REPORT 61 J The bureaucrats and academic administrators help in formalizing the agreements at the government to government level and in facilitating the linkup with Indian elite research institutions and the universities. The research scholars help in conducting the type of research advocated by the Americans and passing the minutest details to them. It is important to note at this point that most research studies, conducted in India through American collaborative efforts, have been taken up at the initiative of the Americans. In other words, it is not the country in which research work is being done which decides what is to be the object of study but the country which collaborates. The implication is very clear: research work in such a case is not what is necessarily of any value to India but to United States, the foreign collaborator, directly or indirectly. Once the initial job of getting the agreements between the US and Indian research institutions is completed, the US intelligence network men in the team and elsewhere put thei^ questions in the schedules and questionnaires etc. generally used in the course of the study and they themselves decide the priorities in collecting the data if the same is to be gathered in various phases. Thus, even if a certain American research project has some important aspects, results of which may be urgently needed by Indian agencies, it is not certain that these questions will be probed first. What is certain, nevertheless, is that questions urgent for the Americans will be attended to first. After the data are collected, in most cases, it is airmailed to United States for "computerized processing" although this facility exists in India for quite some time now. The alibi that is usually offered is that the processing would be done free and quickly. Sure enough, it is done free and quickly, but the only difference is that its results first reach the desks of wily people in State and Defence Departments in the US: a totally different set of results come back to India. The last phase of an American aided research project is also worth noting. The research design of the project has assumptions applying to American "mass society" whereas the study is done in India. The analysis of the data is thus done in such a manner as to give a totally biased picture to our policy planners. One must not forget that this is not a genuine mistake; it is done with a purpose and repeatedly. And that purpose is to get the Indian policies changed so that Indian society 'apes' what the Americans want it to do. The reports which ultimately come out from such exercises quite often make such 'recommendations' as are often totally unsuitable to Indian ethos and the Indian system. In many cases, these 'recommendations' have been accepted by our government with disastrous results for the country. The abovementioned system has been working remarkably well in India for a very long time. But once in awhile their activities attract the attention of the people and the press and Government is forced to take measures against them. Their activities suffer a temporary set-back; how-