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““Tsupygct: DR. ALFRED C.“KINSEY TES GOVERNMENT tee. Memorandum * UNITED ST. Mr. Ntcho: DATE: April 8, 2 ie: Gheth—— Me Ae Jones CFR EeR een a F Fr 8 Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey of Indiana University was o eae born at Hoboken, New Jersey, tn 1894 according to an article————. appearing in Look magazine, 12-9-47. He was educated at Harvard and at one tine wrote a well~selling biology textbook for high. school students. J EE According to Harold BeMlemenko, author of the arttole, "Toward A Saner Sex Life," Kinsey's real passton was tnsect tezonoay which in reality was the naming, desert bing.and classification of ~ ‘tnsects. - . ; 7 _ Kinsey ts a professor of zoology and btology at Indiana Jatpersity. For the past 9 years he and his associates Wardell] —_ omeroy and Clyde E.XWartin “have been trudging up and down :, and ross thesé United States taking the ser histories of their fellow Americanse They expect to continue this activity for at least 20 years more” according to Clemenko. | publicatioh of the. volune zual Behayvtor % cle." = Although thts book was ed Jointly by Kinsey, Pomeroy and . Morttn, Tinsey seems to be the only name connected with this work ahd. hé glone has received the publictty resulting from © the sale of -this books ; . re “er -Becently volume ezual national recognition with the e tte cos "Sezual Behavior tn the Human Male" ts the firat of 9 volumes whtéh will be published by Kinsey and his staffe Much oritictsm has been leveled at Kinsey during the | course of his 9-year compilation of sex histortes but due to his — determination, energy, resourcefulness and abtlity to overlook such erttictsm, he has managed to cwol much of the heat engendered toward his study and hes,furned ov a volume of vast interest to the Amertcan peoples inp rye E | , 2-575¢3- | : . Professor Kinsey gnd hts sty TERE thought to the technique of the interview. - They Beh £% ee the entire nillion= dollar, 30-year project might stan at on the skill and © unt fornity of questioning People and. ob¢ tng honest ansvers,. Clemenko, tn hts article reyexyéd to above, states that Kinsey ts so ccreful about the subje of interutewing people that half of the 18,000 tnterviews thus far obtained were actually | conducted by Kinsey, himself. _ COPIES Destroyer 2 NOV 23 1984 . . FORTE on Tyee omen eee atpe mS | aR EEE ORR TD ARPT Oe ee