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...statements which describe the origin or meaning of policy decisions which make the confidential reports the most "frank, comprehensive, and communicative" set of documents concerning the work of the DAs. For example, the public pronouncements of the DAS' have deliberately created the impression that the agency's orientation has been strictly economic in nature, and that there is little intention among DAS officials of contributing to the political needs or desires of any given regime. But the field report concerning the first 13 months of DAS work in Indonesia, discussing a development plan which had been prepared with DAS assistance...
...second explanation given by the DAS seems at first glance to make more sense. If the reports were made public, "personal reputations would be unjustly damaged." The statement implies that lengthy portions of the confidential reports are character evaluations of individual DAS advisors or their host colleagues, and that release of the reports would unnecessarily drag purely private matters into the public domain...
...basis of several private DAS papers made available to the CRIMSON last month, this second claim is found to be equally misleading. Those reports-which concern the DAS' work in cooperation with General Suharto's military regime in Indonesia-paint a far clearer picture of what is actually meant by "personal reputations" than what is hinted at in the DAS statement. In none of those documents is any DAS member singled out for description; the only intimation of "personality" is made in connection with the DAS team as a whole, and these passages describe how the group stands in relation...
...STATE that such information is "personal" and not political is to do no more than provide a cover explanation for why the DAS does not wish its activities to be disclosed in greater detail. Perhaps more than anything else, a thorough understanding of how the DAS field teams relate to the varying levels of officialdom in the host governments is essential to any appraisal of that agency's goals and effectiveness. This information is not available in any of the published research carried on by the DAS in Cambridge, nor is it provided by the so-called "substantive documents," which...
...CONFIDENTIAL documents go on to make some even more surprising statements concerning the influence of the DAS and of other "international consortium" groups on the decision-making process within the Indonesian government. Earlier this fall, former DAS director Gustav Papanek said that that government was "one of the most self-assured and independent-in the economic sphere-that I know of," and added in particular that the early advice provided to the regime by the International Monetary Fund had never been pivotal in nature. But in a confidential memorandum circulated within Harvard in the fall of 1968. Papanek stated that...