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Part II of previous article

Sources close to the project, who spoke on condition of confidentiality, say there is no doubt about the purpose of the project: to produce forgeries that will better escape detection. Students involved in the work were told that an agent's life could be in the balance if his documents were detected as forgeries, the sources said.
According to Jeffrey Richelson, an expert on the intelligence community and consultant to the National Security Archives in Washington, D.C. forgery studies by the CIA are common and have been going on since World War II.
"Technological advances in printing have made documents far more difficult to forge than they used to be," said Richelson.
Dougherty, a former Air Force officer, staunchly defends RIT's work for the CIA and says the majority of people at RIT are not concerned about the link.
"Intellingence is the life blood of anyone concerned about national security and an area where we can make a contribution," Dougherty said. "Everything the CIA does on this campus is to the benefit of RIT. It is an absolutely overt relationship. It's all out there in the open and we are really quite proud of it."
Some faculty object to all CIA-funded research on principle, on the grounds that the CIA depends on secrecy and subterfuge. Any involvement, they say, compromises an institution committed to openness, academic honesty and the public scruteny of its scholarly work.
Others accept some type of CIA-sponsored research--the extraction of intelligence information from satellite or aerial flight images for example--but draw the line at assisting in document forgeries or the concealment of bugging devices.
"I have no problem whatsoever with university researchers being involved in unclassified, fully publishable research on techniques for satellite image gathering," said Edward McIrvine, dean of the College of Graphic Arts and Photograhpy, which included the Center for Imaging Science. "However, there are gray areas that do cause me concern."
McIrvine cited the security document project, which could be used for forgeries, as an example of CIA work he could not justify being done at a university. "I do not approve of the use of the CIA as a means of executing a secret foreign policy," he said. (Wait until they learn about the booklets, coming up very soon!)

the Democrat and Chronicle also found that:

The Research Corp. offers consulting services to the CIA, producing technological forecasts on topics like telecommunications in Europe and the need for the agency to restructure itself to meet the demands of the post-Cold War era.