Word: allison
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...report, sent to Aspin on June 22, was in response to a series of questions raised by the principal director of Russian, Eurasian and East European affairs at the Defense Department. The inspector general's report described a few instances in which both Allison and Blackwill seemed to either misinterpret regulations or refer to conversations that others did not remember...
...example, one of the main matters discussed in the report is related to funding for a Kennedy School seminar to be conducted by Blackwill for students at the Russian General Staff Academy, for which Blackwill was seeking private funding. The report said Allison mentioned the program to the Russian Defense Attache during a meeting in April and indicated that Aspin supported the program. Allison said at the time that Blackwill would be in Russia shortly to discuss the proposal with the General Staff Academy head...
...Allison did not mention this conversation in a subsequent report to Aspin, the investigative report said. He later told investigators that Aspin had expressed eagerness to fund the project. Aspin said he "did not recall discussing whether Dr. Allison should convey to the Russian officials [his] support for the seminar...however, [he] indicated that if Dr. Allison had sought [his] approval, [Aspin] probably would have granted it," the report said...
...program was to be funded privately, not by the Department of Defense. But the investigators concluded in the report that Allison did not follow departmental regulations that forbid Defense employees from participating in matters directly affecting the financial interest of parties with whom they have a "covered relationship," which for Allison would include Harvard. The report said that Allison did not have a grant of authority explicit enough to over-ride the restrictions...
...report cleared Blackwill of vague allegations that he used his post to gain inside information that would help him gain Defense Department funding for a Kennedy School seminar. Also, as a consultant Allison is permitted only to advise on departmental hiring. But the report states that Allison apparently contacted the RAND Corporation, a federally funded research and development center with which the Department of Defense has a contract for services, and asked that the contract be used to provide the services of Blackwill, an independent contractor with RAND, as his advisor at the Vancouver summit with Clinton and Russian president...