We went by the ‘Domino Theory’ - that the communists were taking over the world.” He said he found it disturbing that ex - Secretary of State Alexander Haig (whom he referred to as Attila the Haig) was echoing this theory while in office. Stockwell said the activities of the CIA, “It is bribery, it is corrupting, it is highly illegal.” He said, “We need intelligence information, but we need good information, not abuse,” According to Stockwell, “400 big name journalists were cooperating to create propagan da, con tinually publishing the CIA’s biases” while representing them as their own stories. He said that the “CIA found schol ars with credibility to write stories from their point of view” and were using the faculities of major universities to recruit agents for them. After 13 years with the CIA, acting as field case officer in Africa, serving time in the last two years of Vietnam as chief of station and being the chief pf the Angola task force of 1975, 'which Stockwell says is a typical case of the CIA “searching fop, ene mies,” he resigned his post and refused to sign the secrecy agreement he was supposed to, upon leaving the agency. Stockwell said that the activi ties of the task force he headed in Angola is a typical blueprint for other activities, such as the current U.S. activities in Nicara gua. He termed the result of these activities “lack of trust in America,” which Stockwell said is earned. He said that there used to be more KGB agent than CIA agents, but that the CIA didn’t have to match their num bers because of the inherent corruptness of the KGB and the perceived goodness of the Uni ted States. Now, he alleges, the CIA has become as untrust worthy as the KGB, and has come to be detested in its own country as undermining the val ues as well as the needs of this country. According to Stockwell, the Macomber Report was a study done that determined the CIA had “no justified presence in Africa” and operations there should be closed down. Stock- well said that the CIA agreed with the report but didn’t fire anybody. Rather they convinced the government that “We should be going after hard targets,” i.e. the USSR and Red China, and Africa was the place to meet contacts. The CIA consequently expanded its forces in Africa and told the agents they were to recruit Soviet spies. - 7 -
