Word: cfia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert Bowie and Gustave Papanek have written two letters to the CRIMSON about the CFIA. Unfortunately, these letters contain numerous distortions. We intend to deal with these in an upcoming pamphlet, but several points deserve immediate attention...
...Bowie and Papanek both claim that the Center is a free and open institution. The truth is clear from their refusal to release the Interim Reports of the Development Advisory Service (striking arm of the CFIA). This is not an isolated incident. When one member of SDS went to a Fellows' Seminar this fall, Benjamin Brown, Director of the Fellows' Program, told him the Center would be happy to have him attend, along with a few other students, as long as they promised not to tell any other students what was said at the meeting. Furthermore, until 1966 the annual...
...contracts of DAS personnel are co-signed by the Institute of International Education (HE). The HE is funded by such CIA conduits as the William Benton, the Dearborn, the Asian, and the Rubicon Foundations, as well as by GM, the Bank of America, and Standard Oil. In addition, the CFIA has held joint seminars with the Center for International Studies, an M.I.T. Social Science Research center, which is funded by the OIA on a permanent basis. Further insight into the nature of government for the Center is given in a 1967 letter, liberated from University Hall, from Benjamin Brown...
...Tonis meets in his office with Archibald Cox and CFIA officials. Again the subject is security measures for the Center. And again Tonis maintains the most level head, alternately assuring and chiding the anxiety-filled...
...time Cox is satisfied that the CFIA will still be standing tomorrow, it is almost noon. Tonis leaves his office, not for lunch, but for the Fine Arts 13 course which he is taking. It is his policy to audit a course every semester, but this is a somewhat curious departure from the usual fare of literature, history, and religion courses...