ABSTRACT
Scholarly exchanges are regarded by the Soviets as an instrument of national policy, and exchange agreements are negotiated to achieve specific objectives. The number of American and Soviet Graduate Students exchanged under the Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants and International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) programs has remained within a narrow range. The Corson Panel recommendation to set aside some portion of the IREX program for science and technology so as to remove the asymmetry in the exchange has been considered by State several times. When the Soviets talk of student exchanges, what they have in mind, with rare exceptions, are scholars or scientists in their early or mid-thirties who have completed their formal studies and are engaged in what the Russians call “scientific research.” All Soviets in the Graduate Student exchange are limited, in principle and with few exceptions, to fundamental research at US universities and are denied access to industrial facilities and production technology.
