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...attention. He implies that the Center for International Affairs was somehow involved in the production of the paper. This is totally inaccurate. I wrote the paper in my personal capacity as a consultant to AID. The paper was not in any way connected with the research program of the CFIA...
...positions is clearly incompatible with the rights which professors have along with all other citizens to express their views on public policy and to participate in the political process. A professor does not lose this right because he is either a hawk or a dove, does research at the CFIA or elsewhere, or is named Huntington or Genovese. Mr. Plotke's views are a challenge to the basic principles essential to the life of both an academic community and a free society.Professor of Government
...CFIA is one of the keystones of "liberal" policy toward the Third World. It is seeking to do the job of the Vietnam war without the embarrassing muss and fuss. So the CFIA seeks to deny the conditions (rather than the more obvious CIA policy of denying leaders) that fuel revolutionary situations. Thus the CFIA does not oppose, for example, land reform, if it is a necessary condition for ensuring order, and keeping leaders friend
...University serves the Military-Industrial Complex, there is convincing evidence both in Pusey's chicanery two years ago to subvert the Faculty and keep ROTC here, and in the University investment portfolio, which includes 33 of the top 100 defense contractors. What of the more difficult issue of the CFIA? The question is subtle, perhaps more subtle than the Weatherman raid of the CFIA implied, but infinitely more so than Pusey's pointless vindication of their "fine scholarship" implies. Of course they do "good" work. The Harvard Faculty is made up of intelligent men. But what is the function...
...since the story of the Third World today must be that of an angry anti-colonial revolution working itself out, our liberal commitment to order, although apparently harmless at first glance is objectively counter-revolutionary. And we attack the CFIA because we believe that no force, no matter whether it wears a uniform or not, has a right to tamper with the process of social liberation that revolutionary change opens up to the people of the old colonial empires. And of course we have learned from Vietnam what the next step is if peaceful counter-revolutionary attempts fail...