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...must tack an ending onto this piece, it should say that the activities of the CFIA, if not outrightly nefarious, are sufficiently questionable and criticizable to warrant greater awareness and attention; that, however unqualified and abrasive the attacks by student critics on the Center in the past may have been, those critics are more than justified in stating that the CFIA, far from being a haven of disinterested academic research, is a distinctly political issue...
...Center, for its part, denies that there is any direction or consistency of effect in the research of its individual members. That argument, considered by itself, is probably true; the CFIA has no stated policy line restricting its members, and there are now fairly broad disagreements within the Center on certain popular issues, particularly on Vietnam. But the bulk of the work there, if not monolithic or precisely identical in viewpoint, retains the pivotal assumptions and patterns of thought that have fueled American policy during the past twenty-five years...
...CFIA's critics have analyzed correctly the reasons for the Center's inevitable political bias. Contrary to the argument of the "evil money" theorists, few scholars in the Center would allow themselves to be manipulated like marionettes for the sake of a research dollar-whether it comes, as in most instances, from a private foundation, or, as in other instances, from a government agency...
...WHAT of the less theoretical, more concrete work which the Center performs? This work is undertaken exclusively by the Development Advisory Service (DAS), the largest wing of the CFIA, which places economic advisors in the employ of underdeveloped governments to counsel them on the implementation of basic policy...
...Rockefeller fellowship here who later headed the Agency for International Development, was chosen to supervise the field operation. In 1962, with a Harvard team still in Pakistan, a $750,000 Ford Foundation grant established the DAS on a permanent basis and placed it under the administrative aegis of the CFIA...