Some Thoughts on the End of the Anti-CIA Coalition at UCSD, 1976
Abstract
In 1975, friendly secretaries at the University of California, San Diego informed us that the university was doing research for the CIA: a program to train dolphins to attack ships with explosive strapped to their bodies; a weather modification project to bring rain to Cuba just before its sugar cane harvest in order to ruin the crop; and social network research designed to track and neutralize unfriendly activists. Many groups came together to organize protests, and we successfully mobilized faculty to pass a resolution condemning the violation of academic freedom by working for the CIA; we confronted David Saxon, president of the 9 campus university system, when he came ot San Diego; and we organized numerous events, including a statewide conference that spread the movement to other campuses and resulted in a FOIA suit that continued to expose nefarious UC research projects for years thereafter. Internal divisions led to the untimely dissolution of the Coalition in 1976.