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...internal investigation conducted by the Inspector General, as shown in a report released yesterday by the Pentagon, showed that Allison went against departmental regulations in two instances: once dealing with the hiring of Kennedy School colleague Robert D. Blackwill, a lecturer in public policy, as a Department of Defense consultant, and once dealing with a request made to visiting Russian officials to support a Kennedy School-sponsored program...
...report cleared Allison of allegations that he asked Russian officials to press for U.S. Department of Defense funding for a Kennedy School program. The report also points out that one of the regulations that Allison violated...
...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...