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...weekend before the conference, after I had issued my statement permitting the conference to take place, and a number of the participants had been informed, Professor Safran called me to ask if he should run the conference using CMES as opposed to CIA funds. I told him that with the full disclosure and my public statement, I felt he should proceed with the conference as planned, including the CIA funding. I said that from the standpoint of University Policy, the issue was not the source of funds per se, but the disclosure...
...funding was disclosed. Nevertheless, scholars have expressed to me their concern that it might have. For that reason, I feel the University owes an apology to the participants, to scholars in the field, and to the academic community at large. As the Dean of the Faculty in which the CMES resides, I offer that apology sincerely and with a determination to see that this type of problem will not arise again...
...that had been underway since 1978 and supported by various sources including the Rockefeller Foundation and the Rand Corporation. Early in the negotiation process, Professor Safran consulted about the treatment of possible CIA research funding as an individual rather than an institutional agreement with the then Director of the CMES, who was simultaneously serving as Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (editor's note: Professor of History Edward L. Keenan). In or around May of 1982, Professor Safran discussed the contract with the Associate Dean for Research in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Professor Safran...
...Second, the contract was not reviewed to determine the level of institutional involvement and hence the applicability of the University's policies with respect to institutional grants and contracts. These are clearly administrative errors in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and not those of Professor Safran or the CMES...
...Professor Safran made some use of the facilities and personnel of the CMES during the performance of his research contract. That possibility should have been identified by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and discussed at the time he disclosed the contract because of the importance of determining institutional involvement. I might add that the Faculty's policies (as described at the outset of this report) in respect to contracts that are purely individual do not prohibit the contract terms referred to above...