From Down A New York Rabbit Hole: A story of the CIA:
RIT advises CIA to plan for future--report espouses economic espionage (subheading: RIT tell CIA to turn to economic espionage) by Jennifer Hyman Democrat and Chronicle, May 19, 1991
A confidential report produced by Rochester Institute of Techonolgy for the Central Intelligence Agency argues that the CIA should restructure itself and shift its focus to excnomic and technological espionage.
And in a foreword to the document, RIT President M. Richard Rose commits the school to supportring a stong future role for the clandestine agency, in the interest of "national security."
The report, called "Changemasters," was commissioned and funded by the CIA's Office of Technical Service and prepared by Andrew Doughterty, Rose's executive assistant and one of RIT's chief links with the CIA. (Dougherty was the fall guy. I'm positive Rose was the one who really wrote it, but Dougherty took the blame for him.--But I can't yet prove that with documentation.)
In addition to writing the foreward, Rose was one of six panelists whose discussions are reflected in the report. The panel also included ROBERT MCFARLANE, former national security adviser who was implicated in the Iran-Contra guns-for hostages deal in the mid 1980's.
"Changemasters" is one of a series of strategic planning assessments produced by RIT on behalf of the CIA, and part of the agency's current effort to redefine its role in the post-Cold War era. Rose is currently working for the CIA as a consultant on education, training and the future personnel needs of the agency.
News of his four-month CIA sabbatical triggered calls last month for his resignation and a recent investigation by the
Democrat and Chronicle which found that RIT has diverse and longstanding ties with the spy agency.
Million of dollars of CIA money have been funneled into RIT in the past 12 years, most of it for secret research on technological aspects of spycraft.
"Changemasters" argues that with the demise of the Cold War, the threat of conventional warfare has diminished and been replaced by economic warfare. It suggests that the CIA should, in the future, be engaged in economic espionage against the "adversarial" trading partners of the United States and that changes in public law might be needed to enable the agency to sell the intelligence it collects.
The CIA must change its way of doing business if it wants to ensure that it continues to be "the nation's leading resource to support clandestine operations," the report says.
"The organization that does not create a climate to take advantage of change will not, in all likelihood, survive."
"Changemasters" comes at a time when a growing number of commentators and politicians are publicly questioning whether the CIA should survive and whether it is needed any longer, in any form.
At the same time, they warn that as the CIA becomes increasingly irrelevant, it will struggle harder to perpetuate itself.
"we see that the nation's spies are eagerly searching for a new mission to justify their existence," said Sen. Danel Patirck Moynihan, D-NY, in remarks to the Senate in January.
Describing the CIA as the "quintessential product of the Cold War," Moynihan introduced a bill that calls for its dissolution and its intelligence-gathering tasks to be transferred to the State Department.
To be continued.
we've all been fast asleep